Nowakowski, MarekMareMagnum
ME Poland, MD M E M DBiblio.com
The Church and Tobacco
réf. 3730742Pittsburg Pa.: The No-Tobacco Army 1923. First edition. 184pp. One illus. Sm. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth. Brief binding wear; light creases to front endpaper; some thumbed pages; Good. Uncommon title with the goal of stamping out tobacco use by explaining its deleterious effects on health “poison of nerve cells” being but one as well as on spirit “evidence of spiritual loss”. The reader is instructed by the “The No-Tobacco Army” on how to become and activist and steps to take to oppose tobacco. The power of the church as a unified front to oppose tobacco companies is also a theme. Much of the book’s scientific and medical “evidence” to demonstrate tobacco’s ill-effects are now known to be wrong but a number of the author’s points e.g. peer pressure to use tobacco would be used today. Reasonably scarce in OCLC. unknown
