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  • Cigarettes are bad for you - you know they're bad for you. But how did they convince us to ignore that fact and do it anyway?
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    How Did We Discover Smoking Causes Cancer? | Patrick Kelly
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    Books
    The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (2009)
    Allan M. Brandt - amzn.to/399QkAd
    Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (2021)
    Keith Wailoo - amzn.to/3P6mYmU
    Documentaries
    Butt Out: The Life and Death of Cigarette Advertising on TV (1992) - • Butt Out: The Life and...
    Bright Leaves (1992) - www.kanopy.com/video/110134
    Modern Marvels: How Tobacco is Made (2006) - • Modern Marvels: How To...
    Addiction Incorporated (2011) - amzn.to/3MNTpES
    Merchants of Doubt (2014) - amzn.to/3FCXA3T
    Broken S1E2 "Big Vape" (2019) - www.netflix.com/title/81002391
    UA-cam Videos
    Jeffrey Wigand: The Big Tobacco Whistleblower - • Jeffrey Wigand: The bi...
    Penn & Teller on Broadway | Talks at Google - • Penn & Teller on Broad...
    Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - • Tobacco: Last Week Ton...
    Astroturfing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - • Astroturfing: Last Wee...
    The Twenty One Conspiracy - • The Twenty One Conspiracy
    Websites
    www.mass.gov/doc/juul-complai...
    www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_inf...
    jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
    www.bbc.com/news/world-us-can...
    www.npr.org/2013/10/13/233449...
    www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/he...
    thehill.com/news/administrati...
    Movies and TV
    Bright Leaf (1950) - amzn.to/37C3pCc
    Cold Turkey (1971) - amzn.to/3L3a0Dm
    The Insider (1999) - amzn.to/39l1F0u
    Bill Maher: Be More Cynical - www.imdb.com/title/tt0250256/
    Thank You For Smoking (2005) - amzn.to/38ICq7P
    Penn & Teller: Bullsh!t! S1E5 "Second Hand Smoke" (2003) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0672536/
    South Park S7E13 "Butt Out" (2003) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0705898/
    Chappelle's Show - I Know Black People Pt. 1 (2004) - • Chappelle's Show - I K...
    Mad Men S1E1 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2007) - amzn.to/3OY1CYF
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    Video Credits -
    Jaws (1975) - You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat Scene (4/10) | Movieclips - • Jaws (1975) - You're G...
    AHA Vintage Anti-Smoking PSAs - • AHA Vintage Anti-Smoki...
    Video 184939808 © Pavel Nadelyayev | Dreamstime.com
    HErbHELP - • HOW TO SMOKE RESIN FRO...
    www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/...
    / 1198266186250833920
    www.c-span.org/video/?56038-1...
    www.c-span.org/video/?56061-1...
    www.c-span.org/video/?56436-1...
    Photo Credits -
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    Production Assistant - Rozarah
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    Research Assistant - Jesspsettle
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    Music - Michael Cotten
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    Hashtags: #history #smoking #cigarettes #cigarette #smoke #cancer #quitsmoking #nosmoking #vaping #vape
    0:00 Introduction
    2:47 Invention and Popularization
    20:26 Health Concerns
    42:57 Targeted Advertising
    55:57 Litigation
    1:18:32 Vaping
    1:24:21 Conclusion
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 6 тис.

  • @KnowingBetter
    @KnowingBetter  Рік тому +695

    Make sure to check out Patrick Kelly's companion video on the science of the cancer link! ua-cam.com/video/zm3S71Gk1qE/v-deo.html
    Director's Commentary stream will be on Sunday, 2pm Pacific. twitch.tv/knowingbetteryt
    Corrections - In 1900, pipes were 19% of total consumption, not 27%. - It's spelled Elixir Sulfanilamide.

    • @daarmonet
      @daarmonet Рік тому +4

      hi dood

    • @Baddawg_313
      @Baddawg_313 Рік тому +7

      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 🇺🇲🎉🎆

    • @MrGameFly
      @MrGameFly Рік тому +8

      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

    • @insertcolorfulmetaphor8520
      @insertcolorfulmetaphor8520 Рік тому

      "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

    • @grimtea1715
      @grimtea1715 Рік тому +2

      You made my day with this video!

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub Рік тому +5813

    Knowing Better making feature length films now. Quite impressive

    • @sarahgruner7711
      @sarahgruner7711 Рік тому +59

      Oh it’s my fav thing- I can get so much done while watching his content !

    • @MonkeyDefenceForce
      @MonkeyDefenceForce Рік тому +19

      You could also make one about "Kyogre", just saying.

    • @Roxanneredpanda
      @Roxanneredpanda Рік тому +11

      maybe you could learn a thing or two

    • @johnnybensonitis7853
      @johnnybensonitis7853 Рік тому +37

      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...

    • @Grushdeva48
      @Grushdeva48 Рік тому +4

      Holy crap! I was gonna watch it at 3am before I sleep. Thanks for the heads up on the length of the video.

  • @recalrhet
    @recalrhet Рік тому +885

    "Having a smoking section in an airplane makes about as much sense as having a peeing section in a swimming pool"...I'm dying. Good stuff.

    • @crazierthan-u7571
      @crazierthan-u7571 Рік тому +21

      I got a seat in the smoking section of an airplane once. It took all the fun out of smoking.

    • @markprater1
      @markprater1 Рік тому +2

      I remember the last time I smoked on a plane: 1989 from Philly to Brazil....

    • @PlayerJay425
      @PlayerJay425 Рік тому +1

      Or a convertible airplane

    • @mysticwizard1943
      @mysticwizard1943 Рік тому +16

      @@crazierthan-u7571 Man I can relate. I was in the Atlanta airport a few years ago and was amazed to see an indoor smoking section. It was essentially a little 20x20 glass box between the gates and the food court. Being that I was alone, and hadn't seen a smoking section anywhere indoors in like 20 years, I had to go in. I immediately found a stand that sold cigarettes, because of course this post-911 airport sold them (with lighters to match), and went in. Terrible decision. It reeked (despite the fact that I generally enjoy the smell of smoke), I reeked, the cloth upholstered seats were sticky and brown with tar, everyone's eyes were watering. Just awful. I have to imagine some big-wig Georgian tobacco magnate who had invested in the airport insisted on there being a smoking section, but damn it would have been much better if they put like a thunderdome cage on the roof.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +6

      All pools have peeing sections. They just call it the kiddy pool.

  • @holden_7597
    @holden_7597 Рік тому +390

    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.

    • @augustusaurelius2628
      @augustusaurelius2628 10 місяців тому +62

      Man that sucks. Imagine making your damned best to quit smoking for your health anf you still get lung cancer anyways.

    • @phoenixfritzinger9185
      @phoenixfritzinger9185 8 місяців тому +48

      Your grandpa got localized by 4Kids Entertainment 😂

    • @earningzekrom4173
      @earningzekrom4173 2 місяці тому +1

      RIP, I'm so sorry for your loss, sending support to you and your family!

    • @Polavianus
      @Polavianus 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@phoenixfritzinger9185 💀

  • @RedRose-id4sd
    @RedRose-id4sd Рік тому +208

    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.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +69

      I knew they were lying the second a couple of magicians were claiming to be a legitimate source of information.

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse 6 місяців тому +14

      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.

    • @camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303
      @camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 5 днів тому

      Rationalwiki have a summary of which P&T episodes are crap and which ones are right

  • @RiverdudeCovers
    @RiverdudeCovers Рік тому +2304

    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

    • @rayakoth
      @rayakoth Рік тому +280

      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.

    • @christophertstone
      @christophertstone Рік тому +136

      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.

