But 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, American-born British novelist,
children's book writer, and illustrator
It is an out-of-the-box situation demanding an out-of-the-box solution.
--DR. JAIME GALVEZ
TAN, executive director, National Institutes of
Health, on the growing number of doctors who become nurses
It seems that there is no hope for the country--[the] graft-and-corruption situation is really at its worst! And life is really difficult. There's a part of me wanting to stay and practice here but I can see that there is no hope for me and my family.
--An obstetrician-gynecologist turned nurse, one of the respondents
to the 2004 National Nursing Medics survey led by DR. JAIME GALVEZ TAN
Which law does not have a loophole? Tell me.
--DR. JESSICA DE LEON of the Department of Health's National Center for
Health Promotion, on Republic Act 9211, or the Tobacco Regulation Act (TRA) of 2003
There could be quality of life after COPD.
--DR. RODOLFO PAGCATIPUNAN,
pulmonologist, Manila Sanitarium and Hospital
Perhaps yes. Maybe I would be healthier. My life would last longer. Well, I enjoyed smoking.
--MIGUEL GOITIA,
swimming-pool builder, when asked
if he regretted not quitting smoking earlier
I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
--HENRY STRAUSS (1892-1974), British politician
Globalization of marketing and trade in tobacco products means that all countries need to take strong action individually and together if their populations are to become free of the burden of tobacco related disease and death.
--The World Health Organization, in the World Cancer Report (2003)
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
--JAMES I (1566-1625), English king in whose honor the King
James Bible was named, in A Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604)
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