Tobacco Quotations

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because they knew that plants contained substances that could affect people. Coffee will keep you awake. Tobacco contains something that will calm your nerves. Foxglove contains an extract that'll affect your heart.

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

We are pleased to forge this new relationship and welcome Mr. Dong Hong and his team at Shanghai TO-OPT. This agreement represents the culmination of three years of work in the Chinese marketplace, building awareness for our anti-counterfeiting technology, our products and our company's reputation. With Shanghai TO-OPT now in place to serve the local market, we are confident of further success in China. Our work with Shanghai Tobacco Company and the respected Panda brand only serves to enhance our reputation.

We believe that the best way to expand health care is with tobacco taxes.

There are cigar bars. This is the first cigarette-focused tobacco lounge we know about.

We're going to either resolve them through some sort of settlement...or else we're going to just beat them, starting in Mississippi, then we'll go to the next state, ... It'll be a very unhappy experience for the tobacco companies.

When we go to the Statehouse, it's one or two of us against a whole slew of tobacco lobbyists and their partners. You can see that this is a classic David versus Goliath with us going against big tobacco.

We found out that tobacco was the only thing that could carry us.

We're going to be winding down (earnings) and more focus will be turning toward the presidential election. However, there's not much one can do since the race appears too tight to call. On a poll-by-poll basis, you could see drug stocks impacted negatively or positively, with tobacco stocks and defense stocks similarly impacted.

Very early on, I decided I didn't want smoking in the movie. It's not really a movie about smoking, but about lobbying. Tobacco is just the setting. It's not that I believe in the idea that movies should be responsible and not show smoking. But I think if the characters had been smoking, it would have seemed a pro-smoking movie, whereas it's about lobbying and spin and talk.

With today's agreement, we have pounded another nail in the tobacco industry's coffin,

We deal with several thousand dollars worth of tobacco a week.

We hope we will have for the first time actual documents of testimony from the tobacco industry that would demonstrate that the allegations that have been made by the 22 state attorney generals is in fact true, and will be major evidence in the many trials that are ongoing around this country.

The program actually kicked off a couple of weeks ago with our Teens Against Tobacco and Busted! groups in the schools and colleges. The schools each have a goal of collecting 250 pairs of shoes, and a couple of them are already close to the goal.

We've seen about a five basis point shift, which is not a lot for tobacco bonds -- they can be very volatile. But yes, it has caused people to take a little step back.

We're not convinced that the major manufacturers will succeed in getting the $1 billion ...but this battle could lead to another settlement (and) an ironclad partnership between the states and tobacco manufacturers.

Lung cancer in women in this country is really epidemic because women started using tobacco later in the 20th century than men did. We're still seeing the results, ... In California, rates among women dropped almost 5 percent. But in the rest of the country, they went up 13 percent.

Legislators are trying to tell marketers they can't advertise sex, alcohol and tobacco to youngsters online just as they can't on TV or in print.

Last year, the company's board and management claimed to act in the interests of stockholders by spinning off the tobacco business of RJR Nabisco,

Secondhand smoke causes cancer and other diseases. But the tobacco industries' overall global strategy and tactic was to plant doubt in the minds of the American people ... Does it really?

Simply telling people to eat less and exercise more is not enough. Decades of tobacco prevention efforts have taught us that focusing on an individual's behavior ignores the fact that we all make choices within a broader social, environmental, and public policy context.

Now the tobacco grower has more to tend to. I got more business looking at some of their secondary crops. So my success here does come indirectly from the growth of contract farming.

Obviously this is the first time anyone has ever collected money from the tobacco industry, ... It underscores the importance of continuing my leadership role and Mississippi's leadership role in getting a comprehensive (national) plan.

Reynolds Tobacco does not spike its products with nicotine, ... In fact, our process results in the loss of nicotine.

Philip Morris has done a good job running Kraft but they are still so involved that tobacco litigation is going to hold Kraft back a little bit.

Peter Jennings was at the forefront of reporting on the dangers of smoking and tobacco throughout his career, and we are committed to carrying on his work.

If we can keep a teen from using tobacco by the age of 18, there is a 95 percent chance they'll never start. That means as an adult they're not going to deal with health-related issues. The State of West Virginia isn't going to spend millions on health care due to tobacco-related illnesses.

I don't care what tobacco companies are saying, they're flat out lying. This stuff is addictive, and I still consider myself addicted. I haven't used it in better than 18 years, but I still love the smell of it and I consider myself an addict . . . once you're an addict, whether you stop using or not, you're always an addict.

I believe this is the beginning of the end for the conspiracy of lies and deceptions perpetrated against the American public by the tobacco industry. Someone is finally telling the truth.

