Smoking Quotes

‘Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.’ – Mark Twain

‘Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.’ – Brooke Shields

‘I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.’ – Johnny Carson

‘We need to not write off vaping as a safe alternative to smoking. It’s not safe.’ – Mikhail Varshavski

‘Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.’ – King James I

‘So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.’ – Damien Hirst

‘I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I’ll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay – but not together.’ – Jean Smart

‘Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.’ – John McCarthy

‘Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.’ – Lara Flynn Boyle

‘I do smoke in real life. A lot. We’re all smoking right now in fact.’ – Michael Imperioli

‘I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed… so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself.’ – Bob Dylan

‘You’re always better off if you quit smoking; it’s never too late.’ – Loni Anderson

‘My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.’ – David Byrne

‘If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.’ – Clement Freud

‘Smoking is gross.’ – Ryan Eggold

‘I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.’ – Stephen King

‘I’m about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.’ – Karen Allen

‘I have never understood the reason and logic of smoking.’ – Lara Dutta

‘They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.’ – Bill Maher

‘I struggled to kick the habit – I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn’t resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr’s book ‘The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.’ After I read that book, I didn’t touch a fag again.’ – Mahesh Babu

‘I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there’s that.’ – Don Rickles

‘Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.’ – Eric Roberts

‘If I didn’t have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I’m a big swearer. I’m trying to rein it in but I do think it’s a nice seasoning of language.’ – Olivia Colman

‘You can quit smoking and lose weight at the same time.’ – Mel Robbins

‘Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.’ – Liam Neeson

‘In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.’ – Julia Child

‘I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.’ – Howard Stern

‘After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It’s almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘I’ve got the FA Cup tattooed on my leg and the Leeds United emblem, too. On my back, I’ve got, ‘It’s been emotional,’ which is my line from ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.’ I’m fond of my tattoos, and I’m still having more.’ – Vinnie Jones

‘I still believe that ‘No Smoking’ is one of my best performances.’ – John Abraham

‘I quit drinking, smoking, doing anything bad.’ – Steve Lukather

‘I just don’t want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.’ – Max Cannon

‘The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘I’ve got my dad’s height and smoking habit. But I think I’ve got my mum’s looks and sensibilities.’ – Max Irons

‘I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler

‘To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can’t for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.’ – Holly Marie Combs

‘Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.’ – Dan Quayle

‘I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.’ – Jeanette MacDonald

‘I’m more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I’ve done in my life, including winning an Oscar.’ – Christine Lahti

‘I was in ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,’ and I like my bad boy movie movies.’ – Trudie Styler

‘I don’t smoke and I don’t want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.’ – Edward Norton

‘It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.’ – Mark Hoppus

‘It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.’ – Fletcher Knebel

‘In England, it’s a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it’s much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘I thought I couldn’t afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: ‘Oh well,’ and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.’ – Benny Hill

‘There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.’ – Kenneth H. Cooper

‘Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.’ – Donald Rumsfeld

‘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.’ – Chad Michael Murray

‘It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.’ – Estella Warren

‘Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don’t want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.’ – Elvis Presley

‘I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there’s a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.’ – Raul Julia

‘I lived with a 60-year-old chaperone, and drinking, swearing and smoking were absolutely forbidden – even in the house.’ – Shanna Moakler

‘I love smoking meats.’ – Chad Mendes

‘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

‘You’re the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.’ – Franco Nero

‘Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.’ – Gro Harlem Brundtland

‘I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.’ – Shelley Berman

‘I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.’ – Claire Forlani

‘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.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘If you said, ‘I’m giving up smoking,’ people would put on a parade. If you said, ‘I’m going to eat more healthily,’ people would say, ‘Good for you.’ If it’s drinking, the first reaction is, ‘That’s so boring. You’re going to be so boring.” – Kate Garraway

‘Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.’ – Nat King Cole

‘I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don’t have anything to do.’ – Richard Thompson

‘Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year… It’s significant because we can help women quit smoking.’ – David Satcher

‘I went last week to get hypnotized. To quit smoking. And the hypnotist said, ‘The reason you smoke is you’re bitter and depressed.’ No, the reason I smoke is the little sucker tastes so good.’ – Lewis Grizzard

‘As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.’ – Mark Twain

‘Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.’ – Fletcher Knebel

‘Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America’s like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.’ – Neal Stephenson

‘I don’t want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘In school, I couldn’t see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn’t be grounds for expulsion nowadays.’ – Lee Marvin

‘For now, I’m just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘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.’ – Christopher Plummer

‘I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.’ – Marc Wallice

‘Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.’ – David Hockney

‘Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.’ – Mario Lemieux

‘If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.’ – Bernard Hopkins

‘Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn’t care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.’ – Ray Comfort

‘When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting muscles, and I had a whole different image of myself.’ – Walter Matthau

