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It is quite a three-pipe problem. – Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance. – Mark Twain

Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress. – Terri Guillemets

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. – Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed

Tio stepped to the counter and bought a little black cigar that was strong enough to do push-ups. – James Street (1903–1954), “The Grains of Paradise”

To that daintiest siren of puff and perfume, a Turkish cigarette. – Minna Thomas Antrim, “To La Cigarette,” A Book of Toasts, 1902

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker…. but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table. – Michelle Pfeiffer

To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist. – Terri Guillemets

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times. – Author Unknown

A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee. – Terri Guillemets

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. – James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches. – Author Unknown

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly. – George Borrow

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things arent good. Drinkings not good. Some would say milks not good. – Bob Dole

I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away. – Margaret Halsey

Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist. – Martyn Harris

But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of Gods good gifts, that the sweetness of mans breath, being a good gift of God, should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke. – King James I

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didnt want to smoke, but I didnt believe myself. – Barbara Kelly