Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?