AY Honors/Temperance/Answer Key
1. Memorize and sign the Temperance Pledge:
- “Realizing the importance of healthy body and mind, I promise, with the help of God, to live a Christian life of true temperance in all things and to abstain from the use of tobacco, alcohol, or any other narcotic.”
2. Memorize two of the following Bible texts and two of the following quotations from the writings of Ellen G. White:
Bible Texts
a. Romans 12:1-2
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. - NIV
b. 1 Corinthians 10:31
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. - NIV
c. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. - NIV
d. Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise. - NIV
e. Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. - NIV
f. 3 John 2
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. - NIV
Writings of Ellen G. White
a. “True temperance teaches us to abstain entirely from that which is injurious, and to use judiciously only healthful and nutritious articles of food.” Temperance, p. 3.
b. “The only safe course is to touch not, taste not, handle not, tea, coffee, wines, tobacco, opium, and alcoholic drinks.” Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 428.
c. “...temperance alone is the foundation of all the graces that come from God, the foundation of all victories to be gained.” Temperance, p. 201.
d. “Apure and noble life, a life of victory over appetite and lust, is possible to everyone who will unite his weak, wavering, human will to the omnipotent, unwavering will of God.” Temperance, p.113.
e. “Tobacco is a slow, insidious, but most malignant poison, in whatever form it is used, it tells upon the constitution; it is all the more dangerous because its effects are slow and at first hardly perceptible.” Ministry of Healing, p. 327-328.
3. Do four of the following: Refer to Adventist Youth for Better Living (AYBL) Manual for details.
a. Write and deliver a five-to eight-minute speech (oration).
b. Write an essay on alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or physical fitness of 150 to 200 words and your commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
c. Write a four-line jingle on a Drug Prevention topic.
d. Draw/make a poster 22 x 28 inches (55.9 x 63.5 cm) that tells about the harmful effects of a drug, tobacco, or alcohol.
e. Make a substance abuse exhibit for a local shopping mall, library, or school.
f. Make a scrapbook of at least 20 pages showing various Drug Prevention advertisements.
4. Know and explain:
a. The reason behind the warning on the cigarette packet: “Warning—smoking is a health hazard.”
The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act is a United States federal law passed in 1970 that required a stronger health warning on cigarette packages.
The warning read: "Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined that Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health."
The act also banned cigarette advertising on radio and television.
Smoking has been linked to lung cancer by medical research institutions throughout the world (through the use of observational studies). Smoking men are 22 times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smoking men and smoking women are 12 times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smoking women. Cigarette smoking increases the risk for many types of cancer, including cancers of the lip, oral cavity, and pharynx; oesophagus; pancreas; larynx (voice box); lung; breast; uterine cervix; urinary bladder; and kidney.
b. Seven ingredients of tobacco smoke:
(1) Nicotine
Nicotine, the stimulant and active ingredient in cigarettes, is highly addictive.
(2) Arsenic
This is a notoriously poisonous metalloid. Arsenic is not found free in nature, but its compounds are widely distributed in minerals. Arsenic and its compounds are used as pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and various alloys.
(3) Formaldehyde
At concentrations above 0.1 mg/kg in air, inhaled formaldehyde can irritate the eyes and mucous membranes, resulting in watery eyes, headache, a burning sensation in the throat, and difficulty breathing.
Large formaldehyde exposures, for example from drinking formaldehyde solutions, are potentially lethal. Formaldehyde is converted to formic acid in the body, leading to a rise in blood acidity (acidosis), rapid, shallow breathing, blurred vision or complete blindness, hypothermia, and, in the most severe cases, coma or death. People who have ingested formaldehyde require immediate medical attention.
In the body, formaldehyde can cause proteins to irreversibly bind to DNA. Laboratory animals exposed to large doses of inhaled formaldehyde over their lifetimes have developed more cancers of the nose and throat than are usual. Formaldehyde is classifed as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a known human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
(4) Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after the inhalation of carbon monoxide gas. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a product of combustion of organic matter under conditions of restricted oxygen supply, which prevents complete oxidation to carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and non-irritating, making it difficult for people to detect.
(5) Cyanide
Cyanide is an irreversible enzyme inhibitor. Tissues that mainly depend on aerobic respiration, such as the central nervous system and the heart, are particularly affected.
(6) Phenolbenzophyrine
is a highly carcinogenic and mutagenic compound which is formed during the incomplete combustion of organic matter. Tobacco manufacturers have experimented with combustionless vaporizer technology to allow cigarettes to be consumed without the formation of carcinogenic benzopyrenes.
(7) Amonia
During the 1960s, Tobacco companies such as Brown & Williamson and Philip Morris began using ammonia in cigarettes. The addition of ammonia serves to enhance the delivery of nicotine into the blood stream. As a result the reinforcement effect of the nicotine was enhanced, increasing its addictive ability without actually increasing the portion of nicotine.
c. Emphysema, cirrhosis, addiction
d. The effects of tobacco, alcohol, drugs and pregnancy
5. Read the chapter “Stimulants and Narcotics” in Ministry of Healing. Be able to discuss briefly or provide a written summary approximately two or three paragraphs in length.
If you do not have a copy of "Ministry of Healing", you can get one through AdventSource. You can also read this chapter (as well as many of Ellen White's other writings) online at http://www.whiteestate.org/books/mh/mh26.html.
