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My smoking might be bothering you, but it's killing me. - Colette, (1873-1954) French novelist, Source: seen on the web But cheer up -- we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended - David Chase, Source: seen on the web Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life -Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign, Source: seen on the web Tobacco, divine, rare, super excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers' stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases . . . but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do 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, (1577-1640), English clergyman author, Anatomy of Melancholy, Source: seen on the web We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison. -Jesse Torrey, (1787-1834), The Moral Instructor, Pt. IV, Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations. You know, it's cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes. -John Mellencamp, 1996, Source: seen on the web Tobacco drieth the brain, dimmeth the sight, vitiateth the smell, hurteth the stomach, destroyeth the concoction, disturbeth the humors and spirits, corrupteth the breath, induceth a trembling of the limbs, exsiccateth the windpipe, lungs, and liver, annoyeth the milt, scorcheth the heart, and causeth the blood to be adjusted. -Tobias Venner, (1577-1660) Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. - C. S. Calverley, (1831-84), English poet., Ode to Tobacco. This is possibly a reference to a letter in the medical journal Lancet, 14 Feb. 1857: "[Dr. Webster] distinctly enumerates tobacco as one of the causes of insanity. . . . Two brothers in one family had become deranged from smoking tobacco, and in that state had committed suicide." Source: The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. - Lara Flynn Boyle: seen on the web. It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. - Fletcher Knebel, Reader's Digest, December 1961, Source: seen on the web I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.. -Mark Twain, (1835-1910), Source: seen on the web Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.. - Mary S. Ott, Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (Leonard Louis Levinson), Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations. The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1859, Source: seen on the web A man of no conversation should smoke. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1866., Source: seen on the web. Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette -Colette, 1873-1954) French novelist., The Pure and the Impure (1933), Source: seen on the web Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief. -Bill Vaughan, Source: seen on the web LADY BRACKNELL: . . . Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. -Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Source The International Thesaurus of Quotations Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips. - P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners, 1983, Source:The International Thesaurus of Quotations Do you mind if I smoke? (Oscar Wilde to Sarah Bernhardt) I don't care if you burn. - Sarah Bernhardt, Source: seen on the web. When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not - if you don't object if I'm sick. - Thomas Beecham, (1879-1961) British conductor, Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations. They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared. Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke. What are they trying to tell us? - Jeffrey Bernard, Spectator, 1982, Source: The International Thesaurus of Quotations The Englishman has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks -- his pipe might fall out if he did. - E. M. Forster, Source: seen on the web. 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, Source: seen on the web Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - Sigmund Freud, Source: seen on the web. Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?. - Bill Vaughan, Source: The penguin Dictionary of modern humorous quotes. Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind. - Philip Freneau, (1752-1832) US poet, Poems, 'Tobacco', Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations. Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? - Arlo Guthrie, Source: seen on the web. I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold. - Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England. (1533-1603), Speaking to Sir Walter Raleigh who brought the tobacco plant to England from America, Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations. The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.. - J. M. Barrie, (1860-1937) British novelist and dramatist, My Lady Nicotine, Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue. - Napoleon III, (1808-73) French emperor. Reply when asked to ban smoking. Anekdotenschatz (H. Hoffmeister) Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty. - Warren Buffett, Investment Guru, Source: seen on the web. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night! - Rev. Henry Ward, Beecher, Source: seen on the web. The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. - Robert Frost, Source: seen on the web. It is more profitable for your Congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. - Jackie Mason, Source: seen on the web. The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery. - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Tobacco, Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations.
Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively
because Americans are smoking less. Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health. -Anonymous, Statement required on cigarette packages and cartons by the 89th US Congress, 1st Session, Sources: The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations.
Cyber Seafaring souls have floated by. I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?. - Ken Faver, Source: seen on the web.
To the average cigarette smoker the world is his ashtray.
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.
"Sometimes I simply feel
that the whole world is a cigarette and I'm the only ashtray."
I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking.
'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained.
'I happen to be a chain breather.' Only Satan can grant man the faculty of expelling smoke through the mouth. - the Spanish Inquisition when imprisoning Rodrigo de Jerez, one of Columbus’s sailors, and the first person to bring tobacco to Europe. Source: The Economist, print edition, March 30th 2013.
Smoking is 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.
It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette
and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.
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.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.
What more can one want?.
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power
of smoking at such a rate?
Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting. - P. G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time, 1958, Source: The penguin Dictionary of modern humorous quotes.
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
This very night I am going to leave off tobacco!
Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose
shall be realised.
Perfection is such a nuisance
that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.
I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself
I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did.
I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them. - George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana (1860), Source: The International Thesaurus of Quotations.
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him.
`You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum.
Watch what you choose to do. For instance,
someone might want you to smoke. 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, (1867-1957) Italian conductor, Source: seen on the web.
"Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast". As ye smoke, so shall ye reek. - Anonymous, Reader's Digest 1949, Source: The penguin Dictionary of modern humorous quotes. What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar. - Eugene Field, (1850-95) US poet and journalist., The Tribune Primer, 'The Five-Cent, Source: Bloomsbury book of quotations. Cigarette, n.: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in between. - Anonymous, Source: seen on the web I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute. - King O'Malley, 12 February 1902, Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates , Source: The Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Quotations. Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?. - Anonymous, Source: seen on the web. There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not. - Floyd Dell, Source: seen on the web Quotes in this section are reproduced from "How The Cadillac Got Its Fins" by Jack Mingo 1994 in Harper Business. Cigarettes are not addictive. - Brennan Dawson, Tobacco Institute (USA), 1994. I think we overuse the word "addictive". I think smoking can be a habit. - Brennan Dawson, Tobacco Institute (USA), 1991. It's always been our policy that young people shouldn't smoke. - Brennan Dawson, Tobacco Institute (USA), 1991. There is no science behind the accusation that advertising causes smoking initiation. - Thomas Lauria, Tobacco Institute (USA), 1991. This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil. - Charles Whitley, Tobacco Institute (USA), 1990. If I saw or thought that there were any evidence whatsoever that conclusively proved that, in some way, tobacco was harmful to people, and I believed it in my heart and my soul, then I would get out of the business and I wouldn't be involved in it. Honestly, I have not seen one piece of medical evidence that has been presented by anybody, anywhere that absolutely, totally said that smoking caused the disease or created it. I believe this. I'm sitting here talking to you with an extremely clear conscience. - Gerald H. Long, president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, May 19, 1986, as quoted in the Washington Times. It's part of the whole anti-business movement, the Green Movement. If you think it's bad here, it's even worse in Europe. People have more time to think these days, and so they're more and more critical of everything. Look how critical they are of governments. And there this health-consciousness movement running through the world. - John Dollisson, vice president of corporate affairs, Philip Morris, explaining the antismoking movement. 
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Gosh, we're awed at how a story can be told and retold by the anti-cigarette people, and how little attention is given in the press to claims for cigarettes. - James C. Bowling, assistant to the president, Philip Morris. I think that if it were ever conclusively shown that there was some connection between smoking and, say, lung cancer most ad agencies would not be advertising cigarettes. But it's easy to get stampeded, and the tobacco industry is being very much maligned.... The fact is that I have never met a finer group in my life than the people in the tobacco industry.... And tobacco has given pleasure to an awful lot of people. You should never act on hunches; suspicions, and stir-ups. - Henry Pattison, account executive for the Philip Morris Company at the Benton and Bowles Agency; 1969. Just what the doctor ordered. - Ad, L & M cigarettes, 1956. |
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