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, 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, and destroying the health and the lives of thousands, by a practice not at all less degrading than that of the Chinese or Hindoo. Whether, then, we consider the folly and indecency of the habit, or the waste of property, health and life which it occasions, it is time for the Patriot, the Philanthropist and the Christian, to put forth united, vigorous and systematic efforts to banish this injurious and disgusting habit from the community. It is a fact, that one reform not only prepares the way for another, but often so depends upon it, that the complete triumph of the one cannot be effected without that of the other. Such appears to be the relationship existing between the use of intoxicating drinks and that of the stimulating narcotic, tobacco. The use of tobacco almost always accompanies the use of alcoholic drinks, and it may be feared that total abstinence from the latter will not be _permanent_, unless there is also a total abstinence from the former. Our temperance brethren, particularly our worthy Washingtonians, will do well to bear this in mind.