...princely antidote may be gathered from the following closing paragraph of this royul Counterblast. " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black .... fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." All...

...turned to the growing of tobacco. In spite of the view of England's King James that the yellow weed was "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain" and "dangerous to the lungs," the tremendous popularity of tobacco in England and Europe drew thousands...

...immediate response was to prohibit smoking. King James I of England, in 1603, described smoking as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the 68 Except where noted, the following account is taken from Count Corti, A History of Smoking, trans....

...our health had in mind the following consequence of what James I of England and VI of Scotland called 'A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.' It happened in Portsmouth on 24th June 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic wars. A battalion of returning...

...recent. In an often-quoted treatise published in 1604, England's King James I wrote that smoking was "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Sugian smoke of the pit that is bottomless" (Dillow. 1981). At the turn of the century in America,...

...of Scotland (later James I of England) voiced bitter and blunt objections. He referred to smoking as "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." Amurat,...

...17th-century Turkey (Roskies, 1991). James I of England, an early opponent, denounced pipe smoking as 'a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs' (see Kiple, 1993: 177). Despite all this, the tobacco monopoly brought in huge sums in revenue for...

...authoritative condemnation of the practice by King James I in 1604 in his Counterblasts 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"19. In some...

...repeated in Victorian print surely as often as it must have been read in the early seventeenth century: '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'.1' After overcoming these initial...

...by early 16th-century explorers. Duringthe 17th century, England's King James said that tobacco was "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs" (quoted in Mackenzie, 1986, p. 13). Since the early 20th century, experimental studies among lower...