Loni Anderson Quotes

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

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 excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

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.

I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

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

Since smoking might injure your health, let’s be careful not to smoke too much.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

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

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

A lot of people have a cough that doesn't go away, or go up and down stairs and get shortness of breath, and they don't think about COPD. They could have a problem, though, and catching it in the beginning stages is crucial.

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

Tolerance of public smoking promotes the addiction.

… Smoking sets a bad example.

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

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.

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have gotten lung cancer were no-time smokers.

I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.

I can't put my family at risk. My son already has a respiratory problem. He has asthma.

I use an inhaler myself and have done since I was 15.

Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.