Cigarette Crazy Reveals Why & How It Affects Him. He Kept Smoking......
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2009
- Back in 1988 I got the opportunity to make a primetime documentary for PBS on cigarette smoking - on tobacco addiction - on the right of Americans to smoke when others are present - secondhand smoke etc. PBS gave me a grant but required that in order for me to make a program they would accept in the prime time, I had to present both sides. Both sides said I? What do you mean?
The Surgeon General way back in 1964 had said that smoking cigarettes is an addiction that kills people. PBS said that I had to make the program "fair and balanced" and present both sides of the nicotine story. Amazingly, people on both sides (the other side being the tobacco industry) said okay to being in my film.
Viewers have asked me what happened to this guy, a lifelong seriously addicted tobacco smoker and very knowledgeable about the effect of tobacco on him and others who are addicted. Sadly, I did not keep up with him after I conducted this interview so I don't know. I am hopeful that the relative of his someday sees this and lets me/us know how long he lived and how he died.
If you or someone you know smokes cigarettes and might like to quit, search the word "tobacco" on my RUclips channel and you will find a variety of video clips that have helped thousands to quit smoking.
If this clip has meaning for you, I would appreciate your supporting my efforts by clicking the super thanks button to the right below the video screen. That support allows me to keep on doing what I am doing on RUclips.
Here's how they sold you cigarettes back then - ruclips.net/video/JSdy4bdpe-E/видео.html
I'll take a pack of them cowboy killers
Proof of all Historic Claims are Required.
How much did you pay George Bush to be the Cowboy at the beginning of the video or is that a friend deal...?
@@josephmedina6403 and make sure it's the the real cowboy killers too, Marlboro Reds. Not Marlboro Mediums (now called the Red Label to make things more confusing) and not the Marlboro Lights (now called the Gold Label). I don't want them diet cigarettes.
"I miss my lung, Bob!"
“Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it thousands of times”. - Mark Twain
vaping the best thing ever
@@MickDoolan no
@@MickDoolan vaping may be worse. We know that cigarettes kill you. Vaping is an unknown, but it's definitely not good for you
its easy for me. ive quit multiple times for years at a time with no real problems. i do enjoy the shit out of smoking though even after ive quit for 3 years i can start again cause its enjoyable
They don't know the cause of the need to dose nicotine, so they keep removing the RESULT of the problem (nicotene) instead of removing the CAUSE of the problem.
This man was 25 years old at the time of filming.
Tim Lewis haha. Nice. Is he still a character on the Simpsons? I haven’t seen a new episode in years.
It cut him off before he told us what to teach fourth graders.
This guy looks so much older, he graduated with my son in 2002
@@brianglade848 It's because he quit smoking. When you stop, you age really fast.
A B ... LOL!
My grandpa was a huge smoker back in the day. He was a 30s man, and a living chimney. But one day out of nowhere, he was about to light another cig but hesitated before crushing it and dropping it to never smoke again.
He lived to 83.
Gosh, I expected that "he was about to light a cig, but a stroke claimed him at 32" Your version is definitely better!
That's strange, my grandfather was the same, he smoked heavily for decades, then one day in his 50s, he was at work and lit a cigarette, thought it tasted horrible for some reason, stubbed it out, and never smoked again. Neither my grandma or anyone else in his family could believe it, but he lived to 82.
Sounds like tough men
Literally could quit whenever he wanted
Those guys could actually quit whenever they wanted, both my grandfathers were the same. Idk wtf they put in cigs now but its definitely different from back then@@thefrenchareharlequins2743
i didn‘t smoke for over 6 years then i startet elementary school
looks like you didn't quite finish lmao
HahHaAHAhaHahaHa this is funny humor
Did you drop out when you sparked your first ciggy
O,g lol 😂
Same here. I started in the 3rd grade. Smoked for 54 yrs.
April of 2018 I was diagnosed with emphysema (COPD). I did some tests to determine how much lung capacity I had and found out that I was at 27%. Simple things like showering, carrying in a bag of groceries, or walking the dog can leave me bent over gasping for breath. I smoked cigarettes for about 50 years and was aware of the health risks. I'm not making excuses or looking for sympathy, I have myself to blame. If you smoke please stop, it will save your life. If you don't smoke don't start, spare yourself the agony of struggling to breath.
Don't they give you that really nice purple syrup though?
@@bobbybabinjr.4388 you're an idiot.
@WeeStrom CO Guy Think more clearly about what you're conveying here. You want to put down what someone says because of how you judge their name? If you find the comment about "purple syrup" silly (which it seems to be, no argument), then just say that. But why ridicule a name, something we're given at birth? How seriously can a comment like this be taken?
