• From lack of interest in the problem to medical ethics
• The evolution of the theological approach to the problem of smoking correlated with the evolution of medicine and access to information on the harmfulness of nicotine to one’s own health and those around one.
• The concept of sin- according to the Catholic Church teaching and the categorization of the “sin of smoking”
• The Catechism speaks of smoking in the context of the fifth commandment and respect for health: "The virtue of temperance disposes one to avoid all kinds of abuses of food, alcohol, tobacco, and medicines" (n. 2290)
• The conscious and voluntary transgression of the commandment of love, as well as of the fifth and first commandments of the Decalogue, is a sin.
• Smoking in the family : ( moral aspects of the impact of nicotine smoking within the family community)
• Not only are family functions threatened by smoking, such as the functions of love, sexuality, procreation, health, the economy, and education, but also the religious function, which is expressed in a proper relationship to God and others, respect for one's dignity and responsibility for personal formation, is impaired.
• The body is a gift from God and as a gift it must be nurtured, and any addictions do not serve the health and well-being of our body.

Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nueve de Julio. Former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago del Estero and Titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on November 22, 2008. Strong promotor of social justice, work for poor and rejected.