Battle Quote by Joe Eszterhas

Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those…

— Chris Hayes

Hopefully celebrities will resist the allure of advertising e-cigarettes in magazines, and also in movies, knowing that their endorsement have a powerful effect on…

— Margaret Cuomo

It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's…

— Chris Matthews

I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know,…

— Joe Eszterhas

I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as…

— Joe Eszterhas

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

— Joe Eszterhas

Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture.…

— Richard Chamberlain

I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.

— Michael Douglas

“given all the other changes he’s gone through, why the hell shouldn’t he become a cigarette smoker while he’s at it? Maybe next week…

— Neal Stephenson

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences.…

— Ray Comfort

I think the one celebrity who's doing a lot of things and doesn't look good is Dr. Paul Nassif. What he's doing is not…

— Terry Dubrow

In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan…

— Joe Eszterhas