Okay
👌
I almost died several times of a heart attack from smoking in my 50’s. As of this writing, I’m 13 years smoke free.
I love a good cigarette with my coffee in the morning. 🚬 ☕️
Your lungs have been healing and appreciating it for the last 13 years
Are you still alive?
@@barneyronnie of course.
@@kokolovitch56are your health good ?
My grandmother smoked non filter cigarettes. At age 60 she quit immediately after having her gallbladder out . She lived to 97 . RIP Nana 1902 - 2000.
I started smoking cigarettes since my teenage. Got addicted for over 23 years. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine,alcohol and cigarettes.And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Yes im sure getting hight af on a psychoactive drug healed you of your addiction lmao gtfoh
@@DebanckKim-rd6to divorce?
bot
The narrator is Peter Thomas/forensic files. He could read the phone book and make it interesting. R.I.P. Peter Thomas and phone books.
YO I KNEW I HEARD THAT VOCE SOMEWHERE HAHAHHAHAHAH FORENSIC FILES
He looks so cool smoking!
He lived in Naples at the end of the life and was a client at the wealth management firm I worked at. I never spoke with him but my colleague was assigned his account and it would give her chills when he's call her to say "I need to make a transfer into my checking account" in that distinctive voice of his.
@@jillwinterberg6570 Lol, that voice of his is pure gold. Iirc, they forensic files producers referred to his voice as "the franchise" because lets be honest that show wouldn't have been nearly as good without him.
I recognized, from Hardcastle's 19
He's trying to restore his deadeye
Stop comparing everything thing to games its pathetic and makes gamers look stupid my mom would say you play to many games
@@killergreek55 stop bitching... it makes you look pathetic!
it's actually gavin
@@timothywhite3734 it's the truth start acting like a man its pathetic
@@j_h_o have you seen him?
I’m going to start smoking at 77, I’m 40 now, can’t wait!!!
I may start 1 year b4 I die. 😂
I'm two years sober from nicotine. The hardest thing I ever did was stop. Keep in mind- the more times you try stop, the more likely you will eventually stop.
Congratulations. i can confirm this. I tried it 10 times cold turkey. This time was the easiest and it will be permanent.
you probably didn't inhale @@strangeballads
It's not that hard bro. You just don't have any real problems in your life.
i quit a 30 cigarette a day 20 year habit cold turkey on a whim.
@@BuffaloNickel9except you can’t walk in to a supermarket (in the U.K.) and buy opioids, but you can buy nicotine products!
I quit smoking and started eating live porcupines.
lmao
Same
Very "sharp" idea you have there.
How much has your health improved?
Fip Dibwibbler i’ve been thinking about switching to live porcupines myself
Many years ago I worked in a grocery store. People came in to buy cigarettes who were in their 70s, so I thought, humm, cigarettes must not be so bad after all. However later I found out those folks who I thought were in their 70s were actually in their 50s.
😀😀
You you only see/hear from the folks who are still alive
😂😂😂😂 i shouldn't be laughing
In Australia I see many people like you described. They are in their 40’s and 50’s but look 20 years older. They started smoking
In their teens. Their faces have wrinkles that look like cracks, and dry reddish looking skin. They also look thin in a lot of cases.
What can you do.
@@davidaustrian9455 Im Australian and yes your right, to many folks like that here. Drugs too age you really quickly. Meth is the worst. My father is 71, he did the smoking thing 50 years ago like everyone else but stopped after a few years. He barely has a wrinkle on his face and is in much better health inside and out than most people you see on the street. Smoking now goes hand in hand wth lower socio-economic status, so there are more factors than just smoking itself
Big props to the people who found out about the health risks and made it public, just as well as the people who educate us about it
Hahaha I dunno if you would reaffirm that sentiment if you knew who actually first issued public PSAs about the negative health impact of tobacco. It wasn't Americans in the 60s, it was Germans in the 30s, and Germans in the thirties were, well, yaknow, the bad guys from WWII movies.
Kinda common sense. I would think. But people are pretty dumb. They don't have a thought unless first told to have one. And also what that thought IS
All you have to do Is smoke a pack yourself. Just 3/day. One week later,
You'll notice.
Its not the tobacco itself that is the danger, its the added chemicals they adulterate it with.
From its growing to its curing and processing, and the bleached paper you smoke it in thats what is cancer causing and responsible for the addiction being a significant problem.
The Native Americans were supposedly the first people to cultivate tobacco.
If tobacco was cancer causing they would of been the first to know it, yet never considered it dangerous. They in fact considered it a sacred plant and tobacco was ceremoniously used, and even has some properties that help balance certain states. Like grounding for instance, even thought theres a lot of Air element in smoking which is mental in nature, it uses the transformational and clearing element of Fire to catalyze Air with Earth into the body and has a grounding and aligning of the mind/body.
