...sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke 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...

...drunkenness, as a disabling (injuring) of both persons and goods, and in conclusion declares it to be a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible...

...Tobacco." The strength of the royal antidote may be gathered from the subjoined sentence : — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black fume thereof, nearly resembling the horrible Stygian smoke...

...by all foreign nations, and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and contemned. 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 fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian...

...introduced ; and in his well-known diatribe, King James I. calls it " a " filthy novelty, a custom hateful to the nose, " harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the " lungs." But the use of Tobacco for smoking, chewing, and snuff-taking, prevailed over eveiy obstacle, spreading...

...Among these books is that of James Stuart, King of England, who describes the smoking of tobacco as " 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...

...different view of the prevalent practice, and wrote a "Oounterblaste to Tobacco," stigmatizing its use as " 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...

...exerted all his authority and eloquence to procure the banishment of this filthy novelty, "a custom hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." And yet, in spite of all these denunciations, the strange, mysterious fascination of the weed was continually...

...subject, entitled "A Counterblaste to Tobacco." We quote the following from its pages : — " 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...

...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 nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible stygian...