Quotable Quotes

After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.
Bill Clinton

Sometimes I just sit in front of a mirror and watch myself inhaling
that poison gas. If I was in a concentration camp and someone tried
to make me do that, I'd want to kill them.
anonymous smoker

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable
cause of death in our society.
C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General

If you took 1,000 young adult smokers, one will be murdered, six will die on the roads, but 500 will die from tobacco.
Richard Peto

If you are thinking of giving up smoking, I'd recommend it. The first week was the most difficult. I used apples and oranges. Oranges were better as they took a while to peel so were more hassle than an apple, also very good from a health point of view. You have to change your routine and habits completely, avoid situations where you'd usually smoke. It's nice to have energy, it's nice to have good skin, its nice to not cough up chunks of blackened lung tissue every morning, it's nice to taste food properly, it's nice to be able to run, it's nice not to stink like an ashtray.
Nick Simpson from www.oceanfoods.net

Take your life back from the tobacco companies. They don't own you anymore.
Duane Alan Hahn

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.
Richard Peto

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland

When are people going to realize that breathing in smoke from anything that burns is not a good idea?
Duane Alan Hahn

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
Frank Dobson

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
Christine Lahti