I remember my parents both smoking in our tiny VW Bug wherever we went - windows rolled up and me choking in the back. Both sets of grandparents smoked like chimneys - the whole house would be a fog of smoke all fall and winter when the windows were shut. My classroom in 4th grade was directly across from the teachers lounge and I remember clouds of smoke billowing out the lounge door into the hallway, bathrooms and especially our classroom right across the hall. Crazy when I think about it now.
David Millar, sometimes credited as the first marlboro man, sometimes just as an early one, retired to the small NH town I grew up in. He was well known locally as THE Marlboro Man, was unmistakable as he drove a red Ferrari, and died from smoking related illness in 1987 (despite having quit 20 years previously).
He died from smoke related ilness, no kidding ? Probably the same way people kept dying from Covid for 3 years, until they suddenly decide one day to stop dying from Covid and resume dying from regular overweight or heart attack !
Started smoking at 15 because it was "cool". Everyone in my family smoked as well as most people I knew. By the time I was 18 I was smoking 3 packs a day. Doctor told me only 30% of my lungs were working so I cut back but was back to 3 packs within a few months. Tried to stop a number of times with no success but at age 30 I told myself I was done with them and tossed them out that night. I'm now 70 and haven't smoked in 40 years, don't even like being around it or the people who do smoke, they stink. Since quitting I've climbed many of the mountains in the North Cascade range including all the tallest, Rainier, Baker, Addams, Hood, etc. I've ridden my bicycle from Seattle to Portland 3 times, each time in one day, the last time in 2009. In 2018 I thru-hiked over 1400 miles of the Appalachian Trail in 3 months. None of this would have been doable if I'd kept smoking.
You and I are the same age and quit at the same age. I just didn't see myself smoking for the rest of my life and thought that if I was still doing it after 30, then I'd never quit. So I quit at 30.
I quit at 30, too. At that time, I read that tobacco companies had targeted teens in their advertising. They believed that if they got young people smoking then they would have customers for life. I started smoking when I was 13 so I wanted to prove them wrong.
I'm nearing 70, started smoking at 12. I've always told myself that as soon as I don't enjoy them, I'll quit... I still enjoy them. We're all going to go from something.
Very true, but I’d like to hang around for a little longer. Not to mention I watched my father slowly suffocate from emphysema it was horrible. Definitely wouldn’t wanna go that way.
I appreciate the work you did all these years, David. Very informative. Thank you for just finding the thing in life that made you happy and sharing it with the world
I’m old enough to remember when they even had candy cigarettes for kids. I used to pretend I was smoking and adults thought it was funny. Thank goodness I never took up smoking cigarettes, and my dad passed away from emphysema in his late 60s because of them.
Steve pick I would beg my daddy to buy the candy cigarettes when I was a kid. I thought I was grown up lol . Tried smoking many times in my teenage years to smoke I just didn’t care for it and didn’t get hooked. Praise God!😊
My favorite part of all of David's videos, is reading the inspiring stories in the comments. All walks of life, driven to this content seeking the same sort of meaning. All from different walks, yet with so many familiar experiences. It is one thing for a filmmaker to entertain or engage, it is a totally other thing for a filmmaker to inspire people. Thank you so much, David.
My mom smoke for 40 years and died from cigarettes related illness emphysema and heart failure. when she started smoking in 1949 the danger of smoking wasn't there. My mom was always respectful to nonsmokers she was around she would always ask if the smoke or smell from cigarettes would bother them before lighting up. I grew up around a smoker, so I guess I got use to smoke and smell of cigarettes, but I never had the desire to smoke. Rest in Peace mom.
When California became the first state in the country to ban smoking in nearly every workplace and in indoor public spaces in 1995. Restaurants were included in the ban, and bars, taverns, and gaming clubs were phased in by 1998 the corporate office of the restaurant chain I worked at, at the time was against the ban for fear that it would drive smoking customers away. all employee who did smoke had a designated spot outside of the restaurant to smoke.
I smoke. I've tried to give up a few times. I always told my kids, 'the worst thing about smoking is it's so hard to quit". They now have kids of their own and have never smoked. I'm proud of them.
There used to be ashtrays on planes, trains, buses, elevators, public buildings, the movies--even hospitals. I remember pleading with my parents from the back seat of the car to roll down the windows because I couldn't breathe. It was a different world.... 😤
I still sometimes ask my parents to roll down the windows, at least a little bit. Thankfully, these days I ride on the passenger seat, so I can roll one down for myself. In Bosnia, where I'm from, smoking is still "cool". Lots of teens do it, lots of adults, especially more elderly folks, do it. If anybody's older than 24, chances are they smoke. I don't blame them, it's a combination of usual teenager tendencies and, later, addiction. My dad always had the excuse that cigarettes calmed him down and prevented him from committing violent acts in the family. Ironically he said that during the phase when he smoked 4 to 5 packs a day, before he went down to half a pack a day and was significantly more calm by then.
I met Pete Meade from Wyoming in 2013 one of the original Malborough men, he was having health issues back then but recently heard he is still alive, he's a great gentleman.
I'm 70 and never smoked. There was an article called "Marlboro Country" around 1975 that took place in a cancer ward of a hospital. It told of the patients, some with breathing tubes out of their neck with a lit cigarette attached. A Marlboro Man rappelling shoot happened at Mount Evans, CO with some company execs present. The Marlboro Man model asked one of the execs why he was not smoking. The exec said" I only sell this 'stuff', not smoke it." The Marlboro model said this during an interview later with the other various smoking commercial models from the past, all had or have cancer.
I hope and pray that my mother doesn't get cancer. She smokes a lot and wonders why I hate the smell of it. My brother made her smoke outside because he didn't want it around his kids. I had to enforce that after he gave us his old apartment.
It's been over 16 years now since I quit smoking cigarettes and I'm so glad I succeeded. I don't know many other people that quit and stay quit like I have.
Congratulations! I quit smoking cigarettes a dozen years ago, out of the blue when I wasn't intending to quit. It still amazes me that I tried unsuccessfully to quit so many times, and then one day put the cigarettes down and just never picked them back up again. Sooooo very grateful I finally quit no matter how it happened.
Scott Stapf was a cartoon villain come to life. He knew the truth about smoking, looked the public right in the eye and outright lied with a straight face. It’s downright disturbing how good he was at his job.
