By the use of tea and coffee an appetite is formed for tobacco.—Testimonies for the Church 3:563. (Te 57.1) MC VC

The highly seasoned flesh meats and the tea and coffee, which some mothers encourage their children to use, prepare the way for them to crave stronger stimulants, as tobacco. The use of tobacco encourages the appetite for liquor.—Testimonies for the Church 3:488. (Te 57.2) MC VC

Food prepared with condiments and spices inflames the stomach, corrupts the blood, and paves the way to stronger stimulants. It induces nervous debility, impatience, and lack of self-control. Tobacco and the wine cup follow.—The Signs of the Times, October 27, 1887. (Te 57.3) MC VC

Lives Are Sacrificed—Alcohol and tobacco pollute the blood of men, and thousands of lives are yearly sacrificed to these poisons.—The Health Reformer, November, 1871. (Te 57.4) MC VC

Nature does her best to expel the poisonous drug, tobacco; but frequently she is overborne. She gives up her struggle to expel the intruder, and the life is sacrificed in the conflict.—Manuscript 3, 1897. (Te 57.5) MC VC

Tobacco Use Is Suicide—God requires purity of heart, and personal cleanliness, now, as when He gave the special directions to the children of Israel. If God was so particular to enjoin cleanliness upon those journeying in the wilderness who were in the open air nearly all the time, He requires no less of us who live in ceiled houses, where impurities are more observable, and have a more unhealthful influence. 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. Multitudes have fallen victims to its poisonous influence. They have surely murdered themselves by this slow poison. And we ask. What will be their waking in the resurrection morning?—Spiritual Gifts 4a:128. (Te 57.6) MC VC