Cigarette Smoke Quotes

• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Marijuana, Men, Smoking

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• I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Girl, Best Love, Kissing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Smoking, Used, Consumers

  "Penalising Smokers to Help Us All Breathe Easy" by Rita Panahi, www.heraldsun.com.au. June 30, 2013.

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• Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

  C. Everett Koop

  Smoking, Our Society, Causes

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• I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

  Barbara Kelly

  Believe, Smoking, Want

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• A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

  King James I

  Sports, Eye, Smoking

  "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.

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• If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

  Douglas Adams

  Fire, Smoking, Action

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• He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Smoking, Heaven

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  Horace Greeley

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Failure, Light, Glowing

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

  Russell Hoban

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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• You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Smoking, Want

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

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• For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Smoking, Firsts

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• Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

  Liza Minnelli

  Funny, Smoking, Statistics

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• A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Funny, Marriage, Smoking

  "The Betrothed" st. 25 (1886)

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• I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

  Benny Hill

  Smoking, One Day, Oh Well

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

  Trey Parker

  Vacation, People, Smoking

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• Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Zero, Humorous

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• Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.

  Bill Hicks

  Eye, Smoking, Sticks

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• Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Anniversary, Sex

  "I give up" by Emily Wilson, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2003.

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• 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.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Hate, Two, People

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• Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Smoking, Pleasure

  'Every Man in His Humour' (1598) act 3, sc. 5

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• To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Smoking, I Can, Smoking Cigars

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

  Florence King

  Morning, Sex, Smoking

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

  Mehmet Oz

  Smoking, Might, Wells

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