A disquisition on the evils of using tobacco, and the necessity of immediate and entire reformation / by Orin Fowler.

  • Orin Fowler
Date:
1835
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    science, and the light of civil and religious liberty, and the light of Bible truth, to blaze through all our vallies, and over all our bills, from Greenland to Cape Horn,— and with a lustre that sball illu- mine the world. I maintain my position, IV. From a consideration of the ruinous effects of tobacco upon public and private morals. The ruinous effects ot tobacco upon public and private morals, are seen in the idle, sauntering habits, which the use of it engenders,— in the benumbing, grovelling, stupid, sensations which it induces,— but especially in perpetuating and extending the practice of using in- toxicating drinks. Governor Sullivan has truly said, •• that (be tobacco pipe excites a demand for an extraordinary quantity of some beverage to supply the waste of glandular secretion, in proportion to tbe expense of saliva; and ardent spirits are the common substitutes ; and the smoker is often reduced to a state of dram drinking, and finishes bis life as a sot. Dr. Agnew has truly said, that the use of the pipe leads to the im- moderate use of ardent spirits. Dr. Rush has truly said, that smoking and chewing tobacco, by rendering water and other simple liquors insipid to tbe taste, dispose very much to the stronger stimulous of ardent spirits ; hence [says he] the practice of smoking cigars, has been followed by the use of brandy and water as common drink. A writer in tbe Genius of Temperance, says that his practice of smoking and chewing the filthy weed, produced a continual thirst for stimulating drinks; and this tormenting thirst [says he] led me into the habit of drinking ale, porter, brandy, and other kinds of spir- it, even to the extent, at times, of partial intoxication He adds, I reformed ; and after I had subdued this appetite for tobacco, I lost all desire for stimulating drinks. Now the fact that some chew, and smoke, and snuff without becom- ing sots, proves nothing against the geneial ptinciple, that it is the natural tendency of using tobacco to promote intoxication. Probably one tenth, at least, of all the drunkards annually made in the nation, and throughout the world, are made drunkards through the use of to- bacco * If thirty thousand drunkards are made annually in the Uni- ted States, three thousand must be charged to the use of tobacco. If thirty thousand drunkards die annually, in the United States, three * Edward C. Delevail, Esq., Secretary of the New York Plate Temperance Soci- ety, says, in a letter just received, — The subject of your Essay is one of immense importance to tlie world ami to the temperance cause. The use ofthis vile ween has been the medium of forming the appetite for strong drink, and ultimately destroying thousands of the most promising youth of our country. You will hardly ever meet
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