John Mellencamp Quotes

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

I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

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

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

The Case Against The Little White Slaver

If you will study the history of almost any criminal you will find that he is an inveterate cigarette smoker.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

[Worldwide] … tobacco use … kills more people annually than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

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

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

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?

I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.

I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.

If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.

If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.