(97 quotes found)
“Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less”
Dan Quayle
“Never slap a man who chews tobacco.”
Willard Scott
“I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.”
Hinton Helper
“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
“If tobacco suddenly were unavailable and was as expensive as heroin and cocaine, I think that you would find that the behavior of some tobacco addicts would be very much like the behavior of some addicts of heroin and cocaine,”
Dr. C. Everett Koop
“The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can possible make it.”
Richie Ashburn
“Tobacco use kills 1200 Americans every day and 450,000 every year. More people die from tobacco-related diseases than from AIDS, alcohol use, drugs, fires, car accidents, murders and suicides combined. It is the nation's leading preventable cause of death.”
Cheryl Healton
“For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.”
Charles Lamb
“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
“Even at these weaker levels we still consider tobacco company paper unacceptably risky.”
Carol Levenson
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