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So why DO you hate America? Haha jk. Thank you for your service. Happy 4th Idc if your phone says it's the 5th, when you love America everyday is the 4th of July 🇺🇲🎉🎆
I really like observing the increase in video production quality in your videos over the years! You can really tell you got a lot better at filming/lighting/framing etc
"Smoke Spuds, or I will murder this bag of kittens that are off camera... Are you smoking Spuds yet? It's new. I want you you start smoking...NOW, or those kittens die by being drowned in a gross mix of tobacco produced spit and cigarette butts... They're SPUD butts, so they're NEW!" Serial Killer spokesperson
My dad has a story about a lumberjack his parents knew, who had a 10-mile trip to the nearest general store. One winter he did his usual bi-weekly supply run, skiing the total of 20 miles in a bitter cold, and when he unloaded the goods back at the cabin he noticed he had forgotten to buy his cigarettes. So he quit smoking.
The fact that cigarette commercials were banned because Big Tabacco wanted it absolutely shocked me, I never knew that and it's honestly incredible how much we don't know
The funny thing is, they don't need marketing department anymore, which actually saved them money. Marketing departments are like the military. You have them because other organizations have them, not because they actually bring value to your business.
In the US, Alcohol commercials never show the actual consumption of the product (only people holding it, or being around it). This is not a law enacted by congress, but a Trade Association rule, heavily enforced by the industry.
@@chad4858 just curious, what counts as advertisement to you? Are PSAs advertisements? Would it be advertising if KB shouted out another video of his in the middle of this one? What about a kid’s lemonade stand on the side of the street with a sign out front? There are a lot of types of advertising I’m just curious where you draw the line
@@ethanlenning I draw the line when some marketing student schills his way into a conversation about the tobacco industry and it's history regarding advertising
Then, this might be best read lying down.... 'Carbon Footprint', an invention of the oil industry, to make us feel responsible and guilty for using their products. Individual choices, in a world powered by oil, gas and coal, are not going to make any significant difference, but we are encouraged to imagine that if onky we were better people, the world could be saved. Ready? ... Plastic recycling, was an identically motivated invention of the plastics industry. They sell products, that they know are practically impossible to recycle, (only 9% of plastic is recycled,) but hey! If we only made a little more effort, we could save those turtles, YOU are currently responsible for choking on plastic. There are no depths to which these people won't stoop. The oil industry knew about global warming in the fifties.
I started smoking socially at 14, but I was genuinely never addicted to cigarettes until two years later when my friend gave me their marb smooths which is a type of menthol. That stuff had me so hooked. I managed to quit by using vapes, but then I was addicted to vaping for a few years! Finally managed to quit everything just last year. Been four years since I’ve smoked as of this month!
Great job, it's a hard thing. Very glad I never even tried them, already have an addiction problem with video games, though the issue there is more of a time sync thing, at least since I stay away from modern games so don't have to worry about falling into gambling/spending traps.
My dad after decades of smoking decided to stop with my mom and what he did was buy one last pack and said once this is gone no more and he did which not easy but if there's one thing my dad's good at is being spiteful stubborn
My grandpa started smoking when he was around 17, he managed to quit a few years after my father was born. Instead of smoking he’d suck on lollipops. He’d put on some weight, but he managed to walk it off. He managed to quit so thoroughly, that a few years ago, he passed away from a type of lung cancer that is most common in non-smokers.
This guy actually makes learning feel like fun, which is most likely some sort of sorcery. I enjoy learning things about as much as I'd enjoy hopping into an oven and roasting for a handful of hours, but here he lets you feel as though were all just having a good time here only to pull out the M. Night twist: we've been learning this whole time...
I figured out Penn and Teller were using sneaky tactics when their Stress episode argued that there was no such thing as stress and that your health couldn't be affected by stress.
I figured to be wary of their sources and claims when they outright admitted to being "biased as fuck". They only said it in reference to wondering why people from the other side of the issue came on their show when they knew P&T were just going to make fun of them, but it did make me wonder about their sources as well.
All you need to do is just watch the framing of the episodes. While it's true that they spend time mocking the people who advocate for snake oil, they spend just as much - if not more - time mocking the people who fall for the scams. It's not about exposing grifts, they actually don't care _that_ much about exposing grifts. The show is about proving how stupid people are, and I couldn't help but feel like there was even a modicum of respect for the grifters. After all, they had succeeded in taking stupid peoples' money.
Mine was when I they made an episode about how WalMart is good actually, and disability access is unnecessary, and then in the endagered species episode, made a huge deal about the story of a woman who couldn't build a wheelchair ramp because of the ESA, but WalMart was able to build in her neighborhood. Like they really just pick and choose what they want to use as arguments. But damn, seeing taht Google Talks bit really fucking killed the remains of credibility they had. "the right to choose to do something harmful for yourself" bro, the definition of second hand smoke is the harm done to others.
My father got my grandfather to quit smoking by holding me up as a baby, and saying in a faux child voice, “Please stop smoking, Grandpa! I want you to be there for my graduation!” I’m now going to be graduating from college next year, and he’s still kicking (right now), and survived a bout of COVID as a 70 year old. If he had continued smoking (like my other grandfather had into his 60s) he’d likely be dead by now.
Somewhat similar story with my dad. When I was around 4 or so, he was smoking as he always did. My mom had been trying to get him off of the cancer sticks ever since they got married, but this was the day that convinced him to stop. I believe I grabbed one of his cigarettes, put it up to my mouth and pretended to smoke, and said, "Daddy, one day I wanna grow up to be just like you!" He wasn't happy. Wife wasn't happy. He quit right then and there and has no regrets to this day. Grandpa still chews tobacco, though.
My grandma on my father's side apparently used to be an _incredible_ smoker, literally the pack a day type. But she managed to quit when she found out I was going to be born. I'm really proud of her for doing it, because I know how hard it must be - nicotine is addictive after all! She's in her 80s now, she rocks.
I was sick a lot when I was very young. My dad asked the pastor for advice, he said to quit cigarettes (among other things). My dad quit cold turkey and never smoked again. My dad lived probably 30 years longer than he would have if he hadn't quit smoking.
I smoked from ages 12-24 and its been 4 years since I quit smoking cigarettes and I could start back up in a HEARTBEAT. To be honest, the heath aspect isn’t why I quit. It was almost entirely due to societal pressure. My ex wife and I quit at the same time and she went right back to it during our divorce so the only thing keeping me from relapsing is knowing that I’m better than her 🥰
I'm 69 and only smoked one cigarette in my lifetime. When I was 16 I tried smoking an entire cigarette so I could see what it was all about. I've smoked plenty of pot over the years, but never another cigarette. My wife smoked cigarettes in her early teens. When she was 16, she jumped in her car to drive to school one morning. After lighting up a cigarette, a hot ash fell and burned a little hole in her brand new blouse. She threw the remainder of the cigarette pack out the window and never smoked again. I love that story, because I would not have been attracted to her if her kisses tasted like an old ashtray.
Right there with you brother. I lost my dad at age 5 - he had a heart attack at work and died at the hospital. All signs point to his decades of smoking, starting as a teenager in the 1950s, as the cause. The tobacco industry has the blood of millions on its hands. My condolences to you and your family.
My grandfather drank and smoked cigars frequently, according to my mother. He died at home in 1992, shortly after the Salvadoran Civil War ended, of dementia. My grandmother outlived her husband by over 28 years. She died in July 2020.
I had asthma as a child. The day I moved out, I never had an issue with it. My parents were smokers. Also, it's super rad that you do what has to be countless hours of research and not taking for an hour or so of content. Thanks. Huge missed opportunity to shout out my man Stick Stickley
Glad you're not like me I have chronic bronchitis because as a child I was addicted to the 2nd hand smoke I didn't know it at the time, but for some reason, my parents lighting up a cigarette was always a cue for me to go in and talk to them It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized
Same. The first month at college I found myself cranky and irritable. Then I walked through a cloud of Marlboro smoke and man there went the Jones. Asthma from Dad's 2 pack-a-day fix.
My brother used to get ear infections from my grandmother smoking in the car with the windows up. This was the late 1980s. She was told and continued on like nothing was wrong.
@Joshua Bailey Moderate consumption of weed actually cleans out some of the tar that built up Obviously smoking anything is bad for your health but it's definitely better than tobacco
My mom picked up her smoking habit in - you guessed it - Nursing School from fellow doctors and nurses (late 60's). It wasn't until I was born under weight and had to stay in the ICU for a while that she toned it down - to only one pack a day. On humid days, brown nicotine would run down our walls. She would get bronchitis all the time and died of heart disease in her 50's. Thank you, KB, for educating people about the history of this.
Congrats. The extra strength has to come from somewhere. For me it's friends and family. For others it's religion. I say. As long as it helps you get to a better place, it's okay with me. As long as it's not crack or something worse ;)
I smoked for 7 years, and then vaped for another 6, thinking I could have my cake and eat it to. Then when I turned 37, I started feeling like I was slowing down, that I constantly had a heavy chest and I could barely go without the vape. It felt pretty impossible to quit, until I decided I had enough. I told my husband I was going to quit and started on the patch. It was very hard, I bargained with myself everyday for 4 months but I can say now I have gone one while year nicotine free.
IM SO PROUD OF YOU congratulations I know that must have been really hard. You made the best decision for your current and future self and I'm so happy for you. Keep going!!
Hoo boy, there's a lot I could talk about here. I smoked my first cigarette at fifteen an it was a match made in heaven. Whatever this was, my brain *needed* it from the first one. That started a twenty seven year love affair; at one point I was up to two packs a day. I finally quit two years ago and it's been amazing to actually feel my body heal from it. I can breathe deeply, climb stairs without getting winded, my voice quality is clearer - I had no idea the damage I was actually doing to myself, I just figured I'd get cancer one day and that was it. I never gave much thought to what was going on between here and there. I will mention this, though--for the last ten years my cigarette of choice were Parliaments, and when that commercial came on, despite never having seen it before (come on, I'm not THAT old), it made me want one. Advertising works, y'all, and addiction is real.
Prohibition is the dumbest way for everything. We saw it at war on drugs and alcohol and we'll see it if we starting a war on nicotine. Nicotine is a highly addictive drug and we should handle it as such. Make it extremely uncool to smoke and give the people (youth) the feeling you look like extremely like an idiot with these electric pipe in your mouth. We need a change of culture. You've said it, the cat is out the bag and we all know that cats are very hard to catch. If you have to go to special shops to get tobacco and you need a receipt from a doctor you'll probably think twice before you start with these extremely uncool and inconvenient habit. And vaping is a very good solution for those who are already hooked and need to quit or even to survive long enough to see how their grandchildren grow up. Vaping ain't healthy, but it's a lot better for your lungs then cigarettes are... Make it an medical machine for extreme sick people... nothing is more uncool and less sexy then that.
you're probably genetically predisposed to dementia, schizophrenia, or alzheimer, since nicotine have nootropic brain growth effects and stabilizes people who have the threee aforementioned diseases in their family. Thjats why you enjoyed it. It made you normal.
"death is not the worst thing that can happen to you" I generally agree with that statement, decades of suffering and pain like most people who have COPD and lung cancer is much worse than death.
"Sure Bill I UndErSTand 'labored breathing' your point. However let me 'labored breathing' belittle your point. 'breathes laboriously and digs into their large bag' Since it's not a 'Breath' problem see if my excised lu-'BREATHES'-ng is an issue 'BREATHESSss' 'chucks tar and cancerous lung at his calf's from the stage seats'." I find it sad I found him funny for several years in the last 12 or so... I mean that time before several years ago when he became an asshole republican outright again.
what about bodily autonomy does it not apply ? You can bunjee jump which is extremely dangerous, you can sky dive, you can swim with sharks, but we need to ban cigarettes ?
High schooler here, the grip that vapes have on high school (at least in my area) is pretty severe. It's unspoken knowledge that if the bathroom suddenly smells weird, you get out of there because someone is vaping. I watched someone drop their vap pen in the lunch line. I hate it, and I hate thinking about how they will be hooked probably the rest of their lives because people are starting at 14 or younger
I was a 1970s high schooler - the bathrooms were always full of smoke and we kids just got our ciggies out of the cig machine or well, any little corner store happily sold them to us. I'm still amazed I never got hooked on cigs.
It's important to remember that zoomers operate on an accelerated timeline. They got hooked on vapes 10x faster than their recent ancestors got hooked on cigarettes. I believe they will cut them out of culture just as abruptly and completely by the mid to late 2020s.
Are you one of the sheltered kids not working a service job, or have parents that aren't a missed bill or two away from being destitute? If yes, then I don't want to hear your opinion on drug addiction. You're a child.
This is a great breakdown not only of the history of smoking in the states (it's more prevalent in Europe) but also about corporate logic and how companies manipulate not only the individual client but entire demographics.
Capitalism will murder every last living organism on the planet if means the ownership class(even if it's just their corpses) gets one extra penny of profit that would have otherwise gone unextracted.
@@joekoch7428In my highschool we had a saying, if you look above yourself and see the sky, and don't smell/see anything flammable it's probably okay to spark up
I'm so sorry for your losses. I lost my grandpa to emphysema, my nana to heart disease (from smoking & dry cleaning ‐ my grandpa ‐ but affecting my nana by proxy obvs); my mother‐in‐law to lung cancer (smoking); my cousin & his wife - lung cancer (smoking). I feel you. I've survived cervical cancer 2x now & hence, I quit smoking (by vaping) going on 11yrs now. I don't use juuls though ‐ I don't even know if they have them here in Canada tbh... Vaping Is FAR less harmful • though juuls flavors had semi carcinogenic aspects apparently? Cos big tobacco loves to murder its consumers i guess... I dunno ‐ just something I saw. Anyhow ‐ peace, love, & best of health to you & yours.🫂♥️
I lost my grandma to lung cancer and my grandpa's voice was radically altered due to throat cancer before I was born (this made him really sad because it mean I'd never hear his true voice). They were both smokers when they were young. I get you. So sorry for your loss
As a high schooler from 2012-2016. I can tell you that vaping was already a thing amongst high schoolers in 2013 before anyone ever heard of JUUL. First time I saw anyone vaping was in my math final exam freshman year lol. Thought this kid was smoking a cig mid test while the teachers back was turned and was so confused. It definitely wasn’t common until my junior year, and it certainly exploded into the mainstream with JUUL and all the college kids looking to party. Thought I’d share my perspective as a teenager in that era lol.
Lol yeah, I’m a bit older than you but I remember seeing someone in a train station at night circa 2013/14 vaping and was so confused. I thought it was a strange disembodied hookah pipe at first (it was really long by even wand vape standards) 😅 but he kept going at it for like 30 minutes so I knew smth else must be up.
First time I saw a vape was the back of a middle school bus, the kid was a relatively normal kid and he was telling everyone about how it's great and there's no health risks, that was 2012 and I finally quit vaping in 2021
I remember early vape mods being mostly party tricks back then. I knew a few kids who had nicotine juice but just as many got 0% nic juices and just wanted to learn how to blow Os. Same age as you, 2012-16
Nicotine isn't just addictive, it's easily one of the most addictive substances there are. I've gone through some serious substance abuse, and I'm clean now. I can confidently say that nicotine was the hardest thing to quit.
First time I ever smoked a cigarette is when I found a pack someone lost at a ballpark. My friend and I hide them in a rock pile near my house then went back everyday to take a couple puffs and cough our lungs out. That pack lasted us like 4 months.
TLDR: Cigarettes aren't a symbol of freedom rather it's a symbol of how powerful corporations degrade the quality of life of its customers while simultaneously profiting immensely. I'm a former smoker (Marlboro gold/reds) I'm 20 (started smoking at 14) and I quit a little over a month ago. I know it's difficult for people who have smoked for a much longer time than me but from my personal experience if you want to quit bad enough you will do it. It is a testament to the human will to be better and if your will is strong you will be! The last part of the video really moved me because while I never got into the vaping myself I know a ton of my peers who did in middle/highschool. Most of whom still vape to this day and I've noticed a significant change in many of those people who do still vape.
Yeah, the freedom to choose to be manipulated by such companies by getting hooked on their product ironically makes such people less free (but they still believe that they're free since there's a bit of cognitive dissonance keeping them from admitting to the taboo that they're actually hooked).
Predatory advertising is a terrible thing. You look at advertisement evolve from simple awareness campaigns to matter of fact descriptions to selling a product as a lifestyle. Greed destroys everything.
@@timrube lol I bet you were one of those tools that protested the friendlys shutting down for a month.. the people that think they are self sufficient in modern society are just the people that are too stupid to recognize how much everyone relies on society.
@@timrube I don't advocate banning them. As a former smoker I know all sides. I'm not going telling people how to live their lives when i've barely got my own figured out. EDIT: On your point about responsibility and chaos I think the USA is already past that point of no return. Most peoples lives are so detached from the situation on the ground that when the house of cards fall (which I believe it is slowly) people will be in for a very rude awakening. If all the crazy news the past few years isn't an indication of that than idk what is.
Candy cigarettes came in two types. One had real cigarette paper around them and were made of gum. Between the paper and the gum was flour, so you could put it in your mouth and blow out, and get a puff of "smoke". The other kind were made of candy kind of like Necco wafers. They were bright white with a fluorescent pink tip, that was designed to look like a lit cig. Both kinds came in neat packages with joke names like "Cool" designed after the Kool package, with a little picture of a penguin carrying some suitcases like he's working as a bellhop. And the penguin smoking a cigarette of course. There were also candy and bubblegum cigars.
Here in Mexico there where chocolate cigarettes. You can still find them in some places in fact. Though I never liked smoking, even as a kid, I loved those things XD they where the dryest, chalkiest stuff ever, but weirdly tasty!
My man, you're in a league of your own in the way you choose topics and present information. I'm a journalist and I truly believe watching your videos has made me a better writer and helped me in the way I conceptualize stories. Keep at it bro, you've got yourself a new Patreon patron.
I went to Istanbul recently and was shocked at the cigarette box coverings. Images like blackened lungs and disfigured throats. I was pretty surprised, but the more I though about the more it made sense. Despite these horrible images, cigs still littered the sidewalks in the hundreds. Thank you for this video.
