Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.