It technically involves all elements although moisture levels are minimal.
Its only since the commercialization of tobacco its been a problem.
Thats actually another issue with commercial tobacco, inhibiting mold.
Cause if moisture levels in tobacco are too low the smoke is harsh, loses its flavor, its body and character. So to have a moisture level for a smooth smoke its chemically treated to prevent mold which is really really dangerous to ever inhale.
Here for the smokes. Stayed for the cancer.
a Hahahaha your an idiot it’s terrible for you. You should stop honestly.
Fuck cancer and fuck you
@@jamalsalads you don't know about irony do you
Tactical Bacon people really don’t understand jokes anymore
@@frankthetank8216 racist
Very interesting. I'm on day 90 cigarette free today.
Freak show
@Pedro Gunderson ''Keeping track of days'' all he has to know is the day he started. 90 days is 3 months.
@Pedro Gunderson I'm on year 5 and 5 days
Or day 1,830. I will never smoke again but because I can keep track of when I quit how is it discouraging. I remember being so excited that I went 1 month or 3 months or 1 year.
Kevin Cortez day 60 here and I'm doing good
@@nikigrow7347 ya i use quit tracker its awesome :)
I had a teacher in high school who smoked. He warned all his students telling us what an awful addiction it was. I remember him telling us if you quit now your lungs will recover in about 6 months. I guess he had given up on himself. He later died of full blown aids.
LOL!
😭😭
sucking on fags will do that to you
I really don't see the correlation between contracting aids and giving up and what that has to do with smoking. But maybe I misunderstood.
@@Obake4777he was smoking aids cigarettes
I took one cigarette at the age of 18 while I was in the military & haven’t stopped since. Don’t do it I feel like shit afterwards & people notice your smell immediately.
try gum
The smell comes from your pores..its in Every part of your body..not just your mouth@@living4adrenaline
@@living4adrenalineworks like magic
I moved to zyns after smoking for over 10 years best decision ever
Indians gave us tabaco and we gave them Smallpox.
fair trade
Yea trade back then was strange
The indians dont play around 100milion deatgs due to tobacco in the 20th century and 1bilion in the 21st century.
@livey oone every body get syphilis no matter the race.
@@x2gloki ancient creeks took cannabis saunas but people in europe started smoking only in the 1500's and 1600's so how does that work?
I quit cigarettes exactly 1 month and 4 days ago, after smoking since I was 12 !
I8thumper still not smoking 👍🏼
How did you access cigarettes at age 12?
Michael Oladepo I was in Russia at that time so it wasnt hard
Why Am I Watching This how old are you?
Adrian Garcia I’m 28
I've been a habitual smoker for 60 years, and the trouble is that i thoroughly enjoyed it. I have no expectation that i will live for ever, just make sure that a carton of Winston are buried with me.
Amen
60 years, you're a beast!
Smoking caused my mother's early death at 67 due to COPD. She smoked from age 16 up until the few months prior to her death. My dad was a Lexington smoker for 25 years...in 1983 he had a mild heart attack and literally threw his box of cigarettes and lighter in the bin. He is still alive at age 84.
The older guy is telling nothing but the absolute truth..
Except calling the natives Americans Indians... just sayin
@@kemolowlow
Because Asia is only China and India?
335714051 we’re all African bro. You’re my beautiful brother or sister
@@charlesramsden1022 Would you kindly stop being that one guy
So help him god?
What's left of the Marlboro cowboy?
His boots
@Hello His boots, How are you doing?
@@lydiaanderson2870 I'm good
@@sagarjash8270 Nice dear, I'm Lydia Anderson from detroit can you suggest a way we can stay off here and know each other with time and patience dear.
@Sagar j ash hello
@@lydiaanderson2870 yeah sure... can you suggest me anywhere are you on any social media platforms facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp?
I quit Cigarettes when i was 31, and i am now 56. I can put it down quite simply to this. It was the worst thing i ever took up, but it was the best thing that i ever gave up.
What I find funny is that the same people that shamed everyone for blowing cig smoke everywhere and the "dangers of secondhand smoke" are seemingly fine with the non-stop marijuana smoke you smell everywhere in every city. Feels like you can hardly go anywhere without smelling weed smoke coming out of someone's car, on the street corner, etc., and no one says anything. Isn't it still second-hand smoke, or is this different somehow?
It's basically the same it happens a combustion that produces Co2, it was all about to prevail on others nothing less
It's not quite as dangerous (neither is second hand tobacco smoke, but that's a different argument). I've supported legalization for decades but am also tired of smelling it everywhere.
You think "anti cigarette" stuff was a democrat thing or something?
also, I rarely smell weed in public, and I live in a city with legal weed. You're being a bit silly here.
