The Village Shepherd
Is It Life-Threatening?
Sermon
I have a story for you, and it may be quite a common story, which some of you will recognize in one way or another. It concerns a man was a heavy smoker. Because he knew smoking damages health, he'd tried to give up from time to time using all sorts of aids like filters and reduced nicotine cigarettes and patches and so on. But when you start smoking at the age of ten it's already an established habit by the time you're twelve, so giving up isn't easy.

