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Loni Anderson
American
Actress
About the author
You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Smoking
My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Sister
We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Body
They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Right
#Road
There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Being
There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Life
#Quality
#Cure
Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Smoking
My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#First
#Fire
#Mom
#Smoking
My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Woman
#Fashion
#Memory
#Wine
#Mom
You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Women
#Weight
#Vanity
Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#People
#Will
#Nothing
Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#First
The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Life
#Theater
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.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Now
#Daughter
#School
#Son
#Sister
Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Smoking
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Movies
#Romantic
It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#People
#Will
Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Smoking
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Rejection
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Saying
#Daughter
#Mother
#Hair
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Today
#Government
I am the odd man out in the family.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Family
#Man
My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Parents
#Dad
#Smoking
I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Cancer
#Disease
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Daughter
#College
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Talk
#Kids
#School
#Students
#Reality
#Profession
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Time
#Theater
Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Family
#Spelling
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Play
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Education
#Disease
#Health
#Awareness
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
Loni Anderson,
American
Actress
#Education
#University