Quotation by James I of England, James VI of Scotland

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A Counter-blaste to Tobacco (1604)quoted in England Under the Stuarts G.M. Trevelyan (1904, rev. 1925)

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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 fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

James I of England, James VI of Scotland

James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625), British king. A Counter-blaste to Tobacco (1604).

The passage was written shortly after Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to England from the Americas.

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