Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Coal fired power plants emit particulates which cause respitory problems.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.

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

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.

While some people exaggerate it, there is no doubt about it that second hand smoke kills

Experimental evidence [shows strongly] that the chemical purity of the air is of no importance [to health.]

L.a. 's air pollution has turned an environmental issue into everybody's issue.

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

Glyphosate is only one of more than 80,000 registered commercially produced chemicals in the U.S. Some of these compounds, such as PFOA and the one I made my name investigating, hexavalent chromium, have also been convincingly linked to health crises - testicular cancer in the case of PFOA and lung cancer in the case of chromium-6.

Delhi becomes a gas chamber every year with the advent of winters, mainly due to stubble burning.

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.

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

About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

No one can use tobacco without more or less injury...

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