Why is Smoking Sinful?

[Bonnie]

There is a very good reason why The Bible do not mention smoking. I think smoking was “invented” around 1650 by Sir W.Raleigh, if my memory serves me right. I would be utterly surprised if I would read in The Bible that “thou shall not smoke”, it would lead to the question: “when was The BIble written?”

Raleigh may have introduced Europeans to smoking tobacco, but it was American Indians who invented it.

 

[Lasting_faith]

Raleigh may have introduced Europeans to smoking tobacco, but it was American Indians who invented it.

Was it? Thank you for correcting me, that is a thing I always want people to do. I am not afraid of beeing wrong, so, please, correct me when ever needed.

 

[Bonnie]

Was it? Thank you for correcting me, that is a thing I always want people to do. I am not afraid of beeing wrong, so, please, correct me when ever needed.

I get corrected quite a bit myself! In the case of tobacco, it was a good example of early free trade. The white people gave the Indians small pox and measles; in return, the Indians gave the white people tobacco and syphilis - which were spread in Europe with gusto!

 

[jkastelic]

The reason this thread is so confused is … a confusion. Namely, ‘smoking’ is used in two different senses:

1. smoking = to consume a cigarette
2. smoking = to consume a ton of cigarettes.

Clearly, in the first case, smoking is not a sin (harms no one & not intrinsically disordered). In the second case, it obviously is (it’s gluttonous, unhealthy, selfish, etc.).