313 Quotes About Smoking

...black as charcoal, death in the making, death right inside your chest.

I held out the packet and suddenly we were friends. That's one of the only good things about being a smoker these days. You're part of a persecuted minority. You bond easily.

Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in an intolerably stupid position.

I'm happy I found an apartment where outside the window is the wide expanse of a roof. That feeling of the breeze, the alchemy of the cigarettes and the alcohol, those together are like a wormhole furrowed through my brain.

Smoking is a filthy habit,” he told the young Waylon. “Wish I’d never picked it up.

When my father first came home from college, he sat my grandparents down to tell them some very serious news. They followed him quizzically into the living room, and from the bantam couch stared up at their nervous, pacing son."I'm gay," he announced.They sat stunned for a moment, and just as his mother started to cry he said,"Just kidding. I smoke.

There was a time when the only thing I liked about sex was the cigarette after. Then I grew up and gave up smoking.

Porfiry smoked with professional determination.

Two things make smoking a virtuous habit. In the first place, the smoker, by paying billions of pounds in tobacco duty, pretty well pays for the entire hospital service. In the second place, by dying on average five years younger that the non-smoker, the smoker reduces the burden of old age on society as a whole.