    • @ethanlenning
      @ethanlenning Рік тому +18

      @@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

    • @Dong_Harvey
      @Dong_Harvey Рік тому +39

      @@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

    • @corneliuscorcoran9900
      @corneliuscorcoran9900 Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @kjorlaug1
    @kjorlaug1 Рік тому +4379

    The most inaccurate thing about Stranger Things is the lack of smoking 😂

    • @the_rose_garden01
      @the_rose_garden01 Рік тому +322

      Right? People smoked everywhere in the 80's, didn't matter where you were

    • @kjorlaug1
      @kjorlaug1 Рік тому +311

      @@the_rose_garden01 I remember sitting in a car on a trip with my grandparents, who smoked the whole way, windows rolled up

    • @evee8462
      @evee8462 Рік тому +16

      Hahahahaha!

    • @willb5658
      @willb5658 Рік тому +224

      The most inaccurate thing about Strangers Things is that Max getting medical treatment.

    • @Shaggy.Vibes-
      @Shaggy.Vibes- Рік тому +17

      @@kjorlaug1 that's not true. I was there. Don't forget that. I'm always there. I'm always watching you......

  • @rickdoogie749
    @rickdoogie749 Рік тому +430

    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.

    • @billy6044
      @billy6044 7 місяців тому +18

      Nice, also at time of writing this, There are also 69 likes. So double nice.

    • @brahimdiop5506
      @brahimdiop5506 7 місяців тому +26

      She lost one outfit and got rid of an addictive substance for the rest of her life. Glad you're still kicking

    • @foxybohv7732
      @foxybohv7732 4 місяці тому +5

      To think a single ash caused the marriage of two people

    • @vinnyandlin8510
      @vinnyandlin8510 4 місяці тому

      Even when smoking cannabis, I can't even tell how many clothes have a hole in them from hot ashes

    • @terrydavis8451
      @terrydavis8451 4 місяці тому

      Ever do coke or MDMA? You would have smoked a whole pack that night lolol

  • @Heating56
    @Heating56 10 місяців тому +52

    “Micronite filters were made out of asbestos.”
    The cold cut caught me so off guard I burst out laughing. I’m going to hell

  • @peccantis
    @peccantis Рік тому +2716

    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.

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine Рік тому +432

      I guess he wasn’t willing to walk 10 miles for a camel

    • @hyhena-gaming9986
      @hyhena-gaming9986 Рік тому +195

      Lol that’ll do it I guess

    • @chrismanaloe3507
      @chrismanaloe3507 Рік тому +180

      @@doughboywhine i smoke camels and i wouldnt cross a room for one

    • @MrChopstsicks
      @MrChopstsicks Рік тому +221

      @@chrismanaloe3507 I stopped smoking because I was too lazy to drive. Stay home and play games kids

    • @classyorange3362
      @classyorange3362 Рік тому +90

      Man really went "nah I ain't heading out"

  • @Patchouliprince
    @Patchouliprince Рік тому +2171

    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!

    • @azr15
      @azr15 Рік тому +67

      Thumbnail checks out

    • @steveharvey2102
      @steveharvey2102 Рік тому +105

      Congrats to you, it's one of the toughest things to quit. It took me 3 separate attempts.
      Cheers from Canada

    • @scottthewaterwarrior
      @scottthewaterwarrior Рік тому +31

      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.

    • @univon4892
      @univon4892 Рік тому +7

      Kudos!

    • @kingthe13
      @kingthe13 Рік тому +21

      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

  • @tnk4me4
    @tnk4me4 Рік тому +388

    19:00 Had a doctor tell me "The only time cigarettes can make you lose weight is when you have cancer" before I got into college and it stuck with me ever since. But now all these things I've seen so far are blowing my mind.

    • @dominicguye8058
      @dominicguye8058 Рік тому +10

      That is brilliant

    • @tincanmaniac1931
      @tincanmaniac1931 Рік тому +41

      They can make you lose weight. It isn't healthy but it literally suppresses hunger. If a smoker doesn't smoke, they can get very bad pains in their stomach because their appetite was suppressed for so long and they haven't eaten for the whole day and now it's been 16 hours since dinner the night before and they're eating for the first time of the day. The nicotine just blocks it. A lot of smokers also associate hunger with nicotine cravings, so they go for a smoke instead and lose their appetite. It isn't healthy at all, not even talking about the heart and lung damage, just specifically the appetite they can cause, but it does often make people lose weight in the short term.

    • @theeccentric7263
      @theeccentric7263 Рік тому +13

      @@tincanmaniac1931 I can attest to this, but I also have a past history of an ED, so my hunger signals are already messed up.

    • @lionllew6601
      @lionllew6601 5 місяців тому +2

      I've put on a lot of weight since I quit smoking a few years ago, but it's easier to loose weight than loose cancer.

  • @caiterday6676
    @caiterday6676 Рік тому +633

    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.

    • @Natalie-101
      @Natalie-101 Рік тому +22

      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!!

    • @isaacandersen1
      @isaacandersen1 Рік тому +15

      Based

    • @johnathanrhoades7751
      @johnathanrhoades7751 Рік тому +10

      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.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 Рік тому

      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*

    • @oligultonn
      @oligultonn Рік тому +9

      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 🎉

  • @thedebatehitman
    @thedebatehitman Рік тому +1194

    I remember “smoking” candy cigarettes as a kid. Also, when I was younger, I used to pretend to smoke McDonald’s French fries. I’d just barely dip the fry in ketchup, and that was the glow of a lit cigarette.

    • @Dave0G
      @Dave0G Рік тому +36

      Pencil with a red eraser for me, still catch myself "smoking" the odd writing implement.
      There were chocolate cigarettes, complete with paper wrapping, but the chocolate was really poor so weren't that popular.

    • @generalludwig1637
      @generalludwig1637 Рік тому +2

      lmao that's so cute.

    • @nbewarwe
      @nbewarwe Рік тому +33

      Kids at my elementary school would "smoke" smarties, which was just crumbling them in their wrappers and breathing in and out the dust.

    • @_GLXC
      @_GLXC Рік тому +33

      my mom would make taquitos and as kids we would blow through it and it would look like smoke was coming out the other end. also the times when it was cold we would pretend that the condensation was actually smoke and that we were smoking. the adults around me really nailed on how dangerous smoking was, so as a kid whenever i walked by someone smoking I would hold my breath as long as possible to avoid the cancer.

    • @kaynines5996
      @kaynines5996 Рік тому +23

      @@nbewarwe While it’s not smoking…that can’t possibly be good for the lungs.

  • @scootinand
    @scootinand Рік тому +285

    "diethylene glycol"
    Oh no
    "The filters contained asbestos"
    OH NO.

    • @eldonad
      @eldonad 11 місяців тому +1

      Well at least that would reduce the number of deaths related to lung cancers I would assume...

  • @TimDavis77
    @TimDavis77 Рік тому +737

    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.

    • @aliciasnavely5109
      @aliciasnavely5109 Рік тому +18

      Same. I lost my mom 13 years ago when i was just 17. Lung cancer.

    • @teajay8769
      @teajay8769 Рік тому

      Everyone dies. She would have died without smoking too. So will I and so will you.

    • @TimDavis77
      @TimDavis77 Рік тому +8

      @@aliciasnavely5109 sorry for your loss

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 Рік тому +15

      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.

    • @victorguevara9227
      @victorguevara9227 Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @terenceflynn4555
    @terenceflynn4555 Рік тому +783

    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.

    • @gripen777
      @gripen777 Рік тому +79

      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.

    • @giovannicervantes2053
      @giovannicervantes2053 Рік тому +5

      Boy a tank

    • @mads_in_zero
      @mads_in_zero Рік тому +20

      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.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 11 місяців тому +9

      @@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

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 11 місяців тому +11

      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.

  • @ajbowers44
    @ajbowers44 Рік тому +663

    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 🥰

    • @clownfromclowntown
      @clownfromclowntown Рік тому +30

      Who lets a 12 year old get a hold a cigarettes??

