Mmmmmkaaaay.......nice.

Nice hiss

... no hiss....

Decadent

.....mmnn...nice dry pull

the question is whether it was empty before and after filming

Steve1989MREInfo got to review it first. Nice.

@@dmo530 bro don't say that... man has been missing too long and I'm getting worried. It could be he just has no content to cover, but as far as I've heard nobody has heard anything from him.

Next episode: "Now we take Golden Bat cigarettes to the range..." Of course cigarettes degrade badly with time and these would be like smoking cardboard.

@@Reinhard96 he runs a landscaping company so I imagine with the usual seasonal work he's probably also busy with more work from the couple hurricanes this year.

there's a lot of parallels there with the US cigarette market. Cigars are taxed differently so a lot of inexpensive brands like Ohm or 305 will wrap with a tobacco based paper to change their tax status, or since flavored cigarettes are banned brands like Djarum will do it to make clove cigarettes

ok now I really want to try some japanese smokes can you even get them in the states?

@@ben-chan420 there are some grey market sites that sell imported cigarettes from various countries, or sometimes you can get them on military bases and at duty free stores.

Are the Golden Bat smokes and Golden Bat anime related at all?

Golden bat are with a strong coffee the breakfast of champions. If your lucky some of the ma and pa tobacco shops in the country have old stock . Now I know the full story, thanks. I was bummed when they just disappeared off the shelf.

Too bad the pack was empty, so he couldn't take it to the range and fire a single shot.

@@herrakaarme Magdump couchlock.

@@herrakaarme > fire a single shot As this pack would contain opium-laced cigarettes, I presume that in this context the phrase "take a single hit" would probably be more appropriate. :-)

I suppose it is a reflex at this time to check that anything he's presenting in the studio is empty. As crass as it may sound, if Ian had been the armourer on the Dust filmset there wouldn't have been a firearms related accident.

I will definitely include factory-made Molotovs in my Finnish book :)

I doubt they were made with alcohol. molotov cocktails are generally made with gasoline because it is (and even more so was) cheaper. I think it also burns a little hotter and might ignite better.

@@Ass_of_Amalek Gasoline and Diesel mixture. At least it is described that way in "The service in the (Austrian) Army" by Karl Ruef released in the 1970s. Interesting book about equipment and tactics for warfare in alpine regions. But unfortunately it's only available in German language, if you are able to find an example. Also gives a nice overview of their firearms and equipment at that time. From P38 over Sturmgewehr 58 (FN FAL) to MG 42/MG 74 and even MP 41 (PPSh-41).

@Semechki for Putin there's probably been more than a few made of just burning spirits, its still effective

@@Ass_of_Amalek somebody has to empty the bottles before you put the gasoline in though…

I agree, but not just history

opium in alcohol beverages was widely consumed in europe and US. even COCA cola contained real cocaine. Heroin in cough medicine and we gave it to children. 😅😅😅😅

That's why I spent a lot of time in the library as a kid. My mother says I read every non-fiction book they had. Visited my hometown 5yrs ago, pretty sad to see all those old books gone. Weren't bright shiny and new. They had all of Teddy Roosevelt's books, first editions, probably sold them for a quarter. Not to mention all the hunters and gun cranks books from 1920s-70s. Keith, O'Connor, Pope and Young too many to mention its depressing. A lot of that stuff isn't on the nets.

this isn't really history specific most things are interesting if you get in the weeds

@@baileyayyy5085 isn't history?

I just can't stop smoking Golden Bats! It's almost like they're laced with smack or something.

Coca-cola

I would love to do that, but I have never been able to get him to talk to me. :(

@@ForgottenWeapons we shall restlessly post comments on his channel until he does :p

@@ForgottenWeapons That's really sad! I hope you keep trying. You and him would be a super awesom combo im pretty sure!

You need 70 years old japanese MRE.

Steve would have been game to smoke one of the cigarettes too. The normal ones not the opium ones.

I’m a simple man, I see an Ian video, I click like.

Heck yes. He’s such a wonderful conveyor of history

I still think my favorite video of Ian is the one where a tour guide recognizes him in France and lets him take over the tour and give a lecture on the French mutinies of world war I

The name of the channel is forgotten weapons and certainly opium and the control of it is a weapon

@@user-dc1dr9kr8x I sure could go for one of those opium laced cigarettes right about now 😵‍💫

Hey everything's legal when cops ain't around

@@kelteckin The only thing illegal is getting caught.

