Bill Hicks Quotes

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.

If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

Thousands and tens of thousands die of diseases of the lungs generally brought on by tobacco smoking.... How is it possible to be otherwise? Tobacco is a poison

No one can use tobacco without more or less injury...

I smoke, I want to get rid of the habit.

I'm going to stop smoking. I'm not such a good smoker, anyway. It's not in my bones. I'm gonna drop it.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

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

Since smoking might injure your health, let’s be careful not to smoke too much.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.