Bear in mind that at the time (all the way to the early 2000s when the WHO/UN stepped in as well) Tobacco companies payed literal billions in lobbying to avoid getting labeled as bad. The unfortunate truth is that a lot of those spoke people don't regret anything they said because by now they're in public anonymity and second those lobby dollars secured their lives for probably their next five generations
Wow, David, just wow. I was never taught about this (and I was born a few years later), which I guess is no surprise because both of my parents smoked. It was in my adult years that they both quit on their own. My Dad tried the gum, patches, etc, and nothing worked so he got mad one day and just stopped allowing himself to buy them. My Mom, however, took a bit longer to make that decision, and it was her health that ultimately made her decision for her. While on disability (SSI in the US pays diddly squat), she moved in with my husband and me who do not 🚭 smoke and won't allow it inside. For awhile, she would go outside, but it wasn't something she wanted anymore, so she quit on her own. Thank goodness! I'm just stunned 😳 that I'm only seeing this now.
Took me forever to quit...was really hooked on nicotine...but i bought my first nicotine vape pen, where i could take one hit and get my fill..put it down. Unlike that..a cigarette compelled me to finish it..and smoke the whole thing...had me orally fixed. The vape pen helped me step off the cigarettes and to finally quit after 40 years
@@lolawalsh9187 Please look at it like this Lola. In reality, it is a MUCH healthier option for your body, doesnt affect those around you, and eliminates the guilt stigma of having to put others around you while smoking. It is also far far cheaper....I will argue this about vaping...would you rather one of your parents or loved ones whom was trying to quit smoking for years on end have the option to vape saving those years of destruction on their lungs, body, and family strains? which is the better option? Fantastic job Susie!
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I grew up in the 60s and remember all this coming out. Both my parents smoked, their friends smoked, aunts and uncles smoked. Almost every adult I knew at the time smoked. As a little kid I used to spend vacations at my aunt's house who didn't smoke, but my uncle did, and I just now realized that when I was there he never smoked in front of me. I'm sure that was at my aunt's insistence. I remember seeing a box of old National Geographic magazines in their cellar with ads on the back cover, saying, "4 out of 5 doctors recommend Camel cigarettes for sore throats!". Even then I laughed at those ads. I started smoking later, at about age 17 because most of my friends did, but luckily only about 5 a day (cigarettes, not packs). Even so, it was incredibly hard to quit. I was finally forced into quitting when stranded in the house during the "Blizzard of '78", in Massachusetts. That blizzard was a blessing for me in that way. For about 3 years after, every time I finished eating, or when one of my friends lit up, I got the urge for a cigarette! Now I can't stand being around cigarette smoke. Even 15 feet away I feel like I'm suffocating. When my father had a stroke, he had to quit cold turkey, but he had an iron will and did it with little trouble. My mother tried many times to quit, but failed. When she was diagnosed with early stage lung cancer she finally succeeded and beat the cancer.
@Lunsy exactly. 20 years of cigars, and I feel awful a non smoking friend died 18 years ago of heart failure..I still miss him. Same birthday and like a brother.
*I'm just quitting after smoking since 12 years old now I'm 77 now quitting smoking appreciate your videos Listening 🌼From Mass USA TYVM 🇺🇸David Hoffman*
As a kid, I used to watch Dr. Kildare with Richard Chamberlain which premiered in 1961. I recently bought the series on DVD and started laughing on the first scene of Episode 1 when the young intern, Kildare, lights up outside the hospital elevator, rides it to the fourth floor and gets out to meet Dr. Gillespie sitting at his desk smoking a cig. It was ubiquitous back then. Banks, grocery stores, libraries, movie theaters, small college classrooms, bars, buses, trains, airplanes, bowling alleys... you couldn't escape the smoke.
I wish I could stop. I started smoking when I was 12-13, but have been battling "worse" addictions that I've rid myself off completely (heroin, amphetamine and cocain), so I'm waiting a while until I feel strong enough to take on the nicotine too. I really want to stop, but I'm afraid that if I fuck with that addiction I might fall back into the hell of Opioid addiction again since I've only been clean for about 2 years (which is nothing when you've been addicted since you were 14 up until you were 31). So, as soon as I feel completely stable in my new found sobriety I'll take on the nicotine as well. It might be tomorrow, it may be in three years, I have no idea. All I know is that I *will* quit.
My mum picked up her nicotine habit during the London blitz... She smoked 40 unfiltered Rothmans a day for 50 years until emphysema killed her. My dad went to sea in 1935 (aged 15) and got his nicotine habit in the merchant navy. He was still a heavy smoker when he died in 1975. I stopped smoking in 1999 after using ~20 per day for 25 years (I'm 65) These days the only thing I smoke is a little weed (in a dry herb vape and prescribed by my doctor).
I'm 45 and I never smoked in my life, not even tried, maybe twice a bit. Now I am considering maybe should I start smoking. I have not decided should I take Marlboro or Camel. They have the best ads.
Luckily they still had none smokers in 1964 when they discovered that smoking is harmful to your health. If they want until 1984 they might have not found any non-smokers.
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My mom is a chain smoker. Once I asked her to look after my baby since my husband and I needed to buy new furniture and when we were in the furniture store she called us that she is out of cigarettes and she will 'just jump to the nearest gas station to get her some, the baby will not even notice'. We drove back immediately as fast as we could and never ever asked her to take care of our baby ever again. It's sick addiction. Until that day, I tolerated her stinking like a chimney all my life or needing a smoke whenever she had an argument but that horrible addiction and intention of leaving a baby all alone while she needed to puff made me hate her and the addictions in general.
My dad smoked " lucky strikes" since the the early 50s At 60 he had a tumer removed from a lung. Six yrs later it came back In 2001 he died of lung cancer at 66. These adds were powerful. The baby boomers were inadated with em. We smoked & smoked everywhere , movie theaters, airplanes, even in hospitals. Now I'm 66...haven't smoked in a few yrs. The cravings are still there. I still remember every ad , every jingle. Thank the gods for the good guys who exposed the horrors of tobacco. Stop smoking now
This is why I "laugh" when people say that the solution to a particular problem is education. For instance when people were talking about AIDS. We have known for decades about the cancer danger, it's posted right on the cigarette packages. I remember when I was very young (perhaps early 70s), there was a demonstration machine called "Smoking Sam" which would smoke a cigarette and then the operator would pull out a filter to show the tar that would be put in your lungs every time you smoked a cigarette. And yet we still get plenty of new smokers every year. Thanks Dave. I recognize the narrator's voice on this. Glad to hear you were friends. I also remember a man named Will Lyman, who had an excellent voice.
