If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

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.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.