I have never felt God more in my five years of fighting the tobacco industry than in this experience. I absolutely couldn't believe it. We both actually found the business cards our parents had exchanged and we both carry it in our wallets as good luck charms.

For some reason, tobacco really makes people mad. It's not like other issues of vice. I don't know exactly why, but I can feel it, and I think that's why the book works so well.

If you are buying untaxed tobacco products, we will find out who you are, and you will either be facing a criminal investigation or substantial assessment from the department of revenue.

If the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured a court order to mandate the documents' release, and if tobacco officials had really changed, they would not perpetuate their cover-up by continuing to block our efforts to uncover 39,000 documents containing their deepest, darkest secrets.

He taught Eddie everything. He was very generous with his knowledge. ... I started learning everything I could about wine making and the politics of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms who, at that time, controlled your life.

Today is the first of many paydays for our people from the historic tobacco settlement,

Unless we are imposing tough penalties on the tobacco companies and doing everything in our power to reduce teen smoking, this administration will not address proposals to give tobacco companies protection from liability,

I think it's just historical relationships in the area. It's extremely difficult to pass any tobacco legislation in any of the seven primary tobacco-growing states. Going up against the tobacco industry is serious, serious work.

I think we'll see a major change in the amount of money being used on anti-tobacco measures. They lied about everything. At key points in time, when the U.S. government or states tried to legislate them, the tobacco companies used their lies to stall regulation, to stall warnings.

I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,

It gives this tobacco company an icon that no other tobacco company has. Their production facilities are able to use economies of scale, so it is a huge advantage for them.

It has been a great year for job creation. The gears are in drive and we are going places. We're not going to recover from the loss of textiles and tobacco overnight, but we are getting there.

I think this represents a historic opportunity to reduce tobacco use among our nation's children, and it has never been more needed.

It is not news that obesity and related disorders are a major health concern for the U.S.. If it hasn't already, many experts believe that it will soon surpass tobacco as the number-one cause of preventable death in this country.

It is intended to be a wake-up call to America about the fact that 500,000 people die prematurely a year due to tobacco use in America -- 50,000 of those die from the tobacco use of others,

It is appalling the way they deliberately set out to mislead smokers about the toxins in tobacco smoke knowing full well these machine measurements do not reflect how people smoke and therefore how much carbon monoxide and other toxins they are inhaling. We need a major overhaul of the system for measuring toxins in tobacco smoke.

I saw, for the first time in my life, two or three young white women smoking tobacco in clay pipes. From their manner it was evidently a well-formed habit, and one which they did not suspect there was occasion for them to practice clandestinely, or be ashamed of.

People are interconnected and their health is too. We pay a lot of attention to other risk factors for ill health: tobacco exposure, poverty. Here's another risk factor: having an ill partner.

Overall, we achieved solid results in 2005, with strong income growth in our tobacco businesses partially offset by weaker results in food.

R.J. Reynolds is trying to use partnerships with reputable organizations like the Miss America State Pageants to create the illusion that it has changed and is part of the solution to the tobacco problem.

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

People have still not fully gotten the message that the most important things that they can do to avoid cancer are to avoid tobacco smoking and maintain a healthy body weight and physical activity.

Steroids have not been an issue -- hyperactivity has. Tobacco is not an issue, but spilled coffee on the carpet is.

That drop in lung cancer is linked to the fact that cigarette consumption in California has dropped 50 percent, ... What we're seeing is the first disease reduction resulting from California's comprehensive tobacco prevention efforts.

Many young people attend your concerts and purchase your music and T-shirts, ... Because your actions strongly influence the youth in your audience ... I ask you to take steps to warn young people of negative health effects of smokeless tobacco use.

It dawned on me that we didn't have any national meeting, much less an organization, for youth that were fighting the tobacco industry.

The 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke just about do everything that we know that is harmful to the heart, ... It will damage the lining of the arteries, increase the stickiness of your blood, therefore increasing the chances that you will develop clotting and develop a heart attack.

The Action Plan provides a blue print for getting proven cessation treatment to literally every smoker in America who wants to quit. This can have enormous benefit for everyone-adding years of life for former smokers and reducing healthcare costs for all Americans. Making the tobacco companies pay for this is only proper.

WHO has taken a very public lead in the fight against tobacco use. As a matter of principle, WHO does not want to recruit smokers.

We are becoming increasingly concerned about the ability of Philip Morris to take a pricing increase within its US tobacco unit in 2003.

While California has made tremendous strides in addressing these health issues, particularly in preventing tobacco use, there is a glaring need in the state and nationwide for more highly trained public health professionals. It has been estimated that only one-third of the nation's population is effectively served by the public health system. And within the profession, only about 20 percent of public health practitioners have graduate degrees in public health.

