Quote about smoking from the net
Normandy
Circus, tells Time Out how he would tackle being Mayor of London, 27 August
2003
'IS THE noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few
pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?' Baroness
Trumpington, former Tory minister and ex-smoker, in the House of Lords, 01
July 2003
'I DON'T smoke, but I'd rather be with my pals who do than sitting alone in
a pub with no people and no atmosphere.' Brian Monteith, Conservative MSP
for Mid Scotland and Fife, Edinburgh Evening News, 9 May 2003
'AT LEAST by going to the jungle I won't have people telling me where and
when I can smoke. Wish me luck and keep on smoking, if you want to!' Antony
Worrall Thompson, TV chef, restaurateur and patron of FOREST, with a message
for smokers before taking part in I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!,
24 April 2003
'I DON'T think [smoking] bothers people who work in the [hospitality]
industry. That would be like being in the bomb squad and saying you don't
like loud noises.' Jim Daley, bar owner, reacts to plans to ban smoking in
Buffalo, USA, Buffalo News, 1 April 2003
'AS THE British Medical Association and a growing number of MPs lobby for a
similar cigarette ban in the UK, they should take heed of the lifestyles and
livelihoods that have been lost in Massachusetts.' James Doran, writing
about Brookline 'village of the damned', a smoke free town in Massachusetts,
The Times, 27 November 2002
'I DON'T expect special treatment, but to be thrown out into the cold every
time I want a sneaky ciggie is a bit much.' Actress Anna Friel is thrown out
of her own film premiere party, 26 November 2002
'THE non-smoking idea is much more likely to be the result of corporate
stupidity - the failure to see that licensees know their local market the
best, and should be allowed to address it as they see fit ... Pubs are
centres of discourse, of argument and dissent, the very homes of practical
democracy, and the freedom of expression they foster could not be excercised
a tenth as well in some sanitised panopticon full of screaming kids.' Nick
Thomas fears the smoke free pub in The Times, 25 November 2002
'IRONICALLY, it may be that the clampdown on smoking in so many public
places means that smoking in the home is actually increasing, as smokers
feel it is the one place in which they can smoke without interference.'
Amanda Sandford, Action on Smoking and Health, BBC Online, 19 November 2002
'MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and
drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the
secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would,
wouldn't you.' Victoria Coren, London Evening Standard,
18 November, 2002
'FOR THE first time, we have a study large enough and detailed enough to
look at separate effects of alcohol and tobacco reliably. When we did this,
we found that drinking, but not smoking, increases the risk of breast
cancer.'
Professor Sir Richard Doll, co-author of a new study from Cancer Research
UK, Sunday Mail, 13 November 2002.
'MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are
crystal clear'. 'Chainsmoker' Nicky Haslam, 63, tells Deborah Ross the good
news, Independent, 14 October 2002
'HE IS invariably pictured with a cigarette dangling at an existential angle
(ie with composed insouciance) between the index and third fingers of his
right hand (ie not the traditional smoker's fingers).' The mystery of French
author Michel Houellebecq's smoking, Independent, 21 September 2002
'BECAUSE in LA I'm never allowed to smoke.' Oscar-nominated actor Russell
Crowe, overheard at the BAFTAs, explaining why he prefers London to Los
Angeles, 24 February 2002
'THESE are proper cigarettes, thank you very much' Actress Kate Winslet,
also overheard at the BAFTAs, 24 February 2002
'YEAH, BABE, you just watch. When I die they'll all blame the fried egg
sandwiches and the fags ... and it'll have been all the fucking wholemeal
toast and fresh vegetables.' Actress Kathy Burke, Observer, 10 February 2002
'IT'S AMAZING! No smoking on the train! What happened? Are we in Waukegan,
Illinois? Europe is civilisation. You're not supposed to be gawked at or
pointed at or mocked for smoking. I've always thought of starting my own
airline, if I could get a bunch of investors together, called 'Air Smoke'.
