...famous ' Counterblaste to Tobacco,' in which the following remarkable passage occurs : — ' It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian...

...formal treatise against it, entitled a " Counter Blast to Tobacco," in which he says the use of it " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian...

...also thereby (look to it, ye that take snuff in profusion) the notes and marks of vanity upon you. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs." Such was King James's opinion of the custom of smoking tobacco and taking...

...Strafpredigt dagegen erliess. In diesem Counterblast beschreibt Se. Majestät das Tabakrauchen als 'a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian...

...all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stygian...

...the opinion of many, applies more justly than to the practice in any other part of the world — " A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful! to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible Stygian...

...treed." In vain King James assured his subjects, that the custom of smoking it was loathsome to the eyes, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous...Opposition made proselytes; and the united influence of fashion and habit, extended the practice through the kingdom.* Tobacco was first cultivated by the...

...been called — next thing to godliness. We would not declaim against it as did King James I, who said it was "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian...

...subject, entitled "A Counterblaste to Tobacco." We quote the following from its pages : — " It « a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian...

...paralysis and torpor, vomiting, weakness, loss of appetite and indigestion. Termed by King James I. " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." In England an average of nineteen ounces per person consumed annually of what is well called — "...