Cigarette Crazy Reveals Why & How It Affects Him. He Kept Smoking......
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Back in 1988 I got the opportunity to make a primetime documentary for PBS on cigarette smoking - on tobacco addiction - on the right of Americans to smoke when others are present - secondhand smoke etc. PBS gave me a grant but required that in order for me to make a program they would accept in the prime time, I had to present both sides. Both sides said I? What do you mean?
The Surgeon General way back in 1964 had said that smoking cigarettes is an addiction that kills people. PBS said that I had to make the program "fair and balanced" and present both sides of the nicotine story. Amazingly, people on both sides (the other side being the tobacco industry) said okay to being in my film.
Viewers have asked me what happened to this guy, a lifelong seriously addicted tobacco smoker and very knowledgeable about the effect of tobacco on him and others who are addicted. Sadly, I did not keep up with him after I conducted this interview so I don't know. I am hopeful that the relative of his someday sees this and lets me/us know how long he lived and how he died.
If you or someone you know smokes cigarettes and might like to quit, search the word "tobacco" on my TH-cam channel and you will find a variety of video clips that have helped thousands to quit smoking.
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I'll take a pack of them cowboy killers
Proof of all Historic Claims are Required.
How much did you pay George Bush to be the Cowboy at the beginning of the video or is that a friend deal...?
@@josephmedina6403 and make sure it's the the real cowboy killers too, Marlboro Reds. Not Marlboro Mediums (now called the Red Label to make things more confusing) and not the Marlboro Lights (now called the Gold Label). I don't want them diet cigarettes.
"I miss my lung, Bob!"
I'm a veteran, alcohol and cigarettes addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
This man was 25 years old at the time of filming.
Tim Lewis haha. Nice. Is he still a character on the Simpsons? I haven’t seen a new episode in years.
It cut him off before he told us what to teach fourth graders.
This guy looks so much older, he graduated with my son in 2002
@@brianglade848 It's because he quit smoking. When you stop, you age really fast.
A B ... LOL!
“Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it thousands of times”. - Mark Twain
vaping the best thing ever
@@MickDoolan no
@@MickDoolan vaping may be worse. We know that cigarettes kill you. Vaping is an unknown, but it's definitely not good for you
its easy for me. ive quit multiple times for years at a time with no real problems. i do enjoy the shit out of smoking though even after ive quit for 3 years i can start again cause its enjoyable
They don't know the cause of the need to dose nicotine, so they keep removing the RESULT of the problem (nicotene) instead of removing the CAUSE of the problem.
i didn‘t smoke for over 6 years then i startet elementary school
looks like you didn't quite finish lmao
HahHaAHAhaHahaHa this is funny humor
Did you drop out when you sparked your first ciggy
O,g lol 😂
Same here. I started in the 3rd grade. Smoked for 54 yrs.
My grandpa was a huge smoker back in the day. He was a 30s man, and a living chimney. But one day out of nowhere, he was about to light another cig but hesitated before crushing it and dropping it to never smoke again.
He lived to 83.
Gosh, I expected that "he was about to light a cig, but a stroke claimed him at 32" Your version is definitely better!
That's strange, my grandfather was the same, he smoked heavily for decades, then one day in his 50s, he was at work and lit a cigarette, thought it tasted horrible for some reason, stubbed it out, and never smoked again. Neither my grandma or anyone else in his family could believe it, but he lived to 82.
Sounds like tough men
Literally could quit whenever he wanted
Those guys could actually quit whenever they wanted, both my grandfathers were the same. Idk wtf they put in cigs now but its definitely different from back then@@thefrenchareharlequins2743
I almost died several times of a heart attack from smoking in my 50’s. As of this writing, I’m 13 years smoke free.
I love a good cigarette with my coffee in the morning. 🚬 ☕️
Your lungs have been healing and appreciating it for the last 13 years
Are you still alive?
@@barneyronnie of course.
@@kokolovitch56are your health good ?
April of 2018 I was diagnosed with emphysema (COPD). I did some tests to determine how much lung capacity I had and found out that I was at 27%. Simple things like showering, carrying in a bag of groceries, or walking the dog can leave me bent over gasping for breath. I smoked cigarettes for about 50 years and was aware of the health risks. I'm not making excuses or looking for sympathy, I have myself to blame. If you smoke please stop, it will save your life. If you don't smoke don't start, spare yourself the agony of struggling to breath.
Don't they give you that really nice purple syrup though?
@@bobbybabinjr.4388 you're an idiot.
@WeeStrom CO Guy Think more clearly about what you're conveying here. You want to put down what someone says because of how you judge their name? If you find the comment about "purple syrup" silly (which it seems to be, no argument), then just say that. But why ridicule a name, something we're given at birth? How seriously can a comment like this be taken?
Okay
👌
Here for the smokes. Stayed for the cancer.
a Hahahaha your an idiot it’s terrible for you. You should stop honestly.
Fuck cancer and fuck you
@@jamalsalads you don't know about irony do you
Tactical Bacon people really don’t understand jokes anymore
@@frankthetank8216 racist
My grandmother smoked non filter cigarettes. At age 60 she quit immediately after having her gallbladder out . She lived to 97 . RIP Nana 1902 - 2000.
