«No tabacco day»

In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker.

Author Unknown

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

For more information on lung cancer, keep smoking.

The Lung Association of British Colombia

Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.

Shiv Khera

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.

Edith Zittler

Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

Author Unknown

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

George D. Prentice

We’ve known for some time that smokers are under oxidative stress, because the smoke itself is an oxidant that creates free radicals and cell mutations. The immune response of the body also tends to cause inflammation, and this inflammation is one reason that smoking relates not only to lung cancer but other serious health problems such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.

Maret Traber

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn’t part of normal life: people don’t encounter it normally, they don’t see it in their big supermarkets, they don’t see people smoking in public places, they don’t see tobacco vending machines.

Andrew Lansley

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

Neil Cavuto

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

David Byrne

Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body’s immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.

Michael Greger