I was Born 1966 and started smoking at 15, both my parents smoked. Marlboro ads were cool, promising the "taste of freedom and adventure.Luckily I Had to be treated surgically at my vocal cords at 25 so I had a reason to quit smoking my one and a half pack a day. I guess that changed - and I am sure that hast saved my life since very close relatives of mine died of lung cancer. But it took me a couple of years before I really never missed a cigarette anymore!
Every time i told a smoker that i've never started smoking, they compliment me on it and say it was a good decision. That speaks for itself. Almost every Addiction starts as a habit.
The guy Ed is a character. Very entertaining and it seems like he’s having a blast! He also makes some great points as well. Teach kids about nicotine early.
Nothing wrong with smoking tobacco. It was all the extra chemicals they put into the manufacturing process to get it to burn consistently which caused the harm . Smoke actual tobacco it burns different .
I haven't had a cigarette in 4 months, after 40yrs of smoking. I watched my best friend's mom die and thought about my own children. I can still crave cigarettes and still feel the damage they did to my body. I pray for strength.
Started and stopped smoking within four months thanks to vaping. Black Box American Spirits. Nicotine addiction runs in my family but even I was shocked at how quickly I jumped on it as soon as I was old enough to buy my own. Smoking's an expensive habit though, not just financially but it fucks up your body and nicotine addiction is a huge factor in depression for a lot of people, including myself. I currently vape low resistance high nicotine content to emulate smoking's effect but if I could come to terms with just dropping nicotine I gladly would
I just want to say I'm glad you were able to stop using cigarettes. That is a really hard thing to do for anyone. Though I do believe vaping is not a much better alternative at all, maybe even worse, the science just doesn't know yet. I've grown up in the generation of youths who first picked up vaping and have seen how widespread of an issue it is among my peers. I believe it'll only be a few more years until something similar occurs as did in this video; the surgeon general report will officially announce the dangers of vaping, and for many people the damage will have already set it in. It might take some time, but you're strong enough to drop nicotine completely. Addictions are powerful and you might need to reach out for professional help to overcome it, but you have the strength in you to put nicotine in your past. I hope that is something you want for your future and achieve that. Best of luck, friend
@@sebastianbrelin7246 Yeah nicotine's really not a great drug at all when most modes of consumption are harmful to longterm health in one way or another as well as present state of mind. I see the risks slowly starting to reveal themselves the way they would with longterm smoking- shortness of breath, shortness of patience when I've been away from it, and shorter attention span. I've dealt with ADHD for years and in the moment nicotine is honestly a great tool for focus but when I haven't had any the adverse affect is my attention span is worse than its baseline was before I started using nicotine it's some shit about how focus relates to dopamine and nicotine stimulating its production makes it harder for your body to naturally make it and or the receptors get all shot I honestly don't know fully and the unfortunate fact is vaping makes nicotine so accessible that it becomes very easy to become t h a t addicted that quickly. Quitting is the goal eventually though, having lost several close family members to complications related to smoking I'd really rather not continue the genetic trend. The support is very much appreciated 🖤
I'm in my 50's, never smoked, and never been able to understand the sheer, utter futility and madness of smoking. Almost all the people I've ever known to smoke are the ones who can least afford it, and that's before the health implications are considered.
The same marketing technique used to sell millions cigarettes back then, today is implemented in politics to sell you things against your self-interest.
Alma. I have not posted it as yet. But I do have many clips on my TH-cam channel regarding smoking and other clips from this film. Search the word "cigarette" on my TH-cam channel and you will be given many opportunities to see smoking-related videos. David Hoffman filmmaker
Smoking 🚬 and chewing tobacco were common when I was in the United States Air Force. It was gradually prohibited indoors but it took a few years for it to be enforced.
My brother started smoking around 14. He died at 63 with cancer throughout his body. My sister who is 75 went through 2 bouts of lung cancer in 2021. Last fall she was diagnosed with brain cancer. She lost all feeling in her dominant hand. She is now on steroids to reduce the necrosis that developed around her brain tumor! DOES ANYONE STILL WANT TO SMOKE?! 😢😢
I was in high school when this report came out, interesting time....Marlboro man got cancer, but we had a huge sign about Sunset Strip with him nun the less. We even had bilboards with other brands the blew smoke out of folks mouth.
Camel was more my brand . Each time I turned the television on , I saw former Marlboro Man Bob Beck smoking Camels while riding his off road Jeep in the tropical wilderness . Because of the tropical setting along with shots of the convertable Jeep , Filipinos and Filipinas was able to relate more to the Camel brand .
Yes smoking is bad; that's undeniable. That being said; the reality is genetics plays a significant role in both cancer and heart disease. Death will occur to everyone regardless of how one lives their lives.Truth is, we can diminish the probabilities by making better choices but in the final analysis we're all gonna go eventually. It's inevitable. So, enjoy your time here!
This is likely quite random given the topic. But, is the narrator the same narrator that does voiceovers for forensic files? It sounds as though it’s him, just younger.
I like when he says about people putting out cigarettes in the auditorium. My mother says when she was a child they used to have candy cigarettes..awful! Absolutely awful!
They sold them on the ice cream truck when I was 7 in 1990. They were gum sticks that looked like cigarettes AND if you blew on them powdered sugar (I assume) would almost mimic smoke…
@Michiko Smith Similar ages! Yeah, it was still bad in our time. Still is. People in their twenties looking much older, sickly and malnourished. Spend $10 on a pack when you could get a week's worth of grains.
yeh, I remember them, plus we were surrounded by adults from the day we could walk puffing in our faces, smoke choked rooms, we hardly had a choice. Also remember the local corner shop would sell single cigs to us school kids for 10p. crazy days...
You can still get them in independent sweet shops. The chewing gum kind. I think they come from Germany. I uses to get the candy ones of the ice cream van when I was a kid in the 80s. Loved the texture and taste.
