Health Threat Quotes

The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.

We must help parents protect their children from the gravest health threat that they face -- an epidemic of teen smoking, spread by multimillion dollar marketing campaigns. I challenge Congress -- let's pass bipartisan, comprehensive legislation that will improve public health, protect our tobacco farmers and change the way tobacco companies do business forever. Let's do what it takes to bring teen smoking down. Let's raise the price of cigarettes by up to $1.50 a pack over the next 10 years with penalties on the tobacco industry if it keeps marketing to our children.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.

What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike.

As megacities like Mexico City and Lagos become increasingly common, we could see a rise of the urban epidemic and a new era of infectious disease threatening global health security.

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.

One of the consequences of if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, is that all of us now are at risk of being a preexisting - of having a preexisting condition waiting to happen. Life, increasingly, is a preexisting condition waiting to happen, now that we have more and more of this data available.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I don't know if hep C is called 'the quiet killer,' but it easily could be, so unnoticeably does it nestle into your body before crankin' up the screws and letting you race to figure out what's going on.

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health.

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.