From The Guardian: Attack on smoking gets papal blessing.
The Vatican has signalled that it is considering adding its global influence to the campaign against smoking, in an article likely to send tremors of apprehension through the multi-billion-pound tobacco industry.
The article in an authoritative Roman Catholic publication, prepared with the knowledge and endorsement of the Pope's most senior aides, declares that smokers cannot damage their own health and that of others "without moral responsibility".
The article stops short of branding smoking a sin. But its author says that lighting up is "not neutral either in social or indeed moral terms".
His groundbreaking views are published in the latest edition of the scholarly Jesuit review Civilta Cattolica. [continue]
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