Canadian law has the packs be 2/3 of a warning image and the rest of the pack is the same gross brown for every brand with just their name being customized.
Yeh, in Europe the images on cigarette packs are a stuff of nightmares - blackened lungs, dying people, hands and legs affected by necrosis, holes in the body (really). It’s gruesome but probably pretty effective at not making smoking cool
@@llamennfarce4104 Not really, I live in EU and I picked up smoking around the time when they introduced these images on the pack. Some of my friends picked up smoking around that time as well. It may be shocking to the outsiders, but here we didin't really pay attention to it. Some even started collecting various labes like cards. What really made me quit smoking was the tax associated with it. When it started to get expansive I just quit.
90s kid here. You unlocked some memories for me. My dad wasn't a smoker, but his best friend was, and my dad would take coupons from his Marlboro packs and save them up for free stuff. I remember him getting a branded red flannel overshirt. Anyway, smoking is gross.
Yeah, it also revived a lot of memories from my childhood (also 90s kid). My mother was a smoker since she was 16. She quit 3 times, first when she was pregnant with me, then when she was pregnant with my sister and then for good. But the fact that she returned to smoking twice says a lot about its addictiveness. Even today she says that, when she smells cigarette smoke she still has a yearning for a cigarette. Also I remember that (here in germany) every restaurant and inn was filled with cigarette smoke when I was a child. The air smelt like cigarettes and so did your clothes after you returned home. 15 Years ago smoking in bars and restaurants was banned in germany and I remember how controversial it was, but nowadays it is pretty much universally agreed upon, that this was one of the best changes. I luckily never started smoking, I only smoked on parties in my late teens and I too prefered menthol cigarettes as well as vanilla flavoured ones we had in germany at that time, so it is probably good that they got banned here and should probably also be banned in the US (I mean the menthol ones, because the flavoured are apparently already banned).
I remember working with a woman at my first job, I was 15 or so. She was maybe 30, but looked quite a bit older in pretty long-term smoker fashion - sunken in eyes, hollow cheeks, aged neck and chest etc. She didn't seem completely happy with her life, considering she was working at McDonalds at 30, which isn't bad but I think you have to *really* enjoy McDonalds to enjoy working there at that age. She had a short-fuse but she often said she had a soft spot for me. One day as I was taking out the rubbish, she was out near the big bins on her smoke break, looking rather miserable to be standing next to a stinking bin. I throw the rubbish bags in the bin, and as I am walking back to go inside, she asks me "do you smoke?" Having grown up with a smoker father who died and an ex-smoker mother, I was always incredibly averse to smoking, I confidently replied "absolutely not". She walked closer to me, cigarette in one hand, softly grabbing my shoulder with the other, and said something to the effect of "I started smoking at 14, you are around that age, right? I see girls around your age at work join me for smoke breaks and they probably think they are cool for joining the 'big adults'. That's how I started. If I could go back and stop smoking, I would in a heart beat. Darlin', don't do it to yourself, none of those girls are cool, they look incredibly dumb to me, and in about 20-30 years time, you are gonna look so much better than they will, and you will definitely be richer too with how expensive cigs are nowadays." As she was speaking to me, the harsh smell of cigarette smoke invaded my nose. I nodded, softly yet quickly saying "Thanks" as to not start coughing from the smell and walked back inside. It was the first time someone in my life told me they regretted smoking. And, I see the girls I went to high school with who still smoke, and they have sunken eyes, aged neck and chest, crows lines, everything, and this is only 5 years after finishing high school. We are in our early twenties. Not good.
The candy cigarettes still exist but they call them "candy sticks" and they taste awful. My dad was a smoker and always told us to never smoke, but of course never stopped once he was diagnosed with cancer. His years of struggle trying to quit made me never want to even try. Most of my family smoked and died young because of it
@@DustinRodriguez1_0 There's a slight difference. I could've sworn I remembered them having a slight marshmallowy taste, something close to a wintergreen lozenge but without the cooling effect. Personally, I liked them... though I also like Necco wafers, and therefore fully accept that that means my taste buds are a cruel prank of nature.
This was single handedly one of the best anti smoking things I have seen and has made me want to quit more than anything you should make a class length version of this so it can get shown in classes
Love Penn's little suppressed cough as he tries to say "breathing secondhand smoke [doesn't cause] cancer" at 1:14:30. Feels like he should be looking at his own show on his show. Kinda like that scene in Spaceballs.
If I’m not mistaken, P&T were going to do a series finale about how “Penn & Teller: Bullshit” is Bullshit, but the show was cancelled by Showtime before they could do so.
Love Penn and Teller, but their opinions on Second Hand Smoke are kinda dated. Love their BS series due to their entertaining content, even if there are some things I disagree with.
I’m 21 and started smoking/vaping when I started working at a coffee shop half a year ago. Hardly touched it before then but being surrounded by my coworkers who both heavily smoke/vape I started because it sorta came with the territory. Something about the caffeine and nicotine is a popular combo for baristas. That paired with people stuck in poor, working class jobs makes people love their mild stimulants; however, I realized that giving myself a nic addiction was incredibly stupid. Having been using nicotine for the better part of a year I decided to quit. I’m 2 weeks clean off of it and I wanna stick with not doing it anymore. I worry that if I keep it up especially while I’m still relatively young I won’t be able to quit in the future.
My mom died of smoking-related COPD. Her father died of a mix of heavy smoking and years as a firefighter during a period where safety procedures were 'wear a heavy jacket and don't step on the line'. Trust me-it's not how you wanna go.
@@Tornado1994 nicotine is the same thing regardless of how it enters your bloodstream. the consequences of each consumption method vary, but the nicotine is still making you feel like shit whether it's realized or not
@@archaic1026 it’d probably be about 500 bucks over the course of 6 months, which is very little. I’m only 21 and already have more put aside in my 401k
For what it's worth, not everyone who started smoking as a teen (I was 13) is doomed to keep smoking forever. I started in 1983 and quit in 2003, two packs a day, cowboy killers in the flip top box. (Fwiw, I quit cold turkey because the gum and patches and stuff were all STUPID expensive.) Also, note that sometimes it takes people a couple of tries to get the hang of quitting, so don't be discouraged if it doesn't work the first time you try. Just learn from the experience and try again. You can do it! I did!
Doesn't fit the narrative he's presenting though. Hilarious tjah in a 90 minute video he blames everyone involved except the smokers themselves. I smoked too and I only blame myself. This wasn't in the 70s and 80s though.
Not everyone is, but the earlier you start, the deeper the addiction later on. Just like not everyone who smokes a pack a day will ultimately die of lung or circulatory diseases, but odds are tha most will. That's what most of this is about: probability. Side note: my great granddad started smoking cigarettes at 11, smoked another 75 years, and then quit just because. He lived another 11 years, no apparent lung problems. Dont ask me how. 3 of his sons smoked, and didn't live anywhere near as long.
@@shawnrazzi5569 Yeah, He definitely lost some credibility with his dismissiveness of personal responsibility and more so with the statement "addiction is a disease".
You wouldn’t believe the amount of cool items my parents and grandparents had gotten from Marlboro Miles rewards program and they were still going as late as the year 2000. When you started talking about women and cigarettes, I immediately knew where it was going. My mom smoked Virginia Slims for many decades.
My uncle had a legit nice leather motorcycle jacket with Joe Camel embroidered on the back shooting pool and smoking, it was purchased with camel cash.
Not to do with smoking but my great grandpa use to call my Pokemon cards cigarette box cards. I assumed it was because an unopened pack of cards looked like a cigarette box. And hearing you talk about how trading cards came in cigarette boxes brought back that memory. But I guess I know why he called them that now.
It is insane that I (22 yr old) can still remember a time when going to a restaurant almost always started with "Would you like to sit in the smoking or no smoking section?" Just a bit of a mind blow when I look at how rare smoking is anymore, and that basically no restaurant has a "smoking section" anymore
it's also just flat out illegal in a lot of states now. Minnesota in particular completely banned smoking indoors in buildings opened to the public. can't remember when but it's been that way up here for quite a while.
All one need due is stand an adequate distance from a hospital and you will find a group of staff members (and quite often patients) smoking rapidly. The differential adoption and failure of anti-smoking campaigns to address the socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and class differentials in smoking patterns continues to leave the underprivileged at a disadvantage. Yes, smoking is largely gone in many white collar workplaces and in public accommodations (restaurants, hotels, bars, etc). However, it should be noted that in many blue collar workplaces smoking is still very tolerated and deeply rooted. At hospitals this tension is acutely demonstrated as it is more frequently technicians, facilities, administrative support, and janitorial staff who continue to smoke and much rarer to see nurses and physicians.
@@lainiwakura1776 I was saying that I no longer see nurses smoking anymore compared to the beginning of my career approximately 15 years ago. These days it appears much more common for other staff members (medical imaging technicians, phlebotomist, medical assistants, patient transport, etc) to be smoking I personally believe this is due to RNs and NPs are generally from more privileged backgrounds and able to attend BSN and MSN programs,, growing professional stigma and sanctions for smoking, generational effects, and their higher levels of medical education and direct experience with patients suffering from chronic conditions related to smoking.. In my experience it is rare to see RNs, especially younger RNs smoking at all. In my experience, there were a few older nurses who smoked when I started my career. Back then, it seemed that CNAs and LPNs (part-time, night school, or vocationally trained) were more likely to smoke. Our health system also stopped hiring staff who use tobacco products nearly a decade ago, so it is basically implementing a date restriction on tobacco. Noteworthy, I haven't seen someone recognizably an RN or smoking in quite a while. (The health system I know assigns a particular scrub color to roles/credentials so it is easy to identify RNs/LPNs versus those in other colors by dept & job) There was a guy on my hall my freshman year of college who dipped. He and his roommate became very close as they were both on the wrestling team and had arrived a week or two early to start practices. His roommate ended up picking up his dip habit pretty quickly and the first guy's girlfriend was unphased by it. My step-brother dipped, so I was kind of used to random repurposed bottles being around and didn't really give it a second thought. The other folks on our hall though were mostly from upper-middle and upper class families where no one used any tobacco. They never really got used to these two guys walking around with Gatorade bottles as informal personal spittoons*, and were totally grossed out now and then when they would leave one accidentally on the lounge table or the shelf in the hall bathroom. They didn't even want to touch the bottles to throw them away and were madden just knowing they there may be a few floating around into their room. It's funny, I haven't thought about that at all in years. *Not spitting from across the room Bugs Bunny style, just like carrying with them doing laundry, studying or whatever and holding it up to their mouth when the collected saliva filled their mouth.
12 year long smoker here, 3rd day quitting, have an unopened pack sitting nearby, didn't touch it. Also biggest takeaways are: Big Tobacco wanted TV ads gone and wantted warning labels. Fascinating.
The "I liked South Park before it was political" crowd proved to me how little media awareness most Americans had. They would literally be criticizing topics all the time and people that agree with them would somehow laugh along without realizing
Thank you for adding the bit about harm reduction. Vaping flavored nicotine has gotten me, my brother, and both my parents off of cigarettes permanently, but I definitely discourage people who don't already smoke from picking up vaping.
it's easy to switch from cigs to vaping because vaping is more convenient by every possible metric, but it's not easier to quit nicotine through vaping
@@cornettotrilogyenjoyer that's the point of harm reduction tho, it's pretty much impossible for very heavy users of cigarettes to just quit, so you have to minimize harm with things like vapes.
27:56 Slight correction, while diethylene glycol does occur in antifreeze, it's as a byproduct of ethylene glycol, the main ingredient. Also, fun fact, in the 70s diethylene glycol was used by Austrian vintners to artificially sweeten their wine without regulators detecting added sugars. Since it's hilariously toxic, it caused a string of paralyses and poisonings that just about wrecked the industry for a while.
Additional fun fact, ethylene glycol is an antifreeze agent common in heating systems, while propylene glycol can be used similarly (not as effectively), but is also non-toxic and is a common food and drug additive.
If you haven't already (which you might have) Freidrick Knudsun has a video talking about that whole incident. Absolutely incredible video and content creator in general. He's similar to KB, but talks about a wide variety of non-political content.
Ah yes the Austrian "Antifreeze" wines... Love the fact that the Austrian officials finally linked the paralysis "epidemic" until some random person came to a police station in Vienna, bring a bottle of wine and said "This wine contains glycol, please investigate this" (or something along that line), put the bottle in the front desk, and leave immediately without any elaboration
I was a freshman in high school when JUUL became a thing. I eventually got myself a JUUL in 2018. At the end of 2019 the age was raised to 21 and I wasn’t grandfathered in. I used nicotine pouches to thankfully quit 5 months before I turned 21. Thank god they raised the age because I never formed a habit of going to the store and buying nicotine for myself. My friends that weren’t as fortunate as I are now struggling to quit vaping, or they’ve moved on to tobacco products. So your conclusion is very accurate. Those late teenage years really are the deciding age for nicotine addiction. And that doesn’t mean only young people can quit. I also have older friends that have eventually quit - it’s just a lot harder when you get older.
We had chocolate cigarettes when I was a kid in the 90s. We got them in our shoe in the weeks before Sinterklaas (December 5th). They looked very similar to the real brands. I remember 'smoking' 100s of them. They were all the rage. When they banned candy that looked like cigarettes, they tried bringing them on the market as "chocolate sticks", but that never took off. Chocolate sticks covered with a layer of thin white paper, just didn't make sense without the cigarette link. These chocolate sticks were on the market when my youngest brothers were young. I remember them eating the sticks, but they didn't fake-smoke them and when I asked them just now if they remembered them they both had no memory of them.
I remember those! My dad used to smoke but quit it shortly before moving in the new house with my mom, and bought me the chocolate cigarettes whenever we went by a candy store and they had them. While I didn't 'smoke' them, some of my friends did. One day they stopped selling them at a store we had close so they faded from my memory for many years. About a decade later the memory was suddenly triggered as I walked by a store in a side alley that sold 'chocolate sticks' that seemed very familiar. So I went in and asked the lady at the counter who confirmed they were the same thing. Felt nice to know I wasn't crazy hahaha. My sister had no memory of them and looked at me odd whenever I mentioned them.
I'm sorry, this is completely off topic, but I'm very confused. I'm Belgian, so the Sinterklaas tradition is something I grew up with and which my entire environment (and I to a limited capacity, because I'm a childless adult) still participates in every year. ... But It's on the 6th of december! I'm very sure of that. So do they celebrate it on the 5th somewhere?
@@katrijndekeersmaecker1904 Saint Nicolas died on december 6th and that is his feast day, but in the Netherlands the celebration with the presents is on Saint Nicolas Eve (so the evening before the feast day)
As a kid, I remember the smoking section on the plane For those too young to remember, imagine 80% of the plane lighting up and you are one seat behind all of them in the "no smoking" seats. Bonus was breathing the recirculated air on a 10 hour flight to Europe. It was the same for restaurants at the beginning but at least you were out of there in less than an hour.
I remember an anti-smoking lesson from my childhood. They used the soiled filter to show us what was filtered out---now just imagine what actually got in!!
I can't believe I ever thought Bill Maher was smart. It only seemed like his takes have been getting worse the past decade but it turns out he's always been a center right libertarian moron.
The 12 Years a Slave poster is kinda subtle on the addiction thing. Actually, I really like the subtle manuevering between pictures, blocking the addiction aspect to switch to the "We know this is stupid but we're gonna build an entire culture around being super proud about doing it anyway" aspect of Starship Troopers. Well played, KB prop master. Well played.
@@chompythebeast I understood after first watching it. I wasn't dead sure it was satire, but when I saw the KB video I felt really validated on picking that up.
I started smoking when I was 17. I smoked a lot for 8 years before I tried to quit for the first time. I always told that it was my own choice and I believed all that nonsense, I overlooked the warning lables on packs, even dismissed the science about secondhand smoke. Your video was very interesting in showing that all the tobacco contreversy is fabricated by the tobacco industry and that it successfully pushed it through an entire generation. I believe that your video should be shown to a lot more of people, smokers or not, to expose even more this industry and deter any kid from smoking. If my 17 year old self would have seen a video like this, he would have never touched his first smoke because we all know that smoking kills, but we do not all know that the tobacco industry lied to us so viciously and fooled us. I'm still struggling to stop smoking completely, but by the Lord's grace, I will eventually make it. If I can give an advice on anyone here that think that smoking is cool or want to try his first cigarette: the best way to stop smoking is to never begin.
You can do it! I started smoking at 14 and quit 18 years later. Vaping is what finally helped me, I tried every patch gum and pill known to man with no results. Over 6 years tobacco free now, still vape 3mg juice I make myself. I haven't gotten a cold or flu since I quit smoking either, used to be at least once a year.
Started when i was 18 Quit when i was 22. Was slightly irritated for a week, anyone incapable of quitting cold turkey is simply suffering from personal failings and a spineless wretch trying to shove responsibility for their own life and choices to others Also fuck ciggarette companies, not defending those scumbags here, just can't stand the bullshit excuses everyone makes Addiction is personal failing, grow a goddamn spine and take responsibility for your own life for ONCE in your pathetic existence
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve quit smoking. I’ve used the patch, switched to vaping and continued to go back to cigs. I watched your show halfway through, paused it, had a smoke, and then put a patch on. I bought those boxes of patches a year ago. It’s time. I’ve been smoking 23 years. It’s time to quit for good.
Ey. You're right. Life's too short to ruin it with this sort of repetitive crap. My tip coming from a history of obsessive masturbation: when the urge comes, do three pushups and just go outside. You can go barefoot if it's safe, the sensations will distract you quite well. Don't force yourself any long distance, just make going outside for two minutes your goal. That way the mental barrier to actually doing it is lower. The pushups will make you stronger and let you walk outside straighter each time you deal with the urge in a smart way, just as a bonus. As of typing this, I'm fighting an urge myself, but I don't want to lie to both of us, so I'll go outside now. Be kind to yourself, since that's the person you're around the most :)
Quitting smoking isn't a single event its a process where you will make mistakes. Good on you and avoid the point where you quit quitting. You are trying to change your brain. I
i smoked for 15 years myself and also did gum and vape and neither did the job what worked for me was taking about a week or two to switch to santa fes/cheyennes (filtered cigars) as they have about 1/3 the concentration of nicotine as a regular cigarette once my body was adjusted to those lower concentrations, it was a lot easier to manage withdrawals and cut back until i was able to take a full week of vacation in a cabin up north to just detox the rest of the way wishing you luck, nicotine is a hell of a drug
Did he just say they have a way to make carcinogen free cigarette but they just don't? Think of all the garbage people are exposed to that could be made much safer but corporations don't because of $$$.
