Credit Quote by Jesse Torrey

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

— Philip Freneau

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to…

— Woodrow Wilson

Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything…

— Harriet Martineau

Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

— Cornelis Bontekoe

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

— John Harvey Kellogg

“My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco chewers…

— Henry David Thoreau

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it…

— Bertrand Russell

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop…

— Larry Hagman

“Tobacco put food on our tables, steeples on our churches, stains on our fingers, spots on our lungs, and contradictions in our hearts.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Mrak was pulling a rhetorical switcheroo because it wasn’t environmentalists who argued everything was harmful; it was the tobacco industry. The industry insisted that…

— Naomi Oreskes