The Cigarette Quotes

“I would not mind a smoker killing himself privately,” wrote one peeved nonsmoker to the Philadelphia Bulletin in 1978. “I greatly object to his infecting my air.”
― Sarah Milov, The Cigarette: A Political History

“The intensive use of pesticides was affecting the vaunted quality of American flue-cured tobacco—or at least that’s what cigarette manufacturers said as they increased their purchases of cheaper leaf cultivated in other parts of the world.”
― Sarah Milov, The Cigarette: A Political History