Or those guys who collect old ration kits that still have the government issue methamphetamine tablets in them

Smack smokes lol love it

😂smack smokes

The Japanese planned to do this whole thing prior to the invasion, I'm assuming.

Bro, your gta 4 playthrough convinced me to watch the sopranos

Parliament 100's have charcoal filters too

*Fentanyl has entered the chat*

@@WayStedYou fentanyl, the opium war uno reverse card

@@Ass_of_Amalek Oh my God, Youre right

@@Feroce Well the Brits were openly selling straight opium but kinda yes.

They weren't "just emulating the Brits" That's speculation. Don't give them excuses for their evil.

@@dk3062 If I recall there actually is quite a few instances of Japanese Imperialists in the 1880-1930 era explicitly stating that their goal was to emulate the British in becoming a colonial empire, and they certainly acted it out in their wars of expansion in that time. so it's more than speculation.

@@dk3062 lol what

except it actually worked. bond villains are always failures.

Gotta give it to the man. Simple, but devastatingly effective.

One hell of a reaction to stealing wood. Straight up could’ve killed the neighbor and/or burned down his house. Not sure if I’m impressed, terrified, or both.

@@TheSporelord01 if you’ve ever had to chop your own firewood, you’d be protective of it too. I’m sure if the law knew, they’d have arrested him for making booby traps, which is very illegal. And there is always the chance the neighbor may want to retaliate with something equally horrible. But the moral of the story is, don’t be a thief.

@@TheSporelord01 seriously, could’ve actually tried to catch him in the act, or maybe put a bunch the coloring agents for smoke bombs in the in the wood so he could see the results without worrying about killing a guy. certainly creative, but definitely an overboard response if you ask me. catch him and confront him, don’t try and kill the guy. yikes 😬

@@alphagt62 true, but maybe don’t be a vigilante either and just catch the dude in the act so you can turn him into the cops or something.“this was something as i mentioned in my above reply, he could have used the filling / coloring agent from colored smoke bombs or something. heck, i know a lot of copper based chemicals with burn green or blue. that would have caught the guy without possibly blowing him up.

Local native American owned tobacco shop near me carries the filterless luckies and camels. They are a bit pricier than the normal cigarettes but I personally enjoy the taste of both brand's filterless cigarettes, I definitely think they get a better cut of tobacco myself.

Only smoke for less than a year and I still crave camel wides no filters. They taste better

I smoke filterless luckies and camels state side when I can find a good price for them, camels are better filterless than lucky strikes are if you want aromatics.

@@imadequate3376the fact that a non-filtered cigarette is more expensive than a filtered one is fubar. They went up in price when hipsters found them, I swear they used to be like 6-8 bucks a pack at one point

@@imadequate3376 When people buy them at the res by the carton and freeze them, are they still good later?

Sry about your Grandpa. Sounds like you're carrying on his interests. I have my Grandpa's hunting stuff. Glad to take care of it for him. Hopefully you can do the same too : )

My condolances. :)

@@akaroth7542 that's the plan and Thank you. I was lucky enough to take over a good bit of it before he passed and talk to him about a couple hunts that his gear went on.

@@kevanbrandvold1584 I'm glad he trusted you with it and you'll be able to pass it down : )

@@akaroth7542 the siblings, cousins and I will probably have to split up his personal effects but my grandpa left it up to my brother and I to help my Gramma and he always told us just make it fair, we know what means what and to who so if my brother cherishes something it's his and if one of my cousins who wasn't very close to him could use a latern or something or some camping gear or even a rifle he said let em have one. He gave me more in teachings and time given than any of those material possessions, it wasn't enough though. I don't think any amount could have been, but I could have stretched just a little more for an eternity if I had the chance.

Vehicles would be great! I would love to see work on the less-covered vehicles like armored cars, tank destroyers, and rocket artillery like the Calliope.

its usually more "we like what you have, lets modify it for our needs". A lot of their best inventions however are from the 20th century. My favorite is the Chindogu: pretty much the art of creating a gadget designed to solve one particular task well while also creating more problems.