Live in Belgium, I’m 24 years old. We got similar laws of banning advertising of cigarettes. My mom smokes, many of my circle do, but they always told me and other non-smokers to not smoke, my mother being the one to threaten me. I only have tried marijuana multiple times, yet never touched a cigarette. Europe has a more smoking related culture. But also an understanding of it being bad for you.
That's interesting! I'm also Belgian, and 24. But somehow, my experience is that almost no one in my immediate environment smokes, especially People in my generation. The people I know that do smoke are mostly in my parents generation. Are you from Brussels or Wallonia perhaps? That might explain the difference, as I'm Flamish.
@@katrijndekeersmaecker1904 Limburg. Grandfather migrated to Belgium to work in the coal mines in the 1960’s. As I might’ve should’ve added that most of those who smoke around me are from immigrant background. I actually know more smokers from the coal mine immigrant communities then of the locals.
i am a libertarian and i have to admit, it's possible for us to be wrong sometimes to put it up front I'm still against taxation of cigarettes... but it's really not acceptable to allow poison to be advertised as anything but poison, and you certainly wouldn't allow someone to open a can of mustard gas on an airplane. the concept is very similar. i think the current status quo is ok. only 13% of people in the US smoke and that is still decreasing, but smokers are allowed to buy what they want. and I'm fine with most public areas banning it, it's a chemical assault on people who did not consent
@@Praisethesunson i would describe my opinion of Bill Maher's beliefs as "left-libertarian", whereas I am "right-libertarian". He has also shown willingness to compromise by supporting maintream progressive candidates. I agree with him on most things he says that are specifically critical of a government action, but I doubt he has much of an understanding of economics.
As someone who used to smoke (gross) I actually loved the recessed filter on parliaments. It was a stiff tube not a squishy tube, and that made the smoking experience much different. Come to think of it most pre-rolls at cannabis dispensaries have a similar mouth feel with their cardboard "filters".
I roll my own and while I've never much smoked Parliaments, when I rip the filter off of a pre-rolled cigarette I have a pretty specific technique for it that leaves half the paper behind. So, there is actually something to that, for sure.
Someone who used to (and probably still does) smoke parliaments told me the reason they have the recessed filter was a ww2 idea so the machine gunners could hold their cigarette in their mouth while they had both hands on the gun. It sounds so far fetched, but at the same time, I could totally see ww2 soldiers who smoked to make that change to the way a cigarette is rolled lol.
@@origamibyameer6719 I remember hearing that as well. I bet it works great lol. A measured dose right in your cig pack seems kinda handy if that's your kinda thing.
The whole second hand smoke issue and no smoking places. Even if passive smoking were not dangerous, being forced to breathe in someone else's choice of smoke is anti social, especially when no alternative to move away. I loved your smoking section on a plane with the swimming pool comparison
Same! And peers who were "smart enough" NOT to smoke have disappointed me by picking up the habit. I had an extended-stay guest who vaped in his room, despite telling him not to, and the damn things gave my cats asthma attacks. We're back to square one on proving damages!
It’s really crazy knowing we saw it happen in real time. These days u can tell what generation a person is from whether they smoke or vape because like no one under 25 smokes cigarettes
My dad smoked for 25 years and only stopped after I had badgered him with leaflets etc about the dangers for several years. He already didn't like what tobacco was doing to him, but my genuine fear for his health helped him make the decision to stop. When he got a new job in biking distance from home, he then also found the motivation. After just six months he looked 10 years younger, and even now, at age 63, he still goes to work by bike (10km per way, 5 days a week). If he hadn't stopped when he did I'm pretty sure he would have lung cancer by now, and he'd be significantly less healthy and happy. Thank you for this amazing film❤️❤️❤️
You're a good kid. I did the same with my mom, but unfortunately she had been smoking for 50 years and she developed mild COPD. She's been smoke free for over a decade and gets by with an inhaler.
thanks for this video, i'm 36 hours into quitting cold turkey (for the second time lol) & it helps to remember how utterly evil the industry has always been
I love this video! Entertaining, yet informative and not over-bearing. I started smoking when I was 13. I was born in 1982. I think I picked it up as a rebellion thing. I didn't think it was too bad. I was still able to run a mile, I watched people who smoked since they were kids grow up to be old men. It wasn't until 2013 when I noticed... I couldn't run a mile anymore. I had a hard time breathing, especially if I went into a sneezing fit. I quit smoking in 2013 and started vaping. Immediately, I had more oxygen in my blood and my lungs were much healthier. I could run a mile again. I had slowly dropped the nicotine content in my vape juice until it was none. Now, I vape recreationally, usually when I drink (another habit I am curtailing, haven't had a drink in a few months. Usually only special occasions now) I tried gums, patches and lozenges. Maybe it was a combination of not wanting to quit yet or they really weren't that effective, they just didn't help me quit. I am always encouraging to not start smoking in anyone I meet, young or old. It was a nasty habit and robbed me of a few years of productive life.
Interesting how cig companies could overcome the tragedy of the commons by agreeing to get cig ads off the air, reasoning that it's better for all of them if no one shows them, even if they individually could benefit from running their own ads. If only countries could have a similar attitude to fossil fuels.
see, in that case, their was profit motive in co-operation, whereas with fossil fuels, their hasnt been as clear a profit motive to shift off them. the current Unpleasantness in Ukraine, and the problems its causing in the energy market, MIGHT be enough to tip more countries towards non fossil fuel based power grids, but even then, thats a long term thing.
That's actually a very apt application of tragedy of the commons. If you consider most of the big tobacco brands. own multiple brands and remain profitable, it's essentially a license to print money
Unfortunately, their interests weren't in protecting their customers but their bottom line. Better to lose a little profit than all of it in the eyes of a corporation. So, they protect one another and poison us all. BTW, the fossil fuel industry does the same thing, using the exact same playbook the tobacco industry used. Lie, manipulate, cast doubt, lobby, and strongarm. The only way any or all nations will force controls on the fossil fuel industry is if a ubiquitous clean and easily portable energy source is achieved, which they are actively funding opposition research to discrediting or slowing down to maintain profits.
I'm in my late 20s now, but I started smoking at 16 years old. The first pack of cigarettes I ever bought was Newport Menthols. I then switched to Marlboro Reds and Camel Turkish Royals for about a year, until at 17, I started buying American Spirits. By the time I was 20, I vowed to stop smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately, all through my early 20s, though I almost never bought a pack for myself, I'd often find myself in the company of friends who still smoked. And whenever I was under the influence of alcohol (which was rather often back then), and I happened to be around those friends, I inevitably bummed cigarettes off of them. However, I would smoke much less on average at that period of time than when I had initially begun to smoke. It wasn't until my mid-20s that I began vaping and started gradually getting away from cigarettes entirely. I started with Juul (which is a massive rip-off and made me feel like trash all the time), then switched to refillable pod devices before switching from nicotine salts to freebase nicotine juices. So, for about a year, I would vape the much less potent juices that are typical of the "box" mods. Then the pandemic happened, and I ended up losing my job and quarantining myself at home. For a handful of months, I would just order juice and coils online, but when it got to the point where I simply couldn't afford to fuel my addiction any further, I gave it up entirely. There was about a year and a half where I abstained from nicotine in totality, and I felt much better. Then I got back out into the working world a little less than two years after I initially lost my last job. And yet again, I was surrounded by people consuming nicotine. But this time, it was predominantly nicotine salt vapes, namely the Breeze brand. And unfortunately, the cravings returned and I got hooked once more. It's been months, and just over a week ago, I bought myself another box mod for vaping freebase nicotine juices in order to wean myself down to a point where I no longer feel the urge to consume any nicotine. And let me tell you, it has been a struggle. I wish I had never smoked my first cigarette well over a decade ago, as this perpetual cycle of addiction and attempted cessation has been an absolute hell. And continually, I see friends and coworkers struggling with it even harder. And many of my coworkers are under the age of 21 (the legal age to purchase tobacco products in my state), so they jump through hoops to get their fix. Countless people I know who currently vape nicotine salts started when they were under the age of 18 and started with Juul. It's the same story time and again. So many of the facts you exposed in your video ring true to me in my personal experience with tobacco and the experiences of people I know. It's honestly disgusting to know the sheer degree of manipulation the tobacco industry has employed to keep people hooked and to misinform them of the dangers of their products. It only furthers my resolve to want to get myself off of nicotine and be done with it for good. I only hope that the many people I know who are struggling with their own addiction can have the strength to overcome it themselves. Thank you for this video. That is all.
Best of luck to you! I've been a cigarette smoker since I was 14 (I'm now 39) and around three years ago I switched to vaping, starting with juul (I agree with you they are such a fucking rip off) and then an actual vape like a Smok Baby stick where you need coils and vape juice. I spent a year using that and eventually stopped entirely it was going great. Then I went on vacation in the mountains with my family during the fall where we spent a week at a cabin, and one of my sisters bought a pack of cigs just for the occasion to have a few while we were there. I asked for the rest of the pack when we left because she isn't a regular smoker and from there I've been back to daily smoking again it was really stupid of me to start up again. A pack will last me 3-4 days so I'm only having around 5 or 6 a day, but still I know it's not a good habit and I plan on quitting for good soon. I've quit before in the past for up to two years once so I know I can do it, but this time it's gonna be a permanent thing. I hope we both kick the habit and good luck to you!
We've gotten media PTSD from all the propaganda lol. I scrolled the comments before watching to see if anyone mentioned that section, thanks for the heads up, I can relax now 😅
I don't get it: If vaping is a lot less harmful than cigarette smoking, why is he against that? Just because it is still addicting? Vaping could be a real healthy alternative to smoking; it sounded like to me.
@@dukaduka506 it is currently seen as healthier but being cripplingly addicted to nicotine certainly isnt, also we arent sure of the long term effects of vaping yet. My lungs felt a different type of bad if i was vaping all the time compared to smoking and i feel way better without either in me although although i do miss the nicotine, I had to listen to this video because seeing all the consumption of it was too craving inducing and I am several months free right now
1:19:58 Cigars still come in all sorts of flavors, like chocolate, vanilla, and grape. They are probably left alone because cigars are not meant to be inhaled (although frequent cigar smokers still have high rates of oral cancers, and a somewhat higher risk of lung cancer than non-smokers). However, not all of the flavors would appeal to children. I don’t think any child has ever said “Yum! I love espresso and rum!”.
I had a really bad experience when they finally outlawed smoking in public places in Iowa. I was in a college art class and someone mentioned the new ruling. I said I was happy I was finally happy to be able to go out to dinner with my family. I'm disabled with several pulmonary issues and couldn't go out to dinner with my family because of smoking and the fact smoke will send me into the hospital and make my airways shut down. My classmates and teacher jumped on my statement saying I didn't care about peoples rights and why should everyone change their habits for a few people and "if your so crippled with lung problems just stay home, I shouldn't lose my rights just because your lungs are fucked up" gotta love that ableism
@@tylerklein2483 Yeah, boarder line asthmatic here, but my smoking friends would at least make sure they were down wind from me, which did involve them shifting as soon as the wind changed.
If anything it's the other way around. Cigarettes are bad for everyone whether they have a condition or not. So it's not everyone else's problem that they were stupid enough to allow a bunch of rich assholes to convince them to pay for the privilege to slowly kill themselves when there was avaliable information proving that they were dangerous.
@@lainiwakura1776 "life isn't fair" is not an excuse to intentionally make it more unfair than it needs to be. Smoke inside your home if you want, nobody else needs to taste your favourite insecticide
"You know who smokes menthols" lmfao. When I was in the military I would smoke Black & Milds, my buddy said, "Hey Morgan you're black how come you don't smoke menthols?" He dared me to do it and that began the downward spiral.
July 23, 2022 marks 10 years since I've had a cigarette. I still get cravings for them almost every day. If I could smoke without any of the health concerns, I'd start again in a heartbeat. I only smoked for four years, but it was during that window you described of 18-22 years old, so I'm not sure if I'll ever be rid of the temptation to start again.
bro vaping has waaaay more nicotine than a cigarette and has been proven to be as bad for you as that cup of coffee in the morning, vaping is pretty much smoking without any of the health concerns, let loose my friend.
What a great way to live. So much better. You say it's been 10 years, but it feels like it was just yesterday. I can quit tomorrow and feel the same way!
My dad grew up in the 60s and 70s. Both his parents smoked. It was amazing that only one of their 4 kids took up the habit, which would be my.dads older brother. He was also the first to die at 64 of congestive heart failure, largely caused by decades of chain smoking, which he did until his dying day.
I quit in the cardiac intensive care on Oct 9 2010. I was already trying to quit, had not had one since Oct 7. I don't get the urges but I still miss it sometimes.
Like many other commenters, I also grew up with asthma in a smoking household, had literally dozens of environmental allergies, along with kidney and heart issues. I got the kidney and heart issues resolved completely before moving out, but after getting kicked out of my mom's house in 7/8th grade (I was a bad kid lol) my asthma and allergies immediately started going away, eventually becoming non-existent. In fact, I haven't even owned an inhaler, let alone a nebulizer, in 10 years now. I was finally able to participate in sports, lost 40 pounds, and my health became so much better. Life was great until I was in my sophomore year of high school my mother was diagnosed with rather advanced lung cancer, and I became completely despondent. My goal of going to the University of Michigan became completely unrealistic within 1 semester because my perfect grades turned into C's and B's; I lost my will to live because I didn't want to see my mother die. She had surgery to get most of her left lung removed, it was successful and she is alive today, but before we knew that I remember seeing her in the ICU hooked up to machines, unable to communicate with me, seemingly on her death bed. I remember her heart attack when I was 6 and my siblings having to both get EMTs to my home and prepare my nebulizer and treat me with it because the panic triggered an asthma attack beyond anything I'd ever experienced. Words cannot (legally) describe the feelings of rage I continue to have towards the profiteers of the tobacco industry for what they did to my mother and what they did to me. I'm now two courses away from the first university degree in my entire family history and I get frequent recruiting emails from companies like Altria. I will never feel one iota of guilt for channeling as much of that rage as I can in my responses to the bastards that have sold their souls to these profiteers of death. Regardless of the current laws, I hope these monsters spend the rest of their fucking lives in a cell, and honestly I don't care how far down the org chart it goes. Every single employee of these companies have shown no concern for my life or the life of people around me, I will *never* advocate for them in any respect.
This was extremely informative! Excellent job! I am 63 yrs old and never smoked but I remember all the old cigarettes brands you brought up, Kent, Raleigh, Alpine, etc. And I remember all their commercials. Watching this was like a trip down memory lane. I've always hated the smell of tobacco smoke and I would be miserable in restaurants if I was seated next to a smoker. The smoke would ALWAYS drift in my direction. And a lot of people smoked back then so it was hard to get away from it. Plus they never used to have smoking and non-smoking rooms in hotels. So I would be grossed out when I was in a room that a smoker had previously been in. The room would smell like an ashtray. Then things changed. There were smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants and hotels had smoking and non-smoking rooms. I was elated! Finally they banned smoking in restaurants and most hotels forbid smoking. And I remember all the whining that smokers did. "We are being treated like pariahs!" they screeched. Oh boo hoo. Why should I be subjected to the stench of your cigarette smoke? I think anything that helps cut down on smoking is a good thing. It's a disgusting habit.
You know, with all the talk about cigarettes being “your own choice” and “personal liberty,” certain people love to condemn or outright ignore objectively much safer substances
You might want to look into youtubers that focus on historical fashion / fashion / social issues. There are many youtubers already making these types of videos if you’re truly interested and care to search even just a little bit 😉 it’s ofc hard to get all of human or even all of modern history into one video, so might not find exactly that, but maybe stuff focusing on a specific century or specific topic like… shoes or the female silhouette or how some iconic fashion houses have made their mark, or influence specific people have had on large crowds, or effect of wars and other big historical events on fashions. It’s all fascinating!
“the reasons different pushes”...?? edit, please. I’m interested but you need to read what you wrote, quickly reviewing the grammar, before posting, so others can understand.
@@paganphoenixguitar well first ones that come to mind would be Bernadette Banner and Abby Cox I think they have some interesting and educational content regarding fashion. I would also say Mina Le is quite interesting because she often takes like current topics/trends/styles as a topic but usually also talks about the sort of historical origins or history leading up to them 🤔 Karolina Żebrowska is just a really fun dress/history youtuber though she also has vlog type content and, well, just memes and such so it’s not all educational in tone. Nicole Rudolph has more shoe related stuff though other stuff as well. SnappyDragon is also interesting. And I also want to mention HauteLeMode, though he mostly makes content reviewing celebrity styles on red carpets and stuff, he sometimes makes videos about like the history of luxury brands, and when he makes videos of brand’s new collections or when he talked about the met gala for example and it had a historical theme, he seemed to have a lot of knowledge of how fashion has developed in and closer to modern times and about the influences and references that current designers have in their works. So I just find that stuff from him very interesting. And I also like the sassy fashion commentary 😂
Lol the funniest the about the “you know who smokes menthols” thing is that my dad constantly smoked menthols the first like 15 years of my life, and was pretty racist. I never knew about that stereotype and I laughed my ass off when I found out it was a thing. Like this man owns a belt with every confederate flag, and I’ll be repeating “can I get a pack of Marlboro menthol lights” in my head until the day I die
As a smoker for over forty years, I can tell you that in my lifetime, the vast majority of menthol smokers I've met were black. It's just a statistic, not a stereotype. I never bothered asking anyone why they preferred menthol, because it was of no interest to me at the time.
