Quotes / Must Have Nicotine

Mary: Excuse me—you don't have a cigarette on you, do you?
Tiffany: I'm sorry. I don't smoke. It's not that I worry about lung cancer, but it does stain your teeth.
Mary: Well, I worry terribly about lung cancer. I also worry about shortness of breath and heart disease. But what really worries me right this minute is that I'm not going to find a cigarette.

— Mary Mary

"They had no interest in anything except this smoke, which came in regular little puffs down the tube, Then, it stopped. Clearly, the tubes were programmed, so that they puffed smoke for half an hour, then stopped doing so. After only a very few minutes, the rats' whole demeanour changed. They began to quarrel in earnest, even to fight and scratch one another. At the same time, they staggered to and fro, coughing and only half able to breathe."

— Stray

"Buster was chain-chewing an entire tube of tobacco pills."

— Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space

Joey: You're smoking again?!
Chandler: Well, actually, yesterday I was smoking again. Today, I'm smoking still.

— Friends, 3x17, "The One Without The Ski Trip"

Amy: I can't handle this, I need a cigarette.
Jake: I knew that you would, so I came prepared. Nicotine patches! [Amy snatches them] You just put them on your shoulder and—whoops, stuck it right on your face, huh?
Amy: [patch right on her forehead] I want it as close to my brain as possible.
Jake: That's unsettling.
[Jake outlines plan to find who called in a bomb threat to their wedding]
Amy: That's good, I love you so much.
Jake: I love you too—wait, you're talking to the nicotine, aren't you?
Amy: [beat] I can love two things.

— Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 5x22, "Jake & Amy"

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