Joe Eszterhas Quotes

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

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

I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

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.

We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.

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

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

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job.

By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.

When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.

Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke... tumors.

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.

I hear all of these liberals so concerned with people's health and so critical of tobacco cause it kills, it's deadly, and secondhand and third, and they've created a bunch of insane people out there. I'm telling you, liberalism has created literally deranged people afraid of everything. I mean it makes no sense to be afraid of secondhand smoke a hundred yards away from it. They have created this. They have created this inordinate fear of ordinary, everyday life.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

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.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.

Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.