George Dennison Prentice Quotes
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
Prentice, George Dennison. Prenticeana; or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs. Derby & Jackson, 1860.
The deaths and health problems caused by smoking exist the world over. In Islam the religion is overriding into all facets of society and life. Whereas this lack of separation of church and state presents many difficulties, this quotation demonstrates one positive aspect if the ability of Islam to improve the quality of life. Smoking cessation and avoidance becomes a religious obligation—not just a sensible thing to do to preserve health.
This statement might have been expecrted in 1970 by a conservative politiican, but was astounding in 2000 when he wrote it, The quote was not well known in the 2016 Presidential Campaign when he and Donald Trump were elected. At the time of this statement Pence, running for his 2nd term as a Congressman from Indiana. He recieved very substantial campaign contributions from the tobacco industry and their affilated PACS--at least $13,000 which was then a substantial sum for a Congressional election. This statement caused serious analysits and students of politics to choose between some very unpalitable conclusions about Pence: They were: 1) He was so ignorant and naive that he did not know that Cigarette Smoking was close to the major cause of premature death in the United States, 2) He knew about it but was willing to support and abet the killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans in order to get some additional campaign moncy. 3) He was a sociopath who did not concern himelf with the liefe/death consequences of his actions. 3) most people eliminate as his statements have always shown just the opposite throughout his career. He has always been deeply concerned about morality and is a ddeply religious man. Most of his strong suporters either overlook the incident or are unaware that it happened. Others speculate between 1) and 2), Pence himself does not dicuss it and has not yet shared his thinking or motivation at the time. Some see Pences statement as an example of how successful the Tobacco Industry's Deliberate Campain of deception was, that they were able to get a well-meaning member of Congress to spread their lies. See Quotation 644133.
George Dennison Prentice was a newspaper editor, writer and poet who built the Louisville Journal into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Ohio River Valley, in part by the virulence and satire in its editorials, which some blamed for a bloody election day riot in 1855. A slaveholder, Prentice initially supported Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 U.S. Presidential election, and after the American Civil War began urged Kentucky to remain neutral. Both of his sons joined the Confederate States Army, one dying in 1862, and Prentice's editorials lampooned Kentucky's military governor, Union General Stephen G. Burbridge. Prentice later opposed Congressional Reconstruction. He wrote a biography of Henry Clay published in 1831, an 1836 poem published in the McGuffey Readers, and a collection of his humorous essays was published in 1859 and revised after his death.
