Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

God required the children of Israel to observe
habits of strict cleanliness. In any case of the least
impurity they were to remain out of the camp until
evening, then to wash themselves and come into
the camp. There was not a tobacco user in that vast
army. If there had been, he would have been
required to choose to remain out of the camp or
cease the use of the filthy weed. And after
cleansing his mouth from the least of its filthy
remains, he might have been permitted to mingle
with the congregation of Israel.
Tobacco Defilement an Offense to God
The priests, who ministered in sacred things,
were commanded to wash their feet and their hands
before entering the tabernacle in the presence of
God to importune for Israel, that they might not
desecrate the sanctuary. If the priests had entered
the sanctuary with their mouths polluted with
tobacco, they would have shared the fate of Nadab
and Abihu. And yet professed Christians bow
before God in their families to pray with their
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