@@nbewarwe This is exactly what it is. Stereotypes happen when people notice patterns and share them (both natural things humans do, but we take it to heart too easily sometimes). There being some correlation is not necessary, but can drastically increase people's confidence and make them spread faster.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague yeah, I just never bothered to check whether or not someone smokes menthols ig. I’m a gen z-er so all cigs look the same to me. Tbh if I had to smoke a cig I’d probably go for a spirit or smth. I don’t get menthols appeal.
“No one on the left would agree that he’s [Bill Maher’s] on the left” Yes! As someone on the left it’s crazy some people think Bill Maher is on the left
I've been smoking for almost 4 years. I started at 16 because I reeeeeally believed it would make me look cooler. I knew about the spook story's (Marlboros cawboy, cancer in the family....) But I didn't take them seriously. Knowing the truth about the industry has been a game changer. I'm already leaving the habit as I write this, one day after the video. I wish this was obligatory knowledge in school curriculums. I believe it would really reduce smoking world wide.
good luck to you! dont be sad if you end up giving in a few times. the road of quitting is hard, but once you are actually free of it, however long it takes, your quality of life will be soooo much better! ❤
Surprised there wasn't more discussion of smoking in the military (after WW1). Since bases dodge state taxes, cigarettes were always incredibly cheap to buy there. In a combat zone, my platoon of 40 had 37 smokers. 2 of the remaining 3 dipped instead.
I also heard American Cigarettes were better than the European Cigarettes. As British Soldiers would trade weapons and other goods to obtain American Cigarettes and that if German Soldiers would successfully defeat Allied positions, they would search for American Cigarettes among other things.
@@zacklapaglia7644 I'm French. Here cigarettes used to be made of brown tobacco (most famous French brands being Gauloises and Gitanes - Gauloises even made special small packs which were included in the military rations). They were part of a certain "French lifestyle" but also were very strong and bitter so many people enjoyed the lighter, milder blonde American cigarettes.
My grandfather told me he started smoking in the military (WWII). He said the sergeant would come out and tell them all "Smoke 'em if you got 'em". The ones that didn't smoke would get assigned clean-up duties for the yard. It didn't even take him two days to start smoking. He was never able to stop after that, and years later he would smoke in the bathroom long after he had publicly "quit".
I wish you had mentioned how the tobacco industry is profiting more than ever by selling its products in third-world countries like India and suing governments in Africa
The U.S, China, and Japan basically own the tobacco market across south Asia. It's quite the racket they've worked out. South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines are going to have more people die than during colonialism. And they are paying the former colonizers for the privilege.
I'm American born but live in Australia and have a 20 year old daughter. She started vaping during the 2 year exam prep all high schoolers here and Covid. She told me about it a year ago and I went nuts. But here, vapes come in fruit and ice cream flavors and the government says it's fighting tobacco (on all cig packs are the worst photos of human distortions,all attributed to tobacco.) Plus a pack of cigs is close to $30 with all the taxes put on them. But last week she came crying to me that the breaking off of the habit is getting nowhere, so she's moved to patches. After watching this, I'll not sleep all night.
It’s so funny hearing KB swear, it reminds of back in high-school where I heard a teacher randomly swear in conversation and they were always “the cool teacher” ngl
The same video could almost be made for another drug: alcohol. But because it’s such an ancient practice dethroning alcohol from our culture is a harder pill to swallow.
@@cabbytabby Honest question: How are so many people killing other people with alcohol aside from cars (and other heavy machinery)? Drunken violence and orphaning of children?
@@TheRealE.B. I say that covers most deaths caused by alcohol. Let alone the astronomical cost to society on hospitals visits and health related Illnesses.
KB, I love the way you ended this. That was great. I'm a smoker, 48 years old, (born in 74) have smoked since I was 14, and have seen many of these things over time, (though obviously some were long before my awareness age. Quitting smoking is so hard, but you did an amazing job illustrating the history.
Just wanna say that I used to smoke Parliaments and YES, that extra bit at the end absolutely has a great mouthfeel! It was actually really difficult for me to even go back to regular cigarettes after them. It doesn’t feel like wet paper in your mouth at all. It’s cardboard, yet it doesn’t get soggy for some reason. I don’t smoke anymore (I vape- I KNOW! But it’s an improvement at least. I def want to quit vaping too eventually though.)
Was hoping he'd touch up on vaping in a video in the future, but was pleasantly surprised he covered it at the end. My father smoked pretty much all his life, and tried quitting at multiple points, but he never did, eventually dying from a heart attack. My brother and sister are both about a decade older than me, and they both smoked but quit. My brother went to vaping, and that's where I started around when I was 18. I've been thinking about quitting for a bit now, but this gave me that final push to do away with this douche-flute once and for all. Edit: Been off nicotine for a couple weeks now. The withdrawal only really lasted for a couple days. Unfortunately nicotine had an effect on one of my medications, and my brain readjusting has been pretty rough. Even so, was a good change.
I commend you for making that push. I know it can be hard - I've witnessed my mother attempt to do it multiple times, and she's about to start another quit after I finally convinced her to swap to a less-nicotine-intensive vape (not a quit from nicotine entirely, but hey, at least there's no more tar involved). I wish you well on your journey.
My adopted brother started smoking when he was 13, before I was born. He died when I was 19, with tumors the size of oranges in his lungs. In our last conversation, he begged me to promise I'd never smoke. I promised, and haven't broken it. To this day, when someone lights up around me and I move away (it's involuntary; the smell reminds me of him and that HURTS), even when I explain, most of the time they act like I'm the asshole. Dude, I'm not judging your addiction. I simply can't carry the grief you just dumped on my shoulders. My brother was too sick to attend my high-school graduation. He didn't live to see me finish college. He never got to hold his niece or nephews, didn't get to attend any of his siblings' weddings, didn't live to see his scribbling little sister publish a book. My parents are still alive and one of their kids is ashes in the ocean. If I ever meet a tobacco company executive, I don't know what I'll do, but it won't be safe for a RUclips comments section.
I’m barely under a half hour through this, but I gotta say, as a former smoker now 5 years since my last after quitting with patches, this video has made me crave tobacco more than anything. What a weird effect
Is it willpower? Higher purpose? What helped you guys quit? I'm 35, been smoking since I was, like, 17, and, currently, hooked on vape. Yep, with good 'ol menthols -__- How effective are patches / gum / lozenges? How bad were your withdrawls? Any tips? My uncle would eat sunflower seeds to quit his chewing habit. I'm looking to quit, but it's engrained into almost everything I do, from driving, to post-meals, to video gaming. Kinda losing faith in myself, I have one side of me that desperately wants to quit, and another side who doesn't want to...like at all. Basically, how'd you guys do it? Thanks
@@lmoral222 Unfortunately I proved the Surgeon General right with heart disease. My joke was I was doing my part to save Social Security. What helped me was lozenge. My insurance covered them completely. Maybe yours well too, if not try the helpline in the public service ads.
@@lmoral222 Vaping is a good start. I switched as well. Basically, the best advice i have is that _you_ have to _want to_ quit. You really cant otherwise. Or, go into a coma, maybe walk into traffic a few times. Few weeks in a coma will definately reformat your priorities at least.
One way to discourage smoker would also be to ban all *pre-rolled* cigarettes: Make tobacco only legal for sell in bags/tin, with the filter paper sold separately and let people who insist on smoking assemble the cigarettes at home (This system exists and I used it myself +/-20 years ago when I use to smoke: People back then were doing so to save on the cost of cigarettes as the price of the pre-made cartons had skyrocketed). It will not end all cigarettes, of course, but you can bet that a lot of people won't want to bother (And some kids won't want to start) if they have to spend an hour a say making those things. Plus, it is not as easy as it sounds: The paper casing can easily break in the process and the machine can jam if you over pack it with too much tobacco (Trust me: It's a chore!). Also making only organic tobacco (Chemical free) legal for sell might help a little.
There was a short lived brand in Canada that sold a pack of tubes and a pack of tobacco cylinders wrapped in paper together, you slid the tobacco cylinders into the tubes yourself. It was very weird and wasteful.
not a bad move, but i feel like most people would just switch to pipes before rolling their own (as someone who also has tried rolling their own and knows what a tedious nightmare it is especially when you just need to stop withdrawals)
I tried that first cigarette in 1998 because I really wanted to know what the big deal was. I certainly wouldn't say it was euphoria, maybe more like light-headedness with a bit of nausea, definitely underwhelming. A couple days later I still had the pack and thought why not give it another shot. Nope, still gross and still wondering why people do it. Next day I tried it again, and again, and again. The worst part is your brain plays tricks on you to convince you it's beneficial. Never try nicotine. You'll be disappointed at best, and hooked at worst.
yup every time i light up a cigarette, I hate myself for it. I hate the taste, I hate the smell, I hate the feeling it gives me. Despite hating cigarettes I´m a heavy smoker.
This is the best video I have seen on the lies put out by the tobacco companies. I am English and was only a very light smoker until I joined the British army at seventeen and a half, being posted to West Germany at eighteen where we could buy duty-free cigarettes, and they were a great comfort and stress reliever on active service. I smoked about 20 cigarettes a day for some thirty years, plus a small cigar after a meal. The army, cigarettes not withstanding, kept us in peak physical condition, so I never has a smokers cough or shortness of breath, but after many years of army service, upon my return to civilian life, not only were cigarettes much more expensive in the UK, but I began to hate the stench of tobacco on my clothes and I reduced my cigarette intake to about ten a day but began to enjoy smoking less and less so some fifteen years ago, I decided to quit smoking, relapsed once but quit on my second attempt, purely on will power and the very real desire to quit smoking and have not smoked now for close to fifteen years and its one of the best decisions I have ever made, I no longer smell like a walking ashtray and my sense of smell and taste improved so much so that I can not stand the smell of smoke from cigarettes or anything else combustible and if I am walking behind a smoker, I have to cross over the road.
This video felt personal, but real. I started smoking cigarettes at 12 in 2012, naturally, menthols. Why? They were anti-authoritarian and cool, and I liked Metallica and anything anti-authoritarian. I switched to vaping in 2012 because it was available to me and it seemed healthier. That's what I tell myself. Truthfully I wouldn't say I was addicted until about 2014-2015, I experienced a buzz every time I inhaled until 2014-2015. I didn't need to vape, it just felt good, and I felt cool. This video helps me understand why my younger self was so stupid. As, in addition to teenaged idiocy, the cards were stacked against me from the start. I wasn't alone in thinking it looked cool, this was a conscious effort. Tobacco companies wanted me as a lifetime customer. Now at 22 this is really just a fact of life, I'm addicted and always will be. I always told myself I was better than the kids who started with vapes (which, was literally probably 80% of my high school) but this made me see its all the same.
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Corrections - In 1900, pipes were 19% of total consumption, not 27%. - It's spelled Elixir Sulfanilamide.
hi dood
So why DO you hate America?
Haha jk. Thank you for your service. Happy 4th
Idc if your phone says it's the 5th, when you love America everyday is the 4th of July 🇺🇲🎉🎆
I really like observing the increase in video production quality in your videos over the years! You can really tell you got a lot better at filming/lighting/framing etc
"Smoke Spuds, or I will murder this bag of kittens that are off camera... Are you smoking Spuds yet? It's new. I want you you start smoking...NOW, or those kittens die by being drowned in a gross mix of tobacco produced spit and cigarette butts... They're SPUD butts, so they're NEW!"
Serial Killer spokesperson
You made my day with this video!
My dad has a story about a lumberjack his parents knew, who had a 10-mile trip to the nearest general store. One winter he did his usual bi-weekly supply run, skiing the total of 20 miles in a bitter cold, and when he unloaded the goods back at the cabin he noticed he had forgotten to buy his cigarettes. So he quit smoking.
I guess he wasn’t willing to walk 10 miles for a camel
Lol that’ll do it I guess
@@doughboywhine i smoke camels and i wouldnt cross a room for one
@@chrismanaloe3507 I stopped smoking because I was too lazy to drive. Stay home and play games kids
Man really went "nah I ain't heading out"
The fact that cigarette commercials were banned because Big Tabacco wanted it absolutely shocked me, I never knew that and it's honestly incredible how much we don't know
The funny thing is, they don't need marketing department anymore, which actually saved them money.
Marketing departments are like the military. You have them because other organizations have them, not because they actually bring value to your business.
In the US, Alcohol commercials never show the actual consumption of the product (only people holding it, or being around it).
This is not a law enacted by congress, but a Trade Association rule, heavily enforced by the industry.
@@chad4858 just curious, what counts as advertisement to you? Are PSAs advertisements? Would it be advertising if KB shouted out another video of his in the middle of this one? What about a kid’s lemonade stand on the side of the street with a sign out front? There are a lot of types of advertising I’m just curious where you draw the line
@@ethanlenning I draw the line when some marketing student schills his way into a conversation about the tobacco industry and it's history regarding advertising
Then, this might be best read lying down.... 'Carbon Footprint', an invention of the oil industry, to make us feel responsible and guilty for using their products. Individual choices, in a world powered by oil, gas and coal, are not going to make any significant difference, but we are encouraged to imagine that if onky we were better people, the world could be saved. Ready? ... Plastic recycling, was an identically motivated invention of the plastics industry. They sell products, that they know are practically impossible to recycle, (only 9% of plastic is recycled,) but hey! If we only made a little more effort, we could save those turtles, YOU are currently responsible for choking on plastic. There are no depths to which these people won't stoop. The oil industry knew about global warming in the fifties.
I started smoking socially at 14, but I was genuinely never addicted to cigarettes until two years later when my friend gave me their marb smooths which is a type of menthol. That stuff had me so hooked. I managed to quit by using vapes, but then I was addicted to vaping for a few years! Finally managed to quit everything just last year. Been four years since I’ve smoked as of this month!
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Congrats to you, it's one of the toughest things to quit. It took me 3 separate attempts.
Cheers from Canada
Great job, it's a hard thing. Very glad I never even tried them, already have an addiction problem with video games, though the issue there is more of a time sync thing, at least since I stay away from modern games so don't have to worry about falling into gambling/spending traps.
Kudos!
My dad after decades of smoking decided to stop with my mom and what he did was buy one last pack and said once this is gone no more and he did which not easy but if there's one thing my dad's good at is being spiteful stubborn
My grandpa started smoking when he was around 17, he managed to quit a few years after my father was born. Instead of smoking he’d suck on lollipops. He’d put on some weight, but he managed to walk it off. He managed to quit so thoroughly, that a few years ago, he passed away from a type of lung cancer that is most common in non-smokers.
Man that sucks. Imagine making your damned best to quit smoking for your health anf you still get lung cancer anyways.
Your grandpa got localized by 4Kids Entertainment 😂
RIP, I'm so sorry for your loss, sending support to you and your family!
@@phoenixfritzinger9185 💀
Knowing Better making feature length films now. Quite impressive
Oh it’s my fav thing- I can get so much done while watching his content !
You could also make one about "Kyogre", just saying.
maybe you could learn a thing or two
This guy actually makes learning feel like fun, which is most likely some sort of sorcery. I enjoy learning things about as much as I'd enjoy hopping into an oven and roasting for a handful of hours, but here he lets you feel as though were all just having a good time here only to pull out the M. Night twist: we've been learning this whole time...
Holy crap! I was gonna watch it at 3am before I sleep. Thanks for the heads up on the length of the video.
The most inaccurate thing about Stranger Things is the lack of smoking 😂
Right? People smoked everywhere in the 80's, didn't matter where you were
@@the_rose_garden01 I remember sitting in a car on a trip with my grandparents, who smoked the whole way, windows rolled up
Hahahahaha!
The most inaccurate thing about Strangers Things is that Max getting medical treatment.
@@kjorlaug1 that's not true. I was there. Don't forget that. I'm always there. I'm always watching you......
I figured out Penn and Teller were using sneaky tactics when their Stress episode argued that there was no such thing as stress and that your health couldn't be affected by stress.
I knew they were lying the second a couple of magicians were claiming to be a legitimate source of information.
I figured to be wary of their sources and claims when they outright admitted to being "biased as fuck". They only said it in reference to wondering why people from the other side of the issue came on their show when they knew P&T were just going to make fun of them, but it did make me wonder about their sources as well.
Rationalwiki have a summary of which P&T episodes are crap and which ones are right
All you need to do is just watch the framing of the episodes. While it's true that they spend time mocking the people who advocate for snake oil, they spend just as much - if not more - time mocking the people who fall for the scams.
It's not about exposing grifts, they actually don't care _that_ much about exposing grifts. The show is about proving how stupid people are, and I couldn't help but feel like there was even a modicum of respect for the grifters. After all, they had succeeded in taking stupid peoples' money.
Mine was when I they made an episode about how WalMart is good actually, and disability access is unnecessary, and then in the endagered species episode, made a huge deal about the story of a woman who couldn't build a wheelchair ramp because of the ESA, but WalMart was able to build in her neighborhood. Like they really just pick and choose what they want to use as arguments.
But damn, seeing taht Google Talks bit really fucking killed the remains of credibility they had. "the right to choose to do something harmful for yourself" bro, the definition of second hand smoke is the harm done to others.
My father got my grandfather to quit smoking by holding me up as a baby, and saying in a faux child voice, “Please stop smoking, Grandpa! I want you to be there for my graduation!”
I’m now going to be graduating from college next year, and he’s still kicking (right now), and survived a bout of COVID as a 70 year old. If he had continued smoking (like my other grandfather had into his 60s) he’d likely be dead by now.
Somewhat similar story with my dad. When I was around 4 or so, he was smoking as he always did. My mom had been trying to get him off of the cancer sticks ever since they got married, but this was the day that convinced him to stop. I believe I grabbed one of his cigarettes, put it up to my mouth and pretended to smoke, and said, "Daddy, one day I wanna grow up to be just like you!"
He wasn't happy. Wife wasn't happy. He quit right then and there and has no regrets to this day. Grandpa still chews tobacco, though.
Boy a tank
My grandma on my father's side apparently used to be an _incredible_ smoker, literally the pack a day type. But she managed to quit when she found out I was going to be born. I'm really proud of her for doing it, because I know how hard it must be - nicotine is addictive after all! She's in her 80s now, she rocks.
