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Title:
A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco
and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
Note: Reading ease score: 56.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
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Summary: "A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco" by Orin Fowler is a reformative pamphlet written in the early 19th century, around the 1840s. This text explores the various harmful effects of tobacco consumption, arguing passionately for its complete abandonment. Fowler, a clergyman, addresses the moral, health, and socioeconomic ramifications of tobacco use, pervading his discourse with significant historical and empirical evidence against the practice. In the book, Fowler presents a thorough analysis of the detrimental impacts of tobacco on individual health, societal morals, and financial resources, urging for immediate and total abstinence. He outlines numerous arguments, including the observation that tobacco facilitates the consumption of alcohol—a further societal ill—and leads to a cascade of physical ailments, such as cancer and heart diseases. Fowler emphasizes the waste of wealth associated with tobacco and posits that the funds could be redirected toward noble causes. His rhetoric targets both individual users and society as a whole, pressing for a united front against this "dirty plant." Ultimately, he calls for personal and communal responsibility to abandon tobacco for a healthier, more moral society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Fowler, Orin, 1791-1852
EBook No.: 24366
Published: Jan 20, 2008
Downloads: 85
Language: English
Subject: Tobacco use
LoCC: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
LoCC: Medicine: Internal medicine
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title:
A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco
and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
Note: Reading ease score: 56.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Credits:
Produced by David Garcia, Joe Longo and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http:
//www.pgdp.net
(This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Summary: "A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco" by Orin Fowler is a reformative pamphlet written in the early 19th century, around the 1840s. This text explores the various harmful effects of tobacco consumption, arguing passionately for its complete abandonment. Fowler, a clergyman, addresses the moral, health, and socioeconomic ramifications of tobacco use, pervading his discourse with significant historical and empirical evidence against the practice. In the book, Fowler presents a thorough analysis of the detrimental impacts of tobacco on individual health, societal morals, and financial resources, urging for immediate and total abstinence. He outlines numerous arguments, including the observation that tobacco facilitates the consumption of alcohol—a further societal ill—and leads to a cascade of physical ailments, such as cancer and heart diseases. Fowler emphasizes the waste of wealth associated with tobacco and posits that the funds could be redirected toward noble causes. His rhetoric targets both individual users and society as a whole, pressing for a united front against this "dirty plant." Ultimately, he calls for personal and communal responsibility to abandon tobacco for a healthier, more moral society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Fowler, Orin, 1791-1852
EBook No.: 24366
Published: Jan 20, 2008
Downloads: 85
Language: English
Subject: Tobacco use
LoCC: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
LoCC: Medicine: Internal medicine
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.