‘Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.’ – Loni Anderson

‘It just seemed too weird to me. I don’t know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents’ apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.’ – Lorna Luft

‘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

‘You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It’s OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid’s face? OK with them. And I’m not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘I’ll give up smoking when I die, and I’ll settle down when I die. Until then, I’m gonna have a good time.’ – Phil Rudd

‘You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.’ – Paul Newman

‘I am a victim of oral cancer, a victim of cigarette smoking.’ – Amanda Blake

‘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

‘Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.’ – Steve Allen

‘People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them… Well, it’s killing me!’ – Wendy Liebman

‘I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That’s the kind of customers we need!’ – Jesse Helms

‘America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.’ – George W. Bush

‘We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There’s just one problem – it’s in North Korea.’ – Jon Stewart

‘Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.’ – Milan Kundera

‘Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.’ – George Dennison Prentice

‘Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn’t want to be a part of that. I don’t like ‘popular.” – James Coburn

‘Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.’ – Joan Chen

‘Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him… you know, he wasn’t even present, really.’ – Jack Osbourne

‘Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.’ – Frank Dobson

‘When I was an art student in the early 60’s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.’ – Bill Griffith

‘Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.’ – John Wozniak

‘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

‘I’m actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won’t be music or anything, it’s more to do with drinking and smoking. it’s an art piece.’ – Vince Clarke

‘I wasn’t driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.’ – Coolio

‘It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation’s leading causes of preventable death, but it’s less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.’ – Ed Markey

‘What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.’ – Johnny Rivers

‘So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven’t managed that with drinking!’ – Sharon Olds

‘Often when a person can’t get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.’ – Marilu Henner

‘You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don’t want to do those films every year because they’re taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.’ – Vin Diesel

‘I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.’ – Tommy Rettig

‘I don’t know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.’ – Hank Sauer

‘The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.’ – Ann Robinson

‘You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don’t know how you feel, but it’s sure easier than cutting the stuff.’ – Pat Morita

‘I think it’s wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.’ – Larry Hagman

‘I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.’ – Allyson Schwartz

‘This was in ’79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.’ – Renny Harlin

‘There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.’ – Joe Eszterhas

‘Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.’ – Loni Anderson

‘My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers – all smoking related.’ – Loni Anderson

‘Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.’ – Loni Anderson

‘I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.’ – Joe Eszterhas

‘Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.’ – Kenneth H. Cooper

‘I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.’ – Stephen Fry

‘I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.’ – Christy Turlington

‘I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don’t know to quit smoking.’ – Christy Turlington

‘It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.’ – Christy Turlington

‘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.’ – Christy Turlington

‘We’re one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car… or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.’ – Gerald McRaney

‘In Hollywood you can’t even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they’re always showing people smoking. I don’t get it.’ – Gerald McRaney

‘There are enough no smoking places now.’ – David Hockney

‘Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.’ – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

‘I’ve never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What’s wrong with that?’ – Billy Bob Thornton

‘One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I’ve tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.’ – John Oldham

‘As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.’ – Jenny Eclair

‘Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘I’ve had to fight for roles and I’ve lost a hundred roles, but ‘Smoking’ and ‘Smith’ were phone calls. That’s the dream.’ – Adam Brody

‘I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can’t see as well. I now have – this has stopped me from smoking – a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don’t like getting old.’ – Mike Wallace

‘You know, I’m worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.’ – Wislawa Szymborska

‘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

‘My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?” – Katherine Heigl

‘We’re kind of like the smoking section in high school. We’re immature, keep to ourselves.’ – Matt Stone

‘I’ve chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous – it’s addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.’ – Mena Suvari

‘Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.’ – Billy Joe Saunders

‘I don’t operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it’s the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers’ movement, I have discovered, and I don’t mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn’t cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn’t linked to acid rain.’ – Michael E. Mann

‘My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.’ – Bob Schieffer

‘I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.’ – Patrick Swayze

‘I’ll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.’ – Chris Rock

‘I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn’t smoke in your own home. I don’t care what people do in their home.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig.’ – Jane Siberry

‘I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I’m kind of grateful I’ve got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.’ – Donny Osmond

‘I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.’ – Doug E. Fresh

‘I’m a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.’ – Fergie

‘And the biggest improvement I see between ‘Up in the Air’ and ‘Juno’ and ‘Thank You for Smoking’ is that ‘Up in the Air’ deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It’s a more articulated film, and because of that, I’m most proud of it.’ – Jason Reitman

‘I hate movies that tell people what to think. I’m proud that Democrats thought ‘Thank You For Smoking’ was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I’m proud that pro-choice people thought ‘Juno’ was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.’ – Jason Reitman

‘If someone else made ‘Up in the Air’ or ‘Thank You For Smoking’ or ‘Juno,’ I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.’ – Jason Reitman

