Tobacco Quotes - Page 4

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

  Philip Freneau

  Smoking, Poison, Mankind

  Poems, 'Tobacco'

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• The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Kindness, Vegetables

  Thomas Jefferson, Julian Parks Boyd, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen (1950). “Papers of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

  Bernard Levin

  Cancer, Effort, Prevention

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• Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

  Margaret Chan

  Damage, Tobacco Industry, Profit

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• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

  Moliere

  Passion, Smoking, Literature

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• Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?

  Ralph Nader

  War, Marijuana, Government

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• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Honor, Bags

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• My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

  George Clooney

  Summer, Cutting, Kentucky

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

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• Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

  David Hockney

  America, World, Greatest Gifts

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• Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

  Ben Jonson

  Weed, Marijuana, Lust

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.529, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

  Moliere

  Passion, Literature, Matter

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• Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

  Willard Scott

  Men, Slap

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• I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.

  Osamu Dazai

  Mean, Would Be, Lasts

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• who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

  Allen Ginsberg

  Arms, Cigarette, Holes

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.13, City Lights Publishers

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• After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Broken, Shattered, Pipe

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

  Richelle Mead

  Usual, Dresses, Stories

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• Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

  Kami Garcia

  Boys, Men, Bird

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• The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Science, Names, White

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled.

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• A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Art, Narrative Voice

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.

  Frank Zappa

  Marijuana, Bills, Clinton

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• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

  George Eliot

  Dirty, Gossip, Rumor

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13

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• Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

  Rick Rollens

  Cancer, Vaccines, Autism

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• Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

  George D. Prentice

  Smoking

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• Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you - don't do it. Say no.That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it.That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it.Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beer, Smoking, Drug

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• I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. There is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my part, I consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.

  Thomas Huxley

  Drinking, Practice, Support

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