Smoking Quotes

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)

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold. (To Walter Raleigh)

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

Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Was this small plant for thee cut down? So was the plant of great renown; Which mercy sends For nobler ends. Thus think, and smoke tobacco. Doth juice medicinal proceed From such a naughty foreign weed? Then what’s the pow’r Of Jesse’s flow’r? Thus think, and smoke tobacco. The promise, like the pipe, inlays, And […]

“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).