And yea, weed smoke, though still not healthy, is not comparable to tobacco smoke, healthwise.
I quit smoking on 6/6/06 dont miss that shit at all . Still have some other habits I need to lose . Best of luck to anyone tryin to quit smoking or any other habit/addiction
Jason B what a date to chose to quit lol
Wish quitting weed was as easy as tobacco
@OBEYTHEWALRUS G59 fuck you too!
o 44 its much easier in my opinion though. You just get depressed because your brain is withdrawing from dopamine. After 2-4 weeks you’re good. I’m still craving a cig almost a year after quitting and battle not to smoke any when I’m drinking
o 44 bro I quit weed with ease and never touch it anymore. With tobacco you’ll crave that shit for the rest of your life.
I quit smoking 7 years ago. I met my wife the next month and she said she wouldn't have stayed with me if i smoked so it worked out
Turned out your wife is your mom
Now you know how to get rid of her if needed...
I suppose life’s been good for you since you quit smoking
When I was a caregiver I remember a sweet old lady who had an oxygen tank attached to her wheelchair and it went with her everywhere. I asked her one day "What advice would you give me about life" and she said "Don't smoke, it's just so bad for you. Look at me" She was such a nice person and though I did smoke at parties and the casual bullshit smoking phase we all go through I eventually stopped altogether and almost 16 years later I still remember her. Smoking just demolishes you and you pay for it one day.
10 Years later. I still want a cigarette.
Same.
I will have a cigarette for you tonight mate.
@@davidaustrian9455 No thanks mate. I'm happy not having that monkey on my back anymore. Here in Canada they charge $18 for a pack of 20 butts.
Really? I quit like 5 years ago and don’t even like being around 2nd hand smoke. It’s gross.
@@Ken-fh4jc Then I would guess maybe your parents didn't smoke. My addiction started as a kid being exposed 24/7 around adults in the 1960's / 70's.
Then I bought my own at age 13.
I quit at age 58.
I was a smoker, but one day, the cigarettes started to taste very bad, almost like if my brain rejected completely anything related to cigarettes, just imagine to smell and taste the most disgusting thing you can imagine, that was my case, and till this date I still feel like that everytime I smell cigarette smoke.... miracle, coincidence, I dont know.
That the best time to quit
Same thing happened to me, I started smoking less and less everyday then some days I wouldn’t smoke at all, then I started hating the smell on my clothes. Now I don’t smoke at all.
Heroin is so much better
@@AdrianTheGit nah Crack
Imagine not smoking crack 😂
My dad died of end stage lung cancer from 57 years of heavy cigarette smoking. He was 70 yrs old. He was a kind, fun, honourable, and good guy who's habit caused cancer. He fought hard to hide his illness. One day my family's hearts dropped when he was quickly losing the fight. He was given 1, yes 1 week if he kept on smoking. He quit immediately and was with us no more than 6 weeks. Poor guy died in a hospital bed at home in the living room, on hospice. He was home about 2 and a half days. I think this is good enough reason to not start smoking. I don't smoke. He is my hero. Cancer is an ugly disease.
I gave up smoking when I was 13 years old after my second cigarette and don't think I will get anywhere near 70 years
@durgle435070 isn’t that old in this day and age. Lifespans are averaging at late 80’s to early 90’s once you reach 40. The average lifespan of 81 is due to infant and adolescent mortality. Reasonably healthy people should have no problem making it to 90.
@durgle4350 "I think he died because he was 70 years old. That’s pretty crazy for a man."
70 isn't very old though.
@durgle4350 False.
@durgle4350 I don't know why you're insistent on being dishonest but go ahead and keep doing so if you want to 🤷
This bloke is a marvelous story teller
The most British sentence you could possibly make
I quit smoking 11 years ago and haven't touched them since but still have dreams of lighting up and enjoying it. So I definitely believe it's the most addicting drug in the world
Quiting the smoking is the best decision i took in my life !! Was a smoker for over 45 years !! I feel much much much much better now!!
Just quit my self. You still going strong ?
Well, that's good for YOU dude. I smoked them for 32 years and quit 7 years ago and I feel like shit! When people ask me (assume really) if I feel much better I say 'hell no...if anything, I feel WORSE!' This is because I have other health issues and they're getting worse.
@@retroguy9494how can You know if your health wouldnt be much worse if you continued smoking?
@@kolarz2128 Oh my......i can't take anymore.
@@shanghunter7697 ?
