Quotes From Great Thinkers About Smoking

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty.
~Warren Buffet

I'm worried about Bart. Today, he's sucking people's blood, tomorrow he might be smoking.
~Marge Simpson

Anyone thinking the first week off cigarettes is Hell Week, should try the first week after lung surgery.
~Dawn, ex-smoker

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands or butts.
~Edith Zittler

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
~Samuel Johnson

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
~Mignon McLaughlin

When I was young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
~Arturo Toscanini

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
~Henry G. Strauss

Thank you for Not Smoking. Cigarette smoke is the residue of your pleasure. It contaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent. I have a pleasure, also. I like a beer now and then. The residue of my pleasure is urine. Would you be annoyed if I stood on a chair and pissed on your head and your clothes without your consent?
~Sign from Ken's Magic Shop

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.
~Carry Nation

Having smoking and non-smoking sections in a room is like having urinating and non-urinating sections in a swimming pool.
~Unknown

Ods me, I marvel what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
~Ben Jonson

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
~Douglas Adams

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine
~George D. Prentice

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobacco. Tumor causing, teeth staining, smelly, puking habit.
~Arizona Department of Health Services Tobacco Education and Prevention Program ad campaign, created by Riester-Robb Advertising

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

Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
~A.P. Herbert

Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
~Author Unknown

Smoking is pulmonary rape.
~Author Unknown

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.
~James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604

Tobacco...is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers to ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
~Robert Burton

Tobacco is a filthy weed,
That from the devil does proceed;
It drains your purse, it burns your clothes,
And makes a chimney of your nose.
~Benjamin Waterhouse

For thy sake, Tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.
~Charles Lamb

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
~Charles Lamb

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets -- a vicious circle!
~George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier

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