Smoking Harm Quotes

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

I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.

Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.

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

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

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

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

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

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.

That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

Why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It’s not like they are making you better… they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

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

The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

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

I'm not saying drinking is all that great but you know it's got benefits; you can't smoke somebody pretty.

We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.