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Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dying for a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Quoted By: Anna Quindlen
Attribution:Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times, sect. A, p. 21 (April 14, 1993).
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar’s labour or the Turkman’s rest.

Quoted By: George Gordon Noel Byron
Attribution:George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. The Island, cto. 2, st. 19 (1823).
Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don’t brag about it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die—at least not in the act—and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.

Quoted By: Fran Lebowitz
Attribution:Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950), U.S. humorist. Social Studies, ch. 18 (1981). Lebowitz, a dedicated cigarette smoker, often wrote satirically about smoking, laws restricting smoking, and “smokers’ rights.”
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Quoted By: Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]
Attribution:Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954), French author. repr. in Earthly Paradise, pt. 2, “Freedom” (1966). The Pure and the Impure (1933).
Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.

Quoted By: Martyn Harris
Attribution:Martyn Harris (b. 1952), British journalist, author. Daily Telegraph (London, Jan. 20, 1989).

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