    • @G_FRE
      @G_FRE Рік тому +50

      @@clownfromclowntown That's when my dad started smoking. 1975. Started smoking weed at 10!

    • @wendyleeconnelly2939
      @wendyleeconnelly2939 Рік тому +29

      @@clownfromclowntown kids younger than 12have always gotten their hands on cigarettes

    • @rickandhews2690
      @rickandhews2690 Рік тому +9

      divorced? but you sound like such a great guy lmao

    • @noahcarlton4625
      @noahcarlton4625 Рік тому +32

      Mmm spite, the greatest motivator

  • @ehrenloudermilk1053
    @ehrenloudermilk1053 Рік тому +792

    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

    • @dustinjames1268
      @dustinjames1268 Рік тому +33

      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

    • @markwilliams2620
      @markwilliams2620 Рік тому +12

      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.

    • @jpmnky
      @jpmnky Рік тому +9

      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.

    • @dustinjames1268
      @dustinjames1268 Рік тому +1

      @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

    • @dustinjames1268
      @dustinjames1268 Рік тому +4

      @Joshua Bailey
      I forget the scientific terminology but it makes the cilia(tiny hairlike structures) in your lungs move and it physically cleans

  • @caoilfhionndunbar
    @caoilfhionndunbar Рік тому +79

    12:12 one correction: this was the POPULARIZATION of trading cards; the concept of a collectible card with an image as an advertising method or product existed since atleast the early 1700s, with Christopher Gibson's usage of them to advertise his furniture store, and were used across Britain and in the USA decades before the Cigarette cards. but his were the ones that really made it catch on as a fad

    • @EmiStar070
      @EmiStar070 Місяць тому +1

      So once again the best marketer gets the credit?

  • @ethanstiles948
    @ethanstiles948 Рік тому +175

    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.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 11 місяців тому +9

      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.

    • @dominicspier6917
      @dominicspier6917 9 місяців тому +5

      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

    • @radiobob1908
      @radiobob1908 9 місяців тому +1

      @@dominicspier6917 Hey, congratulations!

    • @themightymcb7310
      @themightymcb7310 8 місяців тому +4

      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

    • @haruhirogrimgar6047
      @haruhirogrimgar6047 7 місяців тому

      Idk what school you went to but I was in highschool 2013-2017 and I had never seen a vape pen in my life.

  • @PatKellyTeaches
    @PatKellyTeaches Рік тому +314

    It was great working with you KB! Your video turned out to be a whole ass documentary!

    • @tomatochemist
      @tomatochemist Рік тому +12

      You did an amazing job!

    • @PatKellyTeaches
      @PatKellyTeaches Рік тому +8

      @@tomatochemist Appreciated -- thank you!

    • @ScrumbynPlumbo
      @ScrumbynPlumbo Рік тому +4

      Wow your comment definitely needs to be bumped up more.

    • @grimtea1715
      @grimtea1715 Рік тому

      You deserve WAY MORE subs (gained one from me bro). This whole video is a 🔥🔥

  • @VerrouSuo
    @VerrouSuo Рік тому +408

    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.

    • @jannikheidemann3805
      @jannikheidemann3805 Рік тому +3

      F

    • @AmberAmber
      @AmberAmber Рік тому +5

      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.🫂♥️

    • @spookygloberotter05
      @spookygloberotter05 Рік тому +1

      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

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 Рік тому +1

      Lost my Eldest Aunt to Pancreatic Cancer. She was a 2 pack a Day smoker, REFUSED to Quit.

  • @jennybloom819
    @jennybloom819 Рік тому +163

    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.

    • @lotharbeck71
      @lotharbeck71 Рік тому +13

      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.

    • @StAngerNo1
      @StAngerNo1 6 місяців тому

      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).

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 Рік тому +265

    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.

    • @abz_414
      @abz_414 10 місяців тому +7

      Personally I favored the brontosaurus ”pack" 🦕

    • @OscarGomez-hg8cb
      @OscarGomez-hg8cb 8 місяців тому +14

      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!

    • @matthewmagda4971
      @matthewmagda4971 8 місяців тому +12

      You can still buy them, they're just hard to find.

    • @tux_duh
      @tux_duh 8 місяців тому +7

      I was obsessed with the ones that blew smoke 😭😭

    • @ammebee16
      @ammebee16 8 місяців тому +2

      I loved those as a kid, I thought I was so cool lol

  • @garethbaus5471
    @garethbaus5471 Рік тому +251

    "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.

    • @jannikheidemann3805
      @jannikheidemann3805 Рік тому +19

      Was my first thought too, but then the unsympathetic anoyingly loud man went the other direction.

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 Рік тому +5

      @@jannikheidemann3805 yeah.

    • @dragonsword7370
      @dragonsword7370 Рік тому

      "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.

    • @transkryption
      @transkryption Рік тому +1

      Lung cancer won't take decades

    • @heavenshound6775
      @heavenshound6775 Рік тому +4

      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 ?

  • @jrmcdonald7510
    @jrmcdonald7510 Рік тому +103

    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.

    • @steveharvey2102
      @steveharvey2102 Рік тому +2

      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 ;)

  • @_cody_withac7504
    @_cody_withac7504 Рік тому +341

    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

    • @univon4892
      @univon4892 Рік тому

      Oh wow!

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 Рік тому +40

      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.

    • @tshred666
      @tshred666 Рік тому +24

      Especially since vaping is easier to conceal and juul and other salt nic vapes hit harder than smoking

    • @soffren
      @soffren Рік тому +8

      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.

    • @Speedojesus
      @Speedojesus Рік тому

      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.

  • @peifferunsx
    @peifferunsx Рік тому +103

    Another fun fact: Smoking is a huge contributor to sleep apnea. My sleep issues have been destroying my professional life for the past few years. I quit two weeks ago when I learned that fact and I'm sleeping dang near normally again! Another amazingly thorough video from Knowing Better. Keep it up!

  • @veryde_3356
    @veryde_3356 Рік тому +273

    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.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому

      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.

    • @Nobody-Nowhere
      @Nobody-Nowhere Рік тому +7

      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".

    • @joekoch7428
      @joekoch7428 Рік тому +11

      In the US you are told where to smoke in Europe your told where not to smoke. It's a whole different culture.

  • @motherofthetans
    @motherofthetans Рік тому +223

    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.

    • @PrimericanIdol
      @PrimericanIdol Рік тому +7

      I love how you fully spell out all your numbers.

    • @madcat789
      @madcat789 Рік тому +1

      My first was Marlboro, and I remember precisely what happened.
      I threw up.
      Never touched another since.

    • @Spielername
      @Spielername Рік тому +5

      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.

    • @eamonia
      @eamonia Рік тому +4

      Good for you, hun. I'm happy for you that you took that step. I'm sure your wallet's pretty psyched, too.

    • @neglectfulsausage7689
      @neglectfulsausage7689 Рік тому

      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.

  • @tylerkeller7120
    @tylerkeller7120 Рік тому +161

    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

    • @Redralphred
      @Redralphred 10 місяців тому +10

      I’d argue you could break down the segments to a week of classes, and frame it as a history advertising and smoking.

    • @revan7383
      @revan7383 8 місяців тому +4

      Good luck if you do try to quit!

  • @Techn9cian123
    @Techn9cian123 Рік тому +65

    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.

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 7 місяців тому

      Oooh😮

    • @williamdixon-gk2sk
      @williamdixon-gk2sk 4 місяці тому +2

      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.

  • @waynejohnson1786
    @waynejohnson1786 Рік тому +282

    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.

  • @leandervr
    @leandervr Рік тому +445

    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.

    • @zeb_reynolds
      @zeb_reynolds Рік тому +71

      My cocaine addict, alcoholic grandfather said that cigarettes were by far the hardest substance for him to quit.

    • @darksu6947
      @darksu6947 Рік тому +29

      @@zeb_reynolds Grandpa knew how to party!

