Smoking Quotes

“I’d just as soon you not smoke in the house, Kathy.” She looked up surprised, lighter poised an inch from her cigarette. “You didn’t mind last night.” She was as attractive as she had been the day before; I wanted to know her better. Were cigarettes going to drive away this woman I could touch […]

Smoking means always having to say you’re sorry.

Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said “Cigarettes contain fat.”

Nazi propaganda noted that while fascist leaders Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were all non-smokers, their enemies Roosevelt and Churchill did smoke (as did Stalin).

Do you mind if I smoke? (Oscar Wilde to Sarah Bernhardt) I don’t care if you burn.

Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It’s the worst darn stuff I’ve ever seen. I like it.

Meerschaum, n. A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry.

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.

Now that I’m gone, I tell you: don’t smoke, whatever you do, don’t smoke. (cancer victim, In a posthumous anti-smoking commercial)

This Indian weed now wither’d quite, ‘Tho’ green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay; All flesh is hay. Thus think, and smoke tobacco. The pipe so lily-like and weak, Does thus thy mortal state bespeak. Thou art ev’n such, Gone with a touch. Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And when the smoke […]