Joe,

Thanks for your responses on the subject


In Spurgeon's day smoking was not seen as a badge, so to speak, of a free-spirit, anti-authoritarian attitude. ISTM that today it would be difficult for someone to start smoking without going through that attitude. So, it might be safe to say that the starting of smoking probably indicates a sin that needs to be dealt with; however, smokers who have repented of those attitudes would not be sinning by their smoking.

John Chaney

"having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith . . ." Colossians 2:7