Tobacco, Cancer and Death

My neighbor stopped smoking yesterday. He is survived by a wife and child. Harry Bauer

The top executives of the seven largest American tobacco companies testified in Congress today that they did not believe that cigarettes were addictive, but that they would rather their own children did not smoke. Philip J. Hilts

When I don't smoke, I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. Russell Hoban

The single most important preventable cause of death, responsible for one out of every six deaths in the U.S. C. Everett Koop

Stinking'st of the stinking kind, filth of the mouth and fog of the mind. Charles Lamb

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Virgil

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming."
Virgil 70-19 BC

You have been given a certain amount of time to walk the earth. How much? You don't know. But you do know that one day you will pass from this world.

You must live now.
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Word origins at Dogs of Words
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