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.

  • Fowler, Orin, 1791-1852.
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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    accordingly stood outside and puffed away like a steamer, at the same time keeping an eye on the driver; when all was ready, he sci ambled in, and we drove off. What an example, for a clergyman to stand in a public street and puff a cigar like a loafer or a black- guard! Rev. Mr. C, in a village adjoining Providence relates, that a brother clergyman called to preach for him. He was in the habit of chewing tobacco, and Mr. C. took the opportunity to speak to him on the subject. At first the brother remarked that there was nothing wrong or injurious in it; but on Mr. C's pressing the matter and ask- ing how he could preach righteousness, temperance and good habits in all things, when he was himself addicted to such a practice, the brother frankly acknowledged that he knew he was setting a bad example, and that tobacco was poisonous, injurious to health and shortened life, hut he excused himself by saying he could not give it up, for he found it impossible to write a sermon or preach it with any success, without taking tabacco. Sermons and preaching in- spired by tobacco! What better is this, than the inspiration of brandy? Rev. Mr. , now of Boston, formerly of a neighboring city, is a most excessive smoker and ehewer, so much so that it was a matter of notoriety and remark among his congregation and ac- quaintances of his former residence. He was a very agreeable man in other respects, but his study, his library, and every thing about him were so completely saturated with tobacco smoke, that the ladies of his church rarely made him a call, and more rarely borrowed a book from his extensive and excellent library.—Is it not time for clergymen to reform themselves in this particular, and then consistently to set about reforming others. I have recently learned that many ladies arc in the habit of chew- ing snuff! Some of them become so addicted to it as to use enor- mous quantities in this way. One of these snuff eaters, I was told, was accustomed to take herself by the under lip with one hand, and with the thumb and four fingers of the other to fill in an embankment between her lips and teeth. Shocking! Yet, what young lady who carries a concealed snuff-box, can be sure of not coining to this? I saw a woman who commenced with chewing snuff, and is now a regular tobacco ehewer. She said however, that she intended to give up the habit and refrain from tobacco in all its forms. Unless something is done to check the evil, who can say that we shall not become as bad as the inhabitants of Cuba, where, accord- ing to Rev. Mr. Ingcrsoll, not only men, but women and' children smoke, and some at a large expense. And according to Rev Dr Abbot, it was the common estimate that in Havana, there was an average consumption often thousand dollar* worth of cigar* in a day. ° Bosto.v, July, IS 12.