Do you work at rottin Robbie's?
@@Chad-Giga. yes
Very interesting. I'm on day 90 cigarette free today.
Freak show
@Pedro Gunderson ''Keeping track of days'' all he has to know is the day he started. 90 days is 3 months.
@Pedro Gunderson I'm on year 5 and 5 days
Or day 1,830. I will never smoke again but because I can keep track of when I quit how is it discouraging. I remember being so excited that I went 1 month or 3 months or 1 year.
Kevin Cortez day 60 here and I'm doing good
@@nikigrow7347 ya i use quit tracker its awesome :)
The narrator is Peter Thomas/forensic files. He could read the phone book and make it interesting. R.I.P. Peter Thomas and phone books.
YO I KNEW I HEARD THAT VOCE SOMEWHERE HAHAHHAHAHAH FORENSIC FILES
He looks so cool smoking!
He lived in Naples at the end of the life and was a client at the wealth management firm I worked at. I never spoke with him but my colleague was assigned his account and it would give her chills when he's call her to say "I need to make a transfer into my checking account" in that distinctive voice of his.
@@jillwinterberg6570 Lol, that voice of his is pure gold. Iirc, they forensic files producers referred to his voice as "the franchise" because lets be honest that show wouldn't have been nearly as good without him.
I recognized, from Hardcastle's 19
Big props to the people who found out about the health risks and made it public, just as well as the people who educate us about it
Hahaha I dunno if you would reaffirm that sentiment if you knew who actually first issued public PSAs about the negative health impact of tobacco. It wasn't Americans in the 60s, it was Germans in the 30s, and Germans in the thirties were, well, yaknow, the bad guys from WWII movies.
Kinda common sense. I would think. But people are pretty dumb. They don't have a thought unless first told to have one. And also what that thought IS
All you have to do Is smoke a pack yourself. Just 3/day. One week later,
You'll notice.
Its not the tobacco itself that is the danger, its the added chemicals they adulterate it with.
From its growing to its curing and processing, and the bleached paper you smoke it in thats what is cancer causing and responsible for the addiction being a significant problem.
The Native Americans were supposedly the first people to cultivate tobacco.
If tobacco was cancer causing they would of been the first to know it, yet never considered it dangerous. They in fact considered it a sacred plant and tobacco was ceremoniously used, and even has some properties that help balance certain states. Like grounding for instance, even thought theres a lot of Air element in smoking which is mental in nature, it uses the transformational and clearing element of Fire to catalyze Air with Earth into the body and has a grounding and aligning of the mind/body.
It technically involves all elements although moisture levels are minimal.
Its only since the commercialization of tobacco its been a problem.
Thats actually another issue with commercial tobacco, inhibiting mold.
Cause if moisture levels in tobacco are too low the smoke is harsh, loses its flavor, its body and character. So to have a moisture level for a smooth smoke its chemically treated to prevent mold which is really really dangerous to ever inhale.
He's trying to restore his deadeye
Stop comparing everything thing to games its pathetic and makes gamers look stupid my mom would say you play to many games
@@killergreek55 stop bitching... it makes you look pathetic!
it's actually gavin
@@timothywhite3734 it's the truth start acting like a man its pathetic
@@j_h_o have you seen him?
I'm two years sober from nicotine. The hardest thing I ever did was stop. Keep in mind- the more times you try stop, the more likely you will eventually stop.
Congratulations. i can confirm this. I tried it 10 times cold turkey. This time was the easiest and it will be permanent.
you probably didn't inhale @@strangeballads
It's not that hard bro. You just don't have any real problems in your life.
i quit a 30 cigarette a day 20 year habit cold turkey on a whim.
@@BuffaloNickel9except you can’t walk in to a supermarket (in the U.K.) and buy opioids, but you can buy nicotine products!
Many years ago I worked in a grocery store. People came in to buy cigarettes who were in their 70s, so I thought, humm, cigarettes must not be so bad after all. However later I found out those folks who I thought were in their 70s were actually in their 50s.
😀😀
You you only see/hear from the folks who are still alive
😂😂😂😂 i shouldn't be laughing
In Australia I see many people like you described. They are in their 40’s and 50’s but look 20 years older. They started smoking
In their teens. Their faces have wrinkles that look like cracks, and dry reddish looking skin. They also look thin in a lot of cases.
What can you do.
@@davidaustrian9455 Im Australian and yes your right, to many folks like that here. Drugs too age you really quickly. Meth is the worst. My father is 71, he did the smoking thing 50 years ago like everyone else but stopped after a few years. He barely has a wrinkle on his face and is in much better health inside and out than most people you see on the street. Smoking now goes hand in hand wth lower socio-economic status, so there are more factors than just smoking itself
I quit smoking and started eating live porcupines.
lmao
Same
Very "sharp" idea you have there.
How much has your health improved?
