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 dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

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

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