And please consider your duty before God to live according to His revealed will out of gratitude for what He had done for us in our precious Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ. Christians can be addicted to substances. And when someone took up smoking many years ago, these health risks were unknown. This too should be part of our response to smoking, both within the church community and outside it. Tobacco smoke contains at least 50 known toxic or cancer forming substances.
Smoking is linked to cancer of the lung, mouth, larynx and oesophagus.
Nine out of ten lung cancer deaths are due to smoking. Lung cancer deaths are higher than any other type of cancer. Smoking helps promote cancers of the bladder, pancreas, kidney, stomach and cervix. Nine out of ten deaths from bronchitis and emphysema are due to smoking. Women who smoke have a greater risk of infertility, miscarriage, premature labour, still birth, early neonatal deaths, earlier menopause and osteoporosis.