Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually or 1,300 deaths every day.
100,000,000 people died of tobacco-related causes in the 20th century. Many professing Christians are involved in this industry of death. I have a question for you: How come so many Christians protest abortion but the ones protesting tobacco are so few? I can’t give you an answer. I only have a question. It remains a conundrum to me. I’m not like Daniel of old.
Daniel 5:16
And I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
When I was young, I smoked Winston cigarettes because I fell for the jingle, “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.”
Daniel knew the handwriting and explained the enigma. His relationship with God provided insight others didn’t have. Should we follow his example?
Give it some thought.
Gary