@@mads_in_zero same except maternal grandmother. And it might’ve been an older sibling? But she quit abruptly too. She’s still going into her 90s
I was sick a lot when I was very young. My dad asked the pastor for advice, he said to quit cigarettes (among other things). My dad quit cold turkey and never smoked again. My dad lived probably 30 years longer than he would have if he hadn't quit smoking.
I smoked from ages 12-24 and its been 4 years since I quit smoking cigarettes and I could start back up in a HEARTBEAT. To be honest, the heath aspect isn’t why I quit. It was almost entirely due to societal pressure. My ex wife and I quit at the same time and she went right back to it during our divorce so the only thing keeping me from relapsing is knowing that I’m better than her 🥰
Who lets a 12 year old get a hold a cigarettes??
@@clownfromclowntown That's when my dad started smoking. 1975. Started smoking weed at 10!
@@clownfromclowntown kids younger than 12have always gotten their hands on cigarettes
divorced? but you sound like such a great guy lmao
Mmm spite, the greatest motivator
"diethylene glycol"
Oh no
"The filters contained asbestos"
OH NO.
Well at least that would reduce the number of deaths related to lung cancers I would assume...
@@eldonaddiethylene glycol just killed people outright by destroying their kidneys, asbestos just causes a different kind of cancer lol
I'm 69 and only smoked one cigarette in my lifetime. When I was 16 I tried smoking an entire cigarette so I could see what it was all about. I've smoked plenty of pot over the years, but never another cigarette. My wife smoked cigarettes in her early teens. When she was 16, she jumped in her car to drive to school one morning. After lighting up a cigarette, a hot ash fell and burned a little hole in her brand new blouse. She threw the remainder of the cigarette pack out the window and never smoked again. I love that story, because I would not have been attracted to her if her kisses tasted like an old ashtray.
Nice, also at time of writing this, There are also 69 likes. So double nice.
She lost one outfit and got rid of an addictive substance for the rest of her life. Glad you're still kicking
To think a single ash caused the marriage of two people
Even when smoking cannabis, I can't even tell how many clothes have a hole in them from hot ashes
Ever do coke or MDMA? You would have smoked a whole pack that night lolol
My mother was a smoker since her teenage years and we lost her to lung cancer a few years ago. I miss her terribly, so this hits close to home.
Same. I lost my mom 13 years ago when i was just 17. Lung cancer.
Everyone dies. She would have died without smoking too. So will I and so will you.
@@aliciasnavely5109 sorry for your loss
Right there with you brother. I lost my dad at age 5 - he had a heart attack at work and died at the hospital. All signs point to his decades of smoking, starting as a teenager in the 1950s, as the cause. The tobacco industry has the blood of millions on its hands.
My condolences to you and your family.
My grandfather drank and smoked cigars frequently, according to my mother. He died at home in 1992, shortly after the Salvadoran Civil War ended, of dementia. My grandmother outlived her husband by over 28 years. She died in July 2020.
I had asthma as a child. The day I moved out, I never had an issue with it. My parents were smokers. Also, it's super rad that you do what has to be countless hours of research and not taking for an hour or so of content. Thanks. Huge missed opportunity to shout out my man Stick Stickley
Glad you're not like me
I have chronic bronchitis because as a child I was addicted to the 2nd hand smoke
I didn't know it at the time, but for some reason, my parents lighting up a cigarette was always a cue for me to go in and talk to them
It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized
Same. The first month at college I found myself cranky and irritable. Then I walked through a cloud of Marlboro smoke and man there went the Jones. Asthma from Dad's 2 pack-a-day fix.
My brother used to get ear infections from my grandmother smoking in the car with the windows up. This was the late 1980s. She was told and continued on like nothing was wrong.
@Joshua Bailey
Moderate consumption of weed actually cleans out some of the tar that built up
Obviously smoking anything is bad for your health but it's definitely better than tobacco
@Joshua Bailey
I forget the scientific terminology but it makes the cilia(tiny hairlike structures) in your lungs move and it physically cleans
It was great working with you KB! Your video turned out to be a whole ass documentary!
You did an amazing job!
@@tomatochemist Appreciated -- thank you!
Wow your comment definitely needs to be bumped up more.
You deserve WAY MORE subs (gained one from me bro). This whole video is a 🔥🔥
My mom picked up her smoking habit in - you guessed it - Nursing School from fellow doctors and nurses (late 60's). It wasn't until I was born under weight and had to stay in the ICU for a while that she toned it down - to only one pack a day. On humid days, brown nicotine would run down our walls. She would get bronchitis all the time and died of heart disease in her 50's. Thank you, KB, for educating people about the history of this.
Congrats. The extra strength has to come from somewhere. For me it's friends and family. For others it's religion. I say. As long as it helps you get to a better place, it's okay with me. As long as it's not crack or something worse ;)
she toned it down to 1 pack a day? That's what's a hell ton already.
“Micronite filters were made out of asbestos.”
The cold cut caught me so off guard I burst out laughing. I’m going to hell
I smoked for 7 years, and then vaped for another 6, thinking I could have my cake and eat it to. Then when I turned 37, I started feeling like I was slowing down, that I constantly had a heavy chest and I could barely go without the vape. It felt pretty impossible to quit, until I decided I had enough. I told my husband I was going to quit and started on the patch. It was very hard, I bargained with myself everyday for 4 months but I can say now I have gone one while year nicotine free.
IM SO PROUD OF YOU congratulations I know that must have been really hard. You made the best decision for your current and future self and I'm so happy for you. Keep going!!
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Dammit. This is my story, only I'm not as far in yet. Still vaping and trying to convince myself to quit that. I have 4 years left until 37, though.
And if you're a Real American(tm) you won't find out you've got lung cancer until it's terminal because preventative screening is *communism*
One of your proudest moment. As a vaper who wants to quit but feels unable to it lifts my spirits to hear this. Well done madam 🎉
Hoo boy, there's a lot I could talk about here.
I smoked my first cigarette at fifteen an it was a match made in heaven. Whatever this was, my brain *needed* it from the first one. That started a twenty seven year love affair; at one point I was up to two packs a day. I finally quit two years ago and it's been amazing to actually feel my body heal from it. I can breathe deeply, climb stairs without getting winded, my voice quality is clearer - I had no idea the damage I was actually doing to myself, I just figured I'd get cancer one day and that was it. I never gave much thought to what was going on between here and there.
I will mention this, though--for the last ten years my cigarette of choice were Parliaments, and when that commercial came on, despite never having seen it before (come on, I'm not THAT old), it made me want one. Advertising works, y'all, and addiction is real.
I love how you fully spell out all your numbers.
My first was Marlboro, and I remember precisely what happened.
I threw up.
Never touched another since.
Prohibition is the dumbest way for everything. We saw it at war on drugs and alcohol and we'll see it if we starting a war on nicotine.
Nicotine is a highly addictive drug and we should handle it as such. Make it extremely uncool to smoke and give the people (youth) the feeling you look like extremely like an idiot with these electric pipe in your mouth. We need a change of culture.
You've said it, the cat is out the bag and we all know that cats are very hard to catch.
If you have to go to special shops to get tobacco and you need a receipt from a doctor you'll probably think twice before you start with these extremely uncool and inconvenient habit.
And vaping is a very good solution for those who are already hooked and need to quit or even to survive long enough to see how their grandchildren grow up. Vaping ain't healthy, but it's a lot better for your lungs then cigarettes are...
Make it an medical machine for extreme sick people... nothing is more uncool and less sexy then that.
Good for you, hun. I'm happy for you that you took that step. I'm sure your wallet's pretty psyched, too.
you're probably genetically predisposed to dementia, schizophrenia, or alzheimer, since nicotine have nootropic brain growth effects and stabilizes people who have the threee aforementioned diseases in their family. Thjats why you enjoyed it. It made you normal.
"death is not the worst thing that can happen to you" I generally agree with that statement, decades of suffering and pain like most people who have COPD and lung cancer is much worse than death.
Was my first thought too, but then the unsympathetic anoyingly loud man went the other direction.
@@jannikheidemann3805 yeah.
"Sure Bill I UndErSTand 'labored breathing' your point. However let me 'labored breathing' belittle your point. 'breathes laboriously and digs into their large bag' Since it's not a 'Breath' problem see if my excised lu-'BREATHES'-ng is an issue 'BREATHESSss' 'chucks tar and cancerous lung at his calf's from the stage seats'." I find it sad I found him funny for several years in the last 12 or so... I mean that time before several years ago when he became an asshole republican outright again.
Lung cancer won't take decades
what about bodily autonomy does it not apply ? You can bunjee jump which is extremely dangerous, you can sky dive, you can swim with sharks, but we need to ban cigarettes ?
High schooler here, the grip that vapes have on high school (at least in my area) is pretty severe. It's unspoken knowledge that if the bathroom suddenly smells weird, you get out of there because someone is vaping. I watched someone drop their vap pen in the lunch line. I hate it, and I hate thinking about how they will be hooked probably the rest of their lives because people are starting at 14 or younger
Oh wow!
I was a 1970s high schooler - the bathrooms were always full of smoke and we kids just got our ciggies out of the cig machine or well, any little corner store happily sold them to us. I'm still amazed I never got hooked on cigs.
Especially since vaping is easier to conceal and juul and other salt nic vapes hit harder than smoking
It's important to remember that zoomers operate on an accelerated timeline. They got hooked on vapes 10x faster than their recent ancestors got hooked on cigarettes. I believe they will cut them out of culture just as abruptly and completely by the mid to late 2020s.
Are you one of the sheltered kids not working a service job, or have parents that aren't a missed bill or two away from being destitute?
If yes, then I don't want to hear your opinion on drug addiction. You're a child.
This is a great breakdown not only of the history of smoking in the states (it's more prevalent in Europe) but also about corporate logic and how companies manipulate not only the individual client but entire demographics.
Capitalism will murder every last living organism on the planet if means the ownership class(even if it's just their corpses) gets one extra penny of profit that would have otherwise gone unextracted.
You want to watch "The Century of Self" byt Adam Curtis to understand how this was done. And who was the man behind "torches of freedom".
In the US you are told where to smoke in Europe your told where not to smoke. It's a whole different culture.
@@joekoch7428In my highschool we had a saying, if you look above yourself and see the sky, and don't smell/see anything flammable it's probably okay to spark up
I lost two grandparents to lung cancer when I was a small child, and it’s nice to know the history behind the loss. Thanks, KB.
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I'm so sorry for your losses.
I lost my grandpa to emphysema, my nana to heart disease (from smoking & dry cleaning ‐ my grandpa ‐ but affecting my nana by proxy obvs); my mother‐in‐law to lung cancer (smoking); my cousin & his wife - lung cancer (smoking).
I feel you.
I've survived cervical cancer 2x now & hence, I quit smoking (by vaping) going on 11yrs now.
I don't use juuls though ‐ I don't even know if they have them here in Canada tbh...
Vaping Is FAR less harmful • though juuls flavors had semi carcinogenic aspects apparently? Cos big tobacco loves to murder its consumers i guess...
I dunno ‐ just something I saw.
Anyhow ‐ peace, love, & best of health to you & yours.🫂♥️
I lost my grandma to lung cancer and my grandpa's voice was radically altered due to throat cancer before I was born (this made him really sad because it mean I'd never hear his true voice). They were both smokers when they were young. I get you. So sorry for your loss
Lost my Eldest Aunt to Pancreatic Cancer. She was a 2 pack a Day smoker, REFUSED to Quit.
As a high schooler from 2012-2016. I can tell you that vaping was already a thing amongst high schoolers in 2013 before anyone ever heard of JUUL. First time I saw anyone vaping was in my math final exam freshman year lol. Thought this kid was smoking a cig mid test while the teachers back was turned and was so confused. It definitely wasn’t common until my junior year, and it certainly exploded into the mainstream with JUUL and all the college kids looking to party. Thought I’d share my perspective as a teenager in that era lol.
Lol yeah, I’m a bit older than you but I remember seeing someone in a train station at night circa 2013/14 vaping and was so confused. I thought it was a strange disembodied hookah pipe at first (it was really long by even wand vape standards) 😅 but he kept going at it for like 30 minutes so I knew smth else must be up.
First time I saw a vape was the back of a middle school bus, the kid was a relatively normal kid and he was telling everyone about how it's great and there's no health risks, that was 2012 and I finally quit vaping in 2021
@@dominicspier6917 Hey, congratulations!
I remember early vape mods being mostly party tricks back then. I knew a few kids who had nicotine juice but just as many got 0% nic juices and just wanted to learn how to blow Os. Same age as you, 2012-16
Idk what school you went to but I was in highschool 2013-2017 and I had never seen a vape pen in my life.
Nicotine isn't just addictive, it's easily one of the most addictive substances there are. I've gone through some serious substance abuse, and I'm clean now. I can confidently say that nicotine was the hardest thing to quit.
My cocaine addict, alcoholic grandfather said that cigarettes were by far the hardest substance for him to quit.
@@zeb_reynolds Grandpa knew how to party!
@@darksu6947 Thats very true!
Is that due to the pharmaceutical effect of nicotine, or the comparative inescapabulity of nicotine products in mainstream society?
@@PopeBarley Both, I would imagine.
First time I ever smoked a cigarette is when I found a pack someone lost at a ballpark. My friend and I hide them in a rock pile near my house then went back everyday to take a couple puffs and cough our lungs out. That pack lasted us like 4 months.
How many packs do you smoke now (out of curiosity)?
I’m getting 10
lucky
@@lewismcdermott3024 Like 2 packs a day lol
TLDR: Cigarettes aren't a symbol of freedom rather it's a symbol of how powerful corporations degrade the quality of life of its customers while simultaneously profiting immensely.
I'm a former smoker (Marlboro gold/reds) I'm 20 (started smoking at 14) and I quit a little over a month ago. I know it's difficult for people who have smoked for a much longer time than me but from my personal experience if you want to quit bad enough you will do it. It is a testament to the human will to be better and if your will is strong you will be!
The last part of the video really moved me because while I never got into the vaping myself I know a ton of my peers who did in middle/highschool. Most of whom still vape to this day and I've noticed a significant change in many of those people who do still vape.
And how people will reflexively defend it and be reactionary to any and all laws
Yeah, the freedom to choose to be manipulated by such companies by getting hooked on their product ironically makes such people less free (but they still believe that they're free since there's a bit of cognitive dissonance keeping them from admitting to the taboo that they're actually hooked).
Predatory advertising is a terrible thing. You look at advertisement evolve from simple awareness campaigns to matter of fact descriptions to selling a product as a lifestyle. Greed destroys everything.
@@timrube lol I bet you were one of those tools that protested the friendlys shutting down for a month.. the people that think they are self sufficient in modern society are just the people that are too stupid to recognize how much everyone relies on society.
@@timrube I don't advocate banning them. As a former smoker I know all sides. I'm not going telling people how to live their lives when i've barely got my own figured out.
EDIT: On your point about responsibility and chaos I think the USA is already past that point of no return. Most peoples lives are so detached from the situation on the ground that when the house of cards fall (which I believe it is slowly) people will be in for a very rude awakening. If all the crazy news the past few years isn't an indication of that than idk what is.
Candy cigarettes came in two types. One had real cigarette paper around them and were made of gum. Between the paper and the gum was flour, so you could put it in your mouth and blow out, and get a puff of "smoke". The other kind were made of candy kind of like Necco wafers. They were bright white with a fluorescent pink tip, that was designed to look like a lit cig. Both kinds came in neat packages with joke names like "Cool" designed after the Kool package, with a little picture of a penguin carrying some suitcases like he's working as a bellhop. And the penguin smoking a cigarette of course. There were also candy and bubblegum cigars.
Personally I favored the brontosaurus ”pack" 🦕
Here in Mexico there where chocolate cigarettes. You can still find them in some places in fact. Though I never liked smoking, even as a kid, I loved those things XD they where the dryest, chalkiest stuff ever, but weirdly tasty!
You can still buy them, they're just hard to find.
I was obsessed with the ones that blew smoke 😭😭
I loved those as a kid, I thought I was so cool lol
My man, you're in a league of your own in the way you choose topics and present information. I'm a journalist and I truly believe watching your videos has made me a better writer and helped me in the way I conceptualize stories. Keep at it bro, you've got yourself a new Patreon patron.
Lovely comment 🌹
I went to Istanbul recently and was shocked at the cigarette box coverings. Images like blackened lungs and disfigured throats. I was pretty surprised, but the more I though about the more it made sense. Despite these horrible images, cigs still littered the sidewalks in the hundreds. Thank you for this video.
Canadian law has the packs be 2/3 of a warning image and the rest of the pack is the same gross brown for every brand with just their name being customized.
Yeh, in Europe the images on cigarette packs are a stuff of nightmares - blackened lungs, dying people, hands and legs affected by necrosis, holes in the body (really). It’s gruesome but probably pretty effective at not making smoking cool
@@llamennfarce4104 Not really, I live in EU and I picked up smoking around the time when they introduced these images on the pack. Some of my friends picked up smoking around that time as well. It may be shocking to the outsiders, but here we didin't really pay attention to it. Some even started collecting various labes like cards. What really made me quit smoking was the tax associated with it. When it started to get expansive I just quit.
@@llamennfarce4104 I live in Europe and the pictures don't do anything. Everyone, including kids, smoke and vape WAY more than back in the US
The pictures don't do anything for those used to smoking,they think they'll get cancer and die anyway so they don't give a damn
90s kid here. You unlocked some memories for me. My dad wasn't a smoker, but his best friend was, and my dad would take coupons from his Marlboro packs and save them up for free stuff. I remember him getting a branded red flannel overshirt.
Anyway, smoking is gross.
I was a casual smoker, but collected tons of "miles" from coworkers and would peel them off of discarded packs at bars. They had really nice stuff.
