Question:

How are we supposed to tell a friend about drugs and smoking when the Bible says nothing about it?  Suppose they say, “Prove it to me in the Bible”?

Answer:

It depends whether your friend is saved or not.  Your unsaved friends need to receive Christ as Saviour and Lord before they will have any desire or power to kick the drug and smoking habit.  If you have saved friends who smoke or on drugs, here are some helpful verses: “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19,20).  “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient” (1 Corinthians 6:12).  “All things are lawful for me, but all things edify not” (1 Corinthians 10:23).  “None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself…. Let…no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way” (Romans 14:7,13).  The professing Christian who smokes or uses drugs may be hindering unbelievers (who perhaps don’t smoke and don’t use drugs) from coming to Christ.