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On the Use of Tobacco

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.10.240 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 2 p. ; 30.9 x 19.4 cm. Order a Copy

Essay discusses the vileness of tobacco use and urges users to stop. Comments on the high monetary cost and ill health effects resulting from tobacco use. Invokes man's responsibility to God to "...obtain the mastery over your appetites."

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Medical History
Tobacco and Smoking
Health and Medical
Finance
Reform Movement
Morality and Ethics
The American Civil War

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