Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

Now that I'm gone, I tell you: Don't smoke! Whatever you do, just don't smoke!

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

If you don’t smoke, I don’t know why.

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I don't know, I never smoked AstroTurf.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

I smoke, isn't that terrible?

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

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

… Smoking sets a bad example.

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.

But I'm pretty lucky with my voice. When I first started touring I went to see a woman to give me some coaching on how not to lose my voice. And she was just saying really your voice is a muscle so if you're using it all the time you should actually come back from tour with a stronger voice than you left with. And that's really how I find it.

I have not yet got one good reason why people smoke in life!