Julian Castro Quotes

Does your desire to smoke anywhere, at any time, trump the right of others to breathe clean air … ? … The need to breathe clean air is more important than the license to pollute it.

Protecting children from smoking in cars is the right thing to do.

Banning smoking in vehicles with children in them will help protect them from the misery of smoking-related diseases, from cancer to asthma and emphysema.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Tolerance of public smoking promotes the addiction.

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

As someone who lives with adult-onset asthma, I know how bad air quality in the capital has become. I want to be the greenest mayor London has ever had - it is not acceptable that 10,000 people die in London every year because our air is so filthy.

Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

I'm against cigarettes, always.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

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

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.

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.

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

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

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

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

The cigarette companies knew that cigarettes caused cancer and they lied about it.