I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Smoking kills half of all lifetime smokers.

A cigarette is the only consumer product, which when used as directed, kills its consumer.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control, makes us the first generation in history, that to a large extent, determines its own destiny.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Smoking is just like farting with the poisonous elements.

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like "popular."

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it, is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

..with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

You know, it's cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time!

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

I'm always being realistic.

The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.