Smoking Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old smoking quotes, smoking sayings, and smoking proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics. Matthew Gray Gubler
Then go we smoking, silent and snug, naught passes between us. Edward Fitzgerald
Vapers don’t want the next new flavour, they just want a droplet of nicotine delivered to their lungs. Jeremy Mean
I understand why people use the nicotine replacement aids, but I don’t understand why people want to pretend that they’re smoking. If you had a serial killer who liked to stab people, would you give him a rubber knife? Serena Chen
They [the electronic cigarette] are a product of coercion, who would use them anywhere you could smoke? Freedom to Choose
People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! Wendy Liebman
We need to not write off vaping as a safe alternative to smoking. It's not safe. Mikhail Varshavski
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. Lara Flynn Boyle
No one can quit smoking for you, or make you want to change your life. No one can make you do anything that you don’t want to do. Gudjon Bergmann
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort. Aristotle
Smoking is suicide by installments. H. M. Forester
Smoking must be harder than not smoking. For the latter does not require any action. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Any cigar smoker is a friend because I know how he feels. Alfred De Musset
Make the most of the Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere. George Washington
I don't know what they have done to pot in the last thirty years, but it rocks! Jane (Meryl Streep)
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; / And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke. Rudyard Kipling
The nicotine addict, like the opium fiend and the alcoholic, quickly loses respect for observance of laws and any personal obligations to share in cultural or civic interests. Grace George
What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. Russell Hoban
I like you more than I would like to have a cigarette. Wendy Cope
Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips. P. J. O'Rourke
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco? Bill Vaughan
I quit smoking. I feel better I smell better and it's safer to drink from old beer cans around the house. Roseanne Barr
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. Sir Arthur Helps
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. Robert Louis Stevenson
He who lives without tobacco is not worthy to live. Moliere
Those who smoke outnumber those who do not by a hundred to one... so non-smokers must learn to adapt themselves to existing conditions... and when they come into contact with smokers, it is scarcely fair that the few should be allowed to prohibit the many from the pursuit of their comforts and their pleasures. Good Housekeeping
My drinking is directly connected to my smoking. Now, when I say "directly", I mean there's a thing - a physical thing - that is directly connected from my liquor buds to the smoke pouch in my lungs. If you want me to quit smoking, you would have to cut - I mean, you'd have to physically cut that thing! And when you do, my head's gonna fall off! Edgar Stopworth
Emotion is a major part of smoking. Smoking is acting. I mean the ultimate thing in acting is to draw the audience in and blow them out. Ashley Ashley
For your information, the money that come out of the tobacco tax last year was enough to pay for your National Health Service. People like you who give up smoking because it's dangerous ought to be given white feathers for cowardice, mate. Yeah. I'm smoking for England. And the Queen. Alf Garnett
Where's my lighter / Give me something to start a brush fire / I need something to help me touch higher / Now I'm in the cloud puffing on louds / Smoking on some. Ashley Anderson and Byron Simpson