I thought the killer golden bat was from a lab in Wuhan, China. Guess it was Japan who gave it to them in the first place...History is crazy.

If you work in the automotive industry they make everything different so nothing fits from one year to the next and everything rusts and corrodes after a few years ..if that's progress you can have it !

@Cancer McAids Of course sometimes the way they "improve" things is just by dialing it up to eleven, but that's usually more of a cultural thing than a technological one.

From my experience it went British/Americans invented it, Japanese improved on it (with couple notable exceptions like Czechoslovakian Jawa being copied by Honda into Super Cup). Japanese living outside of Japan are very productive when comes to inventions, so it must be for the most part cultural thing.

Lmao

Now I’m picturing some guy standing at a firing range in a shooting stance then pulling out a box of cigarettes instead of a pistol

It certainly places the effort to decriminalize various drugs in a different light. Almost like it's not a great idea...

You are on to something, wouldn't surprise me

The problems they are having with decriminalizing drugs arises from not also having a legal means of production. You just can't say it's ok now to have drugs and not have a system in place to produce as safe as can be expected drugs. When you do you have black market players who rush even harder to create a supply and you end up with a problem worse than before. Um, almost like politicians planned it that way wouldn't you say? The War on Drugs has been a complete failure and has done more to piss on our rights than probably anything else other than the so called Patriot Act. The WOD has gave us no knock warrants, helped usher in more firearm laws and a host of other things. It's time to say we tried it, we lost and time to try something else.

You don't know who is supplying it? CHINESE companies in CHINA where the communist gov't has an iron grip on what the people do so therin lies the responsible party. CHINA. Fool me once... Now it's China's turn.

Or it feels good, I Don't wanna be a wet blanket but

well shit. did it work?

@@xenostim yes. But if the subject survives longer then 36 hours normally they'll make a full recovery. For the most part it is very effective.

That was called operation eldest son… Lots of information on the Internet

Just research " CIA manuals" and whatever details you wanna add

Several good books written by John Stryker Meyer, including "Across the Fence" and others.

@@thedolt9215 In March 1968 a SF Trooper told me to avoid VC ammo with black around the primer.

During the Malayan Emergency, the British gave their enemies, the CT, grenades that would explode instantly when the ring was pulled. Also guns that shot backwards. Killing the firer. During WW2, the UK Spec Ops Excecutive, their version of the OSS. They got caught with dead rats filled with explosives. They also did that to coal.

Chinese wrote it down also. Nearly all illegal fentanyl seized in the states (and yes, I was on the LEO side of the business) that's been traceable goes right to...PRC, that means China

@@kane357lynch Or Cocaine wine 🤤

@@kane357lynch TBF you can just get some coke and regular chewing gum.

@@JaykPuten exactly

Lol people have been addicted to nicotine long before "America/The US" was a thing.

@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 It was a joke.

@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 not really. Native Americans used it, but they couldn't procure enough to be addicted. Europeans started growing it and spread it around the world. People didn't even know to smoke other drugs until then. I still don't really get how it worked. If there were already opium dens then they already had the drug and the withdrawals from opium or heroin only last about a week. It's not that big of a deal, just stop smoking that weak mixture of morphine and codien. One use isn't going to make anyone an addict either. Just give it a month or two after you quit and you are back to normal.

@@baomao7243 And?..

@@Stephen85 I probably should have been more clear (not expecting this to turn semantical), but I was referring to the United States (and the previous colonies), as most casual uses of “America” (as an entity) refer to. Irregardless, tobacco was cultivated fairly extensively on a regional basis and widely used throughout the American continent, being a readily accepted trade item throughout. But of course supply depends on logistics. Not every region in the continent was able to accommodate tobacco cultivation . But in Mexico and the now American South, tobacco was a key agricultural commodity. Not to mention, it seems you are confusing addiction with dependence, which are two separate things. Dependence depends (npi) on consistent availability. Addiction doesn’t.

Grandson: You say that about everything, Gramps. Gramps: You callin' me a liar? Here, watch this Youstube vid and then smack yourself upside the head afterwards.

that'd be the poison liquor the feds used during prohibition, right?

That'd do, or Tresckow's liquor gift

Starting with the venerable "3 Penis wine".

