Bringing the Faith Community Together

to Reduce Tobacco Use

Religious leaders have long played a critical role in addressing the nation’s social challenges, especially in protecting children and other vulnerable people. Helping to reduce tobacco use, the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States, is a natural extension of these efforts. The faith community can be a powerful force in protecting our children and reducing the terrible toll of tobacco.

Religious groups participating in this campaign include United Methodist, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, National Council of Churches, Seventh Day Adventists, American Muslim Foundation, Southern Baptist Convention, Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, Church Women United and Church of the Brethren.

To learn more about the work of faith leaders across the country to reduce smoking, check out:

Celebrate Recovery

Journey Church 

"Faith leaders are making tobacco a priority because for too long our clergy and our churches have been burying fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers who were addicted to tobacco at a young age.  This is a moral tragedy that must be dealt with in this country."

James Winkler, General Secretary

General Board of Church & Society, United Methodist Church

“The struggles of society are born anew with each person who comes into the world.  Politics and science alone will not win the war that each tobacco user wages when he or she chooses to quit.  The war must be fought-and can be won-only within the confines of the soul. “

C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.

U.S. Surgeon General 1981-1989

For more information about Faith United Against Tobacco:

Vincent DeMarco, Faith United Against Tobacco