Fip Dibwibbler i’ve been thinking about switching to live porcupines myself
Indians gave us tabaco and we gave them Smallpox.
fair trade
Yea trade back then was strange
The indians dont play around 100milion deatgs due to tobacco in the 20th century and 1bilion in the 21st century.
@livey oone every body get syphilis no matter the race.
@@x2gloki ancient creeks took cannabis saunas but people in europe started smoking only in the 1500's and 1600's so how does that work?
When I was a caregiver I remember a sweet old lady who had an oxygen tank attached to her wheelchair and it went with her everywhere. I asked her one day "What advice would you give me about life" and she said "Don't smoke, it's just so bad for you. Look at me" She was such a nice person and though I did smoke at parties and the casual bullshit smoking phase we all go through I eventually stopped altogether and almost 16 years later I still remember her. Smoking just demolishes you and you pay for it one day.
What's left of the Marlboro cowboy?
His boots
@Hello His boots, How are you doing?
@@lydiaanderson2870 I'm good
@@sagarjash8270 Nice dear, I'm Lydia Anderson from detroit can you suggest a way we can stay off here and know each other with time and patience dear.
@Sagar j ash hello
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Inhaling burnt plant matter with added chemicals is bad for you? Since when
Unless it is marijuana which gives you super powers. “Apparently”
@livey oone that guy literally just died
@livey oone cigars are different from cigarettes. Cigars dont feel great whenever you inhale their smoke while with cigarettes you need to inhale it to feel any sort of effect
@livey oone i know what you mean, although that guy had outstanding genetics. just look at his military picture and compare it to the average joe the same age as him. dude was a beast in his day.
@livey oone Doesn't really prove anything. There are people who survive getting shot in the head.
“Cigarettes are like vitamins to me” - Frank Zappa, a few years before he died.
Yet he died from prostate cancer.
@ElSantoLuchador
so did my dad....it spread all over him....
but it was from smoking and drinking the oncologist told him....
His hypocrisy was he was such a Karen for any drug use from other musicians, yet he drank and smoked
Bernstein was also a heavy smoker
When I was a young kid I remember smoking in hospitals
Yeah a doctor I work with remembers people smoking in the ICU when he was a kid. What?! Times have changed.
It was allowed everywhere except the operating room.. You could smoke on airplanes, television airings, newscasts, even teachers in class while teaching! Then they pulled it one by one..with restaurants and bars being last.. And here we are today👍
@@chrishorv7099 I can't imagine being on an airplane...I remember being picked up by the daycare bus when I was a 3-4 year old man the driver would smoke around us and I felt like I was going to die from the smoke my lil lungs couldn't take it.....
As a young kid you smoked in hospitals?
Day 12 for me and have to to make it stick this time. It's very hard to quit.
It is, but if I managed it anyone can. There's an excellent book by allenn Carr, it actually helped me tremendously
Hang in there Lone Star. Each day the urge, although still strong, does'nt last as long as the day before. When you feel the temptation, take your mind off it with a hobby, excersise, or even reading. Once you occupy yourself with something else the urge will go away. Best of luck.
Around the 3 week mark you're going to wake up and forget to want to smoke, if you managed almost 2 weeks you should not have a problem quitting, just remember, if you smoke only once, its all going to repeat. Also if you get into a situation in which you have a huge need for a cigarette, just tell yourself your're better than the smokers around you and keep doing it, the thirst will pass in a few minutes and you'l be glad you did not smoke.
(Cigarette free for 2 and a half years, smoked for 6)
Lol i quit easily
Good luck
People think cigarettes are toxic. But when I go out in public I see so many more toxic things walking around.
Right. I can't believe the obesity these days. 🤯
@@ericfranchi1354 uhhhh no, not allowed to say that, it's apparently healthy to be huge now
@@Jleon1983 🤣🤣🤣
The older guy is telling nothing but the absolute truth..
Except calling the natives Americans Indians... just sayin
@@kemolowlow
Because Asia is only China and India?
335714051 we’re all African bro. You’re my beautiful brother or sister
@@charlesramsden1022 Would you kindly stop being that one guy
So help him god?
I quit smoking on 6/6/06 dont miss that shit at all . Still have some other habits I need to lose . Best of luck to anyone tryin to quit smoking or any other habit/addiction
Jason B what a date to chose to quit lol
Wish quitting weed was as easy as tobacco
@OBEYTHEWALRUS G59 fuck you too!
o 44 its much easier in my opinion though. You just get depressed because your brain is withdrawing from dopamine. After 2-4 weeks you’re good. I’m still craving a cig almost a year after quitting and battle not to smoke any when I’m drinking
o 44 bro I quit weed with ease and never touch it anymore. With tobacco you’ll crave that shit for the rest of your life.
My dad, born in 1922, smoked from the age of about 13 until the age of 52 in 1974.
He lived to the ripe old age of 91.
I was a smoker, but one day, the cigarettes started to taste very bad, almost like if my brain rejected completely anything related to cigarettes, just imagine to smell and taste the most disgusting thing you can imagine, that was my case, and till this date I still feel like that everytime I smell cigarette smoke.... miracle, coincidence, I dont know.
