| Tracy Barrett - 2007 - 146 σελίδες
...cracks of the streets! Even in those days, not everyone approved of tobacco. King James called smoking a "custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs." But royal disapproval was not enough to make people ignore the enormous profits to be made from this... | |
| Omowunmi Osinubi - 2005 - 116 σελίδες
...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 - 2005 - 208 σελίδες
...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 - 2005 - 217 σελίδες
...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 - 2005 - 422 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - 597 σελίδες
...familv are likely to encode a diverse family of odorant receptors. Cell SMOKING James I; 1604 3088 A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. A Counter Blaste to Tobacco James I; 1604 3089 And for the vanities committed in this filthy custom,... | |
| Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society - 2006 - 470 σελίδες
...butts.86 More than one essay, extracted from a child, quoted King James of England on tobacco addiction: "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."87 In 1912, in Toronto, "the Good," reformers summoned police to halt tobogganing on Sunday.88... | |
| Giulio Busi - 2006 - 260 σελίδες
...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 - 2007 - 118 σελίδες
...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... | |
| J. Dennis Robinson - 2006 - 120 σελίδες
...Calvert worked devotedly, had once called smoking a disgusting habit. In 1604, he wrote, "Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs." He originally tried to tax the product out of existence. But the public became so attracted to pipe... | |
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