Tobacco Quotes - Page 10

• In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.

  Peter York

  Stars, Real, America

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• Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Drinking, Dirty, Men

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• We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

  Jesse Torrey

  Smoking, Poison, Credit

  Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.'... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'

  George Carlin

  Father, Thinking, People

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• The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

  Huey Long

  Book, Needs, Six

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• But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stupid, Oil, Uranium Mining

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• It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Coffee, Book, Light

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• The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Strong, Desire

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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.

  Ted Nugent

  Children, Heart, Men

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• If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Suicide, Doctors, Doe

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.549, Penguin

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, 'Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.'

  Jay Leno

  Beach, Jobs, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Grandma, Redneck, Shoes

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• You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Men, Might

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• If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

  Joe Eszterhas

  California, Initiative, Nobel Peace Prize

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Oh, I know: If you're fat, let's not blame you, let's sue McDonalds! Oh, for cryin' out loud, hey, if you smoke, not your fault, it's the tobacco company's fault! Hey, if you shoot somebody, not your fault, let's blame the gun industry!

  Brad Stine

  Gun, Mcdonalds, Smoking

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• We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.

  Jennifer Morse

  Kids, Giving, Smoking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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