That the best time to quit
Same thing happened to me, I started smoking less and less everyday then some days I wouldn’t smoke at all, then I started hating the smell on my clothes. Now I don’t smoke at all.
Heroin is so much better
@@AdrianTheGit nah Crack
Imagine not smoking crack 😂
My dad died of end stage lung cancer from 57 years of heavy cigarette smoking. He was 70 yrs old. He was a kind, fun, honourable, and good guy who's habit caused cancer. He fought hard to hide his illness. One day my family's hearts dropped when he was quickly losing the fight. He was given 1, yes 1 week if he kept on smoking. He quit immediately and was with us no more than 6 weeks. Poor guy died in a hospital bed at home in the living room, on hospice. He was home about 2 and a half days. I think this is good enough reason to not start smoking. I don't smoke. He is my hero. Cancer is an ugly disease.
I gave up smoking when I was 13 years old after my second cigarette and don't think I will get anywhere near 70 years
@durgle435070 isn’t that old in this day and age. Lifespans are averaging at late 80’s to early 90’s once you reach 40. The average lifespan of 81 is due to infant and adolescent mortality. Reasonably healthy people should have no problem making it to 90.
@durgle4350 "I think he died because he was 70 years old. That’s pretty crazy for a man."
70 isn't very old though.
@durgle4350 False.
@durgle4350 I don't know why you're insistent on being dishonest but go ahead and keep doing so if you want to 🤷
I started smoking cigarettes since my teenage. Got addicted for over 23 years. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine,alcohol and cigarettes.And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Yes im sure getting hight af on a psychoactive drug healed you of your addiction lmao gtfoh
@@DebanckKim-rd6to divorce?
bot
Got to remember that the harmful effects of cigarettes were mitigated somewhat by their otherwise super healthy diet and lifestyles back in the day. I mean my grands smoked and drank like chimneys but they ate sparingly and spent 15hrs a day on their feet. Compare that to modern high carb, high refined sugar, sedentary lifestyles.. and sure you're going to see a hell of a lot more cancer.
What I find funny is that the same people that shamed everyone for blowing cig smoke everywhere and the "dangers of secondhand smoke" are seemingly fine with the non-stop marijuana smoke you smell everywhere in every city. Feels like you can hardly go anywhere without smelling weed smoke coming out of someone's car, on the street corner, etc., and no one says anything. Isn't it still second-hand smoke, or is this different somehow?
It's basically the same it happens a combustion that produces Co2, it was all about to prevail on others nothing less
It's not quite as dangerous (neither is second hand tobacco smoke, but that's a different argument). I've supported legalization for decades but am also tired of smelling it everywhere.
You think "anti cigarette" stuff was a democrat thing or something?
also, I rarely smell weed in public, and I live in a city with legal weed. You're being a bit silly here.
And yea, weed smoke, though still not healthy, is not comparable to tobacco smoke, healthwise.
@@PanthraxIV Second hand smoke is second hand smoke. And I don't really see Republicans fighting for weed legalization, do you?
@miket.220 not all smoke is equal lol. Ask a firefighter if they'd rather inhale smoke from a wildfire or smoke from a car/house. Humans have been sitting around fire for thousands of years. Cigarettes have 500 or more added chemicals that are all terrible in their own ways. Even worse than pure tobacco alone. That applies to second hand smoke as well.
None of it is great for you, but it absolutely varies depending on the substance. Also, I'm as far from republican as a person can be.
I knew this old guy 20 years ago. He said when he was young his doctor told him that the only negative side effect of smoking was that it would stunt his growth.
Im now 4 months and 3 days smoke free and two years soda free lol my kids are much happier i feel so much better breathe better smell better skin looks better im no longer coughing im walking daily and i went from 258lbs just a hair over 6ft and im now down to 221lbs its really crazy and my testosterone levels are off the charts no roids either drug free just excersize fairly healthy diet of mostly greens fruits seafood chicken and tuna i feel great if u really want to lose weight and become healthier its definitely a lifestyle change but really worth it imo and i you transition slowly u will notice u feel better by the day oh and another thing i found as a smoker i got sick more often abd since quitting not once no flu shot and ive been around the virus a few times this winter good luck
How long did you smoke?
Awesome man!
Since 14 stealing cigs from adults and hanging around the local vfw where they had a cigg vending machine lol so from 14 and im currently 34 next month 35 so oh wow holy shit i smoked for 20 years! Sad very sad and my doctor just had my lungs checked out and amazingly theu are as if i was 21 and never smoked!
joseph lesko we are the same age I drank since the age of 15 and the doc says I’m good to go . But it is great that you stopped.
This is so scary! Gonna have to light a cigarette to calm me down
You still with us?
@yamac488 I think that nigga s dead
Update us or we will assume you got reincarnated
I've done a lot of drinking, drugs, all kinds of addictive things. Smoking was the hardest to quit. Even today, about s decade later I have the urge sometimes... but then I take a deep breath and feel the enjoyment I get when my lungs are full of clean air.
Shit, I need a smoke... Boy, I love dem Cowboy Killers!
@Hello mussman717word, How are you doing?
