Loni Anderson Quotes

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

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.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

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

Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.

I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe.

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.

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.

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

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

I found on my desk today was a report of the New Mexico malaria control project, which is under direction of the State Board of Public Health, and carried out in cooperation with the WPA and the United States Public Health Service…. The project, it seems to me, is not only meeting with great success from the point of view of controlling the disease, but is doing a great deal to give employment as a by-product in reclaiming land, improving highways, conserving water, not to speak of the educational value it gives to the people employed on it.

Coal fired power plants emit particulates which cause respitory problems.

I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'

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

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.

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

As Miss World 2017, and even later in life, I'd like to take health and hygiene to everybody.

Health is both the foundation of my academic and professional careers and a personal passion. I know first-hand the important role health security plays in protecting lives and preventing the spread of disease.

I worked at Columbia University's School of Public Health.