    • @zeb_reynolds
      @zeb_reynolds Рік тому +20

      @@darksu6947 Thats very true!

    • @PopeBarley
      @PopeBarley Рік тому +15

      Is that due to the pharmaceutical effect of nicotine, or the comparative inescapabulity of nicotine products in mainstream society?

    • @darksu6947
      @darksu6947 Рік тому +33

      @@PopeBarley Both, I would imagine.

  • @edithhuelskamp1649
    @edithhuelskamp1649 Рік тому +34

    His suggestion for sucking on a mint at the same time as smoking is legit. I smoked a few cigarettes a day for about 15 years. Out of all that time there were probably fewer than 10 cigarettes that I smoked straight. I started out chewing gum each time I smoked, but I quickly switched to Starbursts. One Starburst per cigarette. All my friends thought it was very peculiar.
    I lucked out in quitting a few years ago too. As my workplace was about to ban smoking on the property, I got a prescription for Chantix. I think I took it two days and then I got very sick for several days - felt weak, no appetite, dizzy, tired. I had two cigarettes left, smoked one, couldn't finish it, threw the other one away. And that was it. Don't understand it at all.

  • @MikeScarbro
    @MikeScarbro Рік тому +127

    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.

    • @ahatcho2028
      @ahatcho2028 Рік тому

      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.

    • @univon4892
      @univon4892 Рік тому

      Doesn’t targard exist for a reason?

    • @lopiklop
      @lopiklop Рік тому +3

      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!

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 5 місяців тому +2

      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.

    • @gcanaday1
      @gcanaday1 5 місяців тому

      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.

  • @santiagoochoa4984
    @santiagoochoa4984 Рік тому +378

    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.

  • @darricshhh
    @darricshhh Рік тому +437

    I have been smoking for 34 years. This video has come along at a time when I am about to quit again for probably the 10th time. This time it needs to be permanent for health reasons. I have been addicted to other things in the distant past. A few of those things were not physically addictive. Some were. Valium for instance was a nasty recovery. Very tough. The hardest drug to quit in my experience so far has been nicotine. I was successful for almost 6 years at one point and it still pulled me back in. Thank you for the video. I was aware of most of the information presented, but not all. I smoked throughout the whole thing. In two days, my will and fortitude are going to be tested. I think this video is gonna help that.

    • @lShishkaBerryl
      @lShishkaBerryl Рік тому +54

      Heroin users say it's easier to quit heroin than cigs lol. You got this, you already did some practice runs now it's time for the real deal 👍

    • @Osric24
      @Osric24 Рік тому +9

      Bless you, man. You've a hard but worthy fight ahead!

    • @rick-potts
      @rick-potts Рік тому +38

      I started at 11 and quit 2 years ago - after smoking for 39 years.
      Everyone is different, but I can honestly say the nicotine is the least of your problems.
      Its the "hug" you get from your cig when you are stressed.
      The "mistress" who will listen to you when you have a Barny with the wife.
      The "diversion" you get when you are bored.
      The "tick-tock" cigs provide that become a regulator of time/events.
      Find a substitute - glass of water, fidget spinner, 2 pages of a book, playing with your lighter - and do that for as long as it takes you to normally smoke a cigarette - the urge WILL pass.
      I put a post it note up every day on my wall - with the "days since last smoked" count on it. Every time I felt the compulsion - I sat and stared at that wall.
      I stopped needing that after the 46th post it note.
      I carried this around in my wallet "You are NOT giving anything up. You ARE gaining control."
      Its liberating.
      I miss the weight and click of my zippo - but that's it.
      Good luck.

    • @JamesDecker7
      @JamesDecker7 Рік тому +13

      @@rick-potts I replaced the insert in my zippo with a flashlight cartridge. Used that for a whole year as a smoking “binky” after I quit.

    • @tacokoneko
      @tacokoneko Рік тому +2

      i smoked tobacco 4 times ever and each time was more than 1 year apart, i'm glad it doesn't tase good to me because i thought "what if it makes me addicted just from one"

  • @MW3boy12345
    @MW3boy12345 Рік тому +36

    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.

  • @melissahollowell7255
    @melissahollowell7255 Рік тому +38

    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!!

  • @star_seraph
    @star_seraph Рік тому +235

    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.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +30

      I like to think they did like 30 takes and that one was the best one they had.

    • @WTFG78
      @WTFG78 Рік тому +10

      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.

    • @PresAlexWhit
      @PresAlexWhit Рік тому +3

      1:40:30 doesn't exist Edit: I found it at 1:14:30

    • @star_seraph
      @star_seraph Рік тому +5

      @@PresAlexWhit thanks! edited.

    • @teddyfurstman1997
      @teddyfurstman1997 Рік тому +5

      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.

  • @baileyayyy5085
    @baileyayyy5085 Рік тому +736

    I was just about to enroll for my masters program when this knowing better video inspired me to drop out of school, take up smoking, and become a libertarian. Thanks knowing better!

    • @everythingisscience658
      @everythingisscience658 Рік тому +1

      If there is one benifit of smoking, it's that it creates evolutionary pressure against libertarians. Sure let everyone do whatever horrible thing to thier body that they want and we will see how many of them pass on thier genes and ideology.

    • @darksu6947
      @darksu6947 Рік тому +6

      That was a good call.

    • @brianfederico5854
      @brianfederico5854 Рік тому +8

      What's wrong with being a libertarian

    • @baileyayyy5085
      @baileyayyy5085 Рік тому +47

      @@brianfederico5854 yes

    • @univon4892
      @univon4892 Рік тому +4

      @@baileyayyy5085 Is that it?

  • @AdrianMartinez-gq7ne
    @AdrianMartinez-gq7ne Рік тому +52

    I currently live in South Korea, and I've seen those gruesome warning labels on all their cigarette boxes. However, this very much doesn't stop Koreans from smoking quite a lot. I'm pretty sure I've seen far more Korean smokers than American smokers.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +18

      South Korea smokes cigarettes in a way that is literally impossible to see anywhere in the U.S these days. It's honestly shocking.

    • @matei-gabrielshelby3480
      @matei-gabrielshelby3480 8 місяців тому +9

      ​@@Praisethesunson
      I don't think it's that surprising, given the East Asian work culture. Those people work so hard, they put the rest of the world to shame. I imagine it's the same in Japan and China

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson 8 місяців тому

      @@matei-gabrielshelby3480 In China they do something called 9-9-6. They work 9am-9pm 6 days per week. That is 72 hours per week. Thankfully I live in America. Where I only have to work 70 hours per week :(

    • @lmao2302
      @lmao2302 7 місяців тому +10

      As a Zoomer it was so surprising seeing Korean kids and shit smoking in manwah. Not because it's a bad thing to do but because out of all bad habits kids could illegally do smoking cigarettes is the most outdated. In the US and espcially in my school almost nobody smokes compared to the high amount of people who vape. I remember a friend of mine making fun of the only young person in our entire school who smoked like she wasn't a frequent vaper. Shit was a core memory cause the irony of it.

    • @izza_19
      @izza_19 7 місяців тому

      As an indonesian. Yep, here too is the same

  • @JamesRichardsPlays
    @JamesRichardsPlays Рік тому +36

    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.

  • @Alex-xd9gw
    @Alex-xd9gw Рік тому +112

    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.

    • @lShishkaBerryl
      @lShishkaBerryl Рік тому +19

      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.

    • @llamennfarce4104
      @llamennfarce4104 Рік тому +13

      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

    • @TheChrzan1
      @TheChrzan1 Рік тому +15

      @@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.

    • @Crick1952
      @Crick1952 Рік тому +16

      @@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

    • @k.umquat8604
      @k.umquat8604 Рік тому

      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

  • @stephenmymomtoldmenottoput1459
    @stephenmymomtoldmenottoput1459 Рік тому +478

    I'd highly recommend the book: "Thank You for Smoking" by Christopher Buckley. It's very different from the film and is more so about corporate corruption than libertarian messaging. It actually covers a lot of the things that you mentioned in this video. Great job, Mr. Better.

