 | James N. Rosenau, Ernst-Otto Czempiel - Law - 1992 - 328 pages
...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.... | |
 | J. Mann - Pharmacology - 2000 - 268 pages
...introduction of tobacco), wrote a pamphlet entitled A Counterblast to Tobacco. In this he described smoking as 'a custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the Braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible... | |
 | Alexandra Hough - Breathing exercises - 2001 - 652 pages
...and positioning, particularly the well-forward side-lying position (Dean, 1997). EFFECT OF SMOKING A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs. King James I Smokers were excommunicated by Pope Urban VIII and decapitated... | |
 | Alan Taylor - History - 2002 - 548 pages
...England and Europe. Ahead of his time, King James fought a losing battle when he denounced smoking as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, [and] dangerous to the lungs." Eventually he learned to love the large revenues that the crown derived... | |
 | Herbert Lockwood - 2004 - 182 pages
...a host of others. To get even, they gave us tobacco, about which King James I of England commented. "It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." The first American doctor here was George McKinistry, who kept a diary.... | |
 | Sean M. Rafferty - Social Science - 2004 - 352 pages
...13. James I published his "Counterblaste to Tobacco" in 1604. According to this Royal, smoking was a "custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, (and) dangerous to the lungs" (quoted in Werner 1922:63). 14. Founded by English immigrants in the... | |
 | 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... | |
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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, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. 
