LONI ANDERSON

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

I am the odd man out in the family.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.