Thomas R. Frieden Quotes

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.

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

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

Does your desire to smoke anywhere, at any time, trump the right of others to breathe clean air … ? … The need to breathe clean air is more important than the license to pollute it.

If you smoke, you're killing yourself and the children around you.

Figuring that smoking kills about a third of all those who smoke, this tax could prevent the premature death of at least 2 million Americans alive today.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

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

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

It bothers me when people smoke three packs of cigarettes a day for thirty years and then stick me with their health bill.

Now that I'm gone, I tell you: Don't smoke! Whatever you do, just don't smoke!

It [cigarette smoking] has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes Cigarettes.

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.

I have never understood the reason and logic of smoking.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

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.

We smoked a lot of cloves.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.