Inhaling burnt plant matter with added chemicals is bad for you? Since when
Unless it is marijuana which gives you super powers. “Apparently”
@livey oone that guy literally just died
@livey oone cigars are different from cigarettes. Cigars dont feel great whenever you inhale their smoke while with cigarettes you need to inhale it to feel any sort of effect
@livey oone i know what you mean, although that guy had outstanding genetics. just look at his military picture and compare it to the average joe the same age as him. dude was a beast in his day.
@livey oone Doesn't really prove anything. There are people who survive getting shot in the head.
I'm 36, I've been a smoker since I was a preteen. it's definitely one of my biggest regrets.... and I'm sure it's a regret that is only destined to grow bigger.
How do you feel considering you’ve smoked for how long? How many do you smoke a day roughly?
Not if you don't want it to. If you want to, you can just quit.
@@meab12 Dude is dead by now. Smoked a bogey in his final moments.
I'm 36, started smoking when I was 13. At the time of writing this I am 32 days smoke free. No going back now. Lungs are beginning to clear out.
Stop Now 🙏🏻
“Cigarettes are like vitamins to me” - Frank Zappa, a few years before he died.
Yet he died from prostate cancer.
@ElSantoLuchador
so did my dad....it spread all over him....
but it was from smoking and drinking the oncologist told him....
Day 12 for me and have to to make it stick this time. It's very hard to quit.
It is, but if I managed it anyone can. There's an excellent book by allenn Carr, it actually helped me tremendously
Hang in there Lone Star. Each day the urge, although still strong, does'nt last as long as the day before. When you feel the temptation, take your mind off it with a hobby, excersise, or even reading. Once you occupy yourself with something else the urge will go away. Best of luck.
Around the 3 week mark you're going to wake up and forget to want to smoke, if you managed almost 2 weeks you should not have a problem quitting, just remember, if you smoke only once, its all going to repeat. Also if you get into a situation in which you have a huge need for a cigarette, just tell yourself your're better than the smokers around you and keep doing it, the thirst will pass in a few minutes and you'l be glad you did not smoke.
(Cigarette free for 2 and a half years, smoked for 6)
Lol i quit easily
Good luck
I tried many times to quit smoking and different methods but finally did quit... The method that got me over the hump was buying the shittiest cheapest nastiest tobbacco and used the patch while smoking.. Naturally smoked less until smoking was no longer enjoyable... Now when I want a cig I put a cough drop in for that throat burn that I miss... Hope this helps someone
Todd Fryman dude that’s a pretty fucking brilliant idea man! NOTHING WORSE THEN A CHEAP ASS SHIT BRAND TASTING CIGARETTE!
I did the same it works but you still have to really want it
My great Grandma was born in 1873 and died in 1974. She smoked over a 100 a day from the age of 18 onwards, apparently.
I quit smoking when I was 25 and switched to vaping for 5 years. I continued to cut my nicotine back to 0mg and then was finally able to quit for good. The crazy thing is that I haven't touched it in a year, and I still have cravings. Even watching this video was kind of triggering. But when this happens I think of the progress I've made, the fact that one smoke would erase years of hard work, and the fact that I don't want to wake up unable to breathe at some point in my life due to a poor decision I made when I was younger. I knew it was addicting, but I had no idea just how addicting it truly is. Never would have thought that after all of this time I would still be having cravings. But at the end of the day I'm just so thankful that I was able to quit as "young" as I am now, as I can imagine this only gets even more difficult with age.
One smoke wouldn't erase years of hard work! You would be remembering it well enough when you had to start back over at square one! Lol!
This is so scary! Gonna have to light a cigarette to calm me down
You still with us?
@yamac488 I think that nigga s dead
Update us or we will assume you got reincarnated
When I was a young kid I remember smoking in hospitals
Yeah a doctor I work with remembers people smoking in the ICU when he was a kid. What?! Times have changed.
It was allowed everywhere except the operating room.. You could smoke on airplanes, television airings, newscasts, even teachers in class while teaching! Then they pulled it one by one..with restaurants and bars being last.. And here we are today👍
@@chrishorv7099 I can't imagine being on an airplane...I remember being picked up by the daycare bus when I was a 3-4 year old man the driver would smoke around us and I felt like I was going to die from the smoke my lil lungs couldn't take it.....
As a young kid you smoked in hospitals?
I quit smoking in 1999 and just the smell of a cigarette triggers a craving. The satisfaction of a good nail, the flavor and associated sparkly feeling.
That hardest thing about quitting cigarettes is WANTING TO QUIT...
Good point
I don't think that guy is tobacco crazy he would rather hear or see children being aware of the history of tobacco as well as the harm that tobacco can cause from early ages so the youth won't smoke like the generations before them.
Smoke weed everyday
@@dimebagdarrel7190 that's terrible advice. You have problems if you smoke every day.
dimebag darrel occasionally is fine
@@evansaltz1162 everything in moderation.