Yeah, it also revived a lot of memories from my childhood (also 90s kid). My mother was a smoker since she was 16. She quit 3 times, first when she was pregnant with me, then when she was pregnant with my sister and then for good. But the fact that she returned to smoking twice says a lot about its addictiveness. Even today she says that, when she smells cigarette smoke she still has a yearning for a cigarette. Also I remember that (here in germany) every restaurant and inn was filled with cigarette smoke when I was a child. The air smelt like cigarettes and so did your clothes after you returned home. 15 Years ago smoking in bars and restaurants was banned in germany and I remember how controversial it was, but nowadays it is pretty much universally agreed upon, that this was one of the best changes. I luckily never started smoking, I only smoked on parties in my late teens and I too prefered menthol cigarettes as well as vanilla flavoured ones we had in germany at that time, so it is probably good that they got banned here and should probably also be banned in the US (I mean the menthol ones, because the flavoured are apparently already banned).
I remember working with a woman at my first job, I was 15 or so. She was maybe 30, but looked quite a bit older in pretty long-term smoker fashion - sunken in eyes, hollow cheeks, aged neck and chest etc. She didn't seem completely happy with her life, considering she was working at McDonalds at 30, which isn't bad but I think you have to *really* enjoy McDonalds to enjoy working there at that age. She had a short-fuse but she often said she had a soft spot for me. One day as I was taking out the rubbish, she was out near the big bins on her smoke break, looking rather miserable to be standing next to a stinking bin. I throw the rubbish bags in the bin, and as I am walking back to go inside, she asks me "do you smoke?" Having grown up with a smoker father who died and an ex-smoker mother, I was always incredibly averse to smoking, I confidently replied "absolutely not".
She walked closer to me, cigarette in one hand, softly grabbing my shoulder with the other, and said something to the effect of "I started smoking at 14, you are around that age, right? I see girls around your age at work join me for smoke breaks and they probably think they are cool for joining the 'big adults'. That's how I started. If I could go back and stop smoking, I would in a heart beat. Darlin', don't do it to yourself, none of those girls are cool, they look incredibly dumb to me, and in about 20-30 years time, you are gonna look so much better than they will, and you will definitely be richer too with how expensive cigs are nowadays." As she was speaking to me, the harsh smell of cigarette smoke invaded my nose. I nodded, softly yet quickly saying "Thanks" as to not start coughing from the smell and walked back inside.
It was the first time someone in my life told me they regretted smoking. And, I see the girls I went to high school with who still smoke, and they have sunken eyes, aged neck and chest, crows lines, everything, and this is only 5 years after finishing high school. We are in our early twenties. Not good.
Do not try to be an author of stories because this one is very amateurish. Thank me later.
@@cravinbob You know, I started my day hoping to god you would tell me what you thought. God is real - he answered my prayers.
@@cravinbob lol agreed. 💯👏🏽 I was cringing reading the entire thing.
Thanks for sharing this anecdote. I had a similar experience once.
Kudos for not biting these argument-bait replies, lol.
"Yeah that almost sounds like something real human beings say to each other"
The candy cigarettes still exist but they call them "candy sticks" and they taste awful.
My dad was a smoker and always told us to never smoke, but of course never stopped once he was diagnosed with cancer. His years of struggle trying to quit made me never want to even try.
Most of my family smoked and died young because of it
They ALWAYS tasted awful. Well, boring anyway. They were just sticks of sugar, like those sticks in Lik'M'Ade that you dip in the sour sugar mix.
@@DustinRodriguez1_0 There's a slight difference. I could've sworn I remembered them having a slight marshmallowy taste, something close to a wintergreen lozenge but without the cooling effect. Personally, I liked them... though I also like Necco wafers, and therefore fully accept that that means my taste buds are a cruel prank of nature.
This was single handedly one of the best anti smoking things I have seen and has made me want to quit more than anything you should make a class length version of this so it can get shown in classes
I’d argue you could break down the segments to a week of classes, and frame it as a history advertising and smoking.
Good luck if you do try to quit!
Love Penn's little suppressed cough as he tries to say "breathing secondhand smoke [doesn't cause] cancer" at 1:14:30.
Feels like he should be looking at his own show on his show. Kinda like that scene in Spaceballs.
I like to think they did like 30 takes and that one was the best one they had.
If I’m not mistaken, P&T were going to do a series finale about how “Penn & Teller: Bullshit” is Bullshit, but the show was cancelled by Showtime before they could do so.
1:40:30 doesn't exist Edit: I found it at 1:14:30
@@PresAlexWhit thanks! edited.
Love Penn and Teller, but their opinions on Second Hand Smoke are kinda dated. Love their BS series due to their entertaining content, even if there are some things I disagree with.
I’m 21 and started smoking/vaping when I started working at a coffee shop half a year ago. Hardly touched it before then but being surrounded by my coworkers who both heavily smoke/vape I started because it sorta came with the territory. Something about the caffeine and nicotine is a popular combo for baristas. That paired with people stuck in poor, working class jobs makes people love their mild stimulants; however, I realized that giving myself a nic addiction was incredibly stupid. Having been using nicotine for the better part of a year I decided to quit. I’m 2 weeks clean off of it and I wanna stick with not doing it anymore. I worry that if I keep it up especially while I’m still relatively young I won’t be able to quit in the future.
Mate I'm 24 and I've quit like 4 different times
My mom died of smoking-related COPD. Her father died of a mix of heavy smoking and years as a firefighter during a period where safety procedures were 'wear a heavy jacket and don't step on the line'. Trust me-it's not how you wanna go.
Vaping and Smoking are two different things.
@@Tornado1994 nicotine is the same thing regardless of how it enters your bloodstream. the consequences of each consumption method vary, but the nicotine is still making you feel like shit whether it's realized or not
@@archaic1026 it’d probably be about 500 bucks over the course of 6 months, which is very little. I’m only 21 and already have more put aside in my 401k
For what it's worth, not everyone who started smoking as a teen (I was 13) is doomed to keep smoking forever. I started in 1983 and quit in 2003, two packs a day, cowboy killers in the flip top box. (Fwiw, I quit cold turkey because the gum and patches and stuff were all STUPID expensive.) Also, note that sometimes it takes people a couple of tries to get the hang of quitting, so don't be discouraged if it doesn't work the first time you try. Just learn from the experience and try again. You can do it! I did!
Doesn't fit the narrative he's presenting though.
Hilarious tjah in a 90 minute video he blames everyone involved except the smokers themselves.
I smoked too and I only blame myself. This wasn't in the 70s and 80s though.
Not everyone is, but the earlier you start, the deeper the addiction later on. Just like not everyone who smokes a pack a day will ultimately die of lung or circulatory diseases, but odds are tha most will. That's what most of this is about: probability. Side note: my great granddad started smoking cigarettes at 11, smoked another 75 years, and then quit just because. He lived another 11 years, no apparent lung problems. Dont ask me how. 3 of his sons smoked, and didn't live anywhere near as long.
@@shawnrazzi5569 Yeah, He definitely lost some credibility
with his dismissiveness of personal responsibility
and more so with the statement "addiction is a disease".
I know someone who relapsed 6 times. She was successful the 7th time and has been free from tobacco for the past 5 years
@@HauntedXXXPancakeaddiction IS a disease
You wouldn’t believe the amount of cool items my parents and grandparents had gotten from Marlboro Miles rewards program and they were still going as late as the year 2000.
When you started talking about women and cigarettes, I immediately knew where it was going. My mom smoked Virginia Slims for many decades.
Oooh😮
My uncle had a legit nice leather motorcycle jacket with Joe Camel embroidered on the back shooting pool and smoking, it was purchased with camel cash.
Not to do with smoking but my great grandpa use to call my Pokemon cards cigarette box cards. I assumed it was because an unopened pack of cards looked like a cigarette box. And hearing you talk about how trading cards came in cigarette boxes brought back that memory. But I guess I know why he called them that now.
It is insane that I (22 yr old) can still remember a time when going to a restaurant almost always started with "Would you like to sit in the smoking or no smoking section?" Just a bit of a mind blow when I look at how rare smoking is anymore, and that basically no restaurant has a "smoking section" anymore
it's also just flat out illegal in a lot of states now. Minnesota in particular completely banned smoking indoors in buildings opened to the public. can't remember when but it's been that way up here for quite a while.
All one need due is stand an adequate distance from a hospital and you will find a group of staff members (and quite often patients) smoking rapidly. The differential adoption and failure of anti-smoking campaigns to address the socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and class differentials in smoking patterns continues to leave the underprivileged at a disadvantage. Yes, smoking is largely gone in many white collar workplaces and in public accommodations (restaurants, hotels, bars, etc). However, it should be noted that in many blue collar workplaces smoking is still very tolerated and deeply rooted. At hospitals this tension is acutely demonstrated as it is more frequently technicians, facilities, administrative support, and janitorial staff who continue to smoke and much rarer to see nurses and physicians.
I don't remember that at all, but I live in California and they probably had those rules in place when I was a toddler in the late 80s.
@@rugbybeef I think it's more that nursing is a high stress job and smoking helps take the edge off, kinda like food for the fat nurses.
@@lainiwakura1776 I was saying that I no longer see nurses smoking anymore compared to the beginning of my career approximately 15 years ago. These days it appears much more common for other staff members (medical imaging technicians, phlebotomist, medical assistants, patient transport, etc) to be smoking I personally believe this is due to RNs and NPs are generally from more privileged backgrounds and able to attend BSN and MSN programs,, growing professional stigma and sanctions for smoking, generational effects, and their higher levels of medical education and direct experience with patients suffering from chronic conditions related to smoking..
In my experience it is rare to see RNs, especially younger RNs smoking at all. In my experience, there were a few older nurses who smoked when I started my career. Back then, it seemed that CNAs and LPNs (part-time, night school, or vocationally trained) were more likely to smoke. Our health system also stopped hiring staff who use tobacco products nearly a decade ago, so it is basically implementing a date restriction on tobacco. Noteworthy, I haven't seen someone recognizably an RN or smoking in quite a while. (The health system I know assigns a particular scrub color to roles/credentials so it is easy to identify RNs/LPNs versus those in other colors by dept & job)
There was a guy on my hall my freshman year of college who dipped. He and his roommate became very close as they were both on the wrestling team and had arrived a week or two early to start practices. His roommate ended up picking up his dip habit pretty quickly and the first guy's girlfriend was unphased by it. My step-brother dipped, so I was kind of used to random repurposed bottles being around and didn't really give it a second thought. The other folks on our hall though were mostly from upper-middle and upper class families where no one used any tobacco. They never really got used to these two guys walking around with Gatorade bottles as informal personal spittoons*, and were totally grossed out now and then when they would leave one accidentally on the lounge table or the shelf in the hall bathroom. They didn't even want to touch the bottles to throw them away and were madden just knowing they there may be a few floating around into their room. It's funny, I haven't thought about that at all in years.
*Not spitting from across the room Bugs Bunny style, just like carrying with them doing laundry, studying or whatever and holding it up to their mouth when the collected saliva filled their mouth.
12 year long smoker here, 3rd day quitting, have an unopened pack sitting nearby, didn't touch it.
Also biggest takeaways are: Big Tobacco wanted TV ads gone and wantted warning labels. Fascinating.
Good luck on quitting! Where I come from we have a nickname for cigarettes 'καρκινοσωλήνες (= karkinosolines)', cancer tubes.
@maxerd Throw out the unopened pack. Distance yourself from the temptation.
Lol Elon Musk is an Exec. Prod. on 'Thank You For Smoking'
@@markkrousos5011 "Cancer sticks" are a slang term used in America as well.
Keep with it brother! I smoked for 16 years and quit about a month ago. It feels great and the want for a cigarette has lessened tremendously.
The "I liked South Park before it was political" crowd proved to me how little media awareness most Americans had. They would literally be criticizing topics all the time and people that agree with them would somehow laugh along without realizing
KB: *produces content literally on par with feature length documentaries in scope and depth in a topic*
Me: man, too bad he can’t post more stuff
He'd have to pay his actors more.
If the only complaint is „I wish there was more“, they did a good job.
@@Tetragrammaton22 That would not be very capitalism of him.
For real. Why isn't he cranking out 2 or 3 of these a week? Lazy asshole...
@@TheModdedwarfare3 that would precisely be capitalism. He would have to invent profitable cloning first though
Thank you for adding the bit about harm reduction. Vaping flavored nicotine has gotten me, my brother, and both my parents off of cigarettes permanently, but I definitely discourage people who don't already smoke from picking up vaping.
The problem is cigarettes are so bad consuming literally any other product is an improvement.
it's easy to switch from cigs to vaping because vaping is more convenient by every possible metric, but it's not easier to quit nicotine through vaping
@@cornettotrilogyenjoyer that's the point of harm reduction tho, it's pretty much impossible for very heavy users of cigarettes to just quit, so you have to minimize harm with things like vapes.
27:56 Slight correction, while diethylene glycol does occur in antifreeze, it's as a byproduct of ethylene glycol, the main ingredient.
Also, fun fact, in the 70s diethylene glycol was used by Austrian vintners to artificially sweeten their wine without regulators detecting added sugars. Since it's hilariously toxic, it caused a string of paralyses and poisonings that just about wrecked the industry for a while.
Finally, a fun fact i ACTUALLY knew lol
Additional fun fact, ethylene glycol is an antifreeze agent common in heating systems, while propylene glycol can be used similarly (not as effectively), but is also non-toxic and is a common food and drug additive.
If you haven't already (which you might have) Freidrick Knudsun has a video talking about that whole incident. Absolutely incredible video and content creator in general. He's similar to KB, but talks about a wide variety of non-political content.
Ah yes the Austrian "Antifreeze" wines... Love the fact that the Austrian officials finally linked the paralysis "epidemic" until some random person came to a police station in Vienna, bring a bottle of wine and said "This wine contains glycol, please investigate this" (or something along that line), put the bottle in the front desk, and leave immediately without any elaboration
Lol I thought that was just black market wine runners 😁
I was a freshman in high school when JUUL became a thing. I eventually got myself a JUUL in 2018. At the end of 2019 the age was raised to 21 and I wasn’t grandfathered in. I used nicotine pouches to thankfully quit 5 months before I turned 21. Thank god they raised the age because I never formed a habit of going to the store and buying nicotine for myself. My friends that weren’t as fortunate as I are now struggling to quit vaping, or they’ve moved on to tobacco products. So your conclusion is very accurate. Those late teenage years really are the deciding age for nicotine addiction. And that doesn’t mean only young people can quit. I also have older friends that have eventually quit - it’s just a lot harder when you get older.
As someone about your age who also loved Penn and Teller, thank you for ripping into them when deserved.
But the episodes where they talked the crazy stuff were good. They made me see cheerleading in a new light as well.
We had chocolate cigarettes when I was a kid in the 90s. We got them in our shoe in the weeks before Sinterklaas (December 5th). They looked very similar to the real brands. I remember 'smoking' 100s of them. They were all the rage. When they banned candy that looked like cigarettes, they tried bringing them on the market as "chocolate sticks", but that never took off. Chocolate sticks covered with a layer of thin white paper, just didn't make sense without the cigarette link. These chocolate sticks were on the market when my youngest brothers were young. I remember them eating the sticks, but they didn't fake-smoke them and when I asked them just now if they remembered them they both had no memory of them.
They have gone the way of the negerzoenen (nigerkiss) and black pete (a black-face helper).
I remember those! My dad used to smoke but quit it shortly before moving in the new house with my mom, and bought me the chocolate cigarettes whenever we went by a candy store and they had them. While I didn't 'smoke' them, some of my friends did. One day they stopped selling them at a store we had close so they faded from my memory for many years. About a decade later the memory was suddenly triggered as I walked by a store in a side alley that sold 'chocolate sticks' that seemed very familiar. So I went in and asked the lady at the counter who confirmed they were the same thing. Felt nice to know I wasn't crazy hahaha. My sister had no memory of them and looked at me odd whenever I mentioned them.
You had to peal off the paper or spit it out later 😄
I'm sorry, this is completely off topic, but I'm very confused.
I'm Belgian, so the Sinterklaas tradition is something I grew up with and which my entire environment (and I to a limited capacity, because I'm a childless adult) still participates in every year.
... But It's on the 6th of december! I'm very sure of that.
So do they celebrate it on the 5th somewhere?
@@katrijndekeersmaecker1904 Saint Nicolas died on december 6th and that is his feast day, but in the Netherlands the celebration with the presents is on Saint Nicolas Eve (so the evening before the feast day)
As a kid, I remember the smoking section on the plane For those too young to remember, imagine 80% of the plane lighting up and you are one seat behind all of them in the "no smoking" seats. Bonus was breathing the recirculated air on a 10 hour flight to Europe. It was the same for restaurants at the beginning but at least you were out of there in less than an hour.
That's really quick dining lol
American?
@ian macdonald
I can remember when "NON-smoking sections" on planes and in restaurants did not even exist.
I remember an anti-smoking lesson from my childhood. They used the soiled filter to show us what was filtered out---now just imagine what actually got in!!
As a millenial, I am now feeling a need to re-examine so many things that I consumed as a teen/YA 😬
Good. Good.
Let us know what else you find in terms of potential germs of degeneracy in your childhood.
I can't believe I ever thought Bill Maher was smart. It only seemed like his takes have been getting worse the past decade but it turns out he's always been a center right libertarian moron.
The 12 Years a Slave poster is kinda subtle on the addiction thing. Actually, I really like the subtle manuevering between pictures, blocking the addiction aspect to switch to the "We know this is stupid but we're gonna build an entire culture around being super proud about doing it anyway" aspect of Starship Troopers. Well played, KB prop master. Well played.
I spotted the little cigarette props on the shelves but didn't get the significance of the posters! This is neat!
i think dude has that there every episode
@@enock542 Yer, does seem that way. Everyone's gotta notice at some point, though.
@@erisdiscordia5429 that's a fact family. hope you're enjoying your night yo. stay up
@@enock542 Same, bud.
Your room is the only time I can ever imagine “12 years a slave” and “starship troopers” being mentioned together.
@@chompythebeast The first movie is satire. The book is absolutely not and an active proponent of militarism.
@@chompythebeast I understood after first watching it. I wasn't dead sure it was satire, but when I saw the KB video I felt really validated on picking that up.
Slavery guarrantees citizenship!
The micronite filter is nuts! Directly expose your lungs to tobacco and asbestos simultaneously!
I love your cutaways to period pop art. It's really enlightening to put words into cultural context.
It was nice to see Billiam "Boomer republican" Mahr has always been a piece of garbage.
I started smoking when I was 17. I smoked a lot for 8 years before I tried to quit for the first time. I always told that it was my own choice and I believed all that nonsense, I overlooked the warning lables on packs, even dismissed the science about secondhand smoke. Your video was very interesting in showing that all the tobacco contreversy is fabricated by the tobacco industry and that it successfully pushed it through an entire generation. I believe that your video should be shown to a lot more of people, smokers or not, to expose even more this industry and deter any kid from smoking. If my 17 year old self would have seen a video like this, he would have never touched his first smoke because we all know that smoking kills, but we do not all know that the tobacco industry lied to us so viciously and fooled us. I'm still struggling to stop smoking completely, but by the Lord's grace, I will eventually make it. If I can give an advice on anyone here that think that smoking is cool or want to try his first cigarette: the best way to stop smoking is to never begin.
Fun fact. The cigarettes given out to soldiers during world war 2 killed more people than the actual war.
As they say, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
You can do it! I started smoking at 14 and quit 18 years later. Vaping is what finally helped me, I tried every patch gum and pill known to man with no results. Over 6 years tobacco free now, still vape 3mg juice I make myself. I haven't gotten a cold or flu since I quit smoking either, used to be at least once a year.
I genuinely wish you well with that. Unfortunately, all too many smokers quit only after too much damage has been done.
Started when i was 18
Quit when i was 22.
Was slightly irritated for a week, anyone incapable of quitting cold turkey is simply suffering from personal failings and a spineless wretch trying to shove responsibility for their own life and choices to others
Also fuck ciggarette companies, not defending those scumbags here, just can't stand the bullshit excuses everyone makes
Addiction is personal failing, grow a goddamn spine and take responsibility for your own life for ONCE in your pathetic existence
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve quit smoking. I’ve used the patch, switched to vaping and continued to go back to cigs. I watched your show halfway through, paused it, had a smoke, and then put a patch on. I bought those boxes of patches a year ago. It’s time. I’ve been smoking 23 years. It’s time to quit for good.
Ey. You're right. Life's too short to ruin it with this sort of repetitive crap. My tip coming from a history of obsessive masturbation: when the urge comes, do three pushups and just go outside. You can go barefoot if it's safe, the sensations will distract you quite well. Don't force yourself any long distance, just make going outside for two minutes your goal. That way the mental barrier to actually doing it is lower. The pushups will make you stronger and let you walk outside straighter each time you deal with the urge in a smart way, just as a bonus.
As of typing this, I'm fighting an urge myself, but I don't want to lie to both of us, so I'll go outside now.
Be kind to yourself, since that's the person you're around the most :)
Whatever you do, don't smoke with the patch on. You'll get soooo nic sick it isn't funny.
Quitting smoking isn't a single event its a process where you will make mistakes. Good on you and avoid the point where you quit quitting. You are trying to change your brain. I
i smoked for 15 years myself and also did gum and vape and neither did the job
what worked for me was taking about a week or two to switch to santa fes/cheyennes (filtered cigars) as they have about 1/3 the concentration of nicotine as a regular cigarette
once my body was adjusted to those lower concentrations, it was a lot easier to manage withdrawals and cut back until i was able to take a full week of vacation in a cabin up north to just detox the rest of the way
wishing you luck, nicotine is a hell of a drug
You got this, scro. I wish you success on your quest and all the best.
Did he just say they have a way to make carcinogen free cigarette but they just don't? Think of all the garbage people are exposed to that could be made much safer but corporations don't because of $$$.
Live in Belgium, I’m 24 years old. We got similar laws of banning advertising of cigarettes.
My mom smokes, many of my circle do, but they always told me and other non-smokers to not smoke, my mother being the one to threaten me.
I only have tried marijuana multiple times, yet never touched a cigarette.
Europe has a more smoking related culture. But also an understanding of it being bad for you.
That's interesting!
I'm also Belgian, and 24. But somehow, my experience is that almost no one in my immediate environment smokes, especially People in my generation. The people I know that do smoke are mostly in my parents generation.
Are you from Brussels or Wallonia perhaps?
That might explain the difference, as I'm Flamish.
@@katrijndekeersmaecker1904 Limburg. Grandfather migrated to Belgium to work in the coal mines in the 1960’s. As I might’ve should’ve added that most of those who smoke around me are from immigrant background.
I actually know more smokers from the coal mine immigrant communities then of the locals.
An hour in to see you put Mahr on blast was worth every second. Excellent, Informative and Entertaining
Billiam "Boomer Republican" Mahr is just Dennis Praguer on weed.
Good to know Maher had always been a piece of trash.
i am a libertarian and i have to admit, it's possible for us to be wrong sometimes
to put it up front I'm still against taxation of cigarettes...
but it's really not acceptable to allow poison to be advertised as anything but poison,
and you certainly wouldn't allow someone to open a can of mustard gas on an airplane. the concept is very similar.
i think the current status quo is ok. only 13% of people in the US smoke and that is still decreasing, but smokers are allowed to buy what they want.
and I'm fine with most public areas banning it, it's a chemical assault on people who did not consent
@@Praisethesunson i would describe my opinion of Bill Maher's beliefs as "left-libertarian", whereas I am "right-libertarian". He has also shown willingness to compromise by supporting maintream progressive candidates. I agree with him on most things he says that are specifically critical of a government action, but I doubt he has much of an understanding of economics.
As someone who used to smoke (gross) I actually loved the recessed filter on parliaments. It was a stiff tube not a squishy tube, and that made the smoking experience much different.
Come to think of it most pre-rolls at cannabis dispensaries have a similar mouth feel with their cardboard "filters".
Ah yes, I don't smoke cigarettes, but I can't smoke a J without a "crutch", much better smoke!
I roll my own and while I've never much smoked Parliaments, when I rip the filter off of a pre-rolled cigarette I have a pretty specific technique for it that leaves half the paper behind. So, there is actually something to that, for sure.
Someone who used to (and probably still does) smoke parliaments told me the reason they have the recessed filter was a ww2 idea so the machine gunners could hold their cigarette in their mouth while they had both hands on the gun. It sounds so far fetched, but at the same time, I could totally see ww2 soldiers who smoked to make that change to the way a cigarette is rolled lol.
@@kyle9401 lots of people in the 70s used the filter for Coke as well. George Clinton named Parliament after the cigarettes
@@origamibyameer6719 I remember hearing that as well. I bet it works great lol. A measured dose right in your cig pack seems kinda handy if that's your kinda thing.
The whole second hand smoke issue and no smoking places. Even if passive smoking were not dangerous, being forced to breathe in someone else's choice of smoke is anti social, especially when no alternative to move away. I loved your smoking section on a plane with the swimming pool comparison
Couldnt believe how fast vaping took off right as we had almost actually gotten rid of cigarettes
Same! And peers who were "smart enough" NOT to smoke have disappointed me by picking up the habit. I had an extended-stay guest who vaped in his room, despite telling him not to, and the damn things gave my cats asthma attacks. We're back to square one on proving damages!
It’s really crazy knowing we saw it happen in real time. These days u can tell what generation a person is from whether they smoke or vape because like no one under 25 smokes cigarettes
Two steps forward. 5 steps back.
Thanks capitalism! A death cult for profits that is quite literally killing us.
There was a brief period where nobody in school smoked or vaped, and it was glorious.
There was a brief period where nobody in school smoked or vaped, and it was glorious.
My dad smoked for 25 years and only stopped after I had badgered him with leaflets etc about the dangers for several years. He already didn't like what tobacco was doing to him, but my genuine fear for his health helped him make the decision to stop. When he got a new job in biking distance from home, he then also found the motivation. After just six months he looked 10 years younger, and even now, at age 63, he still goes to work by bike (10km per way, 5 days a week). If he hadn't stopped when he did I'm pretty sure he would have lung cancer by now, and he'd be significantly less healthy and happy. Thank you for this amazing film❤️❤️❤️
You were the motivation for your dad to want to change and save his life. I hope you know what a good kid that makes you.
You're a good kid. I did the same with my mom, but unfortunately she had been smoking for 50 years and she developed mild COPD. She's been smoke free for over a decade and gets by with an inhaler.
thanks for this video, i'm 36 hours into quitting cold turkey (for the second time lol) & it helps to remember how utterly evil the industry has always been
Best of luck!!
Good luck. Stay strong.
Please Becareful cold turkey! Withdrawals are no joke!!
I love this video! Entertaining, yet informative and not over-bearing.
I started smoking when I was 13. I was born in 1982. I think I picked it up as a rebellion thing. I didn't think it was too bad. I was still able to run a mile, I watched people who smoked since they were kids grow up to be old men. It wasn't until 2013 when I noticed... I couldn't run a mile anymore. I had a hard time breathing, especially if I went into a sneezing fit. I quit smoking in 2013 and started vaping. Immediately, I had more oxygen in my blood and my lungs were much healthier. I could run a mile again. I had slowly dropped the nicotine content in my vape juice until it was none. Now, I vape recreationally, usually when I drink (another habit I am curtailing, haven't had a drink in a few months. Usually only special occasions now) I tried gums, patches and lozenges. Maybe it was a combination of not wanting to quit yet or they really weren't that effective, they just didn't help me quit.
I am always encouraging to not start smoking in anyone I meet, young or old. It was a nasty habit and robbed me of a few years of productive life.
Interesting how cig companies could overcome the tragedy of the commons by agreeing to get cig ads off the air, reasoning that it's better for all of them if no one shows them, even if they individually could benefit from running their own ads. If only countries could have a similar attitude to fossil fuels.
It's not possible
see, in that case, their was profit motive in co-operation, whereas with fossil fuels, their hasnt been as clear a profit motive to shift off them. the current Unpleasantness in Ukraine, and the problems its causing in the energy market, MIGHT be enough to tip more countries towards non fossil fuel based power grids, but even then, thats a long term thing.
That's actually a very apt application of tragedy of the commons. If you consider most of the big tobacco brands. own multiple brands and remain profitable, it's essentially a license to print money
OPEC?
They're not doing it for the environment mainly, but less oil burnt is less oil burnt.
The Atmosphere does not care.
Unfortunately, their interests weren't in protecting their customers but their bottom line. Better to lose a little profit than all of it in the eyes of a corporation. So, they protect one another and poison us all. BTW, the fossil fuel industry does the same thing, using the exact same playbook the tobacco industry used. Lie, manipulate, cast doubt, lobby, and strongarm. The only way any or all nations will force controls on the fossil fuel industry is if a ubiquitous clean and easily portable energy source is achieved, which they are actively funding opposition research to discrediting or slowing down to maintain profits.
I'm in my late 20s now, but I started smoking at 16 years old. The first pack of cigarettes I ever bought was Newport Menthols. I then switched to Marlboro Reds and Camel Turkish Royals for about a year, until at 17, I started buying American Spirits. By the time I was 20, I vowed to stop smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately, all through my early 20s, though I almost never bought a pack for myself, I'd often find myself in the company of friends who still smoked. And whenever I was under the influence of alcohol (which was rather often back then), and I happened to be around those friends, I inevitably bummed cigarettes off of them. However, I would smoke much less on average at that period of time than when I had initially begun to smoke. It wasn't until my mid-20s that I began vaping and started gradually getting away from cigarettes entirely. I started with Juul (which is a massive rip-off and made me feel like trash all the time), then switched to refillable pod devices before switching from nicotine salts to freebase nicotine juices.
So, for about a year, I would vape the much less potent juices that are typical of the "box" mods. Then the pandemic happened, and I ended up losing my job and quarantining myself at home. For a handful of months, I would just order juice and coils online, but when it got to the point where I simply couldn't afford to fuel my addiction any further, I gave it up entirely. There was about a year and a half where I abstained from nicotine in totality, and I felt much better. Then I got back out into the working world a little less than two years after I initially lost my last job. And yet again, I was surrounded by people consuming nicotine. But this time, it was predominantly nicotine salt vapes, namely the Breeze brand. And unfortunately, the cravings returned and I got hooked once more. It's been months, and just over a week ago, I bought myself another box mod for vaping freebase nicotine juices in order to wean myself down to a point where I no longer feel the urge to consume any nicotine. And let me tell you, it has been a struggle.
I wish I had never smoked my first cigarette well over a decade ago, as this perpetual cycle of addiction and attempted cessation has been an absolute hell. And continually, I see friends and coworkers struggling with it even harder. And many of my coworkers are under the age of 21 (the legal age to purchase tobacco products in my state), so they jump through hoops to get their fix. Countless people I know who currently vape nicotine salts started when they were under the age of 18 and started with Juul. It's the same story time and again. So many of the facts you exposed in your video ring true to me in my personal experience with tobacco and the experiences of people I know. It's honestly disgusting to know the sheer degree of manipulation the tobacco industry has employed to keep people hooked and to misinform them of the dangers of their products. It only furthers my resolve to want to get myself off of nicotine and be done with it for good. I only hope that the many people I know who are struggling with their own addiction can have the strength to overcome it themselves.
Thank you for this video. That is all.
Best of luck to you! I've been a cigarette smoker since I was 14 (I'm now 39) and around three years ago I switched to vaping, starting with juul (I agree with you they are such a fucking rip off) and then an actual vape like a Smok Baby stick where you need coils and vape juice. I spent a year using that and eventually stopped entirely it was going great. Then I went on vacation in the mountains with my family during the fall where we spent a week at a cabin, and one of my sisters bought a pack of cigs just for the occasion to have a few while we were there. I asked for the rest of the pack when we left because she isn't a regular smoker and from there I've been back to daily smoking again it was really stupid of me to start up again. A pack will last me 3-4 days so I'm only having around 5 or 6 a day, but still I know it's not a good habit and I plan on quitting for good soon. I've quit before in the past for up to two years once so I know I can do it, but this time it's gonna be a permanent thing. I hope we both kick the habit and good luck to you!
Thank you for sharing your story.
As a vaper that used it to quit smoking, thank you for the objective, non-loaded and non-knee-jerk representation of vaping.
We've gotten media PTSD from all the propaganda lol. I scrolled the comments before watching to see if anyone mentioned that section, thanks for the heads up, I can relax now 😅
Vaping made me more addicted to nicotine than cigs ever did
@@topkekm8817 I started with both. When I try and quit I use weed. It's not the same and it's addictive as well.
I don't get it: If vaping is a lot less harmful than cigarette smoking, why is he against that? Just because it is still addicting? Vaping could be a real healthy alternative to smoking; it sounded like to me.
@@dukaduka506 it is currently seen as healthier but being cripplingly addicted to nicotine certainly isnt, also we arent sure of the long term effects of vaping yet. My lungs felt a different type of bad if i was vaping all the time compared to smoking and i feel way better without either in me although although i do miss the nicotine, I had to listen to this video because seeing all the consumption of it was too craving inducing and I am several months free right now
1:19:58 Cigars still come in all sorts of flavors, like chocolate, vanilla, and grape. They are probably left alone because cigars are not meant to be inhaled (although frequent cigar smokers still have high rates of oral cancers, and a somewhat higher risk of lung cancer than non-smokers). However, not all of the flavors would appeal to children. I don’t think any child has ever said “Yum! I love espresso and rum!”.
I had a really bad experience when they finally outlawed smoking in public places in Iowa. I was in a college art class and someone mentioned the new ruling. I said I was happy I was finally happy to be able
to go out to dinner with my family. I'm disabled with several pulmonary issues and couldn't go out to dinner with my family because of smoking and the fact smoke will send me into the hospital and make my airways shut down.
My classmates and teacher jumped on my statement saying I didn't care about peoples rights and why should everyone change their habits for a few people and "if your so crippled with lung problems just stay home, I shouldn't lose my rights just because your lungs are fucked up"
gotta love that ableism
Yea it sucks I have asthma and can relate
@@tylerklein2483 Yeah, boarder line asthmatic here, but my smoking friends would at least make sure they were down wind from me, which did involve them shifting as soon as the wind changed.
If anything it's the other way around. Cigarettes are bad for everyone whether they have a condition or not. So it's not everyone else's problem that they were stupid enough to allow a bunch of rich assholes to convince them to pay for the privilege to slowly kill themselves when there was avaliable information proving that they were dangerous.
Life isn't fair, that's a lesson seem to forget nowadays.
@@lainiwakura1776 "life isn't fair" is not an excuse to intentionally make it more unfair than it needs to be. Smoke inside your home if you want, nobody else needs to taste your favourite insecticide
"You know who smokes menthols" lmfao. When I was in the military I would smoke Black & Milds, my buddy said, "Hey Morgan you're black how come you don't smoke menthols?" He dared me to do it and that began the downward spiral.
July 23, 2022 marks 10 years since I've had a cigarette. I still get cravings for them almost every day. If I could smoke without any of the health concerns, I'd start again in a heartbeat. I only smoked for four years, but it was during that window you described of 18-22 years old, so I'm not sure if I'll ever be rid of the temptation to start again.
bro vaping has waaaay more nicotine than a cigarette and has been proven to be as bad for you as that cup of coffee in the morning, vaping is pretty much smoking without any of the health concerns, let loose my friend.
Doesn’t targard exist for a reason?
What a great way to live. So much better. You say it's been 10 years, but it feels like it was just yesterday. I can quit tomorrow and feel the same way!
My dad grew up in the 60s and 70s. Both his parents smoked. It was amazing that only one of their 4 kids took up the habit, which would be my.dads older brother. He was also the first to die at 64 of congestive heart failure, largely caused by decades of chain smoking, which he did until his dying day.
I quit in the cardiac intensive care on Oct 9 2010. I was already trying to quit, had not had one since Oct 7.
I don't get the urges but I still miss it sometimes.
Quitting smoking is EASY! What are you talking about!?