    • @pax6833
      @pax6833 Рік тому +44

      Thank You for Smoking is a very entertaining film, unfortunately I now cringe at a lot of the movie's messaging and themes looking back at it (corporations need defenders, social ills are good because freedumb, social activists are murderous or stupid, women get ahead in life by sleeping with people)

    • @chumimintv9052
      @chumimintv9052 Рік тому +8

      My Sociology teacher actually showed us the film. I know the book is different but the whole thing is great to understand how the industry works. A detail that my teacher also pointed was how there was 0 cigarettes lit throughout the whole thing.

    • @arrgghh1555
      @arrgghh1555 Рік тому +19

      @@pax6833 You know the movie is satire, and is making fun of all those things?

    • @addammadd
      @addammadd Рік тому +3

      I’d also like to recommend Boomsday by the same author. It’s hilarious and frankly ahead of it’s time in terms of modest, yet useful solutions to our current political situation.

    • @Mitsuraga
      @Mitsuraga Рік тому

      That's good to know, because I didn't like the movie.

  • @fugawinow1636
    @fugawinow1636 Рік тому +42

    You likely already know but in case you don’t. There’s a documentary called “The Century Of The Self”, and it’s one of the most awesome docs I’ve ever seen. The whole first episode covers Bernays’s importance to the entire concept of the documentary. There’s three parts, and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t regret seeing it.
    Thanks for all the great content you’re making! Sent my mom some humble pie on thanksgiving, in the form of your video on the subject.

    • @lopiklop
      @lopiklop Рік тому

      When you send "humble pie" to somebody, it's called "condescension." Something she won't miss when she's gone.

  • @wildbill7267
    @wildbill7267 Рік тому +25

    The micronite filter is nuts! Directly expose your lungs to tobacco and asbestos simultaneously!

  • @Agaettis
    @Agaettis Рік тому +88

    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
      @DustinRodriguez1_0 Рік тому +2

      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.

    • @ccggenius
      @ccggenius Рік тому +2

      @@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.

  • @imacanoli897
    @imacanoli897 Рік тому +480

    This video was one of the straws that broke the Camel's back; I quit nicotine cold turkey 4 days ago.
    Keep up the great content!

    • @oliviabees
      @oliviabees Рік тому +33

      Hope you’re still doing well now!

    • @samuelfraley8737
      @samuelfraley8737 Рік тому +23

      How’s it going? If you failed and relapsed just try again!

    • @jamesrosewell9081
      @jamesrosewell9081 Рік тому

      @@samuelfraley8737 holy fuck I thought you said you hoped he failed and relapsed again. Holy fuck

    • @samuelfraley8737
      @samuelfraley8737 Рік тому +29

      @@jamesrosewell9081 noooo lol. Relapses happen though and I want this person to know even if that happens it’s ok and to keep trying!

    • @emmanuelprado152
      @emmanuelprado152 11 місяців тому +6

      @imacanoli897 hope you have continued on your quiting journey. Keep on trucking.

  • @peepperson444
    @peepperson444 10 місяців тому +17

    I had an amazing high school history teacher that was unsettlingly similar in size, shape, and overall demeanor to you. It’s definitely just coincidence but I’m happy to know that the subsection of highly enthusiastic short men with facial hair teaching people about fascinating history is still going strong.

    • @lmao2302
      @lmao2302 7 місяців тому +6

      He used to be a history teacher. Bro might be him unironically.

  • @ireneshankweiler-qb4ve
    @ireneshankweiler-qb4ve Рік тому +20

    As I 90s kid I honestly do not remember bubble gum cigarettes, but I do very clearly remember those weird chalk like ones with the red tip, that came in the packs that looked like lucky strike and Marlboro packs, I believe they still make them, I also remember big league chew that was supposed to be like chewing tobacco

    • @thepassingstatic6268
      @thepassingstatic6268 9 місяців тому +1

      I loved Big League Chew. Looking back at the packaging, they were just showing the loud part in plain sight

  • @11conormcloughlin
    @11conormcloughlin Рік тому +262

    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.

    • @terrystevens3998
      @terrystevens3998 Рік тому +26

      And how people will reflexively defend it and be reactionary to any and all laws

    • @cuckoophendula8211
      @cuckoophendula8211 Рік тому +17

      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).

    • @Craxin01
      @Craxin01 Рік тому +5

      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.

    • @terrystevens3998
      @terrystevens3998 Рік тому +1

      @@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.

    • @11conormcloughlin
      @11conormcloughlin Рік тому +1

      @@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.

  • @MrTaxiRob
    @MrTaxiRob Рік тому +83

    A good friend of mine was an on-air radio personality climbing his way up the ranks at some local Clear Channel properties at the time. He was actually doing quite well for himself; but when smoking bans started, he became one of those "smokers' rights" guys.
    Ten years later he died of cancer.

  • @KNNY_-sp6kq
    @KNNY_-sp6kq Рік тому +31

    i actually love these longer videos because even when not paying alot of attention, its a great thing to listen to in the background

  • @helenr4300
    @helenr4300 Рік тому +10

    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

  • @Ralkaneous
    @Ralkaneous Рік тому +264

    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

    • @Tetragrammaton22
      @Tetragrammaton22 Рік тому +23

      He'd have to pay his actors more.

    • @ybokors8524
      @ybokors8524 Рік тому +22

      If the only complaint is „I wish there was more“, they did a good job.

    • @TheModdedwarfare3
      @TheModdedwarfare3 Рік тому +4

      ​@@Tetragrammaton22 That would not be very capitalism of him.

    • @eamonia
      @eamonia Рік тому

      For real. Why isn't he cranking out 2 or 3 of these a week? Lazy asshole...

    • @valdemarjuel1267
      @valdemarjuel1267 Рік тому

      @@TheModdedwarfare3 that would precisely be capitalism. He would have to invent profitable cloning first though

  • @Nickelbag610
    @Nickelbag610 Рік тому +29

    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.

  • @willgeorgiadis2025
    @willgeorgiadis2025 Рік тому +15

    As an ex Juul smoker ( who quit smoking the "real" thing with them), juul is to cigarettes what crack is to cocaine. The way the nicotine affects you is hard and fast, similar to the former drug listed ( unfortunately an ex user of both of those as well). Before I quit I was going through 2-3 pods PER DAY, the equivalent to the same number of packs of cigarettes. I am afraid to see what scientific study reveals in the future about vapes.

  • @joelfer1172
    @joelfer1172 Рік тому +21

    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.

    • @Bleh1217
      @Bleh1217 Рік тому +2

      Best of luck!

    • @Mienarrr
      @Mienarrr Рік тому +5

      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! ❤

  • @asmaran9262
    @asmaran9262 Рік тому +91

    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

    • @Jakob165
      @Jakob165 Рік тому

      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.

    • @rugbybeef
      @rugbybeef Рік тому +2

      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
      @lainiwakura1776 Рік тому

      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.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @rugbybeef
      @rugbybeef Рік тому +1

      @@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.

  • @nickw5682
    @nickw5682 Рік тому +554

    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.

    • @alexsm3882
      @alexsm3882 Рік тому +12

      Mate I'm 24 and I've quit like 4 different times

    • @ZiddersRooFurry
      @ZiddersRooFurry Рік тому +14

      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
      @Tornado1994 Рік тому +3

      Vaping and Smoking are two different things.

    • @atl6s
      @atl6s Рік тому +21

      @@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

    • @nickw5682
      @nickw5682 Рік тому +5

      @@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

  • @meeeka
    @meeeka 8 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @injusticeanywherethreatens265
    @injusticeanywherethreatens265 Рік тому +9

    Quitting smoking is EASY! What are you talking about!?
    *I quit my smoking habit all the time. Again. And again. And again....and again...*

  • @mh4971
    @mh4971 Рік тому +459

    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.

