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Smoking Quotes

You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Chapter 17. Holden is no great fan of phoniness. And he witnesses a lot of in action here during the intermission of a play starring the Lunts.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

– George Dennison Prentice

Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the ‘smoking gun’ tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.

– Helen Thomas

In Hollywood you can’t even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they’re always showing people smoking. I don’t get it.

– Gerald McRaney

I don’t know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

– Hank Sauer

We’re one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car… or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

– Gerald McRaney

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries – just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

– Harmon Killebrew

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

– Joe Eszterhas

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That’s the kind of customers we need!

– Jesse Helms

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

– Joe Eszterhas

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

– Julia Child

When we go to a restaurant, they don’t ask, ‘Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?’ They do ask, ‘Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?’

– John Roberts

Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.

– Adam McKay

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper’s manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

– Beth Orton

When I was an art student in the early 60’s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

– Bill Griffith

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

– Christy Turlington

Give up smoking. Don’t get so fat. So much illness is self-induced – which I can’t stand. And I’m not a good nursemaid. Don’t call me if you’re ill.

– Anton du Beke

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

– Billy Joe Saunders

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.

– Benny Hill

I’ve never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What’s wrong with that?

– Billy Bob Thornton

They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.

– Bill Maher

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don’t know to quit smoking.

– Christy Turlington

You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It’s OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid’s face? OK with them. And I’m not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

– Bill O’Reilly

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

– Christy Turlington

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.

– Estella Warren

I didn’t bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

– Christopher Fowler

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.

– Mena Suvari

I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don’t eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

– Marie Helvin

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early ’50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

– Christopher Plummer

There are enough no smoking places now.

– David Hockney

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