Picked up my first cigarette at 3yrs old. I remember my grandmother had her pack sitting at the end of the table with a pack of matches. I was curious of why they would smoke those things. Also I remember my grandmother would get me the candy cigarettes. I remember I would smoke on and off up in till I was 14yrs of age to get that rush and then at 14 when my mom died it became my personal friend. I've smoked ever since. When ever I don't have a cigarette, it's as if I've lost my best friend. I get irritable. My message is to anyone who is thinking of smoking, DONT! It's not worth what it does to your health. Also nicotine is addictive. It's been proven to be very addictive. Plus I personally know it's addictive. It's not a habbit it's an addiction.
I was in the second and third grade in 1988. We focused on the harm from cigarettes. Surely we talked about addiction, but it doesn’t stick in my mind the same as coloring a healthy lung pink and a smoker’s lung gray.
I think addiction is important to discuss, that you can’t quit anytime you want.
But we were also talking about drug addiction at that age. I did the infamous DARE program in 1991.
Obviously, just saying it’s addictive isn’t enough. However, constantly beating fear into kids doesn’t work either.
I would love to see if there’s some connection between the Just Say No overreaction of the 1980s and those who chose to start smoking despite what we know.
BTW- love the Tobacco Institute guy who scoffs at the info, but does nothing to refute it.
I'm 36, I've been a smoker since I was a preteen. it's definitely one of my biggest regrets.... and I'm sure it's a regret that is only destined to grow bigger.
How do you feel considering you’ve smoked for how long? How many do you smoke a day roughly?
Not if you don't want it to. If you want to, you can just quit.
@@meab12 Dude is dead by now. Smoked a bogey in his final moments.
I'm 36, started smoking when I was 13. At the time of writing this I am 32 days smoke free. No going back now. Lungs are beginning to clear out.
Stop Now 🙏🏻
Winston was the approved smoke for Apollo 7
And those crazy Flintstones ads!
Cigs are both addictive AND habit forming. The beauty of stopping, is that within a couple weeks, after the chemicals have leeched out of your body, you forget that you ever were a smoker. And if there is a pang, a nostalgic longing that hits you once in a while, it passes very quickly. If you smoke and want to stop, Allan Carr's "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" is excellent. Good luck!
My wife and I were lucky, we manage to quit smoking in an instant. We just decided to stop smoking one day and never look back. That was 6 years ago.
loggins2182001 👍
Never ever have a craving for a cigarette when I’m sober but as soon as I have a sip of an ice cold pint of beer; they’re all I want
My great Grandma was born in 1873 and died in 1974. She smoked over a 100 a day from the age of 18 onwards, apparently.
My great grandfather lost a lung to mustard gas in ww1. Smoked three packs a day of lucky strike non filtered and passed away at 93
He was a champ
Jesus Christ
Old black lung Jim
Edward M. Brecher (1912-1989) ..was an American science writer and book author, best known for his contributions in addiction research, human sexuality, and for his advocacy of rights for people who choose to commit suicide. In a 1979 article in The New York Times Magazine. Brecher, who was diagnosed with colon cancer a year earlier, argued that people with terminal illnesses should have the right to end their lives in the manner, time, and, place of their choosing. The article predicted how he would end his own life, which he did 10 years later, in his West Cornwall, Connecticut home.
I don't think that guy is tobacco crazy he would rather hear or see children being aware of the history of tobacco as well as the harm that tobacco can cause from early ages so the youth won't smoke like the generations before them.
Smoke weed everyday
@@dimebagdarrel7190 that's terrible advice. You have problems if you smoke every day.
dimebag darrel occasionally is fine
@@evansaltz1162 everything in moderation.
Fucking quitter
I quit smoking in 1999 and just the smell of a cigarette triggers a craving. The satisfaction of a good nail, the flavor and associated sparkly feeling.
I remember seeing an advertisement in a magazine. It showed the marboro man lighting up in the background shows people in oxygen tents. It just said welcome to marboro country
THIS MAN IS CIGERETTE CRAZY! smokes 1 during the whole video
I mean, if you can't give an interview without one...
And lived until 91
@@HeyDoNotSubscribe Damn, he was a beast! And here i am catching heart attacks at 23 after only smoking for 4 months lmao
I quit cigarettes exactly 1 month and 4 days ago, after smoking since I was 12 !
I8thumper still not smoking 👍🏼
How did you access cigarettes at age 12?
Michael Oladepo I was in Russia at that time so it wasnt hard
Why Am I Watching This how old are you?
Adrian Garcia I’m 28
So grateful to have been able to quit, finally, after trying to get pregnant (having cut down to five cigarettes a day) for many years and suffering multiple losses…..
How did I finally quit? I was reading every book, watching every video on reproductive health, and heard one thing that made me stop cold: that “smoking causes the placenta to “clamp down” on the fetus, restrict oxygen and nutrient flow”. Three months after I quit, I was blessed with a successful pregnancy that I carried to term (after suffering 3 miscarriages in previous attempts as a smoker). My son is now a glorious, healthy, nonsmoking/vaping 21 year old man. (Currently in his 3rd year of film school, with a promising future!)