Yea opium is addictive but not physically very harmful to you. Addicts with a clean and pure source of morphine can live relatively normal and comfortable lives if they're able to support themselves financially and not let their use get in the way of their work (if they even need to work). This is why so many old people get piled with drugs you wouldn't see younger working people getting, due to the side effects addiction come with. Tobacco? That shit will fucking kill you, and while it might not do it on the scale of a short modern war, it'll certainly keep you calm and focused through that war while you inhale other toxic shit that ultimately cumulatively kills you, just look at all the soldiers in the US dying from burn pits and exposure to other burning and toxic shit during wars in recent times. Add the most carcinogenic drug on the planet to that mix and you've got a great way to take out a nation's soldiers in their prime teaching years, when they'd be passing on everything they learned to the next generation of soldiers. Too bad we did it to ourselves this time, but given the significantly higher smoking rates in China to this day, I'd say it's still probably killing more of them than us. I doubt that was the original goal of tobacco exporters, as nobody had any idea it caused cancer back then, but I wouldn't put it past the US and Japan to have both encouraged China to smoke more so that it would kill them more. Hell, the CCP itself is probably encouraging it at this point due to their oncoming demographic crisis. The fewer old people they have to support the better, and they're cold hearted enough to let it happen all while green washing the rest of the economy in the interest of future generation's health, to look like they're doing something about the extreme cardiopulmonary cancer rates they've been experiencing due to both pollution and smoking

Tobacco itself isn't particularly bad, the heavy processing by cigarette companies to change the pH balance to one that can can be breathed in is more harmful.

Ever dealt with a morphine addict? Idgit.

@@JD-tn5lz many, I worked in San Francisco for a number of years. Most were really chill and respectful, and only a handful were homeless. There was enough darkness near the register that you could always make the serious addicts by their pinned pupils and demeanor alone, as they bought their food and coffee. We were only a few blocks from prime heroin sales neighborhood. Lost a staff member to an OD in 2018, same year one of my ex girlfriends died the same way. Used to be just pills and tar but everything is going to fent now and it's killing anyone not already deep in it. The ex who died used to get mountains of MS30 Contins for her Chrons since she'd already had a ton of her bowel removed and the rest was inconsistently stable.

@@TheOriginalFaxon yes, just consider rural areas where resources like addiction centers and social services are not available. Consider also the physical crimes that addicts commit to fuel their addictions. No, I have not met one fully functional (semi-functional, a few...at Jiffy Lube) opoiod addict. Not in over twenty years in the business. Have to say it, but that the functional ones stand out gives truth to the phrase "the exception proves the rule." Also, you're not realizing the massive collateral damage to families. The mothers or fathers entrapped with caretaking for an "adult child." The parents not being able to fully integrate socially because of their child still being "baggage." It just kills parents, especially retirees. The amount of domestic violence brought by opoiod addicts upon their families. The damage to children once a parent becomes an addict...incredible and indelible. The burden of law enforcement responding to criminal and non-criminal calls for service generated by addiction issues. The addicts you see at an addiction center are "top-tier" addicts, go to the streets and find the homeless, or couch hoppers, or the "failure to launch" addicts that are the vast majority. Oh, not since 2018 here, btw. Since 2001.

Not sure about that. Nicotine is more addictive than opiates so it would be like adding caffeine to heroin.

Next video: stoned Ian goes "WOOOOO DUUUDE"

@@mattthekiller9129next video: Ian smokes tobacco laced with fentanyl and gets narcaned 6 times on camera

@@DonnySimpanero Jesus christ lol

probably, but i doubt Japanese gov't would sell a book about Imperial Japan

@@juliannestingray5948 you don't have to sell through japanese government, this is no china...

@@juliannestingray5948My dude, I'm pretty sure half the Japanese population have Rising Sun flags in their house and a shrine to Hiro Hito. Pretty much the last bastion of a homogenised society, I don't think they'd want to lose that.

@@alZiiHardstylez You probably meant to say, "homogenous" if I understood you right. I hope this doesn't seem like pompous scolding, cuz that's not my intention.

@@nessunodorme3888 Apologies. I was drinking milk at the time of writing.

I've smeared it on a cigarette paper and rolled it. These are probably dipