William E. Vaughan Quotes

Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

WHO has transformed its war against smoking to a war against smokers.

People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

If anti-smoking laws caused every smoker to smoke just one less cigarette a day, our company would stand to lose $92 million in sales annually. I assure you we don't intend to let that happen without a fight.

I don't smoke, but people say that you get secondhand smoke. But this is a country that was founded mainly on the tobacco industry - tobacco and coffee. It's so surprising that they are now essentially making cigarettes illegal, when that is where the whole country came from.

Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

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

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.

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.