‘My writing voice is very much like ‘Thank You for Smoking.’ It’s a guy’s voice. It’s very masculine.’ – Jason Reitman

‘They’re a redefinition of boredom… the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.’ – Stephen Daldry

‘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

‘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.’ – Britt Ekland

‘I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can’t I smoke? – Melanie Griffith’ – Melanie Griffith

‘There’s something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested – the cigar smoking and drinking that’s imprinted on his voice.’ – Toby Jones

‘A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.’ – Robert M. Gates

‘Give up smoking. Don’t get so fat. So much illness is self-induced – which I can’t stand. And I’m not a good nursemaid. Don’t call me if you’re ill.’ – Anton du Beke

‘Those who say that climate change doesn’t exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘If you just do a Google search and type in ‘smoking’ or ‘lung cancer’, you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler

‘When we go to a restaurant, they don’t ask, ‘Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?’ They do ask, ‘Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?” – John Roberts

‘We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.’ – Andrew Lansley

‘The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn’t part of normal life: people don’t encounter it normally, they don’t see it in their big supermarkets, they don’t see people smoking in public places, they don’t see tobacco vending machines.’ – Andrew Lansley

‘It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries – just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.’ – Harmon Killebrew

‘Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It’s a very sick society that rejects pleasure.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge – whether it’s coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this ‘post-traumatic growth.” – Jane McGonigal

‘Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the ‘smoking gun’ tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.’ – Helen Thomas

‘You can’t delete racism. It’s like a cigarette. You can’t stop smoking if you don’t want to, and you can’t stop racism if people don’t want to. But I’ll do everything I can to help.’ – Mario Balotelli

‘I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, ‘Thank You For Smoking,’ and I’d go work with him to do anything.’ – Sam Elliott

‘I’m not sure about prizes. I don’t know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a ‘National Poetry Day,’ like a ‘No Smoking Day,’ is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.’ – John Fuller

‘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 Frost

‘Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.’ – Adam McKay

‘When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons – the ‘below the line’ workers – whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled ‘below the line’ workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.’ – John Ridley

‘The bottom line is, until we’re helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.’ – Richard Lamm

‘I actually don’t think there is machismo in America, unless it’s the cowboy type – the silent, smoking brooder.’ – Rosecrans Baldwin

‘I don’t want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.’ – Mahesh Babu

‘There’s always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.’ – Martha Beck

‘I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.’ – Bobby Bowden

‘My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn’t need to biopsy it.’ – Ken Kercheval

‘To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino’s parties of the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s – complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn’s swan dives, Marlon Brando’s secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams’ Aquacades.’ – Ty Warner

‘I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People’s habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.’ – Harold E. Varmus

‘Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you’ve done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.’ – S. Jay Olshansky

‘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

‘Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.’ – Elizabeth Blackburn

‘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.’ – Christopher Fowler

‘When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.’ – Michael Foreman

‘Go to the depot here, now, and what will you see? A well-dressed colored lady, with her little children by her side, whom she has brought up intelligently and with refinement, as much so as white children, comes to the cars, and where is she shown to? Into the smoking car, where men are cursing, swearing, spitting on the floor.’ – Hiram Rhodes Revels

‘I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don’t eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.’ – Marie Helvin

‘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

‘I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.’ – Jenny Slate

‘Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.’ – Mike Pence

‘In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states – Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wisconsin – already have youth cigar smoking rates that are the same or higher than youth cigarette smoking.’ – Tom Frieden

‘During the post-Soviet anarchy and the rush for the spoils of war, Hekmatyar spent most of his time between 1992 and 1996 raining rockets and artillery shells on the people of Kabul, leaving the city a smoking tomb of as many as 50,000 corpses.’ – Terry Glavin

‘When I first moved to Austin in January of 2000, I went out drinking and smoking every single night for a year. And it was really fun at first, but then I started to feel kind of weird because, before I moved here, I had a vision of myself becoming a new person once I lived in Austin. I just hadn’t realized that person might be Nick Nolte.’ – Martha Kelly

‘I didn’t really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn’t afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.’ – Meryl Streep

‘My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Yes, you could call me a tree hugger, an environmentalist, an eco-warrior even – except I don’t spend my life in a kaftan, smoking joss sticks and walking a skinny dog on a piece of string.’ – Jasper Carrott

‘I like my stationery to be funnier, like, ‘Here’s my note, and it’s an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.” – Kate Spade

‘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

‘Girls shouldn’t drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.’ – Rakul Preet Singh

‘It costs less to eat and live more healthfully. Walking, loving, meditating, and quitting smoking are free and require no special equipment.’ – Dean Ornish

‘Not only are drinking, smoking, swearing, dancing and going to movies not issues… they simply do not matter. They matter to fundamentalists, of course, but to anyone else outside the church, they could care less whether we smoke or attend movies. Absolutely no one gives a tinker’s damn whether I say ‘tinker’s damn’ or not.’ – Mike Yaconelli

