Smoking Quotes - Page 24

• But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

  David Chase

  Cheer, People, Selling

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• Tobacco surely was designed
  To poison, and destroy mankind.

  Philip Freneau

  Poison, Mankind, Tobacco

  Poems, 'Tobacco'

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• This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.

  Napoleon III

  Years, Names, Vices

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• It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.

  Peter Corris

  Memories, Filled In, Moments

  Peter Corris (1987). “The January Zone: Cliff Hardy 10”, p.16, Allen & Unwin

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Choices

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• I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.

  Francis Jammes

  Littles, Brown, Pipe

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• As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Passion, Personality, Ashes

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• It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.

  Evangeline Booth

  Life, Years

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• Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.

  Peter Boyle

  Men, Europe, Numbers

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• I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Knows

  Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (1984). “Adieux: a farewell to Sartre”, Pantheon

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• I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Believe, Moving

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.114, Gibbs Smith

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• The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

  John Lennon

  Eye, Marijuana, Drug

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• Yesterday when we were getting high, you were invited. You woulda liked it.

  Drake

  Yesterday, Getting High, Invited

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• Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive

  Drake

  Break Even, Alive, Causes

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Air, Breathing, Cities

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Humanity, Doubt

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• There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Gas, Chamber, No Smoking

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• An old interview of Arnold Schwartzenegger has surfaced where he admits to smoking a lot of pot and having sex with hookers. Finally a Republican all Californians can get behind.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Interviews, Republican

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• Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Doe, Pounds, Week

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• You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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• They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hands, Nuts, Ideas

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• The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cancer, People, Tobacco Industry

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• A club there is of smokers--dare you come
  To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
  When, midnight past, the very candles seem
  Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
  When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
  And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Past, Air

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.180

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• Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

  Curtis LeMay

  Self, Wicked, Half

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Hypocrisy, Insecurity

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