I quit cigarettes at 25. I quit cigars by 28. Both of my parents smoked from whenever they started to the end. My father died of colon cancer at 59 and my mother died of congestive heart disease at 79. I was born in 54 I will be 69 in a few months. I have a possible congestive heart disorder and some colon issues. It was good that I stopped smoking when I did. I mostly smoked Marlboros. They had just gone up to 50 cents a pack. Reagan was the elected President, and I drove a 69 Comet Cyclone just after I quit Cigarettes. I was 25 how old was my car?
I am not a smoker or have been aside from cigars on occasion. My aunt was a smoker from the time she was 13-14 until she died at 85. She didn’t ever quit even after being diagnosed with COPD. Very bad and deadly habit.
Industry leaders twirl their mustaches and laugh like snidley whiplash and say " For profits!" Then everyone else was forced to apologize and say 'we were wrong' (doctors, etc)
@@wenmoonson ...not when doctors are prescribing cigarettes for a variety of illnesses and disorders. I'm sure I don't need to tell you, but for everyone else that doesn't know, that s**t really happened.
Honestly, smoking is a mental thing as much as physical. Anyone can quit. It's the lack of accountability that people fail to admit. That they also enjoy it and it's not just addictive. Grasping the idea of addiction is a rabbit hole of it's own separate from just enjoying it. Recognizing it's not healthie and stopping is great and I wished more folks back then adopted this perspective that wanted to quit. But thinking, it's only addictive. Will just embrace a victim mindset.
It took me 2 attempts to quit, first a mere 3 months, the second a full year and after another 5 years of smoking i finally quit. I feel so much better, i can properly breathe, i don`t cough, i dont snore anymore and my skin looks great. If i smell tobacco smoke now i get headaches and almost throw up. I will never ever go back to that crap again and it`s so sad it`s still something that people do and when i see them i feel pity.
Marlboro had made the inspired connection.. between cancer and death ...i have been smoking since i was 14 now iam getting 37 and iam wasted nicotin is the most addictive substance i knew quit smoking crack was easier than tobacco
I remember in the 80s, People were allowed to smoke anywhere. Us kids could go buy a pack for our parents. I remember the laws slowly changing to cut back on the problem.
I quit financial reasons can really help you quit the idea of $130 a month going up in smoke to kill me really motivated me I still think now I wanna smoke if it wouldn’t kill me I’d smoke it was fun to pull out that cigarette and light it up and visit with somebody and drink a cup of coffee it was hooked to many social pleasures. And if no one’s around and you’re lonely you can still have a cuppa coffee and light up a cigarette just like it’s your best friend😢 The Marboro man die of cancer?
I remember my parents both smoking in our tiny VW Bug wherever we went - windows rolled up and me choking in the back. Both sets of grandparents smoked like chimneys - the whole house would be a fog of smoke all fall and winter when the windows were shut. My classroom in 4th grade was directly across from the teachers lounge and I remember clouds of smoke billowing out the lounge door into the hallway, bathrooms and especially our classroom right across the hall. Crazy when I think about it now.
Cigarettes hurt smoker and snifer both
I got asma as a child because of my mother's smoking I'll never forget that pain in my 🫁 lungs. I've suffered with breathing problems ever sense then.
David Millar, sometimes credited as the first marlboro man, sometimes just as an early one, retired to the small NH town I grew up in. He was well known locally as THE Marlboro Man, was unmistakable as he drove a red Ferrari, and died from smoking related illness in 1987 (despite having quit 20 years previously).
He died from smoke related ilness, no kidding ? Probably the same way people kept dying from Covid for 3 years, until they suddenly decide one day to stop dying from Covid and resume dying from regular overweight or heart attack !
You’re full of it, the real Marlboro man never smoked, and lived in Colorado. He died a few years back in his 80s.
Can you imagine how hard the tobacco industry probably tried to stop this info from coming out?
@@agingerbeard no, but if it deals with this topic, that sounds interesting
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Can you imagine how much the bankers who hated farming paid to get this information out?
@@agingerbeard of Bankers.
Bankers didn’t hate tobacco farming, because it was profitable!
My late husband was born in NY in 1952 and aspired to dress and be as cool as The Marlboro Man. He died of emphysema/COPD in 2017.
My aunt too. She smoked all her life and only quit when it was too late.
@Rt Rt my Aunt was Aunt Elaine. I would never make up something like that. How dare you call me a liar. You're a ciber bully!!!!!
@@nancyleathers4846 It's hard to watch someone you love slip away. I nursed him for 15 years. He was a great man.
@@gmamah9559 I'm so sorry for your loss.
@@nancyleathers4846 As I am for yours. They live on through us.
Started smoking at 15 because it was "cool". Everyone in my family smoked as well as most people I knew. By the time I was 18 I was smoking 3 packs a day. Doctor told me only 30% of my lungs were working so I cut back but was back to 3 packs within a few months. Tried to stop a number of times with no success but at age 30 I told myself I was done with them and tossed them out that night. I'm now 70 and haven't smoked in 40 years, don't even like being around it or the people who do smoke, they stink. Since quitting I've climbed many of the mountains in the North Cascade range including all the tallest, Rainier, Baker, Addams, Hood, etc. I've ridden my bicycle from Seattle to Portland 3 times, each time in one day, the last time in 2009. In 2018 I thru-hiked over 1400 miles of the Appalachian Trail in 3 months. None of this would have been doable if I'd kept smoking.
You and I are the same age and quit at the same age. I just didn't see myself smoking for the rest of my life and thought that if I was still doing it after 30, then I'd never quit. So I quit at 30.
I quit at 30, too. At that time, I read that tobacco companies had targeted teens in their advertising. They believed that if they got young people smoking then they would have customers for life. I started smoking when I was 13 so I wanted to prove them wrong.
I'm nearing 70, started smoking at 12. I've always told myself that as soon as I don't enjoy them, I'll quit... I still enjoy them. We're all going to go from something.
Good for you
Very true, but I’d like to hang around for a little longer. Not to mention I watched my father slowly suffocate from emphysema it was horrible. Definitely wouldn’t wanna go that way.
I appreciate the work you did all these years, David. Very informative. Thank you for just finding the thing in life that made you happy and sharing it with the world
I’m old enough to remember when they even had candy cigarettes for kids. I used to pretend I was smoking and adults thought it was funny. Thank goodness I never took up smoking cigarettes, and my dad passed away from emphysema in his late 60s because of them.
Yep... They were training us for the real thing. Eventually, I think in the 70s, candy cigarettes were banned.
