After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

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.

Fullers cigar in the night was a beacon warning carefree, frivolous people away. It was plainly a cigar smoked in anger.

Tilting his head back, he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this French-inhale style.

Idly, but not idle-for in leisure there is neither idleness nor haste-I watched the slow wreathing of smoke, into the still air, from my pipe.

Some things are better eschewed than chewed, tobacco is one of them.

He stopped smoking at least once a month. He went through with it like the solid citizen he was: admitted the evils of tobacco, courageously made resolves, laid out plans to check the vice, tapered off his allowance of cigars, and expounded the pleasures of virtuousness to every one he met. He did everything, in fact, except stop smoking.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.

For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.

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

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

A custom [smoking] loathsome to the eye, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

To the average cigarette smoker the world is his ashtray.