Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"I'd much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower."
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Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice."
Willie Nelson
Musician, Actor
"As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics."
Steve Allen
Television Personality
"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."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs."
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"My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you."
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"I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much."
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"I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit."
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"I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking."
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"Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend."
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"I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time."
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"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
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"For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever."
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"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."
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"I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance."
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"Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs."
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"If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish."
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"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."
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"Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke"
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"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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"They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet."
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"Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide."
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"Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts"
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"Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'"
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"I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."
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