Steve pick I would beg my daddy to buy the candy cigarettes when I was a kid. I thought I was grown up lol . Tried smoking many times in my teenage years to smoke I just didn’t care for it and didn’t get hooked. Praise God!😊
@@Kinkle_Z you cam still buy candy cigarettes in ny.
I bought the bubblegum cigs all the time as a kid in the 80s. I still buy them for my kids when we find them. A fun treat!
I’m 14 years old and at the candy store they still sell normal candy cigarettes and the bubblegum variety.
My favorite part of all of David's videos, is reading the inspiring stories in the comments. All walks of life, driven to this content seeking the same sort of meaning. All from different walks, yet with so many familiar experiences. It is one thing for a filmmaker to entertain or engage, it is a totally other thing for a filmmaker to inspire people. Thank you so much, David.
My mom smoke for 40 years and died from cigarettes related illness emphysema and heart failure. when she started smoking in 1949 the danger of smoking wasn't there. My mom was always respectful to nonsmokers she was around she would always ask if the smoke or smell from cigarettes would bother them before lighting up. I grew up around a smoker, so I guess I got use to smoke and smell of cigarettes, but I never had the desire to smoke. Rest in Peace mom.
When California became the first state in the country to ban smoking in nearly every workplace and in indoor public spaces in 1995. Restaurants were included in the ban, and bars, taverns, and gaming clubs were phased in by 1998 the corporate office of the restaurant chain I worked at, at the time was against the ban for fear that it would drive smoking customers away. all employee who did smoke had a designated spot outside of the restaurant to smoke.
I smoke. I've tried to give up a few times. I always told my kids, 'the worst thing about smoking is it's so hard to quit". They now have kids of their own and have never smoked. I'm proud of them.
When i told to my father , please stop smoking its hurt you, he answer me, i never heard of one person was died by cigarettes hhhh !
I've tried to quit many times.. went for e cigarettes, I can actually breathe again,try it bro, it gives you the nicotine but not shortage of breath
I used Nicotine gum and quit 18 years now
My grandfather told me that almost everyone he knew as a kid knew smoking was bad for you. This was in the 1890's.
I quit smoking the same day I quit drinking. Haven't had either one in 3.5 years and have no craving for them.
Do you feel much better? Also, do anything cool with all the money you are saving?
There used to be ashtrays on planes, trains, buses, elevators, public buildings, the movies--even hospitals. I remember pleading with my parents from the back seat of the car to roll down the windows because I couldn't breathe. It was a different world.... 😤
I still sometimes ask my parents to roll down the windows, at least a little bit. Thankfully, these days I ride on the passenger seat, so I can roll one down for myself. In Bosnia, where I'm from, smoking is still "cool". Lots of teens do it, lots of adults, especially more elderly folks, do it. If anybody's older than 24, chances are they smoke. I don't blame them, it's a combination of usual teenager tendencies and, later, addiction.
My dad always had the excuse that cigarettes calmed him down and prevented him from committing violent acts in the family. Ironically he said that during the phase when he smoked 4 to 5 packs a day, before he went down to half a pack a day and was significantly more calm by then.
I met Pete Meade from Wyoming in 2013 one of the original Malborough men, he was having health issues back then but recently heard he is still alive, he's a great gentleman.
I'm 70 and never smoked. There was an article called "Marlboro Country" around 1975 that took place in a cancer ward of a hospital. It told of the patients, some with breathing tubes out of their neck with a lit cigarette attached. A Marlboro Man rappelling shoot happened at Mount Evans, CO with some company execs present. The Marlboro Man model asked one of the execs why he was not smoking. The exec said" I only sell this 'stuff', not smoke it." The Marlboro model said this during an interview later with the other various smoking commercial models from the past, all had or have cancer.
I hope and pray that my mother doesn't get cancer. She smokes a lot and wonders why I hate the smell of it. My brother made her smoke outside because he didn't want it around his kids. I had to enforce that after he gave us his old apartment.
Thanks for this, Mr Hoffman!
It's been over 16 years now since I quit smoking cigarettes and I'm so glad I succeeded. I don't know many other people that quit and stay quit like I have.
Congratulations! I quit smoking cigarettes a dozen years ago, out of the blue when I wasn't intending to quit. It still amazes me that I tried unsuccessfully to quit so many times, and then one day put the cigarettes down and just never picked them back up again. Sooooo very grateful I finally quit no matter how it happened.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@@dawnclaibourne2183 CONGRATULATIONS!
I quit in 1982. No nicotine patches back then either! 😀
I'm 11 years cigarette free and very grateful.
Scott Stapf was a cartoon villain come to life. He knew the truth about smoking, looked the public right in the eye and outright lied with a straight face. It’s downright disturbing how good he was at his job.
He's got creepy dead eyes.
Bear in mind that at the time (all the way to the early 2000s when the WHO/UN stepped in as well) Tobacco companies payed literal billions in lobbying to avoid getting labeled as bad. The unfortunate truth is that a lot of those spoke people don't regret anything they said because by now they're in public anonymity and second those lobby dollars secured their lives for probably their next five generations
@@willypro4949 well put.
Thank you for what you did. My daddy died of lung cancer in 2017, and Covid blessed me with an urge to stop smoking. Bless you
Wow, David, just wow. I was never taught about this (and I was born a few years later), which I guess is no surprise because both of my parents smoked. It was in my adult years that they both quit on their own. My Dad tried the gum, patches, etc, and nothing worked so he got mad one day and just stopped allowing himself to buy them. My Mom, however, took a bit longer to make that decision, and it was her health that ultimately made her decision for her. While on disability (SSI in the US pays diddly squat), she moved in with my husband and me who do not 🚭 smoke and won't allow it inside. For awhile, she would go outside, but it wasn't something she wanted anymore, so she quit on her own. Thank goodness! I'm just stunned 😳 that I'm only seeing this now.
Cigarettes is like poltergeist when he haunte some one its deficult to leaves him
Thanks!
Porcupine. Generous you are. Thank you.
