...his royal intellect in writing against it. In his " Counterblast to Tobacco," he says that the use of it is "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the...the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless." But he amply made up...

...nations'and by all strangers that come among you, and be scorned, and contemned ; a custom both fulsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stigian . smelle of the pit that is bottomless." Such quotations as these are surely sufficient to...

...that he really took any trouble to inquire into the science of the matter. He winds up by saying : " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling...

...treatise, against it, which he called "The Counterblaste to Tobacco," and in which he described it as " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." Asparagus, artichokes, cauliflowers, and a variety of other vegetables...

...ccutury. King Jam» I. of England issued a Coitnterhlaete to '1 ubaceo, in which he described its use as ' a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to tiw brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible...

...proof of its injurious effects."— John Skelton, Esq., MD •f Arthur Trevelyan, Esq., JP J " Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye ; hateful to the nose ; harmful to the brain (p. 15) ; dangerous to the lungs (p. 62) ; and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembles...

...pertinently than wa3 done long ago in the closing sentence of King James' " Counterblast to Tobacco." " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the...dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." To which...

...practice, that he wrote a book called ' The Counterblast to Tobacco, ' in which he described its use as 'a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' Smoking in Eastern countries...

...thin, only stump, shuffle, jig, or amble — none but a Spaniard can walk. THE COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO. A CUSTOM loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. — James...

...Smoking gives great offense to persons of delicate and unperverted sensibility. King James said of it, " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the...nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs." John Josselyn says of tobacco, although himself a lover of it, that " immoderately taken it drieth...