Quotes About Smoking

Leathery bar girls worked the charter booths at the harbor, smoking Basic 100s and talking in voices that sounded like 151 rum poured into hot grease—a jigger of friendly to the liter of harsh.

The year had begun with the first protests in Milan against the Austrians, where citizens had stopped smoking to damage the revenues of the imperial government (those Milanese comrades, who stood firm when soldiers and police provoked them by blowing clouds of sweet-scented cigar smoke at them, were seen by my Turin companions as heroes).

El ingenuo dominico dice que también él ha pedido el permiso y se lo han negado. «Pero tú, ¿cómo lo has pedido?», le pregunta el jesuita. Y el dominico: «¿Puedo fumar mientras rezo?». Era obvio que le contestaran que no. En cambio, el jesuita preguntó «¿Puedo rezar mientras fumo?», y los superiores le dijeron que se podía rezar en cualquier circunstancia.

Because the year has 8,760 hours, this average mortality prorates to 0.000001 or 1 × 10–6 deaths per person per hour of living. This means that the average additional chance of dying while flying is just 5/1,000th of the risk of simply being alive. Smoking risks are 100 times as high; ditto for driving in a car. In short, flying has never been safer.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

I invented rock and roll. You wouldn't believe the things I've invented. Anal sex, obviously. Smoking. Astrology. Money ... Let's save time: Everything in the world that distracts you from thinking about God. Which ... pretty much ... is everything in the world, isn't it? Gosh .)

All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

You know you're a grown-up when your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them.

REFERENCE RANGES FOR GAMMA-GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE (GGT) Category GGT Normal Range (IU/L) GGT Target Range (IU/L) Men 0 to 65 32.5 Women 0 to 45 22.5 The GGT levels of healthy African Americans are typically twice as high as those of Caucasians. Additionally, GGT may be 25 to 50 percent higher in obese individuals, and 10 percent higher in one-pack-a-day smokers.

Old King Cole was a merrie old soul, A merrie old soul was he. He called for his pipe and called for his bowl And toked away, mon, for his irie.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

I have never understood the reason and logic of smoking.

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

The President, King had found on arrival, was "sitting up in his bed" on the second floor of the White House mansion, "wearing a gray sweater," smoking. He'd

Russ quit smoking on a bet with Jimmy Blue Eyes,

Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did.

Flattery is like smoking — it is not dangerous so long as you do not inhale.

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying.