If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It’s a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you’re alone or with friends, it’s a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? Luis Bunuel
Specialized testing clearly reveals a significant drop in fertility potential for men who are heavy tobacco smokers. Lani Burkman
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers’ stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases…but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, ’tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. Robert Burton
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. Luis Bunuel
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar’s labour or the Turkman’s rest.
Lord Byron
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live. Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
For thy sake, tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.
Charles Lamb
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. James I (James VI of Scotland)