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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."
"Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide."
"Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts"
"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.'"
"I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."
"I be getting high just to balance out the lows."
"I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold."
"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."
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
"When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking."
"It is hard to quit smoking. Every one of them looks real good to me right about now. Every cigarette looks like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus and moistened shut with Claudia Schiffer's pussy."
"You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar."
"A pipe is greater than a bong. Because when you're smoking a pipe at least it makes you look like you're thinking about something."
"Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!."
"Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough."
"It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act."
"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"
"The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit."
"I can ask for cigarettes in every language"
