Adults Quote by Charles Orville Whitley

“The problems raised by alcohol and tobacco cannot, it goes without saying, be solved by prohibition. The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is…

— Aldous Huxley

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

— Mahesh Bhatt

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

— Auguste Piccard

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

— Lawrence Durrell

If you have to ban something, ban products which are actually harmful for us, like cigarettes. Smoking also affects the health of people standing…

— Pooja Bedi

If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing…

— Milton Friedman

Social engineering is the clever manipulation and control of ideas in a sequenced pattern that doesn't change.

— Jeremy Limn

“Among the world’s evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation—smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kids’ school.”

— Jess Walter

The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government…

— Kurt Schmoke

“We don’t want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.”

— Jon Ronson

“It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and…

— Ludwig Von Mises

They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you…

— Fran Lebowitz