Smoking Quotes - Page 8

• Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

  Mark Twain

  Addiction, Done, Quitting

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• What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  America, Needs, Cigar

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• Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Mind, Care, Oscars

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

  Gerard Way

  Drinking, Coffee, Alcohol

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• If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

  Luis Bunuel

  Queens, Weather, Alcohol

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• If you can't send money, send tobacco.

  George Washington

  Cigar, Tobacco, Ifs

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  They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Mean, Marijuana

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• Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Strength, Letting Go

  "Letting Go and Feeling Good About It" by Pamela Dussault, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Pain, Addiction, Actresses

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• I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Voice, Changed

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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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

  Cigarette Smoke, Might, Wells

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• I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suing, Three, Cigarette

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• The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?

  Steve Martin

  Mind, Hey, Eating

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• Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

  George Clooney

  Cancer, Later In Life, Grandparent

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Tobacco is the tomb of love.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Tobacco, Tombs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.139

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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, Mars

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

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• Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

  J. B. Priestley

  Dream, Destiny, Men

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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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• 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 don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

  Luc Besson

  Kids, Want, Shows

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cigarette Smoke, I Can, Smoking Cigars

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

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• I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!

  Dave Beard

  Years, Breathing, Safe

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Cancer

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• We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.

  Jennifer Morse

  Kids, Giving, Risk

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