Philip Morris Quotes

• Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

  Herb Kelleher

  Turkeys, Essentials, Maintenance

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• Make no mistake about it: Legalization is not about, you know, Cheech & Chong smoking marijuana or, you know, a Grateful Dead concert; it's about creating the next Marlboro of our time, the next Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the Big Tobacco all over again.

  Kevin Sabet

  Mistake, Grateful, Marijuana

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Cancer, Air, Years

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1762, Best Books on

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• In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

  Sydney Brenner

  People, Challenges, Atmosphere

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• I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, New York, Giving

  "A Giant artistic Gibe at Jesse Helms" by Roberta Smith, New York Times, April 20, 1990.

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• I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, New York, Self

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