Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
1998 State of the Union Address (January 27, 1998)
1990s
“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.”
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco (1886)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904Related quotes
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Would do anything but die.”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
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“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Interview on the Today Show NBC (1993).
“The smoke from burning marijuana contains many more cancer-causing substances than tobacco.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Taped statement (August 1979); Reagan is on record as opposing legalization of Marijuana: "I also want to applaud you for helping the people of Oregon fight a misguided minority that would legalize marijuana. That would be the worst possible message to send to our young people." Speech http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/073086a.htm (30 July 1986); Reagan's son Michael has disputed the fervor of his opposition: "Of course Dad was for legalization. … He wasn't crazy, he didn't want his kids in jail!"<br> "Reagan's Marijuana Comments Cause Stir" (11 May 2002) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/11/12343.shtml <br class="br">1970s <br class="br">Context: The smoke from burning marijuana contains many more cancer-causing substances than tobacco. And if that isn’t enough it leads to bronchitis and emphysema. If adults want to take such chances that is their business. But surely the communications media … should let four million youngsters know what they are risking.
Robert N. Proctor (1954) American historian
Robert N. Proctor, " The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2352989/pdf/bmj00571-0040.pdf." BMJ: British Medical Journal 313.7070 (1996): 1450.
Noam Chomsky book Deterring Democracy
Deterring Democracy, 1992 https://web.archive.org/web/20000603124454/http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/dd/dd-c04-s05.html. <br class="br">Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
“This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco!”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
Letter to Thomas Manning (December 26, 1815)
“All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Remark attributed to Marlowe from the testimony of Richard Baines, a government informer, in 1593.
Disputed
“In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.”
Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926) American politician
Referring to a practice during the Civil War, quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement; reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
