Smoking Quotes

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

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Zero, Humorous

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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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  I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

  Johnny Carson

  Death, Sex, Drinking

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

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Judgement, Calm

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• The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

  David Byrne

  Marijuana, Trying, Tobacco Industry

  "Shock pictures to scare smokers" by David Gow, James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

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• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them....well it's killing me!

  Wendy Liebman

  Marijuana, Bothering You, People

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• Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Humorous, Kissing

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• It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

  Christy Turlington

  Marijuana, Dying, Trying

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• If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Silly, Gambling

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

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• I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Lying, Marijuana, Ceilings

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• As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Marijuana, Example

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

  Ellen G. White

  Character, Sacrifice, Men

  Ellen G. White (2000). “Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life”

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• The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Slavery, Conspiracy, Scoundrels

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• Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weed, Giving, Sorrow

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

  Carrie Nation

  Women, Memorable, Air

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• Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

  Cornelis Bontekoe

  Body, Royal, Plant

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Marijuana, Simple

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• It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Achievement, Alcohol

  Following the Equator ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

  Clement Freud

  Funny, Witty, Giving Up

  Quoted in Observer (London), 27 Dec. 1964.

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• Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

  Luis Bunuel

  Father, Alcohol, Vices

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.48, Random House

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• My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

  Loni Anderson

  Dad, Cancer, Parent

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• Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Sleep

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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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• I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Writing, Wine

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