There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned. "Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.
Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers. '
Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W. W. , the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.
Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.
America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.
Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.
The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it.