Cigarettes

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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Topic

Cigarettes

Speaker

Lord Henry "Harry" Wotton

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Medium

Novel Magazine

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.

He who lives without tobacco is not worthy to live.

Molière

Don Juan

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Topic

Cigarettes Smoking

Speaker

Sganarelle

Author

Molière

Source

Don Juan

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

French

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

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Moliere. Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre [Don Juan or The Feast of Stone]. 15 Feb. 1665, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Moliere. "Don Juan." The Miser and Other Plays, translated by David Coward and John Wood. Penguin Classics, 2000, act 1, sc. 1.

Perhaps one stops smoking only when one starts to love cigarettes, becoming so enamored of their charms and so grateful for their benefits that one at last begins to grasp how much is lost by giving them up, how urgent it is to find substitutes for some of the seductions and powers that cigarettes so magnificently combine.

Richard Klein

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Topic

Cigarettes

Author

Richard Klein

Source

Cigarettes Are Sublime

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Klein, Richard. Cigarettes Are Sublime. Duke University Press, 1993, introduction.

You wanna smoke? You don't smoke do ya, what are you one of those fitness freaks?

The Departed

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Topic

Cigarettes

Speaker

Captain Ellerby

Actor

Alec Baldwin

Source

The Departed

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (drama) Thriller (film) Crime Thriller

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

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Citation

The Departed. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Media Asia Entertainment Group, Vertigo Films, GK Films, and Media Asia Films, 2006.