 | Steven G. Gilbert - 2004 - 280 σελίδες
...children coming into contact with nicotine insecticides or tobacco products. 5.5 Health effects Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. Nicotine is a highly toxic drug, with only 60 mg being lethal to an adult. The average cigarette contains... | |
 | John Calvin M. Brust - 2004 - 477 σελίδες
...mass. In 1604 King James I of England, associating tobacco with witchcraft, pronounced smoking "... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James forbade domestic production of tobacco and raised the duty on tobacco by 4000%. During the 17th... | |
 | Ernest F. Henderson - 2004 - 464 σελίδες
...mannerly kind entertain her servant than by giving him out of her fair hand a pipe of tobacco. ... A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. La-ui of King James to restrict the Use of Tobacco. (In Arber.) Oct. 17, 1604. . . . Whereas Tobacco... | |
 | Peter Barratt - 2004 - 360 σελίδες
...Britain, King James 1" of England (James 6th of Scotland) dismissively remarked of tobacco: 'Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless', European food before the discovery of the new world was fairly bland so the Europeans went literally... | |
 | Derrick Cutting, Peter Maddocks - 2004 - 392 σελίδες
...daily routine Use stairs, not lifts and escalators Use legs more and wheels less Chapter 20 Smoking 'A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' James I (James VI of Scotland) (1 566-1 625) A Counterblast to Tobacco, 1604 Like the 'wisest fool... | |
 | A. A. Sorensen - 2004 - 416 σελίδες
...also corrupt her sweet breath, or else resolve to live in a perpetually stinking torment. Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible smoke of hell." "Those are my sentiments, as well," said James. "When did tobacco growing start in... | |
 | William D. Marelich, Jeff S. Erger - 2004 - 353 σελίδες
...The next year. King James. in his Counterbluste lo Tobacco. said that smoking is a "custome lothesome to the eye. hateful to the nose. harmful to the brain. dangerous to the lungs. and in the black and stinking fume thereof. nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
 | Peter McDonald - 2004 - 212 σελίδες
...with healthy people than with invalids. Paidea Vol. ID James I 1566-1625 King of England and Scotland A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs. A Counterblast to Tobücco William James 1842-1910 US psychologist I take it that no man is educated... | |
 | Carol Weston - 2009 - 448 σελίδες
...King James I of England didn't like the idea of American tobacco arriving at his shores. "Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," he said, most regally Today, four centuries later, smoking is still loathsome and dangerous. In 1946,... | |
 | Fred C. Pampel, Seth Pauley - 2004 - 233 σελίδες
...early on that tobacco could harm one's health. King James I of England wrote in 1604 that tobacco is a "custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs."2 The link between smoking and diseases of the lungs would seem obvious, as most anyone could... | |
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