"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
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"Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline."
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"A man of no conversation should smoke."
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"I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis"
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"I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations."
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"I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
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"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."
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"As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you."
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"Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit"
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"Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid."
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"Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for."
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"Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast."
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"I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California."
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"I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's."
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"What's in that pipe that he's smoking?"
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"It is quite a three-pipe problem."
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"We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease"
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"Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any."
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"Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time."
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