A Statement on Smoking and Tobacco . A Statement on Smoking and Tobacco For more than a century, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has warned its youth and the general public regarding the addictive and health destroying nature of tobacco smoking.
Cigarette smoking is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the world.
One of the firm ethical concepts of most, if not all societies, is that prevention is better than cure. The ethics of smoking is made even more serious by alarming revelations about the cancer deaths and other health risks caused by second-hand smoke. We believe that the ethics of prevention requires in every country a uniform ban on all tobacco advertising, stricter laws prohibiting smoking in non-residential public places, more aggressive and systematic public education, and substantially higher taxes on cigarettes. These measures would save millions of lives every year.