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 – American Author 1835-1910

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
--Lara Flynn Boyle – American Actress Born 1970

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
--Nat King Cole – American Musician 1919-1965

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
--Mark Twain – American Author 1835-1910

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
--Jeanette MacDonald – American Actress 1903-1965

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 – American Comedian 1925-2005

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.
--Benny Hill – English Comedian 1924-1992

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.
--Elvis Presley – American Musician 1935-1977

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
--Christine Lahti – American Actress Born 1950

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
--Clement Freud – British Writer Born 1924

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
--Loni Anderson – American Actress Born 1946

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
--Christy Turlington – American Model Born 1969

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
--Ed Markey – American Politician Born 1946

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
--Loni Anderson – American Actress Born 1946

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
--Loni Anderson – American Actress Born 1946

Nobody should smoke cigarettes - and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house.
--Sara Murray Jordan

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
--Wendy Liebman - American Comedian Born 1961

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
--King James I - Royalty 1566-1625

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
--Brooke Shields – American Actress Born 1965⁶