"They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts."
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"Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head."
"I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one."
"The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?"
"Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult."
"Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking."
"Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult."
"I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid."
"We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking."
"To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting"
"I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute."
"Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise."
"Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!"
"If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing"
"There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life."
"If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie."
"Tobacco is the tomb of love."
"You have proved it is a very moral habit."
"Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive"
"We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now."