A person who caters to the desires of the fallen flesh and who habitually overeats or partakes of something detrimental to his body becomes a slave to his appetite.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God will bring both it and them to nothing,” he declared. (1 Cor. 6:12, 13) Certainly we do not want to come under the control of something that is destroyed in being used, whether food, tobacco, or anything else.