The CCC wrote:Sure anything used to excess has negative influences on our health. It is unlikely a once a week cigarette will have lasting ill effects on someone, unless they are allergic to it. But that doesn't make it a good thing. A small cup of coffee, or sugary drink once a week won't have much of a ill effect on someone, again if they not allergic to it. As a LDS I've agreed to not drink coffee, booze or use tobacco. I live up to my agreements not because it may be good for my health, but because I agreed to it.
JOSEPH'S BAR
In Nauvoo Joseph Smith sold liquor; the following ordinance was passed in 1843 (the reader must remember that Joseph Smith was Mayor of Nauvoo at the time):
"Ordinance on the Personal Sale of Liquors.
"Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of Nauvoo, that the mayor of the city be and is hereby authorized to sell or give spirits of any quantity as he in his wisdom shall judge to be for the health and comfort or convenience of such travelers or other persons as shall visit his house from time to time.
"Passed December 12, 1843.
Joseph Smith, Mayor.
"Willard Richards, Recorder." (History of the Church, Vol. 6, page 111)
Joseph Smith's own son related the following:
"About 1842, a new and larger house was built for us.... Father proceeded to build an extensive addition running out from the south wing toward the east....
"At any rate, it seemed spacious then, and a sign was put out giving it the dignified name of 'The Nauvoo Mansion,'... Mother was to be installed as landlady, and soon made a trip to Saint Louis... "When she returned Mother found installed in the keeping - room of the hotel--that is to say, the main room where the guests assembled and where they were received upon arrival--A bar, with counter, shelves, bottles, glasses, and other paraphernalia customary for a fully-equipped tavern bar, and Porter Rockwell in charge as tender.
"She was very much surprised and disturbed over this arrangement, but said nothing for a while...she asked me where Father was. I told her he was in the front room... Then she told me to go and tell him she wished to see him. I obeyed, and returned with him to the hall where Mother awaited him. 'Joseph,' she asked, 'What is the meaning of that bar in this house?'... 'How does it look,' she asked, 'for the spiritual head of a religious body to be keeping a hotel in which is a room fitted out as a liquor-selling establishment?'
"He reminded her that all taverns had their bars at which liquor was sold or dispensed...
"Mother's reply came emphatically clear, though uttered quietly:
"'Well, Joseph,... I will take my children and go across to the old house and stay there, for I will not have them raised up under such conditions as this arrangement imposes upon us, nor have them mingle with the kind of men who frequent such a place. You are at liberty to make your choice; either that bar goes out of the house, or we will!'
"It did not take Father long to make the choice, for he replied immediately, 'Very well, Emma; I will have it removed at once'--and he did." (The Saints' Herald, Jan. 22, 1935, page 110)
Joseph Smith even tried to justify drunkenness because of the example of Noah. The following appears in Joseph Smith's History of the Church:
"Sunday, 7.--Elder William O. Clark preached about two hours, reproved the Saints for a lack of sanctity, and a want of holy living, enjoining sanctity, solemnity and temperance in the extreme, in the ridgid sectarian style.
"I reproved him as Pharisaical and hypocritical.... What many call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down;' I referred to the curse of Ham for laughing at Noah, while in his wine, but doing no harm. Noah was a righteous man, and yet he drank wine and became intoxicated; the Lord did not forsake him in consequence thereof, for he retained all the power of his priesthood, and when he was accused by Canaan, he cursed him by the priesthood which he held, and the Lord had respect to his word, and the priesthood which he held, notwithstanding he was drunk, and the curse remains upon the posterity of Canaan until this day." (History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 445-446)
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Kolob’s set time is “one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest” (Abraham 3:4). I take this as a round number. - Gee