In this treatise, published in 1604 (the year after his accession to the English throne), James Stuart described smoking as "A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse."
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