Jacob Sullum Quotes

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

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

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

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

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

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.

Tolerance of public smoking promotes the addiction.

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

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

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

There is no proof that cigarettet smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer.

Smoking is gross.

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.

Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

I don't smoke pot or cigarettes, so inhaling smoke as a non-smoker - it doesn't matter what it is, it's going to make you lightheaded.

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

I don't know how long I'm going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

Competing companies evolve toward efficiency as the more efficient ones profit and expand while those who fall behind fail. And companies being efficient and profiting under the Health Impact Fund, this is exactly what we want, because the company's profit is directly driven by the health impact its registered products achieve.

With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed.

When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.