A disquisition on the evils of using tobacco : and the necessity of immediate and entire reformation : delivered before the Fall River Lyceum, and before the congregation to whom the author statedly ministers / by Orin Fowler.

  • Orin Fowler
Date:
1842
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Credit: A disquisition on the evils of using tobacco : and the necessity of immediate and entire reformation : delivered before the Fall River Lyceum, and before the congregation to whom the author statedly ministers / by Orin Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The abominable filthiness oi' the practice of using tobacco, is a sufficient argument to induce all decent people to wage war against it. Stage coaches, rail cars, steamboats, public houses, courts ,of justice, halls of legislation, and the temples of God, arc all defi- led by the loathsome consumers of this dirty, Indian herb. For the sake of decency, for the honor of humanity, let the land be purified from this worse than beastly pollution! Let none be discouraged from engaging in this reform, because it relates to a wide-spread and fashionable vice. With a moderate de- gree of effort in each town and village, hundreds of thousands might in one year's time, be induced to pledge themselves against all use of tobacco. During the last winter I drew up the following pledge, and ob- tained many signatures here and in other parts of the state. ANTI-TOBACCO PLEDGE. We, the subscribers, believing that the use of Tobacco, in all its forms, is injurious to health, and knowing it to be a slovenly, sluttish, and disgusting habit, do pledge ourselves that we will not smoke it, chew it, nor snuff it; and that we will use efforts to persuade those addicted to the practice, to discontinue its use; and above all, that we ivill not traffic in it, nor countenance those who do ; and that we will use our influence to banish the vile stuff from New England, our country, and the world. A gentleman in North Bridgewatcr, to whom I lent a pamphlet on this subject, said he had not read it half through, before he emp- tied his pockets of tobacco, and resolved to use no more. He also took a pledge to circulate among his neighbors. Another man who had chewed tobacco thirty-three years, aban- doned the habit and remarked that he would not return to it for fifty * Two benevolent individuals, in Providence, had two or three hun- dred copies of the above pledge printed to circulate in the State oi Rhode Island. One of the principal clergymen m P. said, a mem- ber of his church, a trader, told him that the money paid tor tobac- co in the city was sufficient to support the public preaching. A gentleman there, who has recently given up tobacco, said he would not go back to its use for a thousand dollars, although it cost bun a ereat effort to refrain from it. A young man, alter receiving a pri- vate lecture from an anti-tobacco friend, committed to the flames half a dozen cigars he had by him, and signed the pledge I have conversed with very ninny addicted to the use of tobacco, was sit- and nearly all express regret at having formed the habit. 4 (vw days since in a town not far from Providence, as I tina in the stage about starting for the city up came a reverend Lntl< man a very tine- man by the way. with a big cigar about ha It burned lie had too much good breeding to get infothe stage with I audio all appearance, disliked to part with so good a friend; he
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