James I of England Quotes (3 Quotes)

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of Gods good gifts, that the sweetness of mans breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

On tobacco A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

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.