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Quotes of the Day for 18 November 2004 - Smoking

Today is the Great American Smokeout, a day to quit smoking or at least give it up for a day. Giving up smoking is a real challenge, and I speak from personal experience. (I've mostly been off cigarettes for six years now, I think, but I still bum one when the opportunity presents itself and enjoy it.) If you're going to try to quit today, either for the day or forever, I wish you well.

The only way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands, or butts.
     - Edith Zittler

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
     - Emile Zola, 1840 - 1902

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
     - Fletcher Knebel

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
     - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 - 1959

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
     - Henry G. Strauss

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

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