The tobacco lobby quickly found ways to counter the findings. ibid.
Cigarettes were also seen as essential fashion accessories. ibid.
More than half the British population smoked. ibid.
The smoker today is a diminished, anguished, exhausted creature. ibid.
Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, ‘Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.’ Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there’s a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it’s scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette? Tony Parsons
Cigarette smoking is the most significant public health problem facing our people. Bill Clinton
There is no functional difference between an organised crime family that sells cocaine or heroin that kills people – they’re racketeers – and a cigarette industry that sells a product which use as directed kills. Professor Robert Blakey
What a load of prigs ... They can’t stand seeing someone have pleasure with a cigarette. David Hockney
I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic brand loyalty. Warren Buffett, Where Should I Invest My Savings?
There is one romance that has outlived all others. Forget Romeo and Juliet. Our passion for the cigarette is the greatest love affair the planet has ever seen. More popular than sex. More addictive than religion. And more deadly than warfare. Horizon: We Love Cigarettes, BBC 2000
Today [Allen] Carr is confident of his technique he is attempting to convince every smoker watching to quit by debunking four great smoking myths: smokers need willpower to quit; smokers choose to smoke; nicotine gum and patches work; giving up is hard. ibid.
It’s long been known that nicotine affects a sensitive system in the brain. ibid.
The last drag lingers like a kiss. ibid.
It all began back in the 1950s when a strange new disease began sweeping the nation: lung cancer. ibid.
A Congressional Hearing investigating tobacco changed everything. ibid.
The drug Zyban doubles your chances of quitting. ibid.
‘I think they have a great potential to save millions of lives in the next twenty-thirty years.’ Horizon, E-Cigarettes, Miracles or Menace? expert, BBC 2016
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‘We really don’t know what the long-term effects will be.’ ibid. expert
The big tobacco companies are now major players in the business of making e-cigarettes. ibid.
Cigarette Cards: a democratic pantheon ... Movie stars, cricketers, footballers were the new kind of famous ... As addicted to fame as they were nicotine. Face of Britain by Simon Schama III, BBC 2015
The Balkans – war-ravaged, impoverished and traumatised – were about to be transformed into a smuggling and criminal machine that had few, if any, parallels in history. While the world wrung its hands and fretted over the terrible nationalist urges of the Yugoslav peoples and their leaderships, the Balkan mafias started putting aside their ethnic differences to engage in a breathtaking criminal collaboration. Misha Glenny, McMafia
Anyone with any serious political ambitions had no choice but to get mobbed up. ibid.
Throughout most of the 1990s Djukanovic’s country, Montenegro, with a population of just 600,000 (regarded by the rest of the Balkans as a legendary indolent people), was the focal point of a multi-billion-dollar criminal industry that generated income from America through the Middle East, Central Asia, the Maghreb, the Balkans and Western Europe. ibid.
Week after week, several tons of illegal cigarette shipments would land at the country’s two main airports. ibid.
The Balkan cigarette trade was linked to the money-laundering of Colombian drugs money. ibid.
Washington was now telling him that if he wanted closer relations with NATO and the EU, it was time to get out of the cigarette business. ibid.
The region in southern Fujian is called Da Shan (Big Mountain) and it is home to some of the biggest and more lucrative counterfeit factories in the world. These facilities, built deep into the mountain, produce millions of cigarettes a day. ibid.
Tung’s cigarette-smuggling enterprise alone ships between 20 and 50 40-foot container loads of international brand-name cigarettes each month ... Tung owns or controls three container ships, as many as seven ocean-going tankers, and an unknown number of other vehicles. ibid.
Thirteen years I kept that cigarette. I had this little case made for it. Thirteen years. And then one Thursday afternoon … The War of the Roses 1989 starring Michael Douglas & Kathleen Turner & Danny DeVito & Marianne Sagebrecht & Sean Astin & Peter Donat & Heather Fairfield & G G Spradlin et al, director Danny DeVito
A multi-billion-dollar battle to build a safer cigarette … Can they people who hooked us be trusted to help us? The Fifth Estate, E-Cigarettes: Welcome Back, Big Tobacco, CBC 2016
A mass movement aimed at breaking free from mass addiction. ibid.
In Canada alone the E-Cig business is worth about $235 million. ibid.
Is this the new Marlboro Country? … Big Tobacco has big plans to grow its E-Cig business. ibid.
5 million smokers worldwide die each year … 100 million smokers died in the twentieth century. The Tobacco Conspiracy: The Backroom Deals of a Deadly Industry, 2016
‘It is an epidemic that has been built on unparalleled corporate deceit … criminal negligence.’ ibid. Garfield Mahood, non-smokers rights association Canada
‘Why is cigarette smoking so popular and acceptable despite all the information we have?’ ibid. mother, ex-addict
94% of lung cancer occur in smokers. ibid.
‘The tobacco manufacturers have lied about the risks of their products, they have lied about targeting children.’ ibid. Mahood
Thus began the longest and most expensive public relations campaign in history. ibid.
‘A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers’ blanketed America. ibid.
The Big American trials of the 1990s when 46 states took joint action against the industry, suing for damages to public health. Executives of the seven largest cigarette companies were called to testify. ibid.
The industry agreed to pay $206 billion to avoid a verdict. It also promised to cease marketing to young people, but only in the US. ibid.
Tastes like shit and smells like a fart. We got ourselves a real winner here … Who the hell would sneak into a john to smoke one of these? Barbarians at the Gate: The Story of Ross Johnson starring Tom Aldredge & Graham Beckel & Joanna Cassidy & Matt Clark & Jeffrey DeMunn & Petre Dvorsky & James Garner & Mark Harelik & Joseph Kell & Jonathan Pryce et al, director Glenn Jordan, the safer cigarette, HBO 1993
How one of Britain’s biggest companies broke the law to sell cigarettes. We reveal how British American Tobacco paid bribes to sabotage its rivals. And secured access to police files and security cameras. And we expose the corrupt deal to pay off a notorious dictator. Panorama: Dirty Secrets of the Cigarette Business, BBC 2021
In South Africa’s rural heartland one company dominates tobacco production. 90% of the crop is bought by British American Tobacco ... The company has been operating here for more than 100 years. ibid.
It claims to be an ethical company. But this isn’t the first time we’ve investigated BAT. Six years ago we exposed how it used bribery to undermine Anti-Smoking legislation in South Africa. ibid.
Somebody bought baby David two hundred Bensons. The Royle Family at Christmas, Barbara
As well as cigarettes, drugs that you can buy over the counter became an obsession in Damien’s work. Noel Fielding, Damien Hirst: First Look, 2012
In the 1870s more than 70% of Americans over 12 years old used tobacco in some form. The Booze, Bets & Sex that Built the World I, History 2022
Duke’s machine-rolled cigarettes were a sensation. Within a single year his company controlled nearly 90% of the American cigarette market. ibid.