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Quotes About Smoking

The fathers were standing around in their baseball caps, in a knot, smoking and talking. They looked over at Kohn's van, trying to identify it. Many of them would have known each other all their lives. On this field they would have tormented the chubby, the bespectacled goat of their generation. Their sons sat clumped along the bench like pigeons on the arm of a statue.
~ Michael Chabon
two packs of cigarettes
~ Michael Connelly
It actually went pretty well, until they got onto the topic of marijuana. "So you got caught smoking weed your freshman and sophomore years," said the Rockets interviewer. "What happened your junior year?" Williams just shook his head and said, "They stopped testing me. And if you're not going to test me, I'm gonna smoke!
~ Michael Lewis
They stopped testing me. And if you're not going to test me, I'm gonna smoke!
~ Michael Lewis
Do mesmo modo, muito do que sabemos sobre os benefícios para a saúde de uma dieta vegetariana se baseia em estudos dos adventistas do sétimo dia, que distorcem o quadro nutricional abstendo-se de álcool e fumo, bem como de carne. Esses fatores sem relação entre si mas inevitáveis são chamados, com propriedade, de confundidores.
~ Michael Pollan
It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.
~ David Sedaris
A person who smokes cigarettes regularly (about a pack a day) is fifty times more likely than a nonsmoker to get cancer. In
~ Bill Bryson
Should hyperintelligence matter when we're comparing teams from different decades? Absolutely. It's an era-specific advantage, just like smoking, lowtop sneakers, lack of fitness and rudimentary VD medication were detriments during the Russell era.
~ Bill Simmons
And there's my complaint against these ocean liners With all their swimming baths and gymnasiums There's not even a place where a man can go For a quiet smoke, where the women can't follow him. She wouldn't leave him out of her sight.
~ T.S. Eliot
He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool.
~ Ted Bell
Char bought a pack of clove cigarettes, claiming they tasted good, to which I ask why doesn't she just go suck on a clove so I don't have to inhale her perfumed second hand smoke?
~ Julie Halpern
Wer als Kleiner raucht, kriegt als Großer Tuberkulose.
~ Julio Cortazar
His old man, who'd smoked like he did, had spent the last five years of his life in a little cart sucking on a tank, until he'd done the big face-plant just a month before his sixtieth birthday.
~ Justin Cronin
Somewhere in the wider world kids in their teens loitered in shop doorways late at night, smoked a pooled ten gaspers and crammed their mouths with pay-by-weight sweets. They engaged in friendly bouts of scuffling and sat on damp kerbs and felt estranged.
~ Justina Robson
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
Strether had never smoked, and he felt as if he flaunted at his friend that this had been only because of a reason. The reason, it now began to appear even to himself, was that he had never had a lady to smoke with.
~ Henry James
It's beautiful to have a smoking jacket, a good cigar and a wife who plays the piano. So relaxing. So lenitive. Between the acts you go out for a smoke and a breath of fresh air.
~ Henry Miller
and tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.
~ Herman Melville
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
~ Herman Melville
What business have I with this pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. I'll smoke no more.
~ Herman Melville
I have talked to women who do yoga, who are vegan, who have never smoked and/or never drank a day in their life, but they have Stage IV breast cancer. So you do what you can to be as healthy as you can if you know you're high-risk because yes, all those things can factor into that. But sometimes it's just a fluke.
~ Christina Applegate
After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.
~ Tom Brokaw
Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no debate about that. The link is as certain as the link between smoking and cancer.
~ Christine Todd Whitman
I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.
~ Richard Littlejohn