Fucking quitter
Keith Richards is a living cigarette
He finally quit yesterday. 🤣
I was in the second and third grade in 1988. We focused on the harm from cigarettes. Surely we talked about addiction, but it doesn’t stick in my mind the same as coloring a healthy lung pink and a smoker’s lung gray.
I think addiction is important to discuss, that you can’t quit anytime you want.
But we were also talking about drug addiction at that age. I did the infamous DARE program in 1991.
Obviously, just saying it’s addictive isn’t enough. However, constantly beating fear into kids doesn’t work either.
I would love to see if there’s some connection between the Just Say No overreaction of the 1980s and those who chose to start smoking despite what we know.
BTW- love the Tobacco Institute guy who scoffs at the info, but does nothing to refute it.
People think cigarettes are toxic. But when I go out in public I see so many more toxic things walking around.
Right. I can't believe the obesity these days. 🤯
@@ericfranchi1354 uhhhh no, not allowed to say that, it's apparently healthy to be huge now
@@Jleon1983 🤣🤣🤣
it's been 2 years since my last cigarette, did it for my kids ,I did it for life.
I quit smoking November 2004, saved myself a lot of money over this time period.
Cigarette addiction can be very strong. My grandfather died from causes unrelated to his heavy smoking and when he was unconcious in his hospital bed his hands still did the smoking gesture back and fourth to his mouth as if he had a cigarette in his empty hand.
My father was one of those that gave up smoking as a response to this report, in around 1966.
I smoked for around 40 years. For many years I only smoked 2 to 3 cigarettes a day. My lungs are fine. I quit because my Wife didn't like it, they are expensive and I don't believe they do me any good. I really enjoyed them. I haven't smoked for around 6 years. I believe smoking affects people differently. Some people who smoke live to be over 100. I also believe that if you only smoke 2 to 3 cigarettes a day it hurts you less than a heavy smoker. I would not recommend the habit to anyone. I also feel that if you have to give up everything you enjoy where is the reason for living. I believe it is a persons own business if they choose to smoke. Many habits done to excess are harmful. If a peron is obese that is probably as harmful as smoking.
I remember where I was exactly when Yul Brynner begged me (I took his warning personally!) to never smoke. I was five when that commercial came out, which also announced his death due to smoking. Because of that commercial, I’ve never done it. I wish everyone would quit. So many health issues and premature deaths 💔
But most supercentenarians (aged 110 years or more) are/were smokers.
Right, because they lived through a time where smoking was very prevalent. I think you would be mistaken if you were to say that their smoking is what caused their long life
@@Clarkticus There's no way to know for sure if they would have lived longer or shorter without smoking but it's interesting to think about. It's possible that it helped increase their lifespan due to the purported neuroprotective effects of nicotine etc and there was a study, for example, that showed pipe smokers lived longer than non-smokers. Maybe they just had good genetics and would have lived to that same age regardless of what they did or maybe if they hadn't smoked they would have lived even longer.
Breathing the air of a city turns out to be far worse for your lungs than smoking cigarettes. Sure, they’re not necessarily good for you, but the danger has been way over blown.
@@smelltheglove2038 I am an RN. I’ve taken care of a multitude of people over the years who’ve lived through torturous week, months, and years before blessedly passing away to be free of their pain - all due to smoking. I’ve seen postmortem what smoking does to organs. I’ve also seen what effect quitting before any emphysema, COPD, etc. sets in, and their lungs sound and look almost as healthy - if not as healthy - as someone who’s never smoked. Don’t try to kid yourself or anyone else that anything else is worse than smoking for your lungs/body. Except maybe being morbidly obese. If you have both, your life expectancy usually drops by 20 years. People who survive until their octogenarian + years by smoking every day are the exception - not the norm.
RIP Ed Brecher, He passed in Pennsylvania in 2011 at the age of 91 so he did live quite a long life in spite of his smoking.
THATS UN TRUE HE DIED 1989 AGE 77 HE TOOK.HIS OWN LIFE
@@christophersmith4156 Yes, he took his life aged 77, because he suffered from colon cancer for more than a decade. Smoking is a contributing factor to colon cancer.
My dad was a big smoker but one day while playing golf he felt a tightening in his chest during his backswing. He attributed it to smoking. At the time he had two young boys and he decided he had to quit for us. He never had another cigarette after that day.
I smoked for a decade before I quit a few years ago. Best decision I ever made. You can do it !
