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The BOOK OF MORMON says not to use tobacco or similar substances. It's in the Doctrine & Covenants.

The Bible never directly mentions smoking. There are principles, however, that definitely apply to smoking. First, the Bible commands us not to allow our bodies to become "mastered" by anything.

"Everything is permissible for me—but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me—but I will not be mastered by anything" (1 Corinthians 6:12).

Smoking is undeniably strongly addictive. Later in the same passage we are told, "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body" (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Smoking is undoubtedly very bad for your health. Smoking has been proven to damage the lungs and the heart.

Can smoking be considered "beneficial" (1 Corinthians 6:12)? Can it be said that smoking is truly honoring God with your body (1 Corinthians 6:20)? Can a person honestly smoke "for the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31)? We believe that the answer to these three questions is a resounding "no."

Smoking is just the ingestion of smoke, and is not a sin. If a person is stupid enough to put smoke into his lungs, that is punishment enough. They keep it up, and the punishment gets more severe, but it is self inflicted punishment, not God's.

What you breath is up to you. If you live in a smog covered city, you are breathing man made crap. But that is not a sin. Only man's mistakes.

Smoking is thought of being bad because most of the time, it destroys lungs and creates emphysema. I have lost a good friend because of that, another one who was not as close and now, a third one who won't give up smoking but has a bad cough. You cannot tell these people anything, because... "it won't happen to me"

But no, smoking is not a sin, so it isn't preached about.

Yes as you would think that the way smoking causes health problems that if someone were to found a new (world) religion today that the holy book of this new religion would have a verse that would say that cigarettes are unclean or that if the bible was the word of god that god would know that people would eventually find cigarettes and describe cigarettes and explain how they are unclean.

No.

The Bible does not talk about prohibiting drunk driving either but that does not mean than driving while drunk is okay.

Tobacco smoking did not come to the Middle East or Europe until the 1500s. Why should the Bible talk about it?

The Church and the Bible can help us develop our consciences so that we can take its teachings of what is good and what is evil and apply them to current situations.

With love in Christ.

Treat your Body like The Temple.

Smoking Tobacco is just fine. What MAN = 666 has done to the tobacco is where the evil is.

Just like Pot. If you would EAT WEED then you gain benefits from the plant and you get an ultra aspirin. **** had to escape pain somehow back then. When you smoke THC it turns into a carcinogen and is = to ten cigarettes.

There is no "Thou shall not smoke tobacco",commandment but, it does tell us in His word that if we are saved, He comes to live in us.

He does not want to stink from the vile smoke.

Also, our bodies become His temple.

Whether it's smoking, over eating, eating the wrong types of food, all will defile His temple.

Anything you purposely do that harms your body is a sin.

The Mormon "Word of Wisdom" prohibits the use of tobacco (both smoking and chewing).

One would think that an all knowing god would know that tobacco would eventually be discovered (and the same goes for drugs and other moral issues we face today), and would have at least mentioned it.

This should make any rational person question just how "all knowing" god actually is.

No, the Bible says that one should not be addicted to anything. Smoking is an addiction; ergo, a sin to God.