The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.

~ Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Highway Shades Smoking Traffic Zombies

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein Breathing Cigarette Elizabeth Wein Intimacy Julie Lips Smoking The Pearl Thief

Smoking is a worldwide problem, almost in every nation and culture. The fight against these menace is so comprehensive that even the very same package of cigarettes now carry warning to its potential victims.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sunday Adelaja Problem Smoking

Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ...Ruined is a strong word, I'd say....It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid Boredom Cigarettes Smoking Smoking

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

~ J.r. Ward

J.r. Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood Cancer Humor Life Smoking

Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there's a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it's scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette?

~ Tony Parsons

Tony Parsons Cancer Cigarettes Smoking

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

~ Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn Cancer Cigarette Cigarettes Death Inevitable Smoke Smoking

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

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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

Frank Dobson Health Smoking People

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

Don Rickles Personality Me Smoking

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

Paul Newman I Am Amazing Smoking

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

Ray Comfort Future Smoking Cancer

I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

~ John Abraham

John Abraham Believe Smoking Still

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

~ Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith Smoking Mean Quit

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

Gro Harlem Brundtland Risk Alcohol Smoking

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

~ Lara Flynn Boyle

Lara Flynn Boyle Coffee Smoking Last

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

~ Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields Life Lost Smoking

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

Loni Anderson Door Fire Smoking

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

Hiram Rhodes Revels Children Men Smoking

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

~ George Dennison Prentice

George Dennison Prentice Smoking Live Dead

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

Mike Huckabee Support Smoking People