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Quotes About Smoking

Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!
~ Terry Pratchett
A guard was sitting on it, smoking a cigarette. He was black. Newt always felt guilty in the presence of black Americans, in case they blamed him for two hundred years of slave trading.
~ Terry Pratchett
Mr Pin lit a cigar. Smoking was his one vice. at least, it was his only vice that he thought of as a vice. The others were just job skills.
~ Terry Pratchett
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
1925: in Indiana, local authorities arrest a chimpanzee for smoking a cigarette in public. The chimp is found guilty and fined five dollars.
~ Karl Shaw
The only thing that any of the two-dozen-plus gumshoes could come up with was a photograph of the president smoking a cigarette after telling the country he had quit that habit.
~ Gary Phillips
For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.
~ Herman Melville
tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him. But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me.
~ Herman Melville
He's killed himself," she cried. "It's unfort'nate Stiggs done over again there goes another counterpane—God pity his poor mother!—it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad a sister? Where's that girl?—there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, 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
I feel like having a cigar, too, right this second. I'm full of queer yens. Can it be that Im pregnant? Intellectually, maybe. Stop me if I start eating chalk. I'll be righ tback. You know, I dont' smoke half a dozen cigars a year. But this one tastes ambrosial.
~ Herman Wouk
The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach… cockroach… cockroach…
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I'm the world's authority on giving up smoking. I do it constantly.
~ Ian Fleming
We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.
~ Andrew Lansley
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
~ Allyson Schwartz
I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.
~ Mena Suvari
Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
~ Loni Anderson
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked.
~ Tom Frieden
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
~ Robert J. Waldinger
Alright guys, I want to get out there and vote tomorrow. And not because it's cool, because it's not. You know what is cool? Smoking. Smoke while you vote.
~ Jon Stewart
I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.
~ James Marsters
It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.
~ Drew Carey
Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.
~ Steven Wright
Where Insch was bald, Steel looked as if someone had sellotaped a Cairn terrier to her head. Rumour had it she was only forty-two, but she looked a lot older. Years of chain smoking had left her face looking like a holiday home for lines and wrinkles.
~ Stuart MacBride