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Quotes About Smoking

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Dutch isn't easy for the outsider to learn, because it's spoken from the back of the throat at the trigger spot for the gag reflex. In order to make the correct sounds, you have to have quite a bit of phlegm at the ready, which is probably why everybody smokes. Nonsmokers can't even understand Dutch, let alone speak a single word of it. The
~ Augusten Burroughs
He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. And you so intelligent! Excuse me? said tom Knowing those things are going to kill you she said and still you do it. How differently I might behave Tom said, if immortality were an option
~ Stephen Fry
To expect a convict to have the strength to give up smoking is to expect a leopard to change his spots, become vegetarian and learn to knit, all on the same day.
~ Stephen Fry
Holly sighs. "I'm out of cigarettes, too." "Those things will kill you," Jerome says. She gives him a flat look. "Yes! That's part of their charm.
~ Stephen King
You can't let your dog crap on the sidewalk, but it's perfectly acceptable to blow carcinogens down other people's throats. Somewhere along the way, smokers exempted themselves from the social contract.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Due to some mental hiccup I can't explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket.
~ Jonathan Tropper
I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
~ Emma Thompson
she smoked so much she smelled like tobacco even after a shower, like if she slit her skin, menthol vapor would ooze out. He'd come to like it, it smelled like comfort and home to him, the way warm bread might to someone else.
~ Gillian Flynn
It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover.
~ Graham Greene
It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent
~ Graham Greene
Good, because if you have got a problem with it I can't see you. Can't smoke, can't see. You can't smoke anywhere these days. That's why I gave up and organized my practice from home. You can drive a bloody car pell-mell with a high risk of slaughtering a thousand little children a year but you can't smoke in case they get a whiff of your tobacco. What sort of a country is that?" He
~ Graham Joyce
Not the smoking. The ritual. Tapping down the pack, my silver lighter, a smoke in the morning, in the car, with a cup of coffee. There was something so soothing about it. Knowing you could count on it. It was always there." She ground out the cigarette
~ Gregg Hurwitz
I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I sat alone, on a boulder that was larger and flatter than most, and I smoked a cigarette. I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live.
~ Gregory David Roberts
You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
~ Frank Dobson
My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
~ Katherine Heigl
I was a full-blown tomboy; I was very mischievous and got into a lot of trouble. Everybody in my family smoked, and I started smoking probably when I was nine. My friends used to call me Huckleberry Tig.
~ Tig Notaro
Listen, I'll show," Stevie stands up and paces out a small area, "Here's our little sitting-room, right? Here's Lindsey and about eleven other degenerates on the ground smoking. And I am cleaning the house of our producer Keith Olsen for bread, right? This is 1971 in LA. I come walking in with my big Hoover vacuum-cleaner, my Ajax, my toilet-brush, my cleaning shoes on. And Lindsey has managed to have some idiot send him eleven ounces of opiated hash.
~ Sean Egan
Tatsächlich waren Aschenbecher auf Flugzeugtoiletten vorgeschrieben. Für den Fall, dass ein Passagier, der das Rauchverbot missachtete, wenigstens keinen Brand auslöste, weil er die Kippe mangels Aschenbecher im Papierabfall entsorgte.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
J'ai une réputation de drogué, mais je ne le suis pas. Le jour où tu me verras boire un verre de Coca, j'aurai plongé. On ne peut pas mélanger les deux. Moi, je fume, je bois et je tringle : voilà une trilogie intéressante.
~ Serge Gainsbourg