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Title: A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco
and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation

Author: Orin Fowler

Release Date: January 20, 2008 [EBook #24366]

Language: English

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A

DISQUISITION

ON THE

EVILS OF USING TOBACCO,

AND THE NECESSITY OF

IMMEDIATE AND ENTIRE REFORMATION.

By REV. ORIN FOWLER A. M.

THIRD EDITION.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY GEO. GREGORY.

For sale by D. S. KING, No. 1 Cornhill; JORDAN & CO. 121
Washington Street. NEW YORK: JOHN S. TAYLOR,
145 Nassau Street. PROVIDENCE: WM.
APLIN, 65 South Main St.
1842.

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, A. M.,

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN FALL RIVER, MASS.

Third Edition.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY GEO. GREGORY.

For sale by D. S. KING, No. 1. Cornhill; JORDAN &. CO. 121
Washington Street. NEW YORK: JOHN S. TAYLOR,
145 Nassau Street. PROVIDENCE: WM.
APLIN, 65 South Main St.

1842.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1842, by ORIN
FOWLER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS,

BY THE PUBLISHER.

Among the evils which a vitiated appetite has fastened upon mankind,
those that arise from the use of Tobacco hold a prominent place, and
call loudly for reform. We pity the poor Chinese, who stupifies body and
mind with opium, and the wretched Hindoo, who is under a similar slavery
to his favorite plant, the Betel; but _we_ present the humiliating
spectacle of an enlightened and christian nation, wasting annually more
than twenty-five millions of dollars