Quotes About Smoking And Cancer

#1. Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

Nicholas Stern

#2. Chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

James Hansen

#3. Smokers live faster.

Raheel Farooq

#4. Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

Joe Eszterhas

#5. LUNG CANCER is linked to cigarette smoking - but L&M still plug their cigarettes as "just what the doctor ordered.

Tony Bacon

#6. Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer!

L. Ron Hubbard

#7. The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

Scott Mandia

#8. You smoke?"
"Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?

Richard K. Morgan

#9. Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

Bill Hicks

#10. Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

Andrew L. Lewis Jr.

#11. Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.

Chris Hayes

#12. People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

Woody Allen

#14. 'Warning: Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth.' ... Found MY brand! Just don't get the ones that say 'lung cancer.'

Bill Hicks

#15. The worst part is when cells feel so threatened by their chemically marinated surroundings, that they decide to mutate as a defensive mechanism, and start to reproduce without taking their immediate surroundings into account. This mutation is called cancer.

Gudjon Bergmann

#16. The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn't rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

Kevin Drum

#17. Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.

Anthony Liccione

#18. I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me "smoking can cause fatal lung cancer".

Robert Clark

#19. The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.

Richard Lamm

#20. I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

Joe Eszterhas

#21. All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.

Joe Eszterhas

#22. It was found that children who grow up with smokers in their homes are three times more likely to develop lung cancer in their later years than those who come from non-smoking homes.

K.C. Craichy

#23. Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

Richard Peto

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

Tom Brokaw

#25. The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

Ellen Goodman

#26. You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

William, Saroyan

#27. Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

Marjane Satrapi

#28. She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

Gillian Flynn

#29. Today the link between animal products and many different diseases is as strongly supported in the scientific literature as the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

Joel Fuhrman

#30. I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

Allyson Schwartz

#31. After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

William J. Clinton

#32. When we think about lung cancer, the biggest environmental factor is without doubt smoking. Um, that would make a huge impact and has made a huge impact on the incidence of lung cancer. We have to keep pushing that and making it clear to everybody why smoking is so dangerous.

Laurie Glimcher

#33. I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

Patrick Swayze

#34. My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Ken Kercheval

#35. In China, lung cancer is already a leading cause of death attributable to smoking in men.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#36. Not smoking gains in the area of lung cancer, but it loses badly in the realm of dramatic gestures.

Robert B. Parker

#37. Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

Chris Hayes

#38. McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

Robert Downey Jr.

#39. I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

#40. Lung cancer incidence in men increased dramatically in the 1950s as a result of an increase in cigarette smoking during the early twentieth century. In women, a cohort that began to smoke in the 1950s, lung cancer incidence has yet to reach its peak.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#41. 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.

Ray Comfort

#42. Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

J.R. Ward

#43. My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

Bob Schieffer

#44. They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Mignon McLaughlin

#45. I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

Tony Windsor

#46. Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

Rick Rollens