Your right Atlas, while the cost to the community and individual in health concerns are high,smokers dont come home and bash their wives after chain smoking 15 cigarettes, or cause death and destruction on the roads. Mobs of addicted smokers dont go on rampages after sporting events or stagger around looking for the opportunity to punch someone.

The acceptance of alcohol use by the community as a normal part of daily life is crazy. Someone once said that if alcohol was a new product being introduced to the market today, it would be banned immediately.

Most of the people our age at Church, me included, have spent part of their lives drinking, smoking, doing drugs etc..... its easy to look down upon those people that are still doing these things and forget that the only thing that makes me different to them is Jesus.

1Co 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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