Mikhail Varshavski Quotes

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

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.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

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

Don't smoke - nicotine and tobacco can really hurt your skin.

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.

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.

Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

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

If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.

We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.

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.

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

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.