A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco

Orin Fowler

Orin Fowler set out to convince his neighbors that the pipe and the plug were doing them real harm. His disquisition marshals arguments and testimonials against the tobacco habit, an early voice in a debate that would run for centuries. A brief, earnest piece of nineteenth-century reform writing. See how the case against tobacco was first put to the public.