“With the buyout, it's now possible to grow tobacco anywhere and whatever kind you want to grow. When the companies found out they could not get the volume of burley they needed from states like Kentucky, they went elsewhere. They also are looking at Mississippi and Illinois and some other states.”
Blake Brown
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
Albert Einstein
“The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can possible make it.”
Richie Ashburn
“We're going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is going to know how the tobacco industry manipulated kids, manipulated nicotine and manipulated public policy. Congress and the Department of Justice are going to know the pervasiveness of the fraud,”
Hubert Humphrey
“We all know what's going on. The tobacco industry is interested in some kind of watered down bill. They're more interested in the political lives of those senators rather than the lives of children that are really at risk,”
Ted Kennedy
“I tried all different kinds of tobacco to see which would be the least crippling and I ended up with pipe tobacco, ... I found that that burned less harshly. It also smelled better.”
David Strathairn
“I think it kind of puts a pebble in the shoe for the tobacco industry, ... I think they have to realize they can't fiddle around with this one. They have got to get going.”
Frank Lautenberg
