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Quotes About Smoking

Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high blood pressure, and we now warn everyone about these two!
~ Sue Johnson
8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.
~ Sue Townsend
Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.
~ Mohsin Hamid
She's finished her cigarette but hasn't put it out properly, so it's still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it, grinding until both stop burning.
~ Mohsin Hamid
You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you ; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?
~ Charles Baudelaire
She found him on the back terrace,slouched on the balustrade,smoking a thin cigar. "Why did you do that?"she asked as soon as the French doors closed behind her. He shot her a tired,lazy look."Do what,darling?" "Treat me as though I am a child-and I am not your darling."Oh,but she would like to be.
~ Kathryn Smith
Wes slid two more cigarettes out of the pack, offering one to me. "I don't smoke." "Why not? It gives you superpowers, you know." "What? Like cancer?" I said
~ Katie Williams
The country was still smoking like Bette Davis in her prime.
~ Ken Bruen
One soldier picked up a dead Argentine, supported the corpse's weight underneath his arm, put a cigarette in the dead man's mouth, then one in his own. He then held a lighter under the corpse's cigarette and his friend took a photograph. They both laughed. I also laughed. This was foolish ? smoking can kill.
~ Ken Lukowiak
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.
~ Kent Haruf
Você tem um cigarro? -Estou tentando parar de fumar. -Eu também. Mas queria uma coisa nas mãos agora. -Você tem uma coisa nas mãos agora. -Eu? -Eu.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they're friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they're just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let's face it, checking your "likes" is the new smoking.
~ Cal newport
The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they're friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they're just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children.5 Because, let's face it, checking your "likes" is the new smoking.
~ Cal newport
Maher looked into the camera and said: The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they're friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they're just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let's face it, checking your "likes" is the new smoking.
~ Cal newport
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
~ George Burns
Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?
~ George Carlin
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
~ George D. Prentice
Con lei pensò Yves, con insolita irritazione bisognerebbe essere sempre psicologicamente in smoking. E io, ahimè, non posso permettermelo
~ Irene Nemirovsky
If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.
~ Isaac Asimov
Once it was well known that cigarettes increased the incidence of lung cancer, the obvious remedy was to stop smoking, but the desired remedy was a cigarette that did not encourage cancer. When it became clear that the internal-combustion engine was polluting the atmosphere dangerously, the obvious remedy was to abandon such engines, and the desired remedy was to develop non-polluting engines.
~ Isaac Asimov
I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good.
~ Michael Meehan
I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good," he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."
~ Robert Sylvester