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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. "
The Water Cure Journal and Hygienic Magazine - Page 329
1848
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The Smoker's Hand-book: Or A Dissuasive Against the Use of Tobacco

Anti-fumo - 1854 - 64 pages
...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...horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." This royal thunder failed to arrest the custom ; it continued, and there is reason to suppose it increased....
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O Tempora! O Mores! Or a Word to the Wise on the Use of Tobacco and Snuff

1854 - 114 pages
...were opened. " A custom loathsome to the eye, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." — CounterHaste by King James I. The following curious remarks from a botanical work published in...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 1

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...custom lothesome to the eye, hateful to the noae, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs ; and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" Such were some of the measures adopted in different countries to banish this pernicious weed, but...
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The Student's Manual: Designed, by Specific Directions, to Aid in Forming ...

John Todd - 1854 - 326 pages
...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." All experienced people will tell you that the habit of using tobacco, in any shape, will soon render...
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The interview, companion volume to 'Enquire within' [by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 388 pages
...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...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." A! early as 1624, Pope Urban VIII. issued a bull, excommunicating those who smoked in churches. The...
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Annual Report, Volumes 10-11

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1856 - 788 pages
...custom, loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, baneful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that U bottomless." The amount of money foolishly, nay, wickedly, expended for tobacco, is not only enormous,...
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Sight and Hearing, how Preserved, and how Lost. By J. Henry Clark

James Henry Clark - 1856 - 382 pages
...loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse." The modern plan of building houses with the parlor windows to the floor, unless the light...
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Educational Essays

Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 pages
...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;" but we may surely be allowed to say that it is not charming to the senses. We have seen ladies smoking...
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2

1857 - 520 pages
...custom loathesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling...stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" The history of the custom thus dignified by the assaults of royalty, and against certain uses of which...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 23-24

1857 - 804 pages
...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...horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."' In many cases smoking is prohibited by masters, so that their workers can only gratify thrir appetite...
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