Project Gutenberg 2008-01-20 Public domain in the USA. 158 Fowler, Orin 1791 1852 A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation 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) "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.) Reading ease score: 56.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Tobacco use HV RC Text Category: Health & Medicine Category: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology 124816 2025-08-10T07:10:36.401056 text/html 122032 2008-01-19T17:24:20 text/html 163767 2025-08-10T07:10:43.039003 application/epub+zip 164106 2025-08-10T07:10:39.885998 application/epub+zip 138016 2025-08-10T07:10:38.615035 application/epub+zip 364259 2025-08-10T07:10:45.428974 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 293182 2025-08-10T07:10:42.182033 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 280061 2022-09-11T09:41:40.147475 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 106040 2025-08-10T07:10:35.834012 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 105975 2008-01-19T17:24:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 105972 2008-01-19T17:24:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 105965 2008-01-19T17:24:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21997 2025-08-10T07:10:45.558972 application/rdf+xml 18880 2025-08-10T07:10:39.106090 image/jpeg 4084 2025-08-10T07:10:38.860039 image/jpeg 39525 2008-01-19T17:24:20 application/octet-stream application/zip 39500 2008-01-19T17:24:20 application/octet-stream application/zip 80967 2008-01-19T17:24:22 application/octet-stream application/zip 39483 2008-01-19T17:24:20 application/octet-stream application/zip 162533 2025-08-10T07:10:36.417041 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog