Cigarette Quotations

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

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.

As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette in hand, shrug and gesticulate and give back banter for banter as gayly as if it were all a holiday frolic.

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

We've already got the hats, the T-shirts. We've got poker cigarette lighters, poker card holders and posters. The one thing they've missed out on of everything they've put out is that they've forgot to put out a book of how to run a card room.

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

We're going to melt down all of ours down and make a glass parrot for the Brass Parrot. We'll hang it beside the cigarette machine.

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.

Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

I never acted out with my actions to show people that I'm getting grown, you never see me with a cigarette, or see me wilding out or doing anything like that.

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

We're seeing the usual breaks and bruises. But we're also seeing cigarette burns and chemical burns that we haven't seen that much of in the past.

Since 2001, we've had 42 states increase their cigarette taxes.

She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette

Murderers and rapists can apply for federal aid, but a student caught with a single marijuana cigarette is automatically denied.

But those filters are no longer made of cotton. There are over 90 active toxins in cigarette filters. And because they're light, they can travel by wind or water and get into water systems. They're little, but lethal.

I did every odd job you could possibly imagine: Holding a sign in the rain for 14 hours straight, sweeping up cigarette butts, pouring coffee, running around - anything I could to be on a film set. I wanted to be in the business. So I'd say, 'You need that job done? Fine,' and I became indispensable to people.

He was smoking a cigarette when the delivery guy came to the door. The delivery person said he wouldn't deliver the tank unless he put it out, and told him about how dangerous it was.

He was sitting there doing curls with a bar and he's got a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. In the weight room, smoking while he's doing curls.

It appears that the last person to smoke here did not put their cigarette out in the bin.

I was very uncomfortable in the habit-all that starched white stuff. I smoked at the time and used to love to walk down the halls of CBS with a cigarette dangling out of my mouth. People were just aghast.

Steadily, smoking has gotten to be known to be such a killer. It makes it difficult to put your lead character with a cigarette in his mouth.

That drop in lung cancer is linked to the fact that cigarette consumption in California has dropped 50 percent, ... What we're seeing is the first disease reduction resulting from California's comprehensive tobacco prevention efforts.

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

My brother, Abraham Jr., went back to the grave after Rita hit. The grave was not damaged, and (he) found the bouquet about two feet away from Dad's head stone. He put the bouquet back in place and put another can of beer and a cigarette by his grave, for Dad loved his beer and cigarettes. We're so thankful our father's grave is intact.

You can hear from the tape people yelling for help, he's been shot. What Mr. Shockley does is walk past the counter, in an area that everyone and his mother knows is not open to the public. He steps in there, sees the young man bleeding from his head, offers no aid, and starts going through the cigarette counter.

We encourage all women who are trying to conceive or who are pregnant that they shouldn't smoke and they shouldn't drink alcohol. This is because we really can't tell people how much or how little one cigarette or one drink can really have an affect on those babies. It's harder on our livers and when we are carrying a child everything has to work extra.

There are avoidance measures you can take, ... If you know you're sensitive to a trigger, like dust mites, cigarette smoke or animals, you can use medication, or if someone is highly allergic, he or she might consider desensitization therapy.

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

We saw a lot of cigarette butts. But we drew the line at picking those up.

We believe, strongly, that raising the cigarette tax diminishes smoking, especially among young people.

There are less and less places to enjoy the product, and this plays right into that trend. We're really hoping to capitalize on connoisseurship in the cigarette category. When you look at beer, wine, chocolate and other high-quality products that have a branded experience associated with them that have emerged in the past 10 to 15 years, that hasn't happened in cigarettes.

When I woke up I tried to light a cigarette and I couldn't understand why it wouldn't hold on my lips. It was then that I saw the sea of blood and my dog next to me.

Both Roddy and I were smokers. The producer, Arthur Jacobs, had long-stemmed cigarette holders made for everyone so we could smoke with the make-up on.

While the importance of cigarette smoking in the progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis remains controversial, case control studies among patients with the disease support the current findings in the familial form of the disease as well as sporadic forms, and consistently indicate that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for the development of the disease,

We just need to be very careful in our outdoor activities. The slightest cigarette butt can create such a small spark, but such a large fire and a major tragedy for someone.

