Laura Bush Quotes

I do not feel called upon to try to reform any person over 25 years of age because by that time the habit has been formed. Then it is only a question of the strength of will or mind of the smoker which will enable him to stop. He knows the injurious effects and controls his own destiny.

I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.

I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

We must protect the coming generation by teaching the present one the effects of the habits of smoking on the unborn.

Tolerance of public smoking promotes the addiction.

My mother, Marnie Fahr Steyer, was a lifelong smoker - up to three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. I like to think that, if Mom were still with us today, she'd be happy with the strides we've made to protect our children from the ongoing health crisis of tobacco addiction.

I've treated so many adults who are desperate - desperate - to get off tobacco. They all started as kids. I see the industry getting another generation of our kids addicted.

I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

We smoked a lot of cloves.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.