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Tobacco and nicotine both have a rich heritage, both in the church and in the country.

You've probably had some progressive liberal tell you that

slaves built this country of America. That's not true. Tobacco built this country. Slaves were

used in the process, but tobacco has had a powerful effect on the American ethos, but also

as it pertains to the church.

There are theologians throughout church history who have used tobacco and even ministers.

I think of Charles Spurgeon.

Charles Spurgeon was known for keeping a very rigid schedule, a weekly planner, and even

in his weekly written schedule, he would write down on the Lord's

day, on Sunday, smoke a cigar in the afternoon after the morning service to the glory of God.

In fact, he was so notorious for smoking cigars on the Lord's Day immediately after the

Sunday morning service that there was one instance, legend has it, where an elderly woman

of his congregation came outside the church building as the service was ending and met the minister,

Charles Spurgeon, saw him smoking his usual cigar, he would finish preaching, he would give

the benediction, then he would quickly exit the church building

so that he could say goodbye and greet and say goodbye to each individual parishioner as they were

leaving the service. And so he'd be standing outside smoking a cigar every single Sunday

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