Smoking Quotes

• I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Support
  • Marijuana

• I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, 'Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great.' He goes, 'What? I'm 28.'

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Great
  • Age
  • Guy

• I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

  

  Claire Forlani
  • Smoking

• The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

  

  Beth Orton
  • Light
  • Couple
  • Smoking

• I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Painting
  • Director
  • Move

• If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

  

  David Paradine Frost
  • People
  • Up
  • Gun

• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Trying
  • She
  • Mom

• You grew up, we grew up B.C. Before crack. That's just saying it all. You understand? You don't have parents... You have young kids, fourteen, coming home and their mama is smoking out, going to their best friend to get the product.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Friend

• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Reason
  • Anything
  • Smoking

• I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Environment

• Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Science
  • Food
  • Chinese

• It was a big big world, but we thought we were bigger Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor Never rich so we were out to make that steady figure

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Limits
  • Pushing
  • Drining

• 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.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Drinking
  • Boxing
  • Smoking

• Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Up
  • Real
  • Rest

• If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Stop
  • Church
  • Drinking

• If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Stop
  • Simple
  • Smoking

• I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Long
  • She

• I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Friend

• I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Different
  • Stock
  • Smoking

• I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Control
  • Planet
  • Landscape

• Once you are hooked, smoking is harder to quit then heroin.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Harder
  • Quitting
  • Heroin

• Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.

  

  John Quelch
  • People
  • Family
  • Fear

• I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

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