C. Everett Koop Quotes

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body and causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, respiratory illness, and many other health problems.

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

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.

Thousands and tens of thousands die of diseases of the lungs generally brought on by tobacco smoking.... How is it possible to be otherwise? Tobacco is a poison

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

Nowadays smoking has spread to every section of our society, even to young boys in the markets and in their homes. No one can deny the harmful effects that it has on one's body, financial condition, society and religion.

No one can use tobacco without more or less injury...

While some people exaggerate it, there is no doubt about it that second hand smoke kills

Cigarettes are bad, but taxes and big government are worse.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Tobacco is the only consumer product on the market, which if used exactly as intended, causes death.

Getting cigarettes out of the hands of kids before they get hooked, is family values.

My mother, Marnie Fahr Steyer, was a lifelong smoker - up to three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. I like to think that, if Mom were still with us today, she'd be happy with the strides we've made to protect our children from the ongoing health crisis of tobacco addiction.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

We smoked a lot of cloves.

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

WHO has transformed its war against smoking to a war against smokers.