L. Frank Baum [author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] had a weak heart and was not allowed to smoke, but he often held an unlit cigar in his mouth. Once, when standing on a lake shore, he was asked whether he ever actually lit the cigar. "I only light up when I go swimming," replied Baum.

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Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.

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My Karma ran over your dogma.

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Humankind — despite its artistic pretensions, its sophistication, and its many accomplishments — owes its existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

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I have every sympathy with the American [smoker] who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

—Henry G. Strauss

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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

—Fletcher Knebel

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