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while they indulge in this pernicious habit in ignorance of the injury it
is doing them; but when the matter is set before them in its true light,
then they are guilty before God if they continue to indulge this gross
appetite.—
Spiritual Gifts Volume 4a, 126
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498. Tobacco is a poison of the most deceitful and malignant kind,
having an exciting, then a paralyzing, influence upon the nerves of the
body. It is all the more dangerous because its effects upon the system
are so slow, and at first scarcely perceivable.—
Spiritual Gifts Volume
4a, 128
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499. Tobacco is a slow, insidious poison, and its effects are more
difficult to cleanse from the system than those of liquor.—
Testimonies
for the Church 3:569
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500. Tobacco using is a habit which frequently affects the nervous
system in a more powerful manner than does the use of alcohol. It
binds the victim in stronger bands of slavery than does the intoxicating
cup; the habit is more difficult to overcome. Body and mind are, in
many cases, more thoroughly intoxicated with the use of tobacco than
with spirituous liquors; for it is a more subtle poison.—
Testimonies
for the Church 3:562
.
501. It is unpleasant, if not dangerous, to remain in a railroad
car or in a crowded room that is not thoroughly ventilated, where the
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atmosphere is impregnated with the properties of liquor and tobacco.
The occupants give evidence by the breath and emanations from the
body that the system is filled with the poison of liquor and tobacco.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:562
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502. Many infants are poisoned beyond remedy by sleeping in beds
with their tobacco-using fathers. By inhaling the poisonous tobacco
effluvium, which is thrown from the lungs and pores of the skin, the
system of the infant is filled with poison. While it acts upon some
infants as a slow poison, and affects the brain, heart, liver, and lungs,
and they waste away and fade gradually; upon others it has a more
direct influence, causing spasms, paralysis, and sudden death. The
bereaved parents mourn the loss of their loved ones, and wonder at the
mysterious providence of God, which has so cruelly afflicted them,
when Providence designed not the death of these infants. They died
martyrs to the filthy lust for tobacco. Every exhalation of the lungs of
the tobacco slave poisons the air about him.—
The Health Reformer,
January 1, 1872
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