Day 26

Tobacco and physical health

You almost certainly don’t smoke. It is likely you have never smoked. Thank God your life and lifestyle have not been limited by smoking.

Roy Castle was a British entertainer and a well-known Christian. He had always sought a healthy lifestyle. As a child I remember him playing the trumpet and dancing on children’s television programmes.

He died from lung cancer. He had never smoked. Some of the people around him smoked and he breathed their exhaled poisons. It may be that members of your family smoke, it could be that work colleagues smoke. Please don’t think that you are safe from lung cancer because you don’t smoke.

At the same time don’t set out to judge the smokers around you into changing their lifestyle. It doesn’t work. Cigarettes take hold of the mind so that smokers are gripped by their addiction. However you can help.

Our Megalungs health expo will focus on the chest and lungs. The Megalungs event will be built around an inflatable set of lungs we have hired from the Roy Castle foundation. Bring along a friend for a health check, get a health check yourself. Better still, during these 40 days you will have been praying for people to come to a relationship with Jesus. Bring that friend along to the Expo at Hyson Green market and then to the health meeting from the Monday to the Friday at the Upper Room.

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Peter