By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

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.

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

I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

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

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.