Thanks David for your videos- I’ve been enjoying your TH-cam for many many years (back when I wondered why your channel only has a few thousand subscribers) I am delighted to see your subscriber count blossoming! One million is on the horizon!
Watching this makes me want a cigarette. I'm not even a smoker.
I never smoke, sometimes though I want one, to sit like a 1920s cad. Romantic ideal, but only once in a blue moon
10 Years later. I still want a cigarette.
Same.
I will have a cigarette for you tonight mate.
@@davidaustrian9455 No thanks mate. I'm happy not having that monkey on my back anymore. Here in Canada they charge $18 for a pack of 20 butts.
Really? I quit like 5 years ago and don’t even like being around 2nd hand smoke. It’s gross.
@@Ken-fh4jc Then I would guess maybe your parents didn't smoke. My addiction started as a kid being exposed 24/7 around adults in the 1960's / 70's.
Then I bought my own at age 13.
I quit at age 58.
I had a teacher in high school who smoked. He warned all his students telling us what an awful addiction it was. I remember him telling us if you quit now your lungs will recover in about 6 months. I guess he had given up on himself. He later died of full blown aids.
LOL!
😭😭
sucking on fags will do that to you
I really don't see the correlation between contracting aids and giving up and what that has to do with smoking. But maybe I misunderstood.
@@Obake4777he was smoking aids cigarettes
I smoked for around 40 years. For many years I only smoked 2 to 3 cigarettes a day. My lungs are fine. I quit because my Wife didn't like it, they are expensive and I don't believe they do me any good. I really enjoyed them. I haven't smoked for around 6 years. I believe smoking affects people differently. Some people who smoke live to be over 100. I also believe that if you only smoke 2 to 3 cigarettes a day it hurts you less than a heavy smoker. I would not recommend the habit to anyone. I also feel that if you have to give up everything you enjoy where is the reason for living. I believe it is a persons own business if they choose to smoke. Many habits done to excess are harmful. If a peron is obese that is probably as harmful as smoking.
Cigarette smoking is bad for you.
If you want to be - and feel like - a healthy and virile individual - don't smoke.
THAT BEING SAID...
Smoking is at times an extremely pleasurable way to pass the time. You may value that next smoke over being able to run up the stairs without ending up short of breath.
It all depends on your personality.
You be the judge.
Ill take the cig
I smoked a Hookah just once. It was so relaxing. Aside from that, I never smoked. It’s a shame we can’t enjoy these vices.
I took one cigarette at the age of 18 while I was in the military & haven’t stopped since. Don’t do it I feel like shit afterwards & people notice your smell immediately.
try gum
The smell comes from your pores..its in Every part of your body..not just your mouth@@living4adrenaline
@@living4adrenalineworks like magic
I moved to zyns after smoking for over 10 years best decision ever
Quiting the smoking is the best decision i took in my life !! Was a smoker for over 45 years !! I feel much much much much better now!!
Just quit my self. You still going strong ?
Well, that's good for YOU dude. I smoked them for 32 years and quit 7 years ago and I feel like shit! When people ask me (assume really) if I feel much better I say 'hell no...if anything, I feel WORSE!' This is because I have other health issues and they're getting worse.
@@retroguy9494how can You know if your health wouldnt be much worse if you continued smoking?
@@kolarz2128 Oh my......i can't take anymore.
@@shanghunter7697 ?
I can go weeks without smoking, but when I have a good beer and whiskey , I love a smoke or cigar and chew.
I smoke mainly because of peer pressure and becaise it really makes me cool.
well at least ur honest
daisyroots you really are not that cool
I used too as well when I was in college (actually I was the one who got a lot of my friends into smoking) but there came a point when I simply could not live with the guilt of destroying my lungs like that. I quit soon after and have stayed away for more than a decade. You can do it too!
Cool, as in corpse.
RIP Ed Brecher, He passed in Pennsylvania in 2011 at the age of 91 so he did live quite a long life in spite of his smoking.
THATS UN TRUE HE DIED 1989 AGE 77 HE TOOK.HIS OWN LIFE
@@christophersmith4156 Yes, he took his life aged 77, because he suffered from colon cancer for more than a decade. Smoking is a contributing factor to colon cancer.
And lung cancer @@prostre7005
I smoked almost 3 decades , glad got rid of this addiction.
Mind you it took me several attempts to quit.
I wish i never started smoking.
I feel great also saving $$
Interesting to learn about the history of smoking. It certainly did not repel me, but rather intrigue me. I do have to admit that I caught myself with the fact I rolled three cigarettes while watching this short documentary.
I quitted smoking 1 day ago, i started by burning a whole pack of Cigarettes one ciggarete a time
Lmao
I began smoking at 18, in 1980. Around a pack a day. Tried to quit one time in 1986, didnt even last a day. Then on July 3, 2008 I was outside having my last smoke before bed, and something told me "this is your last cigarette. You'll never smoke again." I swear to God I never picked up one again. It was hard as hell for 5-6 months, but I knew if I picked up just one, I'd never quit again. In 3 months, I'll be 16 years clean 😊
Doug! Doug! Doug! Doug! 👏
I could never quit either. I quit smoking for 2 days back in April 2018. Thats the longest I've gone without since I started.
