Tobacco Quotes - Page 9

• I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Alcohol, Our Society

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• Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

  Donna Shalala

  Issues, President, Clinton

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• A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.

  Jeremy London

  People, Sick

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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

  Julie Bishop

  Party, Thinking, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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