Tobacco and the Soul

PappyJoe · May 2017

Saw this posted somewhere else and decided to borrow the link.

It's an interested read for those who don't require pictures.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/04/tobacco-and-the-soul

xDutchx · May 2017

Thanks so much for the link Pappy. That steamy little number really got the cogs turning, so I am definitely touching myself tonight!

Woodsman · May 2017

Thanks Pappy.

mfresa · May 2017

Excellent thought-provoking article.

dbh1950 · May 2017

Thanjs PappyJoe, read the article, a well though out and presented philosophy of all things related to tobacco usage and it's forms. In reference to pipe smoking, I have always thought that it is related to time, which when engaged in encourages thoughtfulness perhaps even contemplation. I tend to see certain temperaments connected to pipe smoking.

motie2 · May 2017

Pipe Smoking Could Have Positive Benefits To The Health Of Your Body & Mind

https://www.pipehub.com/blog/post/pipe-smoking-could-have-positive-benefits-to-the-health-of-your-body---mind

mfresa · May 2017

@dbh1950 what kind of temperament would that be? (I have a nasty one :-) )

motie2 · May 2017

Tobacco and the Soul? A picture instead of a thousand words?

motie2 · May 2017

At the Imaginative Conservative website, an article by Michael P. Foley (Doctorate in Catholic systematic theology, Associate Professor of Patristics in the Great Texts Program. Baylor University. The title is Tobacco and the Soul

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/07/tobacco-soul.html#more-47348

motie2 · May 2017

The Spiritual Consequences of Tobacco Consumption

http://www.christophervasey.ch/anglais/articles/the_spiritual_consequences_of_tobacco.html

PappyJoe · May 2017

@motie2 - The flaw in "The Spiritual Consequences of Tobacco Consumption" is that Vasey pretends that all tobacco consumption is equal when it comes to the physical effects and ignores that different consumption has varying degrees of negative effects. Even the infamous Surgeon General's report from the 1960s admitted that smoking pipe and cigars was just barely worse than being a non-smoker.

judandhispipe · May 2017

Interesting essay, @pappyjoe.

Tobacco and the Soul

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