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Your Quotes for 27 July 2005 - Smoking

No matter whether you smoke now, have smoked, or never smoked, there is little doubt that the pernicious weed tobacco has caused a few problems. I need to quit myself, again. It was on this day in 1586 that Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the practice of smoking to England, here are a few more recent quotes.

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

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn - then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.
     - Harry Reasoner

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
     - Johnny Carson, 1925 - 2005

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.
     - Fran Lebowitz

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

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