Audience Quote by Savielly Tartakower

I understand that people don't want to smoke. Fine. Don't smoke. You don't want to go into a restaurant where there's [smoking], don't go…

— Mike Ditka

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Audiences don't need to be patronized by being shown in period things how much people smoked.

— Kathy Burke

Ok to ban smoking from workplaces, but not to ban smoking.

— Mike Huckabee

I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a…

— Seth Godin

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop…

— Ian Bremmer

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop…

— Ian Bremmer

“As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep…

— Mark Twain

“The problems raised by alcohol and tobacco cannot, it goes without saying, be solved by prohibition. The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is…

— Aldous Huxley

“One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!”

— J.D. Salinger

It appears that the general consensus is that the more something is forbidden, the more people want to do it.

— Anonymous

Secondhand smoke is toxic to bystanders.

— Norah Vincent