"This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye."
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"Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!"
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"Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember."
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"I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking."
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"we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning."
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"I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now."
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"I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety."
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"If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle."
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"The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature."
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"Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us."
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"Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity.""
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"Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!"
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"If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological."
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"I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking."
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"I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'"
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"I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar."
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"Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see."
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"I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery."
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"This blessed gift of smoking!"
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"smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road."
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