I started smoking since my teenage, got addicted to cigarettes. Spent my whole life fighting Cigarettes addiction. 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.

Soldiers came back from ww1 addicted to nicotine. Soldiers came back from Vietnam addicted to heroine.

I smoked for 22 years and I"m disgusted with myself for wasting all that hard earned money on them.I quit 18 years ago and its one of the best decisions I ever made!!!.

In the late 60's there was an all out attack on smoking - and 9 year olds were the target audience. I got the message, I never smoked. Also, the smell gave me headaches.

27 year old russian nobody. Smoked for 8 years. Quitted a year ago cold turkey. Had day or two to prepare myself and then just said "last one". 3 or 5 days after - absolute hell. Sweating, cold, hot, angry, cold again, thirsty, feeling sick Then it gradually became easier. After I regained smells - it felt like childhood again. All flavours and easiness of breath...I don't have enough words to describe how good it felt (mostly because I'm not english speaker😅) Still feeling urges time to time. Very rarely but still they exist. I just don't give in to them. Feels like my first cigarette was a mistake. A big one

I believe tobacco companies first authored the lie and myth that quitting tobacco is difficult, because as long as one overestimates the difficulty in it, one's resolve is weakened. When I realised this, I quit tobacco cold turkey and within a few months I never even thought about it anymore. Hope others see this.

Can't have cigarette commercials but can have beer commercials.

I only had to smell how nasty it was as a small child, I never wanted to.

so sexism was literally saving lives

RIP Ed Brecher (1912-1989) He ended his own live btw

Yes. Plenty of doctors used to be used as advertisers of cigarettes as well.

I was watching a three stooges episode the one about hitler and the nazis. In it cigarettes are referred to as coffin nails which really suprised me. It was made in 1940 so evidently someone new. But i have a national geographic magazine from the same year with an ad that says 9 out of 10 doctors smoke camels. And who could forget fred flintstone and barney rubble hawking winstons on TV in 1960.

I can’t believe I’m only seeing this channel now, but thank you for uploading such fascinating bits of your career. KZfaq is a little classier with content like this.

I was buying candy cigarettes in convenience stores during the early 90's as a kid. Sad that they were available to kids even that long after the health risks had been highlighted. The greed of man knows no bounds, apparently.

So glad I never started. Growing up with both parents smoking 2 packs a day, Ash trays all over the house, mom smoked all 9 months she was pregnant. Lucky I don't have asthma or anything.

Thanks again for these videos, i hope you know it is appericated by so many people. These uploads of the past need to be preserved and archived its great you share what you have with us.

@RuneFinity44 thank you. there is a part two as this is a part of a 1 hour PBS show that I made. Visit my website to get it all -- thehoffmancollection. David Hoffman

I was raised by my great grandparents. My great grandpa born in 1906 was a heavy smoker. Ive seen pictures of him when he was in the Marines in WWII smiling and there was a very dark spot on his teeth from where he smoked. He quit in the early 70s and lived to be 90 although he had a nasty cough. My great grandma was a nurse, born in 1912. She participated in early treatment for emphesyma in the 1930s. They would cut the guys open and WIPE the tar off the lungs with gauze or whatever. Needless to say she was never a smoker. My dumbass, born in 1988, started smoking at the age of 12 because I wanted to look like John Wayne. I even smoked non filtered cigarettes. I mostly gave it up when I was in the Marines and had to run 20 something miles with a 70lb pack.

When I was a kid (and a carton of Winstons was $2 ) it was the C O O L E S T thing anyone could do, ever. Take me to the store and I wanted "candy cigarettes' to eat, um..pretend to smoke. Looking at this, it's easy to see why.

My brother has lived in Asia for years--Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea. He recounted being in an arcade and watching 9-year old boys play the claw/crane machines that contained only packs of Marlboro as the prize. Smoking is alive and well all over but especially outside N.A.

Every time my friend Mike gives me a ride to work all I can think of is how terrible his car smells. He's so addicted that while he's talking he reaches into his empty shirt pocket for a cigarette that isn't there. I'm not sure he knows how nervous he looks.

It didn’t occur to people that inhaling super heated smoke is a bad idea. I figured that out when I was 7 and took a puff and coughed for 3 minutes. What an epiphany.

Thank you for all you do David Hoffman! True education

Smoking is not an exclusively "American" thing, Europeans smoke much much more than Americans do.

We forget that tobacco has been part of the american expierence since before it was a colony of great britian.

My Mom-in-law was exposed to passive smoking all thru her childhood, via her parents. A short time after her 60th, she got lung cancer. She HADN'T smoked ONE cigarette her entire life!😥😡 I loved her so much. People seem to have all those mother-in-law jokes, but she was the sweetest and most welcoming person. I truly miss her. My wife smokes, but I Think, I'm about to win her over on the non-smoking team. She HAS been smoke-free. Even for YEARS. But something got her started again. I am still working on her, trying to make her quit again. It is SO expensive, so I am trying to tell her about the economic benefits. Please, everybody, wish me luck in my struggle. I just want her to be smoke-free. Is that too much to ask?

thank you for uploading

You've got amazing uploads. Your channel should be viral!