Picked up my first cigarette at 3yrs old. I remember my grandmother had her pack sitting at the end of the table with a pack of matches. I was curious of why they would smoke those things. Also I remember my grandmother would get me the candy cigarettes. I remember I would smoke on and off up in till I was 14yrs of age to get that rush and then at 14 when my mom died it became my personal friend. I've smoked ever since. When ever I don't have a cigarette, it's as if I've lost my best friend. I get irritable. My message is to anyone who is thinking of smoking, DONT! It's not worth what it does to your health. Also nicotine is addictive. It's been proven to be very addictive. Plus I personally know it's addictive. It's not a habbit it's an addiction.
So grateful to have been able to quit, finally, after trying to get pregnant (having cut down to five cigarettes a day) for many years and suffering multiple losses…..
How did I finally quit? I was reading every book, watching every video on reproductive health, and heard one thing that made me stop cold: that “smoking causes the placenta to “clamp down” on the fetus, restrict oxygen and nutrient flow”. Three months after I quit, I was blessed with a successful pregnancy that I carried to term (after suffering 3 miscarriages in previous attempts as a smoker). My son is now a glorious, healthy, nonsmoking/vaping 21 year old man. (Currently in his 3rd year of film school, with a promising future!)
Thanks David for your videos- I’ve been enjoying your RUclips for many many years (back when I wondered why your channel only has a few thousand subscribers) I am delighted to see your subscriber count blossoming! One million is on the horizon!
I did some medical transport after my firefighters career and I picked up an old gentleman that claimed he was the “Marlboro man” in all the commercials. He had pictures to prove it! He was emphysemic and very unhealthy at the time.
Cigarette smoking is bad for you.
If you want to be - and feel like - a healthy and virile individual - don't smoke.
THAT BEING SAID...
Smoking is at times an extremely pleasurable way to pass the time. You may value that next smoke over being able to run up the stairs without ending up short of breath.
It all depends on your personality.
You be the judge.
Ill take the cig
I still smoke because I was taught never to quit on things you love most.
I think this guy is completely right about teaching kids young about cigarettes, I smoke a little weed from time to time but have never had the urge to smoke a cigarette, since I was a young kid I’ve always viewed them as cancer sticks since that’s what I was taught in school.
As a hospice nurse for many years, you couldn't pay me to smoke. I've taken care of so many patients with COPD and Lung Cancer. My parents both died of smoking related illness. You can usually get away with it until you are in your 50s to 60s then all the health problems begin. I have taken care of so many patients gasping for air and nothing takes the shortness of breath away. To move someone from the bed to a wheelchair with oxygen on and they are severely out of breath for 15 minutes. A friend from school has smoked for 40 years and hasn't quit even though her mother died of COPD. I keep telling her she's going to get COPD and she can't quit. THANK GOD I DON'T SMOKE!
I'm sixty and and I think I was twenty before I saw either of my parents without a cigarette dangling. I didn't start until I was in the Marines and believe me, when your pucker factor clears six or seven a cigarette could relax you. I noticed after several years that I was making a concious decision to smoke that first one if the day. So I didn't light up and found I could get through the morning with out it. I ran out of smokes once and didn't feel compelled to race out and but some. A week later I noticed that I hadn't missed it. Lucky me.
So as a part of your VA retirement plan, does the government purchase for you cigarettes as part of your monthly payments? Or is part of your monthly VA disability payments spent on cigarettes??????
Mr. Hoffman, you have a truly amazing RUclips channel
My great grandfather lost a lung to mustard gas in ww1. Smoked three packs a day of lucky strike non filtered and passed away at 93
He was a champ
Jesus Christ
It’s not smoking that’s addictive. It’s the comfort it gives you
It's the comfort it gives you from satisfying the craving. 30 some year smoker, this January will be 4 years quit.
I’m glad I’ve never started but you are the only one to convince yourself to stop. Your brain is a very powerful tool.
Oh a nice benson and hedges after a slap up meal, pure heaven.
I traded cigarettes for weed. Best choice I've ever made.
I quit smoke at age 35. I am 54 now. That is why i am still alive. Best thing I ever did.
Im now 4 months and 3 days smoke free and two years soda free lol my kids are much happier i feel so much better breathe better smell better skin looks better im no longer coughing im walking daily and i went from 258lbs just a hair over 6ft and im now down to 221lbs its really crazy and my testosterone levels are off the charts no roids either drug free just excersize fairly healthy diet of mostly greens fruits seafood chicken and tuna i feel great if u really want to lose weight and become healthier its definitely a lifestyle change but really worth it imo and i you transition slowly u will notice u feel better by the day oh and another thing i found as a smoker i got sick more often abd since quitting not once no flu shot and ive been around the virus a few times this winter good luck
How long did you smoke?
Awesome man!
Since 14 stealing cigs from adults and hanging around the local vfw where they had a cigg vending machine lol so from 14 and im currently 34 next month 35 so oh wow holy shit i smoked for 20 years! Sad very sad and my doctor just had my lungs checked out and amazingly theu are as if i was 21 and never smoked!
joseph lesko we are the same age I drank since the age of 15 and the doc says I’m good to go . But it is great that you stopped.
