Best Smokers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Until the beginning of 2003, Italians smoked everywhere and considered it quite normal; they lit up inside stores, including those which sell fabric or paper goods, in the airport, ignoring repeated loudspeaker announcements that no smoking was allowed, at the greengrocers where cigarette ash dangled perilously over the zucchini and the cherry tomatoes, and even in hospitals, although from time to time crack Italian Carabinieri units called the NAS, set up to enforce health standards, would appear, unannounced, and hand out hefty fines to all the doctors and nurses they found in flagrante. Once I even had blood taken by two white-coated doctors who took my vital fluid with cigarettes dangling from their lips, an open window their only concession to my passive smoke concerns.”

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Book:My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

Source: My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“Smoking: The most stylish way to cancer”

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Author:Jitendra Attra

“The norm of yore was ‘smoking is no disrespect’, and now the coinage is ‘desist passive smoking’, my foot, as if the air we breathe is pristine pure.”

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Book:Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

Source: Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“A qalyan--a hookah, shisha, nargila, argila, lula, cachimba, chillim, jajeer, hitpipe, guduguda, hubble bubble, basically cancer in a water pipe--and sit and play around on his phone until his thumbs grew thumbs.”

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Book:Tajrish

Source: Tajrish

“Cigarettes are just pacifiers for adults.”

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Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Smokers live faster.”

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Author:Raheel Farooq

“I said to my friend, "Why do you smoke (cigarettes)?" He replied, "Because I like to put myself on the line for the welfare and safety of others." I astonishingly said, "Sorry, I didn't get your point." He replied, "I want a cigarette-free world. Therefore, I am trying my best to end all the cigarettes from the world.”

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Author:Saad Salman

“Not only will giving up cigarettes put more money in your pocket, your body will thank you for it.”

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Author:Oscar Auliq-Ice

“A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.”

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Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.”

Suicide Committed Cigar Smokers

Book:The Odoherty papers

Source: The Odoherty papers

“Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.”

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Author:Jane Smiley

“If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then...selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.”

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Author:Ethan Nadelmann

“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.”

Art Desire Strong Habit Art Is Delight Extremes Denial Very Strong Tobacco Smokers Fruition Malaise

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.”

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Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.”

Past Empty Heavy Halls Smokers Ashtrays

Author:David Lange

“A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.”

Ugly Cigar Smokers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“A club there is of smokers--dare you come To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room? When, midnight past, the very candles seem Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam; When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise, And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.”

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

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

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything”

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Author:Marvin Shanken

“I'm going to stop smoking. I'm not such a good smoker, anyway. It's not in my bones. I'm gonna drop it.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.”

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Book:Collected Short Stories

Source: Collected Short Stories

“If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn't matter, you know?”

People Ifs Knows Sometimes Matter Government Pay Behavior Cheaper Smokers

Author:Ron Paul

“Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.”

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Author:Ray Comfort

“Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette."”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“I'm a smoker, my name is Snoop Dogg, and I'm a stoner.”

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Author:Snoop Dogg

“Pot smokers may be the largest untapped voting bloc in the country. ... A hundred million Americans have smoked marijuana. You think they want to be considered criminals?”

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Author:Gary Johnson

“I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“I don't smoke pot or cigarettes, so inhaling smoke as a non-smoker - it doesn't matter what it is, it's going to make you lightheaded.”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.”

Imitating Smokers

Author:Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

“I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.”

Boys Terrible Majors Addiction Horrible Smokers

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.”

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Author:Chris Hayes

“I could've enjoyed a cigarette if I smoked back before everyone knew it was bad - say, like, 1923. Everybody smoked back then. There was no medical information against it; they had no idea - it was a paradise. It was a smoker's paradise: 'They're taking my lung out next week. I don't know why. Doctor thinks maybe I'm brushing my teeth too often, but I can't help it because, for some reason, my breath smells like I licked a monkey's ass.”

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Author:Arj Barker

“I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.”

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Author:Karen Russell

“Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.”

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Author:George Singleton

“If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money or even buy an extra piece of equipment. If you have that kettle grill, the whole secret to getting a lower temperature is to set up your grill for indirect grilling and use only half as much charcoal.”

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Author:Steven Raichlen

“I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.”

Fighting Week Ready Let Me Boxing Smokers

Author:Robbie Lawler

“That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.”

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Author:Sam Abell

“When I was a chain smoker, I used to wake up and the first thing I'd do was reach for a cigarette, basically. And now I do the same thing for a smartphone, basically.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do. We are actors and to be honest, I am the type of person that can reference a thought or a smell and get high.”

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Author:Tommy Chong

“We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the effects on young people, on cancer, these candy cigarettes that they promised had nothing to do with kids, Joe Camel that they promised was focused on the, you know, 55-year-old white male smoker, which we know is wrong. And we finally got out of that. Why in the world would we want to create the same thing, just not Big Tobacco this time, Big Marijuana?”

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Author:Kevin Sabet

“I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.”

Ifs Stills Voice Pops Grandfather My Grandfather Smokers

Author:Jadakiss

“Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.”

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