Oh Nymph of transatlantic fame, Where’er thine haunt, whate’er thy name, Whether reposing on the side Of Oroonoquo’s spacious tide, Or listening with delight not small To Niagara’s distant fall, ‘Tis time to cherish and to feed The pungent nose-refreshing weed, Which, whether pulverized it gain A speedy passage to the brain, Or, whether, touch’d […]
Smoking Quotes
For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do any thing but die.
It sometimes seems to me, as I look back over my life, that smoking has achieved the status of the Ultimate Curse which was, in my boyhood, conferred upon masturbation. This indulgence, we were assured, would sap the intellect, bring about rot of the spine and loss of the reason, and within measurable time destroy […]
In a few years the demonization of smoking will be so complete that a movie set in WW2 will feature a chain-smoking Hitler and an abstemious Churchill, just to telegraph to the audience who’s naughty and who’s nice.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.
For the majority of people, smoking has a beneficial effect. (Los Angeles surgeon, 1963)
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold. (To Walter Raleigh)
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Was this small plant for thee cut down? So was the plant of great renown; Which mercy sends For nobler ends. Thus think, and smoke tobacco. Doth juice medicinal proceed From such a naughty foreign weed? Then what’s the pow’r Of Jesse’s flow’r? Thus think, and smoke tobacco. The promise, like the pipe, inlays, And […]
