Bernard de Mandeville Quotes

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

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.

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

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

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked.

There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.

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.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things.

'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.'

The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

I smoke so much. Three packs a day... I went to the bathroom, a camel came out of my ass.

I only smoke maybe a nug a day.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.