Smoking Cigarettes Quotes

• In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

  Julia Child

  People, Smoking, Lovely

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• Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts

  Geoffrey Perret

  Beach, War, Men

  Geoffrey Perret (1982). “America in the twenties: a history”, Simon & Schuster

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• This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Marijuana, Talking, People

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• When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

  Pink

  Mom, Smoking, Cigarette

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• 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!

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Smoking, Naked

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• There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Observer, October 30, 1988.

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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

  C. Everett Koop

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, Our Society

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

  Douglas Adams

  Fire, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Marijuana, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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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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• 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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• Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

  Ray Comfort

  Cancer, Thinking, Smoking

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• Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

  Gerard Way

  Drinking, Coffee, Smoking

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• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality, you don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  Vin Diesel

  Dark, Marijuana, Reality

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

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• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Smoking, Reason

  "Welcome to the Monkey House". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Preface), 1968.

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• I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Fire, Smoking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.112, BookBaby

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• If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Smoking, Littles, Quitting

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.178, Penguin

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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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• 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, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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

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

  Trey Parker

  Vacation, Cigarette Smoke, People

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• Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctor's spite;
  Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
  And lap me in delight.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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