Harmful Habits Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

Your Committee desires to place on record its firm conviction that any method of treatment for narcotic drug addiction, whether private, institutional, official, or governmental, which permits the addicted person to dose himself with the habit-forming narcotic drugs placed in his hands for self-administration, is an unsatisfactory treatment of addiction, begets deception, extends the abuse of habit-forming narcotic drugs, and causes an increase in crime.

Liquor perverts the end of society, and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite Feelings, which are the Cordials of Life, and the noblest Privileges of Humanity.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

We cannot conceive of a society that is worth building ... on the basis of a drug culture.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

I have not yet got one good reason why people smoke in life!

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

When I was younger, I used to put honey and Coca-Cola and all that stuff on my body and just fry in the sun. But I think we all know how bad that is for you.