New Truth About Smoking - Jeff Calkins - January 1981

Jeff Calkins

Everybody now knows that smoking hurts the smoker. One government official has called it slow motion suicide." Now new facts have come to light. Smoking does more harm than people suppose! Is there a smoker anywhere who doesn't know smoking causes him terrible physical harm? Widespread health warnings about smoking have caused the proportion of smokers in the population to go down. Smokers in the U.S. now number around 35 percent. And yet these 35 percent remain smokers even after all the warnings! It seems that some people just don't care about their health. The temporary pleasure they get from smoking is worth more to them than the risk of heart attack, lung cancer, bladder cancer or emphysema. Smoking is wrong because of what it does to the smoker. It hurts him-and it reinforces wrong traits of character. Years ago, editor Herbert W. Armstrong squarely confronted the problem of smoking from the standpoint of God's law: - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library