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.

With fire you can teach people forever about the dangers of fire and still see people in their grand cars throwing cigarette butts out of windows and those are the people with degrees, so-called well-educated people.

This new standard is like telling a two-pack-a-day smoker to cut out one cigarette a day.

(D)id you tell Larry Fiato that ... that you went to Rockingham because O.J. was a suspect, the husband is always a suspect, on the 18th floor of the balcony while smoking a cigarette in February of this year?

The traditional risk factors for stroke are increasing age, being male - men have more strokes than women - cigarette smoking is a very strong one and blood pressure is probably the strongest consistent factor,

The whole thought is, while people are standing and waiting for the bus, they shouldn't have to worry about breathing cigarette smoke.

The salesgirl handed her a bright little wad of cloth that could be roomily stowed in a cigarette pack.

I've smoked Camels for more years than I care to mention, but I haven't had a cigarette since '91. I haven't had a joint since '95.

Prohibition doesn't work, and again, they've put the evidence right there showing that responsible regulation has hugely reduced cigarette use.

The older guys, with 25 to 30 years' experience, these guys really are at risk more than the newer generation, which preaches glasses and gloves. The older generation didn't have that. They worked a bad accident, they had their arms full of blood, hands full of blood, and afterward they lit up a cigarette and talked about the call.

Someone snuffed out a cigarette in the dirt and the dirt caught fire.

Active cigarette smoking is established by us -- and, really, almost everyone -- as being the single largest risk factor for hardening of the arteries.

As far as we're concerned, any discussion of cigarette tax revenue in this budget ought to focus exclusively on collecting the taxes they've been letting escape all these years.

All across the country, cigarette taxes have gone up, and I think that's led to a reduction in smoking. It's a little unclear whether that's caused people to trade down from premium cigarettes or just smoke less.

A little monograph on the ashes of one hundred and forty different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco.

You see somebody throw a cigarette butt out the window? That's littering. We want to know about it.

This is another strong set of results and I am particularly pleased with the continued improvement in our cigarette volumes.

This is a terrible disease whose causes have remained unclear and for which no treatment exists, ... Our findings provide convincing support for a genetic basis. But it's more than that -- development of the disease takes a second hit. One such hit is cigarette smoking.

This isn't just supporting (health care) programs, but we believe strongly that raising the cigarette tax diminishes the desire to smoke among young people.

They still smoke. Taking out the urns doesn't stop it. It's just cluttering the quad with cigarette butts.

They got a nice attitude. They dropped by the other day and gave me a cigarette lighter.

This is what I'm looking forward to: brush in hand, whatever I'm painting in my sights, maybe a cigarette on the go, and sunshine, lots of sunshine.

There's been a significant increase of cigarette butts on campus. Just walking through the campus you can tell.

A break any time is welcome. But it's not like I've been able to sleep in. I wake up every morning at 6 a.m. smelling cigarette smoke from the ventilation.

It's just a matter of time that somebody throws a cigarette down the road and the wind is blowing.

It's a bit like telling a three-pack-a-day smoker to give up one cigarette a day.

It means that when governmental restrictions on cigarette ads on a national basis do come into play, they'll clearly be constitutional,

It's like when cigarette prices went way up, ... They absorb it and go on. After some time, the price becomes accepted.

It's good health policy to have higher cigarette prices. It prevents kids from starting to smoke and it encourages adults to quit.

It's really intuitive, ... that if a cigarette goes out after a few minutes rather than continuing to smolder, it will cause fewer fires.

It's pretty obvious that when we're finished, there'll be some kind of cigarette tax in the package,

It's pretty simple. These laws are very bad for the cigarette companies, because they create an environment for people to quit if they want to.

Does he have to remove the cigarette from his hand? We don't have the answers to any of these questions.

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!'

Every once in a while, they'll throw cigarette butts at you. I keep my helmet on. Sometimes they're lit.

The best news in this year's report is the significant decline in cigarette smoking, not just because that ultimately is the most deadly drug but also because it confirms that drug abuse is best reduced through sensible public health measures rather than criminal penalties, prosecutions and prisons.