For those that smoke, dip, or sniff, please enjoy your tobacco. Just don't smoke while saying your prayers, but by all means pray while you are smoking......
A History of Catholicism and Tobacco
And do light your friend's cigarettes.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/H009cpLighting.html
So you think that there is no way to sin by using tobacco? Even using it excessively?
Of course there is. In all licit pleasures, moderation is the rule. Excess and overindulgence are sinful. That's so with food and drink, so why would it be otherwise with tobacco?
In my opinion, smoking only really became a problem when greedy tobacco companies decided to aid overindulgence by selling pre-rolled, pre-made "packs" of cigarettes. Chain smoking was a far rarer thing in the days before mass production, when a bag of tobacco was a much more precious thing, enjoyed by men who smoked it in pipes, or hand-rolled cigars and cigarettes.
Greedy tobacco companies, for the record, are also responsible for early endorsement of feminist groups, who saw smoking among women as an act of haughty feminist rebellion (which it was), whilst Big Tobacco saw in it an opportunity to double their consumer base. That would most certainly not be the last time that Big Business would serve the bidding of the destroyers of social and moral order (foolish "conservatives," libertarians, and devotees of the "Invisible Hand," take note).
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