Jerry Brown Quotes

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

While some people exaggerate it, there is no doubt about it that second hand smoke kills

Every time somebody ends up in a hospital because of a condition that is, we believe, caused by behaviors that they have been willing to pursue, you and I help pay for their care. So we need to try to put some focus on individual responsibility.

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.

I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meager incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

Tobacco is the only consumer product on the market, which if used exactly as intended, causes death.

I’ve been hosting the Today Show for 22 years. When I started, marijuana was illegal, and you could smoke cigarettes anywhere you wanted.

I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance.

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

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

I put the heart attack down to 66 cigarettes a day.

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

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.

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

The average man with a need for an operation cannot afford a first class hospital …My medical pills run $400 to $500 a month and hell, I feel pretty good … Costs must be tempered..

The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

I do not feel called upon to try to reform any person over 25 years of age because by that time the habit has been formed. Then it is only a question of the strength of will or mind of the smoker which will enable him to stop. He knows the injurious effects and controls his own destiny.

The scientific facts are all in favor of the cigarette; it contains less nicotine than any other form of tobacco products; it is absolutely pure; the combustion of the paper is harmless in its effects on human physiology.

The biggest pressure towards bankruptcy is health expenses … an unexpected health problem is the biggest driver.