Activist Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

— Sylvia Earle

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

— David Hockney

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

— Allen Ginsberg

“Passionate smokers always welcome the peace-pipe without hesitation.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I'm against cigarettes, always.

— Roberto Mancini

You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But…

— A. Whitney Brown

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

— John McCarthy

I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.

— Tommy Chong

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

— Tim O'Brien

The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power -…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.

— Mike Pence

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically…

— Joe Eszterhas