Smokers Quotes

• Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

  Brooke Shields

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981

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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

  Cigarette Smoke, Perfect, Smoking

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

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• I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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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, Cigarette Smoke, Two

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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, Cigarette Smoke, Light

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

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• I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Smoking, Judgement

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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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• The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Men, Tobacco Smoking

  "Night and Morning". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ch. vi, 1841.

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

  George Burns

  Taken, Doctors, Funeral

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• If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

  Christy Turlington

  Children, Kids, Parenting

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• When I was a chain smoker, I used to wake up and the first thing I'd do was reach for a cigarette, basically. And now I do the same thing for a smartphone, basically.

  Charlie Brooker

  Smartphones, Wake Up, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn't matter, you know?

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Pay

  "Reps. Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on Final Push in Iowa". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Beautiful, Yoga, Thinking

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• A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Good Love, Lovers, Cigar

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• I was a smoker for about 20 years.

  Selma Blair

  Years

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

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• Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Licking, Ashtrays

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• If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too.

  James H. Fowler

  May, Kind, Mets

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• Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

  Ogden Nash

  Life Is Good, Air, Brotherhood

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Drug, Violence

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• I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Brother, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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