David Kessler Quotes (13 Quotes)

squarely in the lap of Congress.

Three thousand children start to smoke every day. One thousand of them will die because of it, ... In the end, it's how we view this product. Teens smoke because they are rebelling they don't want to be manipulated. But what's happening

I have very serious concerns that the settlement as it's written could effectively make it impossible for the FDA to regulate tobacco,

If it's good enough for McDonald's, it should be good enough for the Department of Agriculture.

The question was whether the government could (regulate advertising) under the provisions of the act,

What you need to do today is to focus on the science.

We think the case is a strong one, ... What is at stake is the future health of so many of our children.

We were able to get out of our lease early in Dublin, and we can't wait to get here.

It had been a rough previous 10 years. It was a deregulatory period, ... I did come in at a low point.

How many people say, 'I'm going to smoke this one and 780,000 more'

Many times in our society, children are the forgotten grievers because they don't grieve the way we do. They don't openly talk about how they are feeling because they don't have the vocabulary. How on earth would kids know how to describe these feelings

Is it going to be considered as an exception within the framework of the WTO, or are people at it going to say, 'Oh, this has been signed at UNESCO, but it does not touch our work.' This question will be at the heart of the battles to come,

Immunity is a very high price for the country to pay because you are in essence denying people their rights.