[realpatriot71]

If you stand by your posted scripture then lets hear you decry the consumption of alcohol, the consumption of beef and the increasing numbers of atmospheric poluting SUV's......For that matter the increasing numbers of automobiles in general!

Alcohol is not good for you, and being drunk is a sin, "beef" isn't bad for you, it's too much beef that's unhealthy, and there is nothing I can personally do about SUVs.

I love it when you bible quoting thumpers attempt to impose your scriptures on those who do not conform to your own twisted ideals of what the rest of us should or shouldn't do

I didn't try to "impose" scriptures on anyone. Smoking is NOT healthy, belief and faith have nothing do with that objective point. I was merely pointing out that smoking is immoral, a sin. I'm not trying to stop you, merely calling a spade a spade. If you don't like that, it's not my fault nor my faith's.

Enjoy your smokes!

[Madame Dufarge]

it's not my fault nor my faith's.

Do you want to be a doctor, or a man of the cloth?

I think it's important that your patients know that the two are melded.

[metesky]

I was merely pointing out that smoking is immoral, a sin.

Bwahahahaha!

That's one of the smuggest, most smarmy statements I've read in almost six years on this forum.

Bwahahahaha!

[CSM]

"I was merely pointing out that smoking is immoral, a sin."

Now a mere mortal can make personal judgements with more accuracy than the Holy Spirit. I submit that weather it is a sin or not is up to the personal guidance received by the Holy Spirit, not by guidance imparted by "realpatriot71".

[lockjaw02]

"Alcohol is not good for you, and being drunk is a sin, "beef" isn't bad for you, it's too much beef that's unhealthy, and there is nothing I can personally do about SUVs. ... Smoking is NOT healthy, belief and faith have nothing do with that objective point. I was merely pointing out that smoking is immoral, a sin."

You obviously never heard of hormesis. It's the dose that makes the poison.

[MEGoody]

"I was merely pointing out that smoking is immoral, a sin."

In your view. . .but I challenge you to find one place in the bible that mentions smoking. The context of the verse you quoted relates primarily to sexual immorality, but 1 Corinthians 6 also mentions drunkeness. I don't see anything that mentions smoking.

Now, having set the record straight on that, I do agree that smoking is unhealthy and that those who smoke should be respectful of those who do not.

But calling it a 'sin and immoral' is an opinion not based on biblical fact.