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Quotes About Smoking

I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
~ Loudon Wainwright III
I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
~ Zac Brown
Policies I advanced as FDA commissioner aimed to get smokers off cigarettes and onto less-harmful forms of nicotine delivery.
~ Scott Gottlieb
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
~ King James I
I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?
~ Melanie Griffith
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
~ David Hockney
I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
~ Max Cannon
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
~ John McCarthy
I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.
~ Michael Imperioli
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
~ Mark Twain
I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
~ Chris Rock
You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
~ Vin Diesel
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.
~ Julia Child
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
~ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.
~ Stephen Daldry
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
~ Milan Kundera
I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
~ Karen Allen
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
~ Gerald McRaney
People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
~ Wendy Liebman
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
~ Christy Turlington
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
~ Joe Eszterhas
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
~ Nat King Cole
Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'
~ James Coburn
You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
~ Pat Morita