In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 6:1^4.

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation14:11.

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pageöwell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

-Christiansen, Arthur
Headlines all my Life, ch.19.

Thestrongest possiblepiece of advicethat Icouldgiveto any young woman is: Don't screwaround and don't smoke.

-Currie, Edwina
  In the Observer, 3  Apr.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Daniel Deronda, bk.2, ch.13.

Nursed amid her noise, her crowds, her beloved smokeöwhat have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes?

-Lamb, Charles
  Of London. Letter to Thomas Manning,15 Feb. Collected in E  W Marrs Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol.2 (1975).

Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, opening lines.

As full of flavor as hickory smoke.

-Mumford, Lewis
  Of geotechnic expert Benton MacKaye. In Harvard University Magazine,  Jul.

We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, blind with smoke.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'Counter-Attack'.

Oft fire is without smoke.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto1, stanza12.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

The old man puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon pressing up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation has come to know as the silhouette of greatness.

-Time
  Of Winston Churchill disembarking from the Queen Mary. 14 Jan.

   He was almost a force of nature, like a slumbering volcano, wreathed in clouds, occasionally emitting smoke which soothsayers attempted to interpret.

-White,Theodore H(arold)
  Of Nelson Rockefeller.The Making of the President,1968.