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Quotes About Smoking

Chlorotic, with a sunken chest, he smoked incessantly, wore cheap shirts that had grayed in the wash, drank endless cups of sugary tea.
~ Donna Tartt
Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.
~ Douglas Coupland
In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.
~ Agatha Christie
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
~ Stephen Fry
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.
~ Michael E. Mann
I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in the airplane in the lavatory to take out the smoke detector. I would've been those people they warn you against.
~ John Waters
By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.
~ Laurie David
I believe that I would not have smoked had I seen a label on a cigarette package or in a cigarette ad that said 'Warning: Cigarette smoking may cause death from heart disease, cancer or emphysema.'
~ Amanda Blake
I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.
~ Jenny Slate
I will see you both in Goredd, then, when I clasp your hands across the smoking ashes of my enemies." "Isn't that what you were trying to avoid by sneaking up the Omiga?" Kiggs said. The Comonot considered. "Yes, but I like the sound of those words. Interesting.
~ Rachel Hartman
I put the heart attack down to 66 cigarettes a day.
~ Nigel Lythgoe
I'm against cigarettes, always.
~ Roberto Mancini
Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars.
~ Gina Gershon
I didn't say anything. I lit my pipe again. It makes you look thoughtful when you're not thinking.
~ Raymond Chandler
I puffed at the cigarette. It was one of those things with filters in them. It tasted like a high fog strained through cotton wool.
~ Raymond Chandler
It was a Nazi epidemiologist who first established the link between smoking and lung cancer, establishing a government agency to combat tobacco consumption in June 1939.
~ Richard J. Evans
And so, one bit one's nails, unable to find contentment in the simple beating of one's heart... one smoked, unable to be satisfied with the rhythm of one's brain...
~ K?b? Abe
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
~ Oscar Wilde
When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.
~ Pink
If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself
~ Richard Bandler