This Cat has one of the best voices for narration ever and the U.S. Govt. has lied to us about everything.

Until shortly after the Civil War in the U.S., cigarettes were rolled by hand. Soldiers would either smoke pipes, or carry tobacco and rolling papers with them in the field. A fellow named Lewis P. Ginter, (no relation), who had been a quartermaster with the Confederacy, moved to New York city after the war, where he made a fortune in real estate. He moved to Richmond VA, and together with his partner, a man by the name of Allen, they established several businesses in Richmond. One of these businesses was the "Allen and Ginter Tobacco Company". Allen and Ginter's began to produce the first commercially successful pre- rolled cigarettes, which was actually the innovation that made cigarettes so popular. This would have been in the mid 1860's Their advertising gimmick was to hire the best illustrators of the time to produce artworks that were printed on cards, that were packaged with the cigarettes, like modern- day "trading cards". The cards had several different themes, one series would depict popular athletes of the day, etc. Most people who live in Richmond know about Ginter, his various commercial enterprises built much of what has become modern- day Richmond, his sister (Anna?) founded the Visiting Nurse's Service. After Ginter's death, the surviving family built the Lewis P. Ginter Botanical Gardens (just outside of Richmond) in his honor.

My grandmother told me that her father would roll his own tobacco only. Never would be pre rolled. While my great grandmother who was very religious would always yell at him to smoke outside.

I started smoking in the 60s, still at it. I remember doctors on TV telling us how it reduced stress, increased performance, helped dieting, etc. Same gig as 2020 "Why vaccinating is good for you!"

That gray haired guy looked like Albert Einstein.

If I only new then what I know now. It's a hard habit to quit. Thank you Mr. Hoffman... Much Love xo

In the 1950s, my mother smoked 2 or 3 packs of cigarettes a day. I never saw her, wothout a cigarette in her mouth. She never stopped, not even when pregnant with me. She died of Emphysema. She was 54.

Forensic Files Peter Thomas narrating?

4:25 - such an eye opening clip into the mind of advertisers. thank you for sharing.

Everyone in the comments: “SmOkInG iS bAd”

My Grandpa didn't start smoking till he was drafted in WW2. He said they were part of his K rations. He would trade the cigarettes he got for Hershey bars, or whatever.

My dad was born in 1917 World War II veteran and he started smoking when he was 6 years old. Lived to be 94 and he smoked up until the day he died. He was in a semi coma and was still trying to light a cigarette but couldn’t do it.

What I love is everybody knows smoking is bad for you. it's until you tell them how much money they spend on cigarettes is what encourages most of them to stop.

The way they talk about it seems so joyful. But being a smoker it’s nothing like that

@collegeman1988 i agree and thank you for noticing! David Hoffman - filmmaker

I liked the smell but never could get around putting smoke in your lungs

Good ol Edward Bernayes, Freud’s nephew. Featured in the Adam Curtis doc Century of the Self. Essential viewing

Real education this is...greatly appreciate it ❤💯❤

thanks a lot Mr hofftman

I HAVE NOT AFFILIATION. Read "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr, smoke while reading the book, then never smoke again. Going on 3 years smoke free from 20-40 cigs a day for 20 years.

This was excellent. I loved cigarettes; they made me feel grown up, sexy and sophisticated. I was so addicted. so hooked.

One of the worst things to happen to me ..... I bitterly regret the day I started smoking.... quit many times to just fall back into them .....

I never smoked a cigarette in my life. I didn’t see the appeal of setting fire to something and putting the other end in my mouth.

I was smoking in my kitchen four years ago. While I was smoking, I took the time to read the General Surgeon’s warning. Turned around, open the tab, killed the cigarette 🚬 in my mouth and never lighted up one ever again. Life is better, money is used in other things, and my life got extended. You can quit today. Not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow. Today!

My wife smokes over 1 pack a day at $36 per pack. That’s $15K after tax or $23K before tax. She works part time and earns $35K, that’s 70% of her salary to smoke!

I hear a pack of smokes runs about $20.00 in New York. I don't smoke and don't intend to.

IVE SMOKED FOR 40 YEARS NOW AND HAVE PULMINARY HEART DISEASE. HEART ATTACK 2017. IM DYING FROM SMOKING

What is the name of the documentary this is part of? I'm not sure who the narrator is. Maybe Jay O. Sanders, Will Lyman or Liev Schreiber? In any case, I'd like to get the title of the documentary & to find out if it's available on DVD or via streaming anywhere. Thanks!

It hurt us all in the end !

I loved smoking. All the Cool packaging. The fun adverts in magazines and on huge billboards along highways. Literally all of them were for cigarettes. It was fun. Then people started getting sick. My parents smoked many decades. Thankfully they quit in time. My mom smoked from 1960-2000. My dad from 1955-2005. Both survived, but they were lucky. Smoked all the time. I sat there suffocating between them for many years and it was unpleasant. The commercials though were great!

I count myself very lucky when it comes to cigarettes. When I was around 8 or 9, I took two puffs on a cigarette I some how acquired and they were the last puffs I ever had. Thank God I disliked the taste of the smoke.

