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Quotes About Smoking

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
~ Henry G. Strauss
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
~ David Byrne
Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.
~ Steven Raichlen
One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.
~ Kid Rock
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
~ C. Everett Koop
I was wondering if the scene in the drawing-room had been a triumph or a disaster or merely a chaotic piece of bad taste verging on bathos, but I reflected that the only important question was whether I had communicated my message to my parents. I continued to smoke my cigarette and occasionally I shuddered. I wondered dimly how anyone ever survived their families.
~ Susan Howatch
As smoking has disappeared from television screens, planes, bars and restaurants, and other public spaces, the smoking rate has dropped to a third of its peak of 45 percent in the mid-1950s.
~ Annie Lowrey
He had never smoked but then had he ever loved? Life made him love and love made him smoke.
~ Faraaz Kazi
Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.
~ Holly Hood, Ink
Cancer from smoking seems more likely than cancer without a cause attached to it
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my wine
~ Charles Bukowski
televizyonda Bogart Haftas? var, diyorum kad?n?ma. düÅŸünsene, bir hafta boyunca her gece bir Bogart filmi! bugün çöp toplama günü, diyor, çöpü d??ar? ç?kard?n m?? avuçlar?m? bitiÅŸtirip bir sigara yak?yorum, duman? içime çekiyorum, ona gözlerimi k?sarak bak?p duman? aÄŸz?mdan ve burnumdan yavaÅŸça üflüyorum: sen ç?kar.
~ Charles Bukowski
I sat down and found half a dead cigar in the ashtray. I lit it up, took a drag, gagged. Tried it again. Not too bad.
~ Charles Bukowski
According to the American Lung Association, the average smoker dies seven years earlier than the average nonsmoker, which means that smokers pay into Social Security and private pension funds for all of their working lives but then don't stick around very long to collect the benefits.
~ Charles Wheelan
In October 1949, less than two years after the trial began, Doll stopped smoking. He was thirty-seven, and had been a smoker his entire adult life. He and Hill had discovered that heavy smoking of cigarettes didn't just double the risk of lung cancer, or triple the risk, or even quadruple the risk. It made you sixteen times more likely to get lung cancer.
~ Tim Harford
Adolf Hitler despised smoking. The Führer was no doubt pleased when German doctors discovered that cigarettes caused cancer. For obvious reasons, though, "hated by Nazis" was no impediment to the popularity of tobacco.
~ Tim Harford
They sat smoking the dead mans dope until the chopper came
~ Tim O'Brien
of us were moved by the deep morality and sincere humanity on the part of the aliens. These were people who simply could not imagine doing any evil to anyone, people who liked eating well, drinking, even smoking, who enjoyed playing the violin [in one case] and tennis, and driving luxurious cars and executive airplanes (in the 1970s, when very few people in Italy could own a personal plane).…
~ Timothy Good
The educated class knows the value of good health to quality of life and is willing to pay for it. The poor are more likely to trap themselves in a culture of smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, drugs, and only sporadic attention from a physician.
~ Tom Brokaw
Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation.
~ Tom Robbins
There are two hidden doors in the paneling of the Billiard Room. But they're not really secret panels. They were just there for the men guests to go from the Billiard Room to the Smoking Room with ease." Secret doors so the men could sneak off and smoke? If she tried that, her mom would bowl her down the alley for sure, Stacy thought.
~ Carole Marsh
yellow fingers because he smoked a lot. And he danced
~ Carole Matthews
I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.
~ Carrie Nation
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties — give me a cigar!
~ George Gordon