Quotes About Smoking

You know, you smoke too much, Pat, said his wife, seizing the opening with the instinct which makes an Irishman at a fair hit every head he sees.

I guess, says Deagle, finally, I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.

and how toxic emotions put our physical health at as much risk as does chain-smoking, even as emotional balance can help protect our health and well-being.

Isolation itself, a 1987 report in Science concluded, is as significant to mortality rates as smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and lack of physical exercise. Indeed, smoking increases mortality risk by a factor of just 1.6, while social isolation does so by a factor of 2.0, making it a greater health risk.

There's nothing at all pleasant about smoking, and we naïve and immature wannabes were deluded by its social cachet, while simultaneously compelled by physical addiction. According to Carr, given the rapidity with which nicotine is absorbed by the human body, the smoker is almost constantly in a state of withdrawal — and thus mistakes the relief of these symptoms for the semblance of pleasure.

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.

Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

And if you tell him you saw me smoking, I will banish you to the lowest circle of hell. Which I've never been there, but if even half of what I hear is true it's almost as bad as Brooklyn." Eliot

I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

E-cigarette companies are using shameful tactics, such as Joe Camel-like cartoons in advertisements and creating e-cigarette flavors like bubblegum and cotton candy, to addict our children early - and guarantee another generation of smokers.

I understand that if you're a kid in Indonesia, you need to smoke because you just got off work at the Nike factory.

Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

So I'm smoking in the house, Mother said. And Bobbie's got a dog in her room. And your son Will's got an Injun in his. So there it is, Mother said. Like it or lump it!

Smokers of the world unite! On t'count o' three, all light up, right? 1-2-3... You've all been cowed. I've changed the law and it's allowed. Try again then. 1-2-3: all light your fags now after me.

It's now six a.m. and I'm smoking. Oh yeah, Tracey: it's all going so fucking well. The lonely princess. Carbon monoxide is feeding my soul.

Oh, I shall plead guilty at once,' said Stephen. 'And I shall add that I was sitting in the powder-magazine with a naked light at the time, imagining the death of the King, wasting my medical stores, smoking tobacco and making a fraudulent return of the portable soup. What solemn nonsense it is' – laughing heartily – 'I am surprised so sensible a man as you should attribute any importance to the matter.

it was her company he desired. He wanted to put his arms around her and to sit in silence, staring into the fire, drinking wine, smoking the occasional cigarette; that would be enough. Life was made up of simple things; he was weary of all the years he had spent searching for something, though quite what he didn't know.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

The packs of cigarettes available here carried the typical skulls and crossbones on them, but apparently no one in North Korea cared.

The packs of cigarettes available here carried the typical skulls and crossbones on them, but apparently no one in North Korea cared. They smoked. They died. What did it matter?