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Took me forever to quit...was really hooked on nicotine...but i bought my first nicotine vape pen, where i could take one hit and get my fill..put it down. Unlike that..a cigarette compelled me to finish it..and smoke the whole thing...had me orally fixed. The vape pen helped me step off the cigarettes and to finally quit after 40 years
Vaping bad too
@@lolawalsh9187 Please look at it like this Lola. In reality, it is a MUCH healthier option for your body, doesnt affect those around you, and eliminates the guilt stigma of having to put others around you while smoking. It is also far far cheaper....I will argue this about vaping...would you rather one of your parents or loved ones whom was trying to quit smoking for years on end have the option to vape saving those years of destruction on their lungs, body, and family strains? which is the better option? Fantastic job Susie!
@@gallopingglen1 thanks been 6 months no vape no smokes.. feeling loads more energy
@@gallopingglen1 best healthy option.. toughen up and stop putting chemicals in your body.
@@djokovic1747 sure you are right.....i think you may have missed the point point...
...it's always good to hear Peter Thomas..it's like hearing from an old friend on a new post card..when ya never seen before.
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This is such an important historical document. Thank you, Mr. Hoffman! You're a national treasure for sure.
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I grew up in the 60s and remember all this coming out. Both my parents smoked, their friends smoked, aunts and uncles smoked. Almost every adult I knew at the time smoked.
As a little kid I used to spend vacations at my aunt's house who didn't smoke, but my uncle did, and I just now realized that when I was there he never smoked in front of me. I'm sure that was at my aunt's insistence. I remember seeing a box of old National Geographic magazines in their cellar with ads on the back cover, saying, "4 out of 5 doctors recommend Camel cigarettes for sore throats!". Even then I laughed at those ads.
I started smoking later, at about age 17 because most of my friends did, but luckily only about 5 a day (cigarettes, not packs). Even so, it was incredibly hard to quit. I was finally forced into quitting when stranded in the house during the "Blizzard of '78", in Massachusetts. That blizzard was a blessing for me in that way.
For about 3 years after, every time I finished eating, or when one of my friends lit up, I got the urge for a cigarette! Now I can't stand being around cigarette smoke. Even 15 feet away I feel like I'm suffocating.
When my father had a stroke, he had to quit cold turkey, but he had an iron will and did it with little trouble. My mother tried many times to quit, but failed. When she was diagnosed with early stage lung cancer she finally succeeded and beat the cancer.
My first cousin was a Marlboro man. Wayne McLaren. He died of lung cancer.
Glad to know that I never started. Have never seen the Marlboro Man. Thank you David. ❤️
I quit after 50 years
Too late
One good way to quit is to move to a windy climate where you can't light up a cigarette like the mountains of Maine!
@Lunsy exactly. 20 years of cigars, and I feel awful a non smoking friend died 18 years ago of heart failure..I still miss him. Same birthday and like a brother.
*I'm just quitting after smoking since 12 years old now I'm 77 now quitting smoking appreciate your videos Listening 🌼From Mass USA TYVM 🇺🇸David Hoffman*
@@lunsy9420 cool. I’m 15 years a non smoker.
As a kid, I used to watch Dr. Kildare with Richard Chamberlain which premiered in 1961. I recently bought the series on DVD and started laughing on the first scene of Episode 1 when the young intern, Kildare, lights up outside the hospital elevator, rides it to the fourth floor and gets out to meet Dr. Gillespie sitting at his desk smoking a cig. It was ubiquitous back then. Banks, grocery stores, libraries, movie theaters, small college classrooms, bars, buses, trains, airplanes, bowling alleys... you couldn't escape the smoke.
I wish I could stop. I started smoking when I was 12-13, but have been battling "worse" addictions that I've rid myself off completely (heroin, amphetamine and cocain), so I'm waiting a while until I feel strong enough to take on the nicotine too. I really want to stop, but I'm afraid that if I fuck with that addiction I might fall back into the hell of Opioid addiction again since I've only been clean for about 2 years (which is nothing when you've been addicted since you were 14 up until you were 31). So, as soon as I feel completely stable in my new found sobriety I'll take on the nicotine as well. It might be tomorrow, it may be in three years, I have no idea. All I know is that I *will* quit.
My mum picked up her nicotine habit during the London blitz...
She smoked 40 unfiltered Rothmans a day for 50 years until emphysema killed her.
My dad went to sea in 1935 (aged 15) and got his nicotine habit in the merchant navy. He was still a heavy smoker when he died in 1975. I stopped smoking in 1999 after using ~20 per day for 25 years (I'm 65)
These days the only thing I smoke is a little weed (in a dry herb vape and prescribed by my doctor).
It seems amazing that back in time it wasn't obvious how bad smoking is.
This guy used to live like 20 minutes away from where I live in western Colorado
I'm 45 and I never smoked in my life, not even tried, maybe twice a bit. Now I am considering maybe should I start smoking. I have not decided should I take Marlboro or Camel. They have the best ads.
Luckily they still had none smokers in 1964 when they discovered that smoking is harmful to your health. If they want until 1984 they might have not found any non-smokers.
*David Hoffman Marlboro Brand 1964 42% smoked causing lung Cancer appreciate your videos Listening 🌼 From Mass USA TYVM 🇺🇸 David just quit after smoking since twelve now I am 77 no cancer either TYVM David Hoffman*
Quit cold turkey December 31, 2004. Never looked back.
My husband has never smoked BUT he has "dipped" (snuff) for over 40 years. He won't even consider quitting.
This really makes me want a smoke right now (2024)
My mom is a chain smoker. Once I asked her to look after my baby since my husband and I needed to buy new furniture and when we were in the furniture store she called us that she is out of cigarettes and she will 'just jump to the nearest gas station to get her some, the baby will not even notice'. We drove back immediately as fast as we could and never ever asked her to take care of our baby ever again. It's sick addiction. Until that day, I tolerated her stinking like a chimney all my life or needing a smoke whenever she had an argument but that horrible addiction and intention of leaving a baby all alone while she needed to puff made me hate her and the addictions in general.
fascist
To this day, I’m 59, and this is my favorite commercial. ❤
It wasn't until the early 00s that smoking was finally banned in public places such as pubs and restaurants, though.
My dad smoked
" lucky strikes" since the the early 50s
At 60 he had a tumer removed from a lung.
Six yrs later it came back
In 2001 he died of lung cancer at 66.
These adds were powerful.
The baby boomers were inadated with em. We smoked & smoked everywhere , movie theaters, airplanes, even in hospitals.
Now I'm 66...haven't smoked in a few yrs. The cravings are still there.
I still remember every ad , every jingle.
Thank the gods for the good guys who exposed the horrors of tobacco.
