Is the word tobacco found in the Bible?

Answer 1

no, neither is chocolate, sugar, coffee, soy beans, cotton, tomatoes...

but on the other hand it does mentions that king david was SMOKIN HOTTTT!!!

Answer 2

Sure. And Jesus was Cherokee.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Tobacco is an American plant, used by Native Americans for ceremonial purposes, and the . Europeans and Africans had no clue about its existence until 16th century, or something.

However, there are some clues that it might be Arabic in origin - but the word in question was first recorded in 9th century. If it is in the Bible, it's a very late revision :)

Answer 3

Tobacco comes from the New World, although people even in ancient times did have forms of incense WHICH IS CERTAINLY MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE, this was definitely not tobacco!

Answer 4

No, but that does not free one to smoke. Few may be aware of the tremendous damage smoking causes to others, in addition to the smoker. For example, many thousands die every year in smoking-caused fires, 2,000 annually in the U.S. alone! In Canada, more than 40 percent of all fires are directly related to smoking.

Furthermore, cigarette smoke badly pollutes the air. During a football game inside Michigan’s Pontiac Silverdome a sampling of the air revealed that the level of particulates was high enough to cause an air pollution alert if it had occurred outside. Smoking by many of the 80,000 fans was responsible.

The effect of breathing smoke-filled air can be the same as if a person himself smoked. The American Medical News, quoting Dr. Charles F. Tate, said: “There are studies now that show if you sit in a room where smoking is going on, depending on the number of people smoking in the room and the size of the room, the non-smoker will be smoking the equivalent of a pack a day.” And breathing the smoke from an idling cigarette is actually more harmful, since it contains almost twice as much tar and nicotine as smoke that is inhaled while a person is puffing a cigarette.

For some time it has been recognized that nonsmoking adults with heart and lung diseases, as well as young children, suffer damage from cigarette fumes. Recently a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that healthy, adult nonsmokers also suffer adverse effects. “Now, for the first time, we have a quantitative measurement of a physical change,” write Dr. Claude Lenfant and Barbara Liu in an accompanying editorial in the aforementioned journal.

Especially is it dangerous to an unborn child for a pregnant woman to smoke. Smoking constricts the blood vessels and arteries in the uterus, depriving the unborn baby of necessary oxygen and nutrients. Also, poisonous carbon monoxide passes through the placenta, reaching the baby. “It is quite clear,” Dr. Mary B. Meyer of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health says, “that smoking increases the risk of abortion, stillbirth and pre-term delivery.”

Considering the harm done to the smoker, as well as to those who may be forced to breathe his smoke, can’t you see good reason to prohibit smoking? Jehovah’s Witnesses have long shown that smoking is incompatible with Bible principles. “Let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit,” God’s Word says. (2 Cor. 7:1) Clearly, smoking defiles and often sickens the smoker, as well as those near him. How, then, can a person smoke and love others who desire to remain undefiled by the smoke?—Matt. 22:39.

When God’s kingdom has destroyed the loveless old system of things, there will no longer be any tobacco smokers. Smoking certainly is not here to stay. So if you want to remain to enjoy the blessings of God’s new order—and you happen to be a tobacco smoker—you must get rid of this defiling habit. And if you really want to, you can do it!

Answer 5

No. But the principle of not using tobacco is found at 2 Corinthians 7:1

"beloved ones, let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God’s fear."

Edit - Bah! LineDancer beat me to it ;)

Answer 6

No, just like the word "kangaroo" is not found in the Bible. The Bible addresses real people who lived in real places in the vicinity of Asia, Africa and Europe from the time God created mankind until about 70 years after Jesus went back up to Heaven after being resurrected from the dead. It doesn't mention things that existed only on the continent of North America or Australia.

If you are asking because you want to know what the Bible might say about cigarette smoking, here are two passages that address things like tobacco use that are not mentioned by name in the Bible.

1 Corinthians 6:12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.

If a person can smoke without it interfering with their serving the Lord then it is a personal matter between them and God.

Romans 14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

However, they should keep it to themselves if they are around people who don't approve of smoking because they think that it is a sin.

Romans 14:20 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. 22 The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.

As to people who take quotes from the Bible out of their context to call smoking a sin, they need to go to a competent class and learn how to correctly exegete the Scriptures.

When the Bible talks about "cleansing oneself from defilement, or defiling the body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit, it is talking about sexual sin and not what some human being who is guided by what they read in the paper about smoking might think that it means.

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

The verse from 2 Corinthians has to do with hanging out with pagans as you can see by reading the end of chapter 6.

2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, 18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty." 7:1 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Answer 7

Nope...but that doesn't make it good for you.

Answer 8

Nope. Why do you ask?

Answer 9

no they smoked mary jane