Keith Richards is a living cigarette
He finally quit yesterday. 🤣
Quitting smoking was the best thing I’ve ever done
How did you manage it? How long have you been cig free?
@@AnHebrewChild got a very serious lung infection while living in China, physically couldn’t inhale smoke. When I finally could again after 2 weeks, walked outside lit a cig, looked at the pollution all around me, looked back at the cig and stomped it out. Done cold turkey, haven’t smoked in 10+ years
@@therealwildfolk whoa. That's great! I just had one a few mins ago :|
I think it hit me when I was riding in the car with three other guys. I was smoking but I wasn't addicted yet and still am not, and two of them just started freaking. Asking me to short them over and over again, I wound up shorting one of them but the desperation was shocking like one of them had the jitters even before I pulled out my pack. I'm just gonna stick to weed.
Lloyd Nix lmfao soy boy vibes
“Short them”? What does shorting mean?
shorts is when u give the end of the cig to some fiend. Crackhead shorts is when the filter is almost burning and u give it.
4 years smoke free here
Smoking a cigarette while watching this video
I still smoke because I was taught never to quit on things you love most.
I started smoking cigarettes since my teenage. Got addicted for over 23 years. Cigarettes addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Psychedelics/psilocybin made me quit a lot of bad habits and gave me a more positive outlook on life and the appreciation for other people.The day after one trip I came out as a better me, nothing can compare, I owe it to psychedelics, it cannot be described in words.
why would cigarettes make you depressed and mentally ill??
You just went from cigarettes to mushroom addiction.
why do i keep seeing this comment on videos
I've tried to quit so many times. I get these depressing headaches when I stop. Hopefully one day I'll quit for good.
Thank you
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Hoffman is German is it not
Once a smoker, always a smoker.
An ex-smoker is someone that chooses not to smoke each day.
I am that ex-smoker. 😔
I quit smoking quite recently after doing it for 10 years (im 28 now and started when i was 18). I personally haven't experienced any major withdrawals, only mild mood swings and an increase in appetite. By the end i was smoking 2-3 packs a week (50-75 cigarettes) which admittedly isn't a shocking amount, but i realised the number was slowly increasing as the years went on.
I started coughing more and more, and sometimes waking up short of breath. So i figured i may as well quit before it got any worse.
Cigarettes are shit, and i'm glad to get rid of them. Hopefully my quitting will inspire my friends (all of which smoke) to consider quitting as well, but im not gonna be that preacher who tells them to quit because thats even worse than being a smoker.
And the money saved! Congrats-it gets easier.
Am 18 yrs old, just started smoking this summer tho i had initially said i wouldnt seeing as my parents contracted problems from longterm smoking. However i got angry, started and kimda kept going. Will try to get into medschool and also have lile no real friends and or gf which all constitiute factors however i do realise that i am choosing to do it myslef and somewhat dont want to stop now even knowing the results. Its no tab the cigs its about that sensation of detachment and calmness, quiet that i really need. I dont really want to try out any other substances as most affect memory and im already not the smartest so.. Whaddoya say?
I havent surpassed 4 cigs a day and rn i am standing at ab 2 a day plus snus which is also nicotime.. Actually has more nic but no cancer if im correct..
@@arepure5255would advise you to reduce or completely stop smoking. Snus still is bad for your cardiovascular system but it's not as bad as smoking is.
@@indertat3104 hey ik its random but. How do you .. Interact with people? How do you meet em and ..contect i guess
I’m going to start smoking at 77, I’m 40 now, can’t wait!!!
I may start 1 year b4 I die. 😂
Roosevelt and Churchill on a phone call during WWIi.
ROOSEVELT: "Winston, how long can you go on?"
CHURCHILL: "you give me whiskey ,amphetamine, and cigars and I can go on forever".
ROOSEVELT: " No Winston, I mean how long can Britain, hold out?"
CHURCHILL: " OH, maybe a few weeks!
Quit smoking after 17 year. I don´t miss that shit either. Norway is $11.00 a pack. i gained weight after i did which is common for quitters, so i started riding bike to work (16 miles to work back) and i also started to eat healthier, quit sugar drastically (im more addicted to sugar than i was to cigarettes). I can´t stand cigarettes and the smell anymore. But will give myself atleast a year before i can consider myself smoke-free. I was mostly mentally addicted to it so it was not that hard for me as my body for some reason does not crave nicotine so badly. I could go for 2-3 days often without a puff so why not just quit for good. So so long Camels and Marlboros. I wont miss you.
Bravo. I quit 3 months ago myself. I don't miss it at all either, nor do I miss the smell of it.
when i quit smoking i became really depressed and i kept missing meals. i ended up losing a lot of weight
Bra for deg
$40 a pack in NZ now (which is equivalent to 27 USD)
@@houseis Holy shit. No one can seriously feed their habit without buying smuggled cigs, right? Black market must be huge which in my mind increases the risk of teens and kids having easier access to nicotine.
