I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

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

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.