Smokers Quotes Of The Day (part 1)

Little tube of mighty pow'r,
Charmer of an idle hour,
Object of my warm desire.
~Isaac Hawkins Browne, "A Pipe of Tobacco"


A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.  ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, "Bug-Out," 1976


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


If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction.  There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism.  The dead drug leaves a ghost behind.  At certain hours it haunts the house.  ~Jean Cocteau


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


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


Tobacco is a dirty weed.  I like it.
It satisfies no normal need.  I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen.
I like it.
~Graham Lee Hemminger, Tobacco


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


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


Nicotine patches are great.  Stick one over each eye and you can't find your cigarettes.  ~Author Unknown


To smoke or not to smoke:  I can make of either a life-work.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.  It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.  What more can one want?  ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray


On CBS Radio the news of [Ed Murrow's] death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial.  ~Alexander Kendrick


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


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


It's all one thing - both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"