Christianity and smoking (arguments against)

In more modern times, even before the health risks of smoking were identified through controlled study, smoking was considered an immoral habit by certain Christian preachers and social reformers. Tobacco was listed, along with drunkenness, gambling, cards, dancing and theatre-going, in J.M. Judy's Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes, a book featuring anti-smoking dialogue which was published in 1904 by the Western Methodist Book Concern of Chicago.

Moral concerns about self-injury are also prevalent in Catholic medical ethics on the grounds that people ought to be responsible stewards of the body as a gift from God; the stewardship argument is also used among Protestant groups as an argument against smoking. However, smoking is seldom considered a formal sin in Catholicism and many lay, vowed, and ordained faithful smoke. Other Christian denominations, such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, doctrinally eschew the use of tobacco to the degree that it does affect one's standing in the faith.