    • @cravinbob
      @cravinbob Рік тому +15

      Do not try to be an author of stories because this one is very amateurish. Thank me later.

    • @mh4971
      @mh4971 Рік тому +24

      ​@@cravinbob You know, I started my day hoping to god you would tell me what you thought. God is real - he answered my prayers.

    • @aliciasnavely5109
      @aliciasnavely5109 Рік тому +10

      @@cravinbob lol agreed. 💯👏🏽 I was cringing reading the entire thing.

    • @Dash62g
      @Dash62g Рік тому +20

      Thanks for sharing this anecdote. I had a similar experience once.
      Kudos for not biting these argument-bait replies, lol.

    • @bekkimadison
      @bekkimadison Рік тому +4

      "Yeah that almost sounds like something real human beings say to each other"

  • @jessicagothie2951
    @jessicagothie2951 Рік тому +107

    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!

    • @shawnrazzi5569
      @shawnrazzi5569 Рік тому +1

      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.

    • @75aces97
      @75aces97 Рік тому +6

      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.

    • @HauntedXXXPancake
      @HauntedXXXPancake 8 місяців тому

      @@shawnrazzi5569 Yeah, He definitely lost some credibility
      with his dismissiveness of personal responsibility
      and more so with the statement "addiction is a disease".

    • @vulpes7079
      @vulpes7079 6 місяців тому +2

      I know someone who relapsed 6 times. She was successful the 7th time and has been free from tobacco for the past 5 years

    • @vulpes7079
      @vulpes7079 6 місяців тому

      ​@@HauntedXXXPancakeaddiction IS a disease

  • @AryaOghuz
    @AryaOghuz Рік тому +7

    Hey, I like the video but the indigenous peoples of America actually did inhale the smoke of tobacco. It just depended on the group. Famously Aztec shamans and other meso and South American peoples smoked (and inhaled) the fumes of the Nicotiana Rustica plant. You are correct when you say it did act as a hallucinogen though, as they would often continue to inhale until they were unable to do so anymore. They believed that this would allow them to communicate with higher powers/gods. Even today Rustica has the highest nicotine content of all tobaccos. In modern Thailand (as well as other countries) they smoke it with bamboo water pipes. Some parts of the Middle East also use Dokha which is a strong tobacco (not sure of the species) mixed with herbs for flavor that creates an extremely intense “head wrap” nicotine high that can last for minutes. Cigar smoking also originated from Mesoamerican shamans, although they would often wrap the tobacco with leaves from other plants

  • @seandobson499
    @seandobson499 Рік тому +9

    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.

  • @corbid5093
    @corbid5093 Рік тому +439

    Knowing about the history of cigs really opened my eyes to a lot. I’m already rather against smoking, I never met a whole set of my grandparents because they died to it before I was born and I watched my other grandma die slowly of lung cancer at the age of 5. But this really fueled it
    Maybe anti smoking campaigns should teach more about the history of cigarettes

    • @backsfx
      @backsfx Рік тому

      Well it would be better than the scare campaign they do today in denmark ...

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 Рік тому +1

      That's the real hillbilly way to go ... dying of lung cancer at the age of 5.

    • @peterheinzo515
      @peterheinzo515 Рік тому +13

      you watched your grandmother die when she was 5? that’s heartbreaking.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +16

      Teaching the history of cigarettes is too close to teaching the evils of capitalism. Can't have that.

    • @injusticeanywherethreatens265
      @injusticeanywherethreatens265 Рік тому +1

      Ya I feel that the history of something is what we need to establish the 'origin' of these devilish tactics. We already know here and now why they advertise the way they do: to make as much money as possibls - fuck all the consequences. But when lookijg at the histiry of the BIG TOBACCCO'S fight against public health over centuries it bdcomes more and more apparent how psychopathic they aare!

  • @zacharynolan9553
    @zacharynolan9553 Рік тому +126

    Very timely video. I’m 22 and have come to the island nation of Cyprus for my first international internship. I never smoked in high school, only hitting a juul once before deciding I didn’t like it. When I came here to the EU, and witnessed the immense smoking culture, I couldn’t help but be peer pressured. It’s been only a few weeks but now I’m reminded of the real damage they do. Not gonna buy another pack or ask for another cig. Thanks KB

    • @serbsi2922
      @serbsi2922 Рік тому +6

      Good luck

    • @TheRunningLeopard
      @TheRunningLeopard Рік тому +15

      As someone who traveled for the first time to Europe for a study abroad, I was shocked by the smoking culture in Italy. I have overall pour lung constitution, with exercise induced asthma that leads me to get bronchitis every once in a while, and I could tangibly feel the difference from irritation. Stay strong man, the peer pressure is tough but your body will thank you in the end. - Another 22 yr old dude.

    • @reptile_loki
      @reptile_loki Рік тому +10

      Cyprus is the country with the most smokers on Earth , you literally landed on the only place in Europe where smoking is a regular

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 Рік тому +1

      @@TheRunningLeopard I'm happy that I'm living in a state in Germany _(Baden-Württemberg),_ where it's still allowed to smoke in small bars. Larger ones can have a designated smokers room.
      But beer smell and cigarettes smoke is what makes a bar a bar.
      But other states go the full _"US way '_ and ban all indoor smoking. Many bars had to close because of that. For example: 42,4 % of al men from 30-35 are smokers. These are the guys hanging around at bars.
      Overall, smoking is much more prevalent in Europe and is not seen as a social stigma, like in the US. I'd always play the _"I'm European"_ card if over there.
      What's funny is that our cigarette boxes got worse and worse over the years with all the warning signs and slogans and now with these disgusting pictures. While the US is the only place I can think of, were there's only a small one-liner about the dangers of smoking, printed on the side. But you guys, while being the greatest anti-smokers in the world, still have just _"normal"_ looking packs!

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 Рік тому +1

      @@reptile_loki Actually, Greece is #1 in the Europe, with 42%. Cyrus _"only"_ landed at place nine, with 39%>
      _Sources:_
      _Eurostar:WHO_
      _Statista 20022'_
      But they still have a life expectancy over 80, just like Japan.
      But with Japan it might have something to do with that all cigarettes over there have a charcoal filter. I know that it's nothing but a hypothesis of mine but I think that's something to have a look in.

  • @ManiakPL22
    @ManiakPL22 Рік тому +9

    "the spittoon was replaced by the ash tray" is such a powerfull raw line holy shit! I love this line.

  • @peterdollins3610
    @peterdollins3610 Рік тому +13

    Excellent piece. An Uncle let me smoke a cig when I was ten, laughing. I stared at him thinking there's nothing in this. Adults must be so stupid. At 15 1957 I started work as a fireman on the GW Railways in the UK. Starting the firebox fire meant standing in front of green thick smoke streaming up into the face. Even on running Stream Traains the smoke could abd did get back into us. So I coud never and never wished to smoke. Good work.

  • @maltaethiron
    @maltaethiron Рік тому +78

    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.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +8

      The problem is cigarettes are so bad consuming literally any other product is an improvement.

    • @cornettotrilogyenjoyer
      @cornettotrilogyenjoyer Рік тому +5

      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

    • @StefanoFierros
      @StefanoFierros Рік тому +5

      @@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.

  • @mike000000000000able
    @mike000000000000able Рік тому +83

    As someone about your age who also loved Penn and Teller, thank you for ripping into them when deserved.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 Рік тому +3

      But the episodes where they talked the crazy stuff were good. They made me see cheerleading in a new light as well.

  • @christinafidance340
    @christinafidance340 Рік тому +12

    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.)

  • @mitch7525
    @mitch7525 Рік тому +47

    I really appreciate this video. I rewatch it occasionally, the only problem is that it makes me extremely cynical for the next few days. It's sad to think how much of our culture simply exists to extract a profit from the masses at any cost.