*I quit my smoking habit all the time. Again. And again. And again....and again...*
Like many other commenters, I also grew up with asthma in a smoking household, had literally dozens of environmental allergies, along with kidney and heart issues. I got the kidney and heart issues resolved completely before moving out, but after getting kicked out of my mom's house in 7/8th grade (I was a bad kid lol) my asthma and allergies immediately started going away, eventually becoming non-existent. In fact, I haven't even owned an inhaler, let alone a nebulizer, in 10 years now. I was finally able to participate in sports, lost 40 pounds, and my health became so much better. Life was great until I was in my sophomore year of high school my mother was diagnosed with rather advanced lung cancer, and I became completely despondent. My goal of going to the University of Michigan became completely unrealistic within 1 semester because my perfect grades turned into C's and B's; I lost my will to live because I didn't want to see my mother die. She had surgery to get most of her left lung removed, it was successful and she is alive today, but before we knew that I remember seeing her in the ICU hooked up to machines, unable to communicate with me, seemingly on her death bed. I remember her heart attack when I was 6 and my siblings having to both get EMTs to my home and prepare my nebulizer and treat me with it because the panic triggered an asthma attack beyond anything I'd ever experienced.
Words cannot (legally) describe the feelings of rage I continue to have towards the profiteers of the tobacco industry for what they did to my mother and what they did to me. I'm now two courses away from the first university degree in my entire family history and I get frequent recruiting emails from companies like Altria. I will never feel one iota of guilt for channeling as much of that rage as I can in my responses to the bastards that have sold their souls to these profiteers of death. Regardless of the current laws, I hope these monsters spend the rest of their fucking lives in a cell, and honestly I don't care how far down the org chart it goes. Every single employee of these companies have shown no concern for my life or the life of people around me, I will *never* advocate for them in any respect.
Beautifully said. I wish you didn't have to go thru all that stress (to put ot mildly).
I never thought I'd hear about diethylene glycol being consumed outside of the Austrian Wine Poisoning. But holy shit you've proved me wrong
Any chance you learned about that through the Well There's Your Problem podcast ? If not they did a good video tackling it.
@@iamjustkiwi Fredrick Knudsen's "Down the Rabbit Hole" on the subject. But I'll check the recommendation!
@@brenndanmcdonaugh1672 aw heck yeah, another great channel. I found them through their mouse utopia experiment video and loved their work ever since.
@@brenndanmcdonaugh1672 same lol
There's plenty of spouse murders with it. Forensic Files, wooooo.
This was extremely informative! Excellent job! I am 63 yrs old and never smoked but I remember all the old cigarettes brands you brought up, Kent, Raleigh, Alpine, etc. And I remember all their commercials. Watching this was like a trip down memory lane. I've always hated the smell of tobacco smoke and I would be miserable in restaurants if I was seated next to a smoker. The smoke would ALWAYS drift in my direction. And a lot of people smoked back then so it was hard to get away from it. Plus they never used to have smoking and non-smoking rooms in hotels. So I would be grossed out when I was in a room that a smoker had previously been in. The room would smell like an ashtray.
Then things changed. There were smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants and hotels had smoking and non-smoking rooms. I was elated! Finally they banned smoking in restaurants and most hotels forbid smoking. And I remember all the whining that smokers did. "We are being treated like pariahs!" they screeched. Oh boo hoo. Why should I be subjected to the stench of your cigarette smoke? I think anything that helps cut down on smoking is a good thing. It's a disgusting habit.
You know, with all the talk about cigarettes being “your own choice” and “personal liberty,” certain people love to condemn or outright ignore objectively much safer substances
Now I want a full episode on fashion and how it has influenced body image, and the reasons different pushes by special interests.
You might want to look into youtubers that focus on historical fashion / fashion / social issues. There are many youtubers already making these types of videos if you’re truly interested and care to search even just a little bit 😉 it’s ofc hard to get all of human or even all of modern history into one video, so might not find exactly that, but maybe stuff focusing on a specific century or specific topic like… shoes or the female silhouette or how some iconic fashion houses have made their mark, or influence specific people have had on large crowds, or effect of wars and other big historical events on fashions. It’s all fascinating!
“the reasons different pushes”...?? edit, please. I’m interested but you need to read what you wrote, quickly reviewing the grammar, before posting, so others can understand.
@@enenenergp can you suggest some channels?
@@paganphoenixguitar well first ones that come to mind would be Bernadette Banner and Abby Cox I think they have some interesting and educational content regarding fashion. I would also say Mina Le is quite interesting because she often takes like current topics/trends/styles as a topic but usually also talks about the sort of historical origins or history leading up to them 🤔 Karolina Żebrowska is just a really fun dress/history youtuber though she also has vlog type content and, well, just memes and such so it’s not all educational in tone. Nicole Rudolph has more shoe related stuff though other stuff as well. SnappyDragon is also interesting. And I also want to mention HauteLeMode, though he mostly makes content reviewing celebrity styles on red carpets and stuff, he sometimes makes videos about like the history of luxury brands, and when he makes videos of brand’s new collections or when he talked about the met gala for example and it had a historical theme, he seemed to have a lot of knowledge of how fashion has developed in and closer to modern times and about the influences and references that current designers have in their works. So I just find that stuff from him very interesting. And I also like the sassy fashion commentary 😂
Lol the funniest the about the “you know who smokes menthols” thing is that my dad constantly smoked menthols the first like 15 years of my life, and was pretty racist. I never knew about that stereotype and I laughed my ass off when I found out it was a thing. Like this man owns a belt with every confederate flag, and I’ll be repeating “can I get a pack of Marlboro menthol lights” in my head until the day I die
As a smoker for over forty years, I can tell you that in my lifetime, the vast majority of menthol smokers I've met were black. It's just a statistic, not a stereotype. I never bothered asking anyone why they preferred menthol, because it was of no interest to me at the time.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague Being a statistic and a stereotype aren't mutually exclusive. Very often, stereotypes are based off of some form of truth.
@@nbewarwe This is exactly what it is. Stereotypes happen when people notice patterns and share them (both natural things humans do, but we take it to heart too easily sometimes). There being some correlation is not necessary, but can drastically increase people's confidence and make them spread faster.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague yeah, I just never bothered to check whether or not someone smokes menthols ig. I’m a gen z-er so all cigs look the same to me. Tbh if I had to smoke a cig I’d probably go for a spirit or smth. I don’t get menthols appeal.
Your dad and I probably agree on one thing and one thing only: Marlboro Menthol Lights 🤤
“No one on the left would agree that he’s [Bill Maher’s] on the left” Yes! As someone on the left it’s crazy some people think Bill Maher is on the left
Bill Maher is my favorite Republican
Maher is an old-school liberal, as from the days before liberal politics were hijacked by progressive extremism.
@@emilymoisuc8579 Billiam is a self described Libertarian of the Murica™ variety. Which just means he is a boomer Republican who likes weed.
I've been smoking for almost 4 years. I started at 16 because I reeeeeally believed it would make me look cooler. I knew about the spook story's (Marlboros cawboy, cancer in the family....) But I didn't take them seriously.
Knowing the truth about the industry has been a game changer. I'm already leaving the habit as I write this, one day after the video. I wish this was obligatory knowledge in school curriculums. I believe it would really reduce smoking world wide.
Best of luck!
good luck to you! dont be sad if you end up giving in a few times. the road of quitting is hard, but once you are actually free of it, however long it takes, your quality of life will be soooo much better! ❤
Surprised there wasn't more discussion of smoking in the military (after WW1). Since bases dodge state taxes, cigarettes were always incredibly cheap to buy there. In a combat zone, my platoon of 40 had 37 smokers. 2 of the remaining 3 dipped instead.
I also heard American Cigarettes were better than the European Cigarettes. As British Soldiers would trade weapons and other goods to obtain American Cigarettes and that if German Soldiers would successfully defeat Allied positions, they would search for American Cigarettes among other things.
@@zacklapaglia7644 I'm French. Here cigarettes used to be made of brown tobacco (most famous French brands being Gauloises and Gitanes - Gauloises even made special small packs which were included in the military rations). They were part of a certain "French lifestyle" but also were very strong and bitter so many people enjoyed the lighter, milder blonde American cigarettes.
Smoked both european and american cigarettes, i found a certain french brand amazing it was stronger and more bitter
My grandfather told me he started smoking in the military (WWII). He said the sergeant would come out and tell them all "Smoke 'em if you got 'em". The ones that didn't smoke would get assigned clean-up duties for the yard. It didn't even take him two days to start smoking. He was never able to stop after that, and years later he would smoke in the bathroom long after he had publicly "quit".
@@Arthur3148 this is interesting because now in America you can get Marlboro blacks which might be similar idk.
I wish you had mentioned how the tobacco industry is profiting more than ever by selling its products in third-world countries like India and suing governments in Africa
The U.S, China, and Japan basically own the tobacco market across south Asia. It's quite the racket they've worked out.
South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines are going to have more people die than during colonialism. And they are paying the former colonizers for the privilege.
I'm American born but live in Australia and have a 20 year old daughter. She started vaping during the 2 year exam prep all high schoolers here and Covid. She told me about it a year ago and I went nuts. But here, vapes come in fruit and ice cream flavors and the government says it's fighting tobacco (on all cig packs are the worst photos of human distortions,all attributed to tobacco.) Plus a pack of cigs is close to $30 with all the taxes put on them.
But last week she came crying to me that the breaking off of the habit is getting nowhere, so she's moved to patches.
After watching this, I'll not sleep all night.
It’s so funny hearing KB swear, it reminds of back in high-school where I heard a teacher randomly swear in conversation and they were always “the cool teacher” ngl
The same video could almost be made for another drug: alcohol. But because it’s such an ancient practice dethroning alcohol from our culture is a harder pill to swallow.
and yet it WAS banned, so clearly it wasnt impossible to swallow, even if it proved impossible to keep down.
Alcohol also isn't as dangerous to third parties until you add a third culturally-embedded killer into the mix: cars.
@@TheRealE.B. global deaths related to alcohol would disagree with you
@@cabbytabby Honest question: How are so many people killing other people with alcohol aside from cars (and other heavy machinery)? Drunken violence and orphaning of children?
@@TheRealE.B. I say that covers most deaths caused by alcohol. Let alone the astronomical cost to society on hospitals visits and health related Illnesses.
KB, I love the way you ended this. That was great. I'm a smoker, 48 years old, (born in 74) have smoked since I was 14, and have seen many of these things over time, (though obviously some were long before my awareness age. Quitting smoking is so hard, but you did an amazing job illustrating the history.
"so about 82 when i, and my school friends who'd sneakily. Whatever, I smoked, and still do. Great episode.
@@isaiahc8390 Jesus was a communist
Just wanna say that I used to smoke Parliaments and YES, that extra bit at the end absolutely has a great mouthfeel! It was actually really difficult for me to even go back to regular cigarettes after them. It doesn’t feel like wet paper in your mouth at all. It’s cardboard, yet it doesn’t get soggy for some reason. I don’t smoke anymore (I vape- I KNOW! But it’s an improvement at least. I def want to quit vaping too eventually though.)
Was hoping he'd touch up on vaping in a video in the future, but was pleasantly surprised he covered it at the end.
My father smoked pretty much all his life, and tried quitting at multiple points, but he never did, eventually dying from a heart attack. My brother and sister are both about a decade older than me, and they both smoked but quit. My brother went to vaping, and that's where I started around when I was 18.
I've been thinking about quitting for a bit now, but this gave me that final push to do away with this douche-flute once and for all.
Edit: Been off nicotine for a couple weeks now. The withdrawal only really lasted for a couple days. Unfortunately nicotine had an effect on one of my medications, and my brain readjusting has been pretty rough. Even so, was a good change.
Those vape pens have already hooked a new generation to smoking. It's very disappointing.
I commend you for making that push. I know it can be hard - I've witnessed my mother attempt to do it multiple times, and she's about to start another quit after I finally convinced her to swap to a less-nicotine-intensive vape (not a quit from nicotine entirely, but hey, at least there's no more tar involved).
I wish you well on your journey.
Douche-flute. Thank you.
Good luck! I Truly hope you succeed in quitting. That's a great decicion to make!
Good for you man
18:16 Wow, a corporation hitched itself to a popular social movement to water down a bold stance into a marketing ploy? Some things never change.
as a smoker of 15 years I spat out my water when I heard filters dye themselves yellow.
My adopted brother started smoking when he was 13, before I was born. He died when I was 19, with tumors the size of oranges in his lungs. In our last conversation, he begged me to promise I'd never smoke. I promised, and haven't broken it.
To this day, when someone lights up around me and I move away (it's involuntary; the smell reminds me of him and that HURTS), even when I explain, most of the time they act like I'm the asshole. Dude, I'm not judging your addiction. I simply can't carry the grief you just dumped on my shoulders. My brother was too sick to attend my high-school graduation. He didn't live to see me finish college. He never got to hold his niece or nephews, didn't get to attend any of his siblings' weddings, didn't live to see his scribbling little sister publish a book. My parents are still alive and one of their kids is ashes in the ocean.
If I ever meet a tobacco company executive, I don't know what I'll do, but it won't be safe for a RUclips comments section.
35:44
"Their normal amount, 10 to 40(!) a day."
40 a day sounds like an absolute chore to get through.
I’m barely under a half hour through this, but I gotta say, as a former smoker now 5 years since my last after quitting with patches, this video has made me crave tobacco more than anything. What a weird effect
It's been a year for me and my problem is Clint Eastwood westerns since I was smoking small cigars.
Is it willpower? Higher purpose? What helped you guys quit? I'm 35, been smoking since I was, like, 17, and, currently, hooked on vape. Yep, with good 'ol menthols -__- How effective are patches / gum / lozenges? How bad were your withdrawls? Any tips? My uncle would eat sunflower seeds to quit his chewing habit. I'm looking to quit, but it's engrained into almost everything I do, from driving, to post-meals, to video gaming. Kinda losing faith in myself, I have one side of me that desperately wants to quit, and another side who doesn't want to...like at all. Basically, how'd you guys do it? Thanks
@@lmoral222 Unfortunately I proved the Surgeon General right with heart disease. My joke was I was doing my part to save Social Security. What helped me was lozenge. My insurance covered them completely. Maybe yours well too, if not try the helpline in the public service ads.
@@lmoral222 Vaping is a good start. I switched as well.
Basically, the best advice i have is that _you_ have to _want to_ quit. You really cant otherwise.
Or, go into a coma, maybe walk into traffic a few times. Few weeks in a coma will definately reformat your priorities at least.
I've never smoked a cigarette in my life and got the same feeling. A weird effect indeed.
One way to discourage smoker would also be to ban all *pre-rolled* cigarettes: Make tobacco only legal for sell in bags/tin, with the filter paper sold separately and let people who insist on smoking assemble the cigarettes at home (This system exists and I used it myself +/-20 years ago when I use to smoke: People back then were doing so to save on the cost of cigarettes as the price of the pre-made cartons had skyrocketed). It will not end all cigarettes, of course, but you can bet that a lot of people won't want to bother (And some kids won't want to start) if they have to spend an hour a say making those things. Plus, it is not as easy as it sounds: The paper casing can easily break in the process and the machine can jam if you over pack it with too much tobacco (Trust me: It's a chore!).
Also making only organic tobacco (Chemical free) legal for sell might help a little.
There was a short lived brand in Canada that sold a pack of tubes and a pack of tobacco cylinders wrapped in paper together, you slid the tobacco cylinders into the tubes yourself. It was very weird and wasteful.
This would be great for making it more inconvenient! The only thing I worry about is the fire risk an incorrectly assembled cig could do…
That's such a simple yet effective solution.
not a bad move, but i feel like most people would just switch to pipes before rolling their own (as someone who also has tried rolling their own and knows what a tedious nightmare it is especially when you just need to stop withdrawals)
Pretty sure its only gonna make the black market bigger bro. Native smokes are already on the rise since the prices are getting so high in canada.
I tried that first cigarette in 1998 because I really wanted to know what the big deal was. I certainly wouldn't say it was euphoria, maybe more like light-headedness with a bit of nausea, definitely underwhelming. A couple days later I still had the pack and thought why not give it another shot. Nope, still gross and still wondering why people do it. Next day I tried it again, and again, and again. The worst part is your brain plays tricks on you to convince you it's beneficial. Never try nicotine. You'll be disappointed at best, and hooked at worst.
yup every time i light up a cigarette, I hate myself for it. I hate the taste, I hate the smell, I hate the feeling it gives me. Despite hating cigarettes I´m a heavy smoker.
@@steffeneggers9785 That's why addiction is such a good business model. They still get your money even if you hate their product.
This is the best video I have seen on the lies put out by the tobacco companies.
I am English and was only a very light smoker until I joined the British army at seventeen and a half, being posted to West Germany at eighteen where we could buy duty-free cigarettes, and they were a great comfort and stress reliever on active service.
I smoked about 20 cigarettes a day for some thirty years, plus a small cigar after a meal.
The army, cigarettes not withstanding, kept us in peak physical condition, so I never has a smokers cough or shortness of breath, but after many years of army service, upon my return to civilian life, not only were cigarettes much more expensive in the UK, but I began to hate the stench of tobacco on my clothes and I reduced my cigarette intake to about ten a day but began to enjoy smoking less and less so some fifteen years ago, I decided to quit smoking, relapsed once but quit on my second attempt, purely on will power and the very real desire to quit smoking and have not smoked now for close to fifteen years and its one of the best decisions I have ever made, I no longer smell like a walking ashtray and my sense of smell and taste improved so much so that I can not stand the smell of smoke from cigarettes or anything else combustible and if I am walking behind a smoker, I have to cross over the road.
i actually love these longer videos because even when not paying alot of attention, its a great thing to listen to in the background
This video felt personal, but real. I started smoking cigarettes at 12 in 2012, naturally, menthols. Why? They were anti-authoritarian and cool, and I liked Metallica and anything anti-authoritarian. I switched to vaping in 2012 because it was available to me and it seemed healthier. That's what I tell myself. Truthfully I wouldn't say I was addicted until about 2014-2015, I experienced a buzz every time I inhaled until 2014-2015. I didn't need to vape, it just felt good, and I felt cool. This video helps me understand why my younger self was so stupid. As, in addition to teenaged idiocy, the cards were stacked against me from the start. I wasn't alone in thinking it looked cool, this was a conscious effort. Tobacco companies wanted me as a lifetime customer. Now at 22 this is really just a fact of life, I'm addicted and always will be. I always told myself I was better than the kids who started with vapes (which, was literally probably 80% of my high school) but this made me see its all the same.