{"quotes":[{"text":"I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.","author":"Robert Clark","tags":["health","humour","smoking"],"id":3322,"author_id":"Robert+Clark"},{"text":"I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief.'And you so intelligent!'Excuse me?' said tom'Knowing those things are going to kill you' she said 'and still you do it.'How differently I might behave' Tom said, 'if immortality were an option.","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["immortality","smoking","witty"],"id":3578,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"},{"text":"She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["cancer","cigarette","cigarettes","death","inevitable","smoke","smoking"],"id":8521,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["balance","coffee","day","drinking","eat","food","moon","night","payne","roman","seasons","smoke","smoking","stoic","sun","times","wine"],"id":16079,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.","author":"Gro Harlem Brundtland","tags":["risk","alcohol","smoking "],"id":20646,"author_id":"Gro+Harlem+Brundtland"},{"text":"I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.","author":"Don Rickles","tags":["personality","me","smoking "],"id":22883,"author_id":"Don+Rickles"},{"text":"Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there's a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it's scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette?","author":"Tony Parsons","tags":["cancer","cigarettes","smoking"],"id":25939,"author_id":"Tony+Parsons"},{"text":"5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn’t get much easier.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["alone","cigarette","cigarettes","midnight","poetic","poetry","smoke","smoking","writers"],"id":58671,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.","author":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","tags":["hannah-lillith-assadi","kill-you","sadness","smoking","sonora"],"id":66266,"author_id":"Hannah+Lillith+Assadi"},{"text":"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["giving-up","humour","smoking"],"id":67985,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}