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There's no smoke and mirrors here.

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

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

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

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