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“Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great

“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.”

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Book:The Turtle Diary

Source: The Turtle Diary

“OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?”

Giving Littles Mental Health Rage Smoke Smoking Pauses Pipe Tobacco Smoking A Pipe Road Rage

Author:David Hockney

“If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].”

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Author:John Dingell

“At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“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.”

“The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door”

Doors Fronts Encouragement Distance Hardest Smoking Tobacco Sofas Front Doors

Author:Erki Nool

“Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours”

Wells Care Choices Company Encouragement Well Being Tobacco

Author:Wayne Dyer

“What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.”

“America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.”

America Tobacco Adorable Chewing Chewing Tobacco

Author:Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

“Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.”

Father Vices Alcohol Smoking Delicious Abiding Tobacco Daydreaming Fertile Reverie Cigarettes And Alcohol

Book:My Last Breath

Source: My Last Breath

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

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Author:Barbara Kelly

“But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended”

People Ifs Used Selling Smoking Cheer Software Tobacco Cheer Up

Author:David Chase

“Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.”

Mankind Poison Smoking Tobacco

Author:Philip Freneau

“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.”

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Author:Napoleon III

“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.”

Moments Memories Filled Smoking Cigarette Exes Tobacco Smokers Filled In

Book:The January Zone: Cliff Hardy 10

Source: The January Zone: Cliff Hardy 10

“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.”

“Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.”

Wells Body Plant Smoke Smoking Royal Tobacco Soundness

Author:Cornelis Bontekoe

“Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.”

Knows Men Needs Has Beens Dream Dies Destiny Forever Mines Creatures Tricks Smoking Allies Tobacco Cigar

Author:J. B. Priestley

“There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.”

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Author:J. B. Priestley

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

“Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.”

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Author:Peter Boyle

“My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.”

House Cutting Summer Making Money Farms Grandparent Tobacco Kentucky

Author:George Clooney

“Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses”

“So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.”

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Author:Alexander Cockburn

“...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.”

“I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no reason it shouldn't be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer's probably in cannabis-who knows?”

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Author:Method Man

“Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.”

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Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum”

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Author:John Candy

“Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.”

Years Acting Company Years Ago Junk Tobacco Junk Food

Author:Mark Bittman

“I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.”

Young Serious Chosen Smoking Young Women Glamorous Tobacco Tolls Quit Smoking

Author:Mena Suvari

“Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nations Governors highest priority.”

States Nations Highest Priorities Fund Governors Tobacco Settlement

Author:Mel Carnahan

“This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.”

“The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.”

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Author:George Pataki

“The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.”

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Author:Christopher Columbus

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

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

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“At certain times I like sex - like after a cigarette.”

Certain Sex Smoking Cigarette Tobacco

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

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

Firsts Sex Dangerous First Time Smoke Smoking Cigarette Tobacco Smokers Funny Sex Smoking Cigarettes Smoking Cigars Smoking A Pipe Tobacco Smoking Funny Smoking Pipe Smoking Cigarette Smoke

Author:Jay Leno

“Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.”

Inspirational Hands Life Is Inspirational Life Encouragement Smoking You Choose Tobacco

Book:Mind Power Into the 21st Century*

Source: Mind Power Into the 21st Century*

“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.”

Looks Satisfied Smoking Pale Tobacco Detrimental Destitute

Author:King O'Malley

“It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction”

Choices Company Encouragement Addiction You Choose Tobacco

Author:John Kehoe

“It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.”

“I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.”

Years Age Kicks Tobacco

Author:Larry Hagman

“Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.”

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Book:Deterring Democracy

Source: Deterring Democracy

“In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.”

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Author:Andrew Weil

“Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.”

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Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

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