"If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."
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"Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when."
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"If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go."
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"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit."
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"Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times."
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"Imma sip until I feel it, Imma smoke until it's done."
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"More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking."
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"If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore."
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"I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds."
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"The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace."
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"Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags."
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""Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth." ... I found my brand. Just don't get the ones that say, "Lung Cancer.""
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"How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?"
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"I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind."
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"In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig."
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"The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
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"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."
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"Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast."
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"Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!"
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"I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't."
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