  • @maxerd
    @maxerd Рік тому +63

    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.

    • @markkrousos5011
      @markkrousos5011 Рік тому +13

      Good luck on quitting! Where I come from we have a nickname for cigarettes 'καρκινοσωλήνες (= karkinosolines)', cancer tubes.

    • @seekinggodfirst754
      @seekinggodfirst754 Рік тому +6

      @maxerd Throw out the unopened pack. Distance yourself from the temptation.

    • @maxerd
      @maxerd Рік тому +1

      Lol Elon Musk is an Exec. Prod. on 'Thank You For Smoking'

    • @WinterReflections
      @WinterReflections Рік тому +5

      @@markkrousos5011 "Cancer sticks" are a slang term used in America as well.

    • @HorkPorkler
      @HorkPorkler Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @Entrailss
    @Entrailss Рік тому +70

    Your room is the only time I can ever imagine “12 years a slave” and “starship troopers” being mentioned together.

    • @Pantalaimon91
      @Pantalaimon91 Рік тому +7

      @@chompythebeast The first movie is satire. The book is absolutely not and an active proponent of militarism.

    • @jannikheidemann3805
      @jannikheidemann3805 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @jannikheidemann3805
      @jannikheidemann3805 Рік тому

      Slavery guarrantees citizenship!

  • @bjorn-falkoandreas9472
    @bjorn-falkoandreas9472 6 місяців тому +4

    Mr Better, sir. I am 20 years your senior and had the good fortune of my mother insisting we leave the US back in the 70s. I am acutely aware of the past 50 years of filth accumulated in German history and the most famous 12 years by virtue of a lot of education. When I left the US in my luggage was a picture book and a record. One of those Disney Golden Books. My favorite one was The Song of the South. Took me decades to learn that that was bad. Took me another decade to learn that the bits that were extracted were actually good and probably the only good thing Disney Corp managed to get right. They had actual folk tales which were Americanized version of west African stories. That rabbit was a trickster spider god in most version and Disney somehow managed to Brother's Grimm that by talking to people before that oral traditon was lost. That is the kind of complex relationship I was brought up with in the US. My parents parked me at a black church so they could go their merry way and you can imagine the amount of cookies I was fed with and how alien the concept of racism in the US was to me.
    And then there was the 90s.
    Man, Bill Maher and South Park. I was in my late 20s when the ManBearPig episode aired. That was the day South Park stopped existing for me. They apologized for that one decades later. It was obvious back then. What annoys me is how long the McDonalds thing and the fiction of the frivolous lawsuits leading to payouts lasted in the US. All of that is something observable with cold hard facts and yet people get their education from entertainers with no obligation to veracity. The US -to this day- uses the code word "hygiene" for circumcision. It took me 30 years to understand the lotion jokes and that American men are not naturally filthy and don't know how to wash. I am certain a lot of people repeat and do things unthinkingly just because it was always done that way. Shyster got a shipment of novelty pickles? Sell it to people cosplaying as Germans to hang in their christmas trees. That one has stopped being a curio in German news magazines ages ago. Deluded eugenicist and failed bland cereal salesman is obsessed with masturbation? Make the US the most circumcised nation with no religious background for it whatsoever. Actual science had to be done and ignored to refute this particular brand of idiocy. Elderly woman suffering 3rd degree burns to her thighs and genitalia to the point of skin grafts? Have comedians repeat the lines spun by the lawyers of a fast food company going on about frivolous lawsuits. Uncharismatic politician picking up the cause of climate change, a phenomenon so well understood it was taught in my school back in the 80s? Bunch of weirdos from California who made their low-effort sweatshop animation their brand make fun of it. Young woman groomed by a man in power? Make fun of her till the end of days.
    Entertainment, religion and pseudo-science. You are teaching a valuable curriculum and the source critique you frequently do is now more important than ever. A young person cited a NYP article as news to me and I wasn't able to explain the propaganda techniques to them.
    You will need to do one on that one. Propaganda as entertainment and propaganda as news because that is the oldest unrefuted falsehood that the US does not do propaganda.

  • @37parman
    @37parman Рік тому +4

    39:30 my dad died in 1995 at 54 years old. He first had abdominal pain in June and diagnosed in August with mesothelioma. He died on thanksgiving day. I remember he smoked Kent cigarettes.

  • @insertcolorfulmetaphor8520
    @insertcolorfulmetaphor8520 Рік тому +209

    I remember easily accessed pull operated cigarette machines in the local Denny's like restaurants, still in 1996.
    Every child smoker from the nearby middle school and the high school would always get cigs (a pack) for about $1.75 in quarters... Wild times. Child of the 1980's ( a X'ennial generation kiddo)

    • @EnigmaticLucas
      @EnigmaticLucas Рік тому +4

      I'm too young to remember when it was allowed everywhere (born in 2002), but I do remember a few local restaurants having smoking sections as recently as 2013 or so

    • @LuciFeric137
      @LuciFeric137 Рік тому +3

      Yep. I used to stock those. Great little profit centers.

    • @TheOneTrueAnthemis
      @TheOneTrueAnthemis Рік тому +7

      I've heard X'enniels referred to the Oregon Trail Generation
      Uniquely positioned to see the full analog and digital worlds

    • @t_ylr
      @t_ylr Рік тому +3

      @@EnigmaticLucas I'm about a decade older than you. I remember smoking sections and cigarette machines, even at Chuck E Cheese lol. Tho where I lived that stuff went away in the mid 00s. I remember a lot of adults complaining about having smoke outside in the rain and the cold haha.

    • @lukewarmwaterr
      @lukewarmwaterr Рік тому +1

      @@EnigmaticLucas I was born in 2000, I remember having to sit in the smoking area one time at a restaurant with my parents because they were out of space in the normal section. came back a few months later after the ban and now there is no smoking section!

  • @Starfox2020
    @Starfox2020 Рік тому +55

    I love your cutaways to period pop art. It's really enlightening to put words into cultural context.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому

      It was nice to see Billiam "Boomer republican" Mahr has always been a piece of garbage.

  • @cookies23z
    @cookies23z Рік тому +5

    the downside of being a fallout fan is these commercials for deathsticks make me feel nostalgic and joyful... I wasnt even alive for those early ones...

  • @CafetiereEnOr
    @CafetiereEnOr Рік тому +24

    I started Vaping this week and I plan on phasing out nicotine during the reste of the year and be a non addict by 2024. Thank you so much for making this video. I always knew the risks associated to it but I always thought I was getting something out of it. The aim of your video (not talking health risk but showing how, regardless of those risks, cigarettes are kinda dumb) really made reconsider my « cute sin » (guilty pleasure in French).
    Thank you so much you may have given me a few more years to live lol

  • @erisdiscordia5429
    @erisdiscordia5429 Рік тому +251

    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.

    • @bitnewt
      @bitnewt Рік тому +9

      I spotted the little cigarette props on the shelves but didn't get the significance of the posters! This is neat!

    • @enock542
      @enock542 Рік тому +6

      i think dude has that there every episode

    • @erisdiscordia5429
      @erisdiscordia5429 Рік тому +3

      @@enock542 Yer, does seem that way. Everyone's gotta notice at some point, though.

    • @enock542
      @enock542 Рік тому +1

      @@erisdiscordia5429 that's a fact family. hope you're enjoying your night yo. stay up

    • @erisdiscordia5429
      @erisdiscordia5429 Рік тому +1

      @@enock542 Same, bud.

  • @briangolding7213
    @briangolding7213 Рік тому +89

    An hour in to see you put Mahr on blast was worth every second. Excellent, Informative and Entertaining

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому +16

      Billiam "Boomer Republican" Mahr is just Dennis Praguer on weed.

    • @Osric24
      @Osric24 Рік тому

      Good to know Maher had always been a piece of trash.

