Smoking Quotes - Page 4

• Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Dirty, Marijuana, Naughty

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• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

  Richard Thompson

  Kids, Marijuana, Thinking

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• Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sex, Sleep, Animal

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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• When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Law, Honor

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1903). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great”

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• I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

  Stephen Fry

  Home, Writing, Marijuana

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• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  Larry Hagman

  Marijuana, Speed, Wells

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• Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?'

  Katherine Heigl

  Stupid, Kids, Fighting

  "Katherine Heigl: 'Smoking Sucks!'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Cigars are no safe alternative act.

  Ed Markey

  Alternatives, Safe, Cigar

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• There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

  J. B. Priestley

  Intelligent, Men, People

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• There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

  Francis Lawrence

  Green, Littles, Cigarette

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• I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

  Mark Twain

  Two, Balance, Three

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• MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.

  Nicholas Haslam

  Doctors, News, Crystals

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• After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

  William J. Clinton

  Cancer, Air, Years

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1762, Best Books on

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• Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'

  James Coburn

  Girl, Giving, Magazines

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

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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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• Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Cancer, Osteoporosis, Alcohol

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• One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

  Bill Nighy

  Regret, Say Anything, Lucky

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• MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

  Victoria Coren Mitchell

  Inspiration, Years, Laughing

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• I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

  Christy Turlington

  Marijuana, Comfort, Peers

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• Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?

  Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington

  Age, Noble, Lord

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• I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

  Edward Norton

  Want, Fans, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

  George Henry Borrow

  Philosophy, Men, People

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.136

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• Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

  Robert Breault

  Air, Smell, Clothes

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

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Littles, Quitting, Cigarette

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

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