Noam Chomsky Quotes About Tobacco

• One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Stories, Answers

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

• Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Kentucky, Numbers

• If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Alcohol, Principles

  Dialogue with trade unionists, February 2, 1999.

• Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in Kentucky? They are producing a lethal substance far more dangerous than cocaine. More Colombians die from tobacco-related illnesses than Americans die from cocaine. Of course, Colombia has no right to do that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kentucky, Political, Drug

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.738, AK Press

• The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Drug, Tolls, Worst

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

• What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.

  Noam Chomsky

  Dying, North Carolina, Doe

  Source: www.madre.org

• It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.

  Noam Chomsky

  Drug, Doubt, Tobacco

  Source: www.madre.org

• One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Answers, Might

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

• If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

  Noam Chomsky

  Alcohol, Substance, Want

• There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in the 18th century was a soft drug producer: sugar, rum, tobacco, chocolate. And in order to do it, they had to enslave Africans.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, White, Chocolate

  Noam Chomsky's Talk at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

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