‘I was a full-blown tomboy; I was very mischievous and got into a lot of trouble. Everybody in my family smoked, and I started smoking probably when I was nine. My friends used to call me Huckleberry Tig.’ – Tig Notaro

‘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.’ – Claire Messud

‘A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain smoker. His smoking habits led him to major health problems. That’s the time I remember telling him to let go. And after a point, he did listen to me and gave up smoking.’ – Rithvik Dhanjani

‘Sure, yes, there are smoking-hot girls. But my girlfriend’s smoking hot, my wife, whatever.’ – Andy Grammer

‘There are some basic rules if they want to join the tumbling team. No drinking, no smoking, no swearing, no drugs and, most of all, no belonging to a gang. I read the riot act to them the minute they want to join. I tell them there’s only one gang they can belong to if they want to be with me and that’s Jesse White’s gang.’ – Jesse White

‘Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job.’ – Tarana Burke

‘I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.’ – Matthew Walker

‘I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it’s not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.’ – Matthew Walker

‘The Swedes prepare their food through curing, smoking, pickling and boiling. Pickling food contains digestive-system-friendly probiotics, and while boiling may not be the tastiest, it’s effective without adding fat!’ – Harley Pasternak

‘It is easy to defend the right of people to do things that fit in with the cultural norms of the majority. This includes practices that give personal pleasure but may be harmful, such as smoking or drinking. It is harder to argue for minority activities, especially those which stand out and may be obviously unsuitable in certain contexts.’ – Jacob Rees-Mogg

‘Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump’s life, hoping to find a smoking gun.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads’ holidays, all that stuff.’ – George Groves

‘I have always been extremely health conscious and I have never smoked and don’t encourage the habit of smoking.’ – Tahir Raj Bhasin

‘A lot of the problems in society nowadays are down to diet and lifestyle – be that obesity, diabetes, asthma caused by smoking or drinking.’ – Jeremy Kyle

‘I’ve always worked from a young age and was never big on drinking or smoking, so whatever money I had I put into synths.’ – Jonas Blue

‘I can’t keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It’s not me. I want to be playing football.’ – Luke Shaw

‘Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones.’ – Steve Hilton

‘By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.’ – Laurie David

‘Throughout the world, cancer affects the rich and poor, especially where cigarette smoking is rampant.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘You try to find ways to trip up your opponent. And if somebody comes to you and says, ‘I’ve got, you know, the smoking gun on the… Clinton campaign,’ you have that meeting. You definitely have that meeting.’ – Michael Caputo

‘Whether it is ‘Pyar Ke Side Effects,’ ‘Mithya,’ ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla,’ ‘No smoking,’ all my films have been different from regular Bollywood movies.’ – Ranvir Shorey

‘I got into hand-cycling to prove to myself that I could do it and get back into some form of competition, and now it’s led to this. If someone had suggested a few years ago that I would be taking it to the Ironman, I would have asked them what they were smoking.’ – Alex Zanardi

‘Before I found out what poker really was I had this picture in my mind of men smoking cigars and having all these chips and like going all macho and crazy. I don’t think there’s been that much done in the mainstream community to change that perspective.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘Banning smoking in vehicles with children in them will help protect them from the misery of smoking-related diseases, from cancer to asthma and emphysema.’ – Luciana Berger

‘Protecting children from smoking in cars is the right thing to do.’ – Luciana Berger

‘As smoking has disappeared from television screens, planes, bars and restaurants, and other public spaces, the smoking rate has dropped to a third of its peak of 45 percent in the mid-1950s.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘If you have to ban something, ban products which are actually harmful for us, like cigarettes. Smoking also affects the health of people standing around you. But we won’t ban such things. We’re told don’t eat fish, don’t eat meat, don’t wear miniskirts and other such things.’ – Pooja Bedi

‘In fact, I started my career as a theatre actor, along with Sachin Khedekar, with a musical play called ‘Aflatoon,’ where I sang quite a bit. So, singing isn’t alien to me, but over the years, because of the constant abuse of smoking that I’ve put my throat through, my voice doesn’t sound as good.’ – Mahesh Manjrekar

‘A smart society recognises the benefits of treating problems before they escalate, either through helping people quit smoking or moving them out of mould-blighted bedsits. A compassionate society also tries to limit human misery and suffering wherever possible.’ – Dawn Foster

‘I believe that I would not have smoked had I seen a label on a cigarette package or in a cigarette ad that said ‘Warning: Cigarette smoking may cause death from heart disease, cancer or emphysema.” – Amanda Blake

‘I do not condone smoking while pregnant or smoking – it’s a dirty filthy habit.’ – Kerry Katona

‘When we did the Smoking Gunns, we were decked head to toe with every single Western thing you could imagine.’ – Billy Gunn