    • @tacokoneko
      @tacokoneko Рік тому +3

      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

    • @tacokoneko
      @tacokoneko Рік тому +2

      @@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.

  • @onewholovesvenison5335
    @onewholovesvenison5335 Рік тому +8

    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!”.

  • @DevynPlaysGames
    @DevynPlaysGames Рік тому +11

    I started vaping freshman year of college. I started with no nicotine, then went to 3%, then 6% in box mods.
    Then I bought a pod based vape and was quickly up to the 50mg nic salts.
    Then I burned the coils in the pods, and used the 50mg juice in my old box mod.
    I was vaping to get a high that essentially knocked me out. Like, I would fall on my bed, light-headed, and just lay there for like 15-30 minutes.
    My social anxiety helped me quit by preventing me from going to vape shops to refill my stock of juice/coils.
    Vaping is not good.

  • @ThatBum42
    @ThatBum42 Рік тому +80

    My grandpa has Alzheimer's. Occasionally he'll repeat phrases from his youth, one of which is "And they are mild!" It's immensely sad to me that he can't recognize his two daughters but he still remembers this stupid marketing slogan.

    • @aturchomicz821
      @aturchomicz821 Рік тому +1

      Woooow....

    • @laguerrapiutotale9208
      @laguerrapiutotale9208 Рік тому +8

      This is the power they have over public perception

    • @Silvermoon424
      @Silvermoon424 Рік тому +4

      That's so tragic.

    • @clanmclaren6647
      @clanmclaren6647 Рік тому +22

      Should be known that while complex memories like those of people are destroyed by alzheimers, very simple things like slogan jingles and favorite songs are one of the very last things that stick around. He did't love you guys any less, he can't help it his brain was literally dying.

    • @emilymoisuc8579
      @emilymoisuc8579 Рік тому

      Sad. The irony being that nicotine has been shown to help stave off Alzheimer's. Using it, minus cigarettes, as a therapy is being researched now.

  • @Blauefrucht
    @Blauefrucht Рік тому +48

    In Germany, our former chancellor Helmut Schmidt is famously known for smoking menthol cigarettes. He even stockpiled tens of thousand for them, when they were outlawed in 2013.

    • @truegemuese
      @truegemuese Рік тому +2

      Ich wusste gar nicht, dass er die gehamstert hat.

    • @caseclosed9342
      @caseclosed9342 Рік тому +5

      If you look at the Reagan presidential library’s UA-cam channel they have a video of Schimdt’s arrival at the White House and the top comment is “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Schmidt go this long without a cigarette!” 😂😂😂

    • @markwilliams2620
      @markwilliams2620 Рік тому

      Germans are stubbor......er set in their ways?

    • @lShishkaBerryl
      @lShishkaBerryl Рік тому

      Lmaoooooooo I had an old roommate message me to ask if I'd drive an hour to get her mother menthols at the native reserve before they were banned, then presumably drive another hour to deliver them. I did not, she can go there herself if she wants them bad enough.

  • @Colorcrayons
    @Colorcrayons Рік тому +38

    Here's another question: Why am I only seeing this video now, after your latest release?
    I am studiously subscribed to your channel, as I view your meticulously researched content to be culturally and socially significant. And this video, never showed up in my feed, ever.
    As a former smoker who took great pains to quit after many years under it's yoke, knowing such a video is likely somehow being suppressed (intentionally or unintentionally) by the almighty tube algorithm, is disheartening.
    Excellent quality as usual. You never disappoint. Thanks for your effort. These videos have much value.

    • @k.c1126
      @k.c1126 Рік тому +4

      Same. I wondered why there was such a long break after the neo-slavery one ....

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Рік тому +1

      UA-cam's algorithm is an inscrutable black box, at least to the end user. It promotes some videos and smothers others for reasons known only to the engineers at Google and the people giving them orders.
      I've seen some people speculate that videos from more progressive channels get less coverage than ones from centrist/right-wing ones, but all we have is anecdotal evidence, because the social media industry hasn't explained how they work to anyone and isn't about to start now.

    • @ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023
      @ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023 Рік тому +3

      UA-cam has become unreliable regarding notifications in my experience. Every now and then, I notice that some channel that I have "rung the bell" for has dropped a video that I didn't get a notification for. Not terribly often, but it is still irritating.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Рік тому

      @@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023 When were UA-cam notifications reliable?

    • @JoshNoodleSoup
      @JoshNoodleSoup Рік тому

      Same

  • @kigalbert
    @kigalbert 11 місяців тому +5

    About your commentary about flavors, you may want to look into DIY eliquid. What many don’t understand is that flavoring is a crucial part of hobbyist eliquid consumers. Basically, they are looking to drastically reduce their nicotine intake and combine flavors with the liquid to get the satisfaction they once did with smoking. They are not Juul users by any degree, as they often have custom vape setups (sometimes completely built by the user).
    Also, thank you for making the distinction between nicotine and the many other dangerous chemicals in smoking combustible nicotine products. While nicotine is not harmless, it’s the other chemicals in smoking that kills (from what I have researched). I appreciate your video, good work.

  • @cofeewarior
    @cofeewarior Рік тому +117

    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.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Рік тому

      Fun fact. The cigarettes given out to soldiers during world war 2 killed more people than the actual war.

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine Рік тому +7

      As they say, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”

    • @lShishkaBerryl
      @lShishkaBerryl Рік тому +2

      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.

    • @rodh1404
      @rodh1404 Рік тому +1

      I genuinely wish you well with that. Unfortunately, all too many smokers quit only after too much damage has been done.

    • @commisaryarreck3974
      @commisaryarreck3974 Рік тому

      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

  • @rvdb7363
    @rvdb7363 Рік тому +207

    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.

    • @Turnil321
      @Turnil321 Рік тому

      They have gone the way of the negerzoenen (nigerkiss) and black pete (a black-face helper).

    • @MultiMariana55
      @MultiMariana55 Рік тому +6

      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.

    • @fukpoeslaw3613
      @fukpoeslaw3613 Рік тому +4

      You had to peal off the paper or spit it out later 😄

    • @katrijndekeersmaecker1904
      @katrijndekeersmaecker1904 Рік тому

      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?

    • @rvdb7363
      @rvdb7363 Рік тому +4

      @@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)

  • @hallamhal
    @hallamhal Рік тому +6

    1:14:12 I love how Penn wheezes and splutters several times during this rant

  • @valentins.2637
    @valentins.2637 Рік тому +3

    Can't believe you skipped over the "how to light Something without Matches?" Part. That Shit got me hooked

  • @ianmacdonald9201
    @ianmacdonald9201 Рік тому +48

    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.

    • @LMvdB02
      @LMvdB02 Рік тому +1

      That's really quick dining lol

    • @LMvdB02
      @LMvdB02 Рік тому +1

      American?

    • @spaceman081447
      @spaceman081447 Рік тому +1

      @ian macdonald
      I can remember when "NON-smoking sections" on planes and in restaurants did not even exist.

  • @valritz1489
    @valritz1489 Рік тому +169

    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.

    • @swarnimvajpai6373
      @swarnimvajpai6373 Рік тому +12

      Finally, a fun fact i ACTUALLY knew lol

    • @austinkopp9811
      @austinkopp9811 Рік тому +6

      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.

    • @nithia0999
      @nithia0999 Рік тому +4

      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.

    • @aribantala
      @aribantala Рік тому +4

      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

    • @Nerobyrne
      @Nerobyrne Рік тому

      Lol I thought that was just black market wine runners 😁

  • @Valyssi
    @Valyssi Рік тому +25

    This was a great insight into not just tobacco, but how easy it was to manipulate the public, using techniques which are still widely used today. Of course there's something to be said for today's ability to instantly Google something (like what the special interests of various 'institutes' are), but it's also made it similarly easy to spread propaganda in the first place