I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. (at lunch with the Arab leader Ibn Saud, when he heard that the king’s religion forbade smoking […]
Smoking Quotes
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.
I didn’t inhale.
And a woman is just a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
Oh Nymph of transatlantic fame, Where’er thine haunt, whate’er thy name, Whether reposing on the side Of Oroonoquo’s spacious tide, Or listening with delight not small To Niagara’s distant fall, ‘Tis time to cherish and to feed The pungent nose-refreshing weed, Which, whether pulverized it gain A speedy passage to the brain, Or, whether, touch’d […]
For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do any thing but die.
It sometimes seems to me, as I look back over my life, that smoking has achieved the status of the Ultimate Curse which was, in my boyhood, conferred upon masturbation. This indulgence, we were assured, would sap the intellect, bring about rot of the spine and loss of the reason, and within measurable time destroy […]
In a few years the demonization of smoking will be so complete that a movie set in WW2 will feature a chain-smoking Hitler and an abstemious Churchill, just to telegraph to the audience who’s naughty and who’s nice.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.
For the majority of people, smoking has a beneficial effect. (Los Angeles surgeon, 1963)