Not much have changed in advertising by companies or politicians. This is significant because it was before consumerism.

Yuk Brenner was a major help in getting me to quit smoking. His final plea to everyone was, "Whatever you do, don't smoke". Soon after that was broadcast he died from lung cancer. It took me at least 3 attempts to be able to break away from smoking. Had I continued I would not be here now,I'm sure.

What's the name of the old man talking while holding a cigarette?

Great point! It reminds me of the 1970 Dick Van Dyke movie titled Cold Turkey where a whole town tries to quit smoking to win something!

Crazy good big fire share here bro 💯💯💯

If people wanna smoke let em it aint my buisness and i could care less I and just about most people smoke ciggs and weed lol

Both of My Parents were Heavy Smokers. I had my first cigarette at about 9. I was smoking regular by 14 But luckily I quit at 19. I peaked at 2 packs a day . I probably would be gone by now if I hadn't Quit.

The voice behind this is Peter Thomas

Back in 1978, there was a a smoking room at my high school in Montreal. Kids as young as 12 smoked. In my group of friends, I was the only non smoker despite the peer pressure. I just told them that I’d had TB spots on my lungs as a child and that it would be stupid of me to start smoking. They all agreed

Where is the rest of it?

@PLATINUM3NDO They don't have to "make" them addicting tobacco contains nicotine naturally.

People were sold on cigarettes long before tv ads or the marlboro man were a thing.

Smoking is a decision for adults to make for themselves…We blame advertising for “making” us do things, when it has only the power to guide us toward brands.

I quit smoking on Sep 10, 2002. Best decision I ever made for MYSELF. To be a pack a day smoker today would cost $4400 per year.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who noticed that Peter Thomas a.k.a. the guy who is on Forensic Files is the one doing the documentary.

Hardest thing i ever had to quit. Dont ever start

I held my uncles arms as he passe away from lung cancer. His last word were that he wished he never smoked. He kept saying how he was on constant pain.

I quit back in 2016. I do still miss my favorite cigarettes of the day which was after waking up with my coffee and right after dinner.

The voice of the narrator ironically sounds like the voice of someone who would also do cigarette commercials

That’s Peter Thomas from Foresnic Files narrating. RIP.

Fascinating so see how little it takes to program human beings

What if we're being sold a similar message, more surreptitiously, about marijuana?

I stopped smoking after 27 years since a was 14! I smoked 2 packs a day when i was 20 but in recent years have gone down to 6 -7 a day. Yet it was still bad for my lungs. I got a very bad thort infection 3 weeks ago. I tried to smoke but my body rejected it the F! I can even smell the nicotine of someone next to me without wanting to puke! I use vitamin C and apple cider viniger to eliminate the cravings. You can do it! I dident know i could its like the cold started it for me and now i am continuing my war against this horrible addiction

This is going to sound terrible but when we will leave the embassy in Beirut it was so good when we could be able to stand down for a few minutes to have a hot cup of coffee and a cigarette it gave us 10 minutes of peace

That old guy made a whole confession

@pickmystrings There is no guarantee that smoking will kill you - plenty of people have lived on into their hundreds despite smoking for many years. However, it does increase the risk of many illnesses, particularly lung cancer, in many other people, who may die from a condition of that sort. I would recommend that you look up this type of information, because it does not only exist in anti-smoking commercials. Also, the tobacco lobby is quite powerful in deterring people from quitting.

Do one on Tin Pan Alley, or better yet "Television"...

i wonder how old this is

Who is the man at 1:49

Im smoking my Newport short while I'm watching this I just enjoy it to much to wanna quit

Cigarettes help the government. My uncle didn’t miss a day of work until a month before he died, right before retirement.

In Europe ,smoking has been a big part of their cultures even into the 21st century America has been the leader in getting their population to quit . Europeans act surprised when they find out that smoking is not allowed in most public places in the US . Especially restaurants

Why did pipes go out of fashion?

My mom smokes 1/3 a pack a day. Me? Hate the stuff.

I noticed that too and was wondering if it was Parkinson's.

At 0:33 the narrator's voice made me feel like I was watching forensic files for a second.

Wait...you interviewed BERNAIS?? That's amazing.

My father born in 1926 started smoking when he was 12. He also served in WW2 on the aircraft carrier Saratoga in the battle of the coral sea. Was horribly wounded in battle. The last 2-3 years of his life had a 2 pak a day habit. Pall mall red unfiltered. If he didnt get them. Hed get so violent hed start to break things in his room. To be fair smoking didnt kill him. He died of kidney failure. My mom who had emphysema from smoking died of heart failure.

In the 70s, with the oil embargo and gas crisis, my dad decided to hang out at the Metra Stations in Chicago and would spend days picking up cigarette butts and smoking them.....yuck

Be PROUD of your country! Don't be a square, REPRESENT!! Light up a cigarette 😎🚬💨 for 'Merica!! 👍🇱🇷

I was 12 when I started smoking regularly, i remember vividly the first time I took a *real* inhale, I thought my friends laced the cigarette with some kind of drug. I've been chasing that feeling for 13 years now and I don't see me stopping anytime soon