Tobacco Smoking Quotes

• You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Smoking, Heroin

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• I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

  Benny Hill

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, One Day

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

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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Marijuana, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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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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• A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

  King James I

  Sports, Eye, Cigarette Smoke

  "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Smoking, Judgement

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• More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Smoking, Cigar

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Smoking, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.452, Harvard University Press

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• The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Men, Smoking Cigars

  "Night and Morning". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ch. vi, 1841.

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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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• 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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• I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

  Barbara Kelly

  Believe, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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

  George Washington

  Smoking, Cigar, Tobacco

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• Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.

  Bill Hicks

  Eye, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

  James M. Barrie

  Smoking, Age, Might

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have
  established my identity.

  Charles Dickens

  Smoking, Identity, Cigar

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• Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

  Bill Vaughan

  Smoking, Cleaning, Filling

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

  Thomas R. Marshall

  America, Smoking, Needs

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• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, Sake, Tobacco

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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• Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.

  Groucho Marx

  Choices, Smoking, Cigar

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• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

  Florence King

  Morning, Sex, Cigarette Smoke

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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• A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Women

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

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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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• 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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