- Nov 07, 2020
Smoking Quotes
Quotes on a habit that is hard to quit.
Smoking is treated with dark humor and honesty across this page, from a complaint that others mind secondhand smoke while it is actually the smoker's own health at stake, to a memory of picking up the habit during military training years earlier. One line also weighs in on how certain plants get judged unfairly.
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- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
- Carbon Dioxide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no debate about that. The link is as certain as the link between smoking and cancer.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020