Stop smoking now
This is why I "laugh" when people say that the solution to a particular problem is education. For instance when people were talking about AIDS. We have known for decades about the cancer danger, it's posted right on the cigarette packages. I remember when I was very young (perhaps early 70s), there was a demonstration machine called "Smoking Sam" which would smoke a cigarette and then the operator would pull out a filter to show the tar that would be put in your lungs every time you smoked a cigarette.
And yet we still get plenty of new smokers every year.
Thanks Dave. I recognize the narrator's voice on this. Glad to hear you were friends. I also remember a man named Will Lyman, who had an excellent voice.
Will Lyman was also terrific. I use him on several films.
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Is sad that after beating cigarettes now everyone is addicted to vaping
Funny how i just got the notification for this video while smoking a Marlboro Red.
And you finished the pack because you're based and know your death is better than facing nuclear war and climate change
I was born 87 started smoking at 11.. first time trying was 6 .. 36 now still smoking quit few times for year or two u just enjoy having a smoke
Thank you. I enjoyed the report.
I'm 60 and have never smoked other than a few experimental puffs when I was young. I feel bad for those who are addicted to those nasty things.
My friend and I used to steal a cigarette from his Moms pack, go hide, smoke and cough like crazy........Later his Mom died.....We don't smoke...
I remember when I was a kid there were ashtrays clipped to the seats on city buses.
I was Born 1966 and started smoking at 15, both my parents smoked. Marlboro ads were cool, promising the "taste of freedom and adventure.Luckily I Had to be treated surgically at my vocal cords at 25 so I had a reason to quit smoking my one and a half pack a day. I guess that changed - and I am sure that hast saved my life since very close relatives of mine died of lung cancer.
But it took me a couple of years before I really never missed a cigarette anymore!
Every time i told a smoker that i've never started smoking, they compliment me on it and say it was a good decision.
That speaks for itself.
Almost every Addiction starts as a habit.
The guy Ed is a character. Very entertaining and it seems like he’s having a blast! He also makes some great points as well. Teach kids about nicotine early.
Nothing wrong with smoking tobacco. It was all the extra chemicals they put into the manufacturing process to get it to burn consistently which caused the harm . Smoke actual tobacco it burns different .
Peter Thomas-- that voice is so familiar. Didn't he narrate a lot of true crime shows?
Yes.
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My friend cared for Wayne Dunafon in his last days. He was not a smoker. He died from Alzheimer's. He like to call everybody Buddy.
Wow that's interesting, thank you.🙂
We called them cancer sticks way before 1964
I haven't had a cigarette in 4 months, after 40yrs of smoking. I watched my best friend's mom die and thought about my own children. I can still crave cigarettes and still feel the damage they did to my body. I pray for strength.
Started and stopped smoking within four months thanks to vaping. Black Box American Spirits. Nicotine addiction runs in my family but even I was shocked at how quickly I jumped on it as soon as I was old enough to buy my own. Smoking's an expensive habit though, not just financially but it fucks up your body and nicotine addiction is a huge factor in depression for a lot of people, including myself. I currently vape low resistance high nicotine content to emulate smoking's effect but if I could come to terms with just dropping nicotine I gladly would
I just want to say I'm glad you were able to stop using cigarettes. That is a really hard thing to do for anyone. Though I do believe vaping is not a much better alternative at all, maybe even worse, the science just doesn't know yet. I've grown up in the generation of youths who first picked up vaping and have seen how widespread of an issue it is among my peers. I believe it'll only be a few more years until something similar occurs as did in this video; the surgeon general report will officially announce the dangers of vaping, and for many people the damage will have already set it in.
It might take some time, but you're strong enough to drop nicotine completely. Addictions are powerful and you might need to reach out for professional help to overcome it, but you have the strength in you to put nicotine in your past. I hope that is something you want for your future and achieve that. Best of luck, friend
@@sebastianbrelin7246 Yeah nicotine's really not a great drug at all when most modes of consumption are harmful to longterm health in one way or another as well as present state of mind. I see the risks slowly starting to reveal themselves the way they would with longterm smoking- shortness of breath, shortness of patience when I've been away from it, and shorter attention span. I've dealt with ADHD for years and in the moment nicotine is honestly a great tool for focus but when I haven't had any the adverse affect is my attention span is worse than its baseline was before I started using nicotine it's some shit about how focus relates to dopamine and nicotine stimulating its production makes it harder for your body to naturally make it and or the receptors get all shot I honestly don't know fully and the unfortunate fact is vaping makes nicotine so accessible that it becomes very easy to become t h a t addicted that quickly. Quitting is the goal eventually though, having lost several close family members to complications related to smoking I'd really rather not continue the genetic trend. The support is very much appreciated 🖤
Good choice. American spirits black pack are my favorite
@@thischannelisbackon5679 Right??
Does Scott Stapf still work for the tobacco institute?
No.
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I'm in my 50's, never smoked, and never been able to understand the sheer, utter futility and madness of smoking. Almost all the people I've ever known to smoke are the ones who can least afford it, and that's before the health implications are considered.
You answered it yourself. Theyre poor usually lol they are more stressed and cigs kinda feel lik they help. Its fucked up circle
I learned in 3rd grade that smoking was dangerous
David youre da goat 🐐 brother. Salute from uws nyc 🫡 ur films expand my world 🌎 💯
I quit 365 days ago!!!
My husband died two years ago from Non Small Cell Lung Cancer.
does anyone know what happened to Scott Stapf?
The same marketing technique used to sell millions cigarettes back then, today is implemented in politics to sell you things against your self-interest.
Thanks for sharing, smoking can end up having lung cancer, throat cancer.
David, Remember the Padlock Ranch & Tongue River?
This was a fascinating clip, is there any way I can watch the full hour?
Alma. I have not posted it as yet. But I do have many clips on my TH-cam channel regarding smoking and other clips from this film. Search the word "cigarette" on my TH-cam channel and you will be given many opportunities to see smoking-related videos.
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Thank you David!!
Smoking 🚬 and chewing tobacco were common when I was in the United States Air Force. It was gradually prohibited indoors but it took a few years for it to be enforced.
My father smokes to this day. In my presence. My uncle, his brother has cancer. Let that sink in.
Been watching the BEATLES DOCUMENTARY, there is so much smoking 🚬 completely disgusting -
I'm surprised that only 42% was the highest percent of adults who smoked. I would think it had been much higher.
