Tobacco Smoking Quotes

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

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.

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

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

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.

You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

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.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

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 used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

Ods me I marle 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.

What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

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.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

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

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.