Smoking-Related Illnesses Quotes

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.

Thousands and tens of thousands die of diseases of the lungs generally brought on by tobacco smoking.... How is it possible to be otherwise? Tobacco is a poison

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

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

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

Why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It’s not like they are making you better… they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

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.

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

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

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.

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.