Tobacco Quotes - Page 2

• It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

  Jackie Mason

  Death, Suicide, Support

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

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• I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Army, Aggravation

  Remark to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, in March 1865. South Atlantic Quarterly, July 1927.

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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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• 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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• 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, Smoking, Trying

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

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• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wisdom, Justice, Smoking

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• The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Smoking, Reason

  "Welcome to the Monkey House". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Preface), 1968.

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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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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Marijuana, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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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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  If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  Jack Herer

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

  John Grisham

  Pages Turning, Issues, Goal

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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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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  Horace Greeley

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

  Russell Hoban

  Funny, Humorous, Cigarette Smoke

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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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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• He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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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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• 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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• Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  President, Culture, Infinite

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Smoking, Toil

  On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262

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