I quit smoking 7 years ago. I met my wife the next month and she said she wouldn't have stayed with me if i smoked so it worked out
Turned out your wife is your mom
Now you know how to get rid of her if needed...
I suppose life’s been good for you since you quit smoking
I haven’t smoked in close to 8-9 months and it’s crazy, I very rarely even think about it, until I get in my car when I first get in, especially the first few months, it’s WILD how intense the cravings were just based on the fact that for years right when I get in my car I lit a cigarette. I guess it’s part ritual/ habit also. Even now when I see things like this it’s makes me want to smoke one bc I have in my mind how good it would be despite knowing that the last puff I did take, after having quit for like 2 months, tasted disgusting and terrible and nothing like I remembered.
I chose to start smoking 18 years ago and love every minute of it. Unfortunately I've had to cut back to just over a pack a day since I can't smoke whenever I want at work anymore
fuck that bro have fun not being able to breath, stick to beer and 1 or 2 smokes a day or a half of one
I enjoyed smoking, but I enjoyed quitting more
Great video, stupid title.
And yet marijuana is still criminalized in most states. smh
I quit smoking 15 years ago, but we have 5 kids now and I got so stressed out one day I started smoking again damnit and now it seems even harder to quit. My News Years resolution went to hell.
How you doing now mate?
Cigarettes are good for you! My grandad smoked every day from 1917 til he died in 2006 when he was 101!
Neat! My nephew’s girlfriend’s great-grandfather smoked four packs a day and lived to be 128. Smoking is the best!
Ed Brecher committed suicide in 1989 at age 77 after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
This bloke is a marvelous story teller
The most British sentence you could possibly make
I remember where I was exactly when Yul Brynner begged me (I took his warning personally!) to never smoke. I was five when that commercial came out, which also announced his death due to smoking. Because of that commercial, I’ve never done it. I wish everyone would quit. So many health issues and premature deaths 💔
But most supercentenarians (aged 110 years or more) are/were smokers.
Right, because they lived through a time where smoking was very prevalent. I think you would be mistaken if you were to say that their smoking is what caused their long life
@@Clarkticus There's no way to know for sure if they would have lived longer or shorter without smoking but it's interesting to think about. It's possible that it helped increase their lifespan due to the purported neuroprotective effects of nicotine etc and there was a study, for example, that showed pipe smokers lived longer than non-smokers. Maybe they just had good genetics and would have lived to that same age regardless of what they did or maybe if they hadn't smoked they would have lived even longer.
Breathing the air of a city turns out to be far worse for your lungs than smoking cigarettes. Sure, they’re not necessarily good for you, but the danger has been way over blown.
@@smelltheglove2038 I am an RN. I’ve taken care of a multitude of people over the years who’ve lived through torturous week, months, and years before blessedly passing away to be free of their pain - all due to smoking. I’ve seen postmortem what smoking does to organs. I’ve also seen what effect quitting before any emphysema, COPD, etc. sets in, and their lungs sound and look almost as healthy - if not as healthy - as someone who’s never smoked. Don’t try to kid yourself or anyone else that anything else is worse than smoking for your lungs/body. Except maybe being morbidly obese. If you have both, your life expectancy usually drops by 20 years. People who survive until their octogenarian + years by smoking every day are the exception - not the norm.
I quit last Thanksgiving 2022. Thank God. It's my 4th time quitting over 35 years. Thankfully I only smoked 9 of those 35 years, and only one of those 9 years did I smoke heavily.
I was amused by Scott Stapf of the Tobacco Institute being all high & mighty and belligerent about how all those anti-smoking people were so demeaningly telling smokers they were addicted. Which makes me wonder where he is today, decades after this documentary was made - if he smoked, as probably most of the tobacco industry people were expected to, he's either long since dead or at least regretting he'd ever smoked.
Actually, he became the lead singer for the band Creed. So yeah, it's been tough
He was killed by anti-smokers. Because they thought he was a filthy drug smoking addict.
Despite with health issues and the marketing campaigns, not every smoker regrets smoking and to this day still enjoys it. Thats simply crowd thinking.
@@Bigboss192x To be fair, people enjoy the relief of withdrawl symptoms that some may not be aware to be caused by smoking. It is easier to relieve withdrawl than wanning/cold turkey. The incideous nature of addiction is that it perpetuates itself in which re-admimistrstion is the solution to the withdrawl it causes.
@@jstevinik3261 lmfao...Christ, Canyu get anymore academic douch-like on our asses?! lol...ffs
I mean, I quit cigarettes years ago, but to this day, sometimes I’ll be walking into a store and see a half smoked cig in the ashtray and my brain will scream at me like Sam Kinison “SMOKE THAT SHIIIIIIT!”
I never do, but it happens.
Nicotine is a helluvadrug.
Quitting smoking isnt just beating the physical addiction, its a state of mind. You have to be able to picture yourself as a non-smoker and then become that.
Haven't killed a homeless person in 4 months.
keep it up! :)
keep it up :)
WOOOOOWW
Just smoke weed.