Pretty sure it was 50% at one point in the 50’s of 60’s
I was 4 yrs old. I began smoking in 1974. I quit 23 yrs ago. It's an addiction, like any other.
smoked at age 4?
My brother started smoking around 14. He died at 63 with cancer throughout his body. My sister who is 75 went through 2 bouts of lung cancer in 2021. Last fall she was diagnosed with brain cancer. She lost all feeling in her dominant hand. She is now on steroids to reduce the necrosis that developed around her brain tumor!
DOES ANYONE STILL WANT TO SMOKE?! 😢😢
I was in high school when this report came out, interesting time....Marlboro man got cancer, but we had a huge sign about Sunset Strip with him nun the less. We even had bilboards with other brands the blew smoke out of folks mouth.
If people watched a loved one suffocate to death from lung disease, then maybe they'd get it.
David, have you seen the movie _Thank You for Smoking_ ?
Camel was more my brand . Each time I turned the television on , I saw former Marlboro Man Bob Beck smoking Camels while riding his off road Jeep in the tropical wilderness . Because of the tropical setting along with shots of the convertable Jeep , Filipinos and Filipinas was able to relate more to the Camel brand .
Yes smoking is bad; that's undeniable. That being said; the reality is genetics plays a significant role in both cancer and heart disease. Death will occur to everyone regardless of how one lives their lives.Truth is, we can diminish the probabilities by making better choices but in the final analysis we're all gonna go eventually. It's inevitable. So, enjoy your time here!
Yeah and living longer makes it more enjoyable. Where is your logic? Longer and a more healthy life = less enjoyable? Did ya drop your brain?
It was a great commercial.....I quit after watching 3 aunts die of lung cancer.
This is likely quite random given the topic. But, is the narrator the same narrator that does voiceovers for forensic files? It sounds as though it’s him, just younger.
Yes. Peter Thomas.
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read the description where I mention him
The Marlboro Man died of lung cancer.
Not the original Marlboro man he didn’t smoke….google it he loved to be 90.
I like when he says about people putting out cigarettes in the auditorium. My mother says when she was a child they used to have candy cigarettes..awful! Absolutely awful!
They sold them on the ice cream truck when I was 7 in 1990. They were gum sticks that looked like cigarettes AND if you blew on them powdered sugar (I assume) would almost mimic smoke…
@Michiko Smith Similar ages! Yeah, it was still bad in our time. Still is. People in their twenties looking much older, sickly and malnourished. Spend $10 on a pack when you could get a week's worth of grains.
yeh, I remember them, plus we were surrounded by adults from the day we could walk puffing in our faces, smoke choked rooms, we hardly had a choice. Also remember the local corner shop would sell single cigs to us school kids for 10p. crazy days...
You can still get them in independent sweet shops. The chewing gum kind. I think they come from Germany. I uses to get the candy ones of the ice cream van when I was a kid in the 80s. Loved the texture and taste.
@Michiko Smith I remember the "smoke". I asked in the early 2000s if anyone recalls but by then, the vaporizer heads took over..
I quit cigarettes at 25.
I quit cigars by 28.
Both of my parents smoked from whenever they started to the end.
My father died of colon cancer at 59 and my mother died of congestive heart disease at 79.
I was born in 54 I will be 69 in a few months.
I have a possible congestive heart disorder and some colon issues.
It was good that I stopped smoking when I did.
I mostly smoked Marlboros. They had just gone up to 50 cents a pack.
Reagan was the elected President, and I drove a 69 Comet Cyclone just after I quit Cigarettes.
I was 25 how old was my car?
15
Sorry I was off on the timelines I just corrected.
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My figure is different.
I just corrected some timelines.
Only 10 ! Lol
@@elbisnopserton9052 My mother was also born in’54.
I am not a smoker or have been aside from cigars on occasion. My aunt was a smoker from the time she was 13-14 until she died at 85. She didn’t ever quit even after being diagnosed with COPD. Very bad and deadly habit.
did marlboro man die of lung c ?
Yup
I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. ( I'm 65 now )
I quit around 26 years ago and I still have Pavlovian reactions
Industry leaders twirl their mustaches and laugh like snidley whiplash and say " For profits!"
Then everyone else was forced to apologize and say 'we were wrong' (doctors, etc)
"tRuST tHe sCIeNcE" has never worked, obviously.
@@wenmoonson ...not when doctors are prescribing cigarettes for a variety of illnesses and disorders.
I'm sure I don't need to tell you, but for everyone else that doesn't know, that s**t really happened.
Heart disease? I've never heard that before. whoa.
Honestly, smoking is a mental thing as much as physical. Anyone can quit. It's the lack of accountability that people fail to admit. That they also enjoy it and it's not just addictive. Grasping the idea of addiction is a rabbit hole of it's own separate from just enjoying it. Recognizing it's not healthie and stopping is great and I wished more folks back then adopted this perspective that wanted to quit. But thinking, it's only addictive. Will just embrace a victim mindset.
Hey David!
Is the narrator Peter Thomas?
Yes. My close friend and colleague.
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It took me 2 attempts to quit, first a mere 3 months, the second a full year and after another 5 years of smoking i finally quit. I feel so much better, i can properly breathe, i don`t cough, i dont snore anymore and my skin looks great. If i smell tobacco smoke now i get headaches and almost throw up. I will never ever go back to that crap again and it`s so sad it`s still something that people do and when i see them i feel pity.
Marlboro had made the inspired connection.. between cancer and death ...i have been smoking since i was 14 now iam getting 37 and iam wasted nicotin is the most addictive substance i knew quit smoking crack was easier than tobacco
Still trying to quit after 50 years
I remember in the 80s, People were allowed to smoke anywhere. Us kids could go buy a pack for our parents. I remember the laws slowly changing to cut back on the problem.
I quit financial reasons can really help you quit the idea of $130 a month going up in smoke to kill me really motivated me I still think now I wanna smoke if it wouldn’t kill me I’d smoke it was fun to pull out that cigarette and light it up and visit with somebody and drink a cup of coffee it was hooked to many social pleasures. And if no one’s around and you’re lonely you can still have a cuppa coffee and light up a cigarette just like it’s your best friend😢 The Marboro man die of cancer?
I agree they should watch this film every morning for a month from first grade to 8th grade