THIS MAN IS CIGERETTE CRAZY! smokes 1 during the whole video
I mean, if you can't give an interview without one...
And lived until 91
@@chicchitammuottocifa Damn, he was a beast! And here i am catching heart attacks at 23 after only smoking for 4 months lmao
I started smoking as a young teenager because one of my friends who was smoking on a bus no less told me he couldn't stop, this concept was alien to me, I couldn't get my head around something being addictive. I kept saying to him just stop and he would say I can't. Well, I just had to prove him wrong by starting and stopping. I ended up smoking for 15 years ultimately giving up when I was 30 and one of the hardest things I've ever done. Off them a long time now so I've beaten it but still a hard lesson learnt.
when I was a kid you could smoke in movie at the grocery store in hospitals on planes in any food place..in fact you could even smoke in school after 6th grade.there was a spot where everyone had a smoke before class..its truly crazy how different the world is compared to the seventies...
I remember in the early 90's being on a flight. Soon as we took off and the 'No Smoking' light went dark, all you could hear were lighters being clicked
I could never quit either. I quit smoking for 2 days back in April 2018. Thats the longest I've gone without since I started.
Winston was the approved smoke for Apollo 7
And those crazy Flintstones ads!
I knew this old guy 20 years ago. He said when he was young his doctor told him that the only negative side effect of smoking was that it would stunt his growth.
It was harder for me to quit cigarettes than it was heroin. Thank god I’ve been off both of them for over 7 years
How many hogs did you gargle to get your next score?
I knew someone who said almost EXACTLY the same thing you said! Though in his case, it was meth that he could get rid off easier than smoking.
I SWEAR, that the tobacco companies lace their cancer rolls with some additional addictive chemicals!
BTW, personally without Red Marlboros for almost two years, YAY!
Marlboro's add ammonia to there tobacco to make the nicotine hit harder@@YuppiBum
congrats bro, hope you keep at it for decades more
Congratulations and keep going! I'm coming up on 8 months without a drop of alcohol and I feel like a new man.
Oh my gosh, my son graduated with this guy in 2002, he looks so much older
I quitted smoking 1 day ago, i started by burning a whole pack of Cigarettes one ciggarete a time
Lmao
I believe this gentleman's name is Edward M. Brecher. He was a science writer a book author and died in 1989 from a self inflicted action.
And thank you for your candid appraisal of the situation, Senator Sanders.
It has been drilled into kids heads from an early age at this point. I can honestly say I never tried it because all of my shows, cartoons, video games and movies told me not to.
I've smoked all my life. I smoke 3 in my mouth, two in my nose and one in each ear all at the same time. Smoking is life. I'm 95 years old now.
I smoked cigarettes for 35 years and I have COPD. I'm on oxygen, I haven't smoked in 5 years cigarette smoking is the hardest drug a person can ever tolerate
My dad, born in 1922, smoked from the age of about 13 until the age of 52 in 1974.
He lived to the ripe old age of 91.
I've done a lot of drinking, drugs, all kinds of addictive things. Smoking was the hardest to quit. Even today, about s decade later I have the urge sometimes... but then I take a deep breath and feel the enjoyment I get when my lungs are full of clean air.
My wife and I were lucky, we manage to quit smoking in an instant. We just decided to stop smoking one day and never look back. That was 6 years ago.
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I gotte be honest, as a teen in the early 2000's the Marlboro cowboys were still around in the commercials and they indeed played a part in why i started smoking. I did quit yrs ago, but the Marlboros had something special about them.
Stopped smoking about 6 months ago. That's the second time I've stopped and hopefully the last. I found it easy enough, just used to do it through boredom and loneliness.
My mom died in 2011, she was 52, 6 kids, 4 grand children. Missed my wedding my house my promotions at work, my kids, my wife, my life. Missed it all. Quit smoking. I smoked for 10 years and quit cold turkey. 3 years after my mom passed. Its not easy.
Got to remember that the harmful effects of cigarettes were mitigated somewhat by their otherwise super healthy diet and lifestyles back in the day. I mean my grands smoked and drank like chimneys but they ate sparingly and spent 15hrs a day on their feet. Compare that to modern high carb, high refined sugar, sedentary lifestyles.. and sure you're going to see a hell of a lot more cancer.
Never ever have a craving for a cigarette when I’m sober but as soon as I have a sip of an ice cold pint of beer; they’re all I want
I smoked for 13 years, hardest thing I have ever done was quit. I've been 1 year and 4 months in 6 days without a cigarette. It's hard to quit but totally worth it in the long run.