Tobacco Quotes - Page 9

• It is illegal for children to purchase tobacco in every state in the country. And in every state ... tobacco companies have invested enormous sums of money and time to encourage widespread lawbreaking.

  John McCain

  Country, Children, States

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• At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

  C. Everett Koop

  Government, Hypocrisy, United States

  "How Alexander Cockburn Helped Me Take on the War on Drugs" by Brian McKenna, www.counterpunch.org. August 12, 2013.

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• The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Drug, Tolls, Worst

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reform, Use, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.54, Graphic Arts Books

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• I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

  James M. Barrie

  Sleep, Home, Men

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

  Joel Stein

  Wine, Rose, Taste

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• It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

  Scott Adams

  Running, Government, Two

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• In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life.

  Jack Herer

  Stress, Marijuana, Years

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• Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

  Adam Smith

  Taxation, Sugar, Commodity

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.399

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• Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

  David Grossman

  Cancer, Media, Data

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• Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

  Robert A. Burton

  Men, Land, Smoking

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• The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.

  Robert Kenner

  Real, Cancer, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses.

  Anna Lappe

  Children, Impact, Quality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health.

  Bill Walton

  Mistake, Gun, Usa

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Sublime

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

  Andrew Jackson

  Giving Up, Coffee, Two

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• As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.

  Michael Moss

  Children, Taken, Upset

  Michael Moss (2013). “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”, p.18, Random House

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• We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.

  Otto Perez Molina

  Issues, Justice, Alcohol

  "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare" by Otto Pérez Molina, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it.

  Richie Ashburn

  Kids, Drink, Broads

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• On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

  King James I

  Roots, Branches, Sin

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• Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doubt, Scripture, Butlers

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.50, Routledge

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• There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in the 18th century was a soft drug producer: sugar, rum, tobacco, chocolate. And in order to do it, they had to enslave Africans.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, White, Chocolate

  Noam Chomsky's Talk at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

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• One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Answers, Might

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

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• If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

  Noam Chomsky

  Alcohol, Substance, Want

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• In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Years, Self

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