We must not lose sight of the fact that it will take further action by public health officials and local communities to reduce the health effects attributed to tobacco use,

We believe there is insufficient Customs cover in the South West - that's across the whole range of duties that Customs and Excise are responsible for. That includes drugs, tobacco and the new security responsibilities. We would like to see more cover in the South West.

We've known for the last few months that Bush is on his Bob Jones redemption tour, but now we know who the sponsors are: the tobacco industry, HMOs and insurance companies, and the gun lobby.

Today, teenage girls smoke in record numbers, because the tobacco companies have been successful in associating smoking with independence, freedom, rebellion, and for many girls, a key for weight loss.

You know how in Connecticut they store tobacco in long, white barns to cure? That's what it looked like. They had thousands of shells stored like they were in wine racks.

While we have so much information about changes that would be necessary to decrease the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, it's not clear how to change society and change policy to help those changes take place. It's disturbing that we have so much information now but we haven't really achieved the social will to make the kinds of changes that would need to be made to really impact tobacco smoking and the trends of increasing overweight and obesity.

understandable exasperation growing on the part of the tobacco industry, which is manufacturing a lawful product...

We are not under the clean-air ordinance. We are a tobacco retailer. Those provisions do not apply to us.

The problem is much of the public feels since it is fruit-flavored tobacco and drawn through water, it is a safe product. That is just not the case.

The predicate for this entire budget ... is the tobacco settlement. There isn't a bigger question mark in this Congress right now than whether that will ever occur.

We'll get a big upward push from tobacco and from energy prices, and we'll see the same type of things when the CPI comes out next Tuesday.

Today we filed a lawsuit that seeks to recover from the tobacco companies the billions of dollars that American taxpayers spend each year on smoke related illnesses,

The politics of tobacco have changed, and changed dramatically for the worse for our tobacco farmers," ()

We don't have a lot of funds for the tobacco program. I think the feeling around here is that it would certainly be nice (to have more funding), but we understand that we are one of a number of agencies vying for the money.

The only reason it would be terrible to own tobacco is if you think the industry is going to go bankrupt. People are nuts if they don't want to buy stocks that are trading at 60 cents on the dollar.

There is more bad news to come in May. Gasoline will be up sharply, and tobacco will be up.

The real tragedy is that overweight and obesity, and their related chronic diseases, are largely preventable, ... Approximately 80% of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.

We would not be surprised if this battle leads to some form of another settlement which could result in an even more ironclad partnership between the states and tobacco manufacturers.

We knew that Philip Morris had announced this policy ... and we wanted to assess how effective that policy is likely to be, ... What we found is although it sounds like a good policy, it is unlikely to reduce kids' exposure to tobacco advertising.

We ask you to speak for all those silent, anonymous victims of tobacco grieved by their loved ones but unknown to a callous and deceitful industry,

The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi has succeeded precisely because in this state, politicians kept their promise about why they brought the tobacco lawsuit.

Tobacco use is the single most important preventable cause of death and disability in the United States. On some level, this foundation is the World Series of public health,

Tobacco use is the single leading cause of preventable death. The vast majority of all adult tobacco users became addicted as teens. If we don?t work to prevent teens from using tobacco, we risk losing thousands of lives and spending more and more money treating tobacco-related illnesses.

Tobacco use after cancer diagnosis has now become the elephant in the room, a huge issue in oncology that many in the field are ignoring.

Tobacco smoke is much more harmful than previously thought. The effects of second-hand smoke are as bad as that of primary smoke.

Tobacco is the best performing industry in every single bear market,

Tobacco is a huge money maker for retailers.

Tobacco has to be addressed and fought now because the children and young people of Asia are becoming influenced.

Tobacco companies wouldn't spend $4.2 million per day marketing in the U.S. if advertisements didn't change the way people viewed their product.

Tobacco-cessation programs are critical for the 45 million Americans who still smoke. Research shows 70 percent of smokers want to quit, but many lack the tools and resources needed to quit successfully. Help from friends, family and employers is critical to their success. Tobacco remains the number one cause of preventable death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 Americans each year. Initiatives such as the Gold Standard can provide smokers with the support they need to quit and stay quit.

The governor believes the rule will be helpful in the state's ongoing efforts to improve the enforcement of state tobacco laws.

While the Polaris vehicle could be useful in search and rescue missions, we are mindful of the fact that some might misinterpret acceptance of the vehicle as a tacit endorsement of smokeless tobacco products. That was never our intent. However, we concluded that it was best to remove all questions by withdrawing the request.

You can make a lot of money by doing tobacco tax evasion.

We wanted to save this next generation from the horrible addiction to tobacco and we put a program into place to do exactly that, ... Now we're making huge cuts to that. It's not a good message at all.