Larkin B. Coles

Larkin Baker Coles (1803 – 1856) was an American physician, minister, Millerite preacher, anti-tobacco activist and vegetarian.

The book espoused Christian health reform with arguments for exercise, fresh air, vegetarianism, non-use of stimulants, sexual purity and drugless medicine.

Coles defended vegetarianism from a nutritional, physiological and religious basis.

[3] Coles died in January 1856, whilst visiting Louisville, Kentucky.

He authored The Beauties and Deformities of Tobacco-Using in 1853, which described tobacco as "a deadly narcotic".