 | Omowunmi Osinubi - Blue collar workers - 2005 - 116 pages
...England's King James I dismissed claims that tobacco had curative powers. Instead, he condemned smoking as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lung, and the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horribly Stygian smoke of the pit... | |
 | J. H. Owing - Passive smoking in children - 2005 - 208 pages
...England's King James I dismissed claims that tobacco had curative powers. Instead, he condemned smoking as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lung, and the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horribly Stygian smoke of the pit... | |
 | John Miles, June Roberts - Lungs - 2005 - 217 pages
...rest of the body. King James I of England (VI of Scotland) wrote 400 years ago that tobacco smoke was 'Loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.' He was right! But isn't smoking just a habit? Addiction to nicotine in cigarettes is the main reason... | |
 | Simon Wills - Medical - 2005 - 422 pages
...withdrawal symptoms after chronic maternal ingestion of caffeine. South Med J 1988; 81: 1092. 15 Tobacco A custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the Braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | History - 2006 - 312 pages
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 | Giulio Busi - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 260 pages
...Tobacco, in which he makes a trenchant critique of what he calls the filthy novelty of smoking, ... a custom, loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible smoke of the pit that is bottomless. Clearly, his highness would have approved of the warning on the... | |
 | Suzanne LeVert - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 118 pages
...popularity, some countries began to recognize its dangers. The English king James I believed that smoking was a "custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the stygian [hellish] smoke of the pit that is bottomless." He put a 4,000 percent tax on tobacco, a practice... | |
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... 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 smoke of the pit that is bottomless. 
