Tobacco Culture Quotes

You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

I don't smoke, but people say that you get secondhand smoke. But this is a country that was founded mainly on the tobacco industry - tobacco and coffee. It's so surprising that they are now essentially making cigarettes illegal, when that is where the whole country came from.

You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly harassing you.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.