Anti-Tobacco "Pipe and Poverty"

Item Information

• Description
  Two-sided circular letter titled "Pipe and Poverty" is an anti-tobacco tract in which the author connects the act of smoking with poverty. He states that smokers spend so much money on cigars, chewed tobacco, and pipes that they cannot afford to take care of their families. He further states that tobacco is the "cause of much physical and intellectual evil." He largely seeks an audience of young men "starting in life (as the author did) with little or not means, and dependent on their industry, economy and the blessing of God."

• Item ID
  bdsme11078
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Maine
  Kennebec County (Me.)
  Winthrop (Me.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Anti-Tobacco "Pipe and Poverty"
• Extent
  2 scans
• Date
  1890
• Folder
  ME1
• Type
  Text
  circular letters
• Subject
  Manners and customs

• Copyright & Usage
  None