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Unknown On the Use of Tobacco

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.10.240 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript Date: n.d. 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."

Maitland Collection. Joseph Maitland enlisted on 8 August 1862 as a Private. He was mustered into "G" Co. OH 95th Infantry. He was mustered out 31 May 1865 at Memphis, Tennessee.

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