...Tobacco, described the habit thus: 'A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.' Other countries took stronger measures. In Russia any person...

...Cambridge. 36 A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmfull to the braine, daungerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse. A Cauuirrlila.il to Tobacco by RB 1604 (London) 37 Dear Dr. Marx,...

...pleasures spread quickly, despite the entreaties of the monarch, King James I. He denounced the habit as 'dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse', grimly prophetic words that fairly typify the 'wisest fool in...

...forreine civill nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull...the lungs, and, in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is bottomless. Wise and worthy king,...

...among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse. 2. John Smith on tobacco, from the Generall Historic 1624 Although...

...In short, he concluded, smoking is "a custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."6 The king's pamphlet was widely read and prompted a spate of...

...(ecstasy). Nicotine In 1604 James I described smoking as: 'A custome lothsome to the Nose, hermful to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume therof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse' (Mangan and Golding,...

...denouncing this "custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, daungerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse" (Dir). James unsuccessfully tried to scotch a habit that was...

...among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the...fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse. (99) By "raking" the "markes and notes of vanitie" upon their...

...pretty much confirmed what King James knew in 1604: That smoking is "Lothesome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrific Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."...