#tobacco

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#around #bedroom #before #come #command

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better. ↗

— David Strathairn

#better #burned #checked #easiest #ended

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#fertilizer #i #i wish #like #making

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. ↗

— John Grisham

#around #compelling #death #death penalty #first

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life. ↗

— Jack Herer

#alcohol #eight #life #substitute #tobacco

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions. ↗

— Jack Herer

#bodies #count #dead #legal #millions

It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen. ↗

— John Higgins

#because #came #come #even #exposure

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#congress #farmers #grow #order #production

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. ↗

— David Byrne

#disease #face #glamour #horror #industry