"You shouldn't smoke these. They'll kill you."
— Eric Draven, The Crow (1994)
"It's not good to smoke! These spongy things inside our chests are called 'lungs'. They are our breathing machines. If we smoke, we build them up with dirty tar. Then, they don't work properly. And so, we cough!"
— Dr. Dog, Doctor Dog
"Smoking is a bad habit. My species gave it up centuries ago when we finally got it into our heads that it was killing us."
— Tom, Star Trek: Voyager, "Ex Post Facto"
Quark: What's that disgusting smell?
Nog: I think it's called "tobacco". It's a deadly drug. When used frequently, it destroys the internal organs.
Quark: If it's so deadly, then why do they use it?
Nog: It's also highly addictive.
Rom: How do they get their hands on it?
Nog: They buy it in stores.
Quark: They buy it? If they'll buy poison, they'll buy anything!
Nog: I think it's called "tobacco". It's a deadly drug. When used frequently, it destroys the internal organs.
Quark: If it's so deadly, then why do they use it?
Nog: It's also highly addictive.
Rom: How do they get their hands on it?
Nog: They buy it in stores.
Quark: They buy it? If they'll buy poison, they'll buy anything!
"Alan hates smoking. Alan Horn — the head of the studio — that's his biggest, biggest thing. The Comedian can smoke, because [...] he's the bad guy, but that's it. That was the line that he drew."
— Zack Snyder on Watchmen
"I'm Bill Hicks, and I'm dead now. I smoked cigarettes. Cigarettes didn't kill me; a bunch of non-smokers kicked the shit out of me one night."
— Bill Hicks, parodying a famous anti-smoking advert starring Yul Brynner (a few years before dying of lung cancer).
