Tobacco Quotes - Page 12

• But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stupid, Oil, Uranium Mining

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• It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Coffee, Book, Light

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• We have literature indicating that overwhelmingly, health is influenced by a very short list of modifiable behaviors topped by three: tobacco use, physical activity and dietary pattern. You could modify those three things; you can change people's fate. I wanted to change those. Smoking cessation, important but relatively simple - a lot of people are working on that. Physical activity: important to me, important to health but also relatively simple. I like nutrition. It's complicated; you really need to learn a lot of stuff to be an expert there.

  David Katz

  Fate, Simple, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I thought you liberals cared about people, but here you're perfectly content to get them addicted to tobacco and make them pay taxes through the nose and continue to pay taxes through the nose and raise their taxes. And then you try to make 'em think you care about 'em by running PSAs telling them how they shouldn't smoke and how they should quit. You're exactly right. If they really cared, they would ban the product, but they can't, because the revenue from tobacco taxes - I'm not kidding you - funds children's health care programs, and a number of other things as well.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.

  King O'Malley

  Smoking, Looks, Pale

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• When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Government, Smoking, Needs

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2017

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• Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

  John Kehoe

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Hands

  John Kehoe (2005). “Mind Power Into the 21st Century*”, p.42, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

  Carl Jung

  Running, Spiritual, Men

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• I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Today, Speak

  "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Gentleman, Opiates, Rich

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• If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Giving, Alcohol, Shooting

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

  Larry Hagman

  Years, Age, Kicks

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• Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

  Don Winslow

  Drunk, Population, Substance

  "A Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lakes, Cities, Tea

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.407, Routledge

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• The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Vegetables, Roots, Agents

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• God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Children, Humorous

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• Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Men, Chewing

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• People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.

  Frank Dobson

  Children, Clever, Eye

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• Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?

  Paul Cezanne

  School, Juice, Tradition

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• The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

  Walt Whitman

  Eye, Printing, Cases

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.16, NYU Press

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• A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Coffee, Food, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”

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• I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

  David Strathairn

  Trying, Would Be, Harsh

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• In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Swapping, Lines, Legislation

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations" by Library of Congress, 1989.

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• What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Hurt, Silly, Two

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.

  Max Beckmann

  War, Ocean, Space

  "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

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