We'd make smoking mandatory. We'd issue the customers a little packet of
cigarettes and tell them that we expect it to be done by the time we reach
our destination.' Actor Johnny Depp comments on the recent decision to ban
smoking on Eurostar, The Big Issue, 4 February 2002
'FUCK off.' Depp's former girlfriend Kate Moss responds to an attendant who
asked her to extinguish her cigarette at the Mario Testino exhibition at the
National Portrait Gallery,
2 February 2002
'SMOKERS of the world unite! We have been bullied and nannied long enough.
And if Tony Blair is tempted to follow the lead of Ireland and Italy, let us
remind him that only 10.7 million voted Labour last time. But 15 million
smoke'. Journalist Tom Utley, Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2002
'THE MOVEMENT which began on the West Coast of America among an
uncompromising ragbag of New-Age nutters and radish worshippers has now
gained the momentum to sweep the world. We laughed when they first started
with their bleating, but laughs are now rare among the little groups of
office workers huddled in the street, taking a nicotine hit with all the
deep joy of a tramp swigging meths'. Journalist Pete Clark on the
anti-smoking movement, London Evening Standard, 1 February 2002
'SMOKERS pay £19,000 a minute to the Exchequer, and that's enough to pay for
the whole police force. Or to put it another way, for every £1 we cost the
NHS, we give it £3.60. Please don't encourage the state to dictate how I
live my life.' Journalist Jeremy Clarkson on smokers' contribution to the
economy, Sunday Times, 18 November 2001
'I NEVER allow myself to be photographed if I'm not smoking. It's a strict
policy I've adhered to for a long time. I initiated it when it became
politically correct not to smoke'. Artist Maggi Hambling on being
photographed without a cigarette, Daily Express, 4 October 2001
'I DON'T know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know
why I'll do it again.' Bart Simpson, The Simpsons
'THIS COLUMNIST is now the official Smoker-Friendly Journalist of the Year.
I was honoured by the pressure group FOREST for complaining bitterly about
the anti-smoking busybodies I encountered when pregnant.' Lauren Booth, New
Statesman, February 2001
'I KNOW Fabien [Barthez] smokes ... In England, it's a rare thing to see a
player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic.' Man Utd
manager Sir Alex Ferguson, February 2001
'WHEN I smoked myself - up to 60 on some working days - I resolved never to
become an anti-smoking bore because I hated them so much. By and large I've
stuck to that: if people ask to smoke in our house we gladly cry, 'Yes, of
course! Here are ashtrays, cigar clippers, pipe reamers, hookahs, oxygen
masks - anything you need!' Simon Hoggart, Guardian, November 2000
'SMOKING, I would now suggest, may be here to stay.' James Walton, editor of
The Faber Book of Smoking, November 2000
'MOST PEOPLE accept that smoking can be bad for your health. But if smokers
choose to take the risk, that's their business.' The Sun, leader, August
2000
'WHEN I decided to quit I simply quit ... Was it hard to stop? Not really.
It certainly wasn't harder than many other things I had to do in my life.'
