Quotes with tobacco

  • Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

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  • George Bernard Shaw A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bernard Levin Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert E. Lee I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Jackie Mason It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • William Faulkner My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • George Orwell No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barry McCaffrey So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Caleb Carr So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
    The Angel of Darkness (1997)
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
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  • James Thurber The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Armstrong Williams The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • William Faulkner The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Molière There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Luis Bunuel Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edmund Burke Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bob Dole We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Bob Dole We know [smoking tobacco] is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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