Quotes

[2013] In the beginning, I still found it funny that you were no longer allowed to smoke in restaurants. In the smokers' corners, contacts and conversations begin that otherwise would not exist. But I've got the feeling that the nannying is increasing and becoming more severe. People have to still be able to decide something themselves.

[2013] One way or another, I will have to die. And I simply enjoy smoking very much. If I leave out many things, I maybe live a healthier life, but I will get bored more often and experience less. We are supposed to smoke less, drink less, eat less meat...

[2013, on tenants losing their homes because they smoke, and people suing their neighbors for smoking on balconies] I think that's terrible. It is absurd, they are completely nuts. It's an intrusion into personal lives.