George Jones, political editor, Daily Telegraph, August 2000
'I USED to smoke all the time but four years ago I changed my smoking habit
to smoke only when I'm drinking. However, this policy has had an adverse
effect on my drinking habits.' Ground Force gardener Tommy Walsh, March 2000
'APPARENTLY cigarettes contain embalming fluid. This explains why I'm
possibly the best-preserved woman in Britain.' Sue Carroll, The Mirror,
February 2000
'I'VE BEEN doing some sums following the recent medical assertion that every
fag you smoke costs you eleven minutes of your life. Let's take somebody who
is aged 100 and has smoked a modest ten a day since the age of 15. That's
310,250 cigarettes or a total of 3,412,750 minutes of lost time. In more
understandable terms, that means this person would have lived an extra six
and a half years if he-she hadn't ever smoked. My question is: would that be
much of a bonus?' Columnist James Whitaker, The Mirror, January 2000
'I MIGHT smoke more.' Actor Jeremy Irons announces his New Year resolution,
Sunday Times, December 1999
'I ENJOY it too much.' David Bowie explains why he will never give up
smoking, Edinburgh Evening News, November 1999
'IT'S LIKE being back at school; one is constantly looking for a suitable
bike shed.' Model Sophie Dahl on smoking in New York, Independent, November
1999
'ONE has to stand up to the more extreme anti-smokers because they aren't
representative of the public as a whole. If I wanted to live in an
intolerant, smoke free universe I'd move to California, but I don't and nor
do millions of other people.' Antony Worrall Thompson, TV chef, restaurateur
and patron of FOREST, August 1999
'IF YOU want to smoke you should be allowed to do so. For those who smoke it
is a natural, relaxing part of life.' Antony Worrall Thompson, August 1999
'SUPPORTING smokers is worth doing. Nobody else wants to because they want
to be politically correct.'
Antony Worrall Thompson, August 1999
'WHEN ON occasion I'm asked by groups of aspiring writers what they should
do to get on, my advice is always, emphatically, smoke. Smoke often and
smoke with gusto. It's a little known, indeed little researched, fact of
literature and journalism that no non smoker is worth reading. And writers
who give up become crashing bores.' Novelist and journalist AA Gill, Sunday
Times, July 1999
'OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco
gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a
pipe would have road rage, would they?' Artist David Hockney, Daily
Telegraph, July 1999
'I NEITHER coughed nor felt sick. Instead, a sensation of wellbeing filled
me, and I became slightly wired, not the reaction you get from alcohol, but
sharper and calmer.'
BBC reporter John Simpson, experiencing a cigar for the first time, Sunday
Telegraph, July 1999
'MOST winters I go to a small island in the Maldives where I sit on icing
sugar sand, with azure sea in front of me, light my pipe and read a good
book. That's as close to utopia as I'm ever going to get.' TV comedy writer
Laurence Marks, Free Choice, July 1999
'SOMETIMES I run around Regent's Park and go to the gym, I can manage about
an hour, but stop for a cigarette every so often.' Comedian Julian Clary,
London Evening Standard, March 1999
'I SUPPOSE something has to be done to placate and humour the anti-smoking
lobbyists, but while I gave up eight years ago I would certainly not presume
to impose my views on anybody else to give up such a pleasure.' Chef de
cuisine Michel Roux, Sunday Business, January 1999
'I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest
against [those] who want to control our lives.' Journalist and broadcaster
Richard Littlejohn, The Sun, March 1998
'IF I'M seen smoking in the street, people should come up to me and say
thank you very much for keeping my tax bill down.' Journalist and TV
presenter Jeremy Clarkson, BBC Radio 4, March 1998
'WHEY-FACED teachers, deprived of the joy of preaching socialism to
beginners, delight instead in sending children home with notes announcing No
Smoking Day. As if this was an occasion to put up the bunting and hold a
street party.' Journalist Peter Dobbie, Mail on Sunday, March 1998
'AND A WOMAN is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.' Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936), 'The Betrothed'
'IT IS NOW proven, beyond a doubt, that smoking is a leading cause of
statistics.' Fletcher Knebel (1903-),
US historian/novelist
'IF I CANNOT smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.' Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Kelly
<snipped>
I really enjoyed many of them and especially this one:
< 'I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest
< against [those] who want to control our lives.' Journalist and broadcaster
< Richard Littlejohn, The Sun, March 1998
--
Kelly
Val Adams
HeeHee!
Suze
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"Normandy" <aab...@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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Toddy
> 'IT IS NOW proven, beyond a doubt, that smoking is a leading cause
> of statistics.' Fletcher Knebel (1903-),
> US historian/novelist
>
Snipped for brevity, this one was my favourite after reading the whole
lot with a big smile on my face!!
I reckon you are a stirrer Sinclair ... love it!
Toddy