When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

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

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

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

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

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