Smoking Harm Quotes

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.

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

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

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

Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.

Now that I'm gone, I tell you: Don't smoke! Whatever you do, just don't smoke!

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

Cigarettes are bad, but taxes and big government are worse.

That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

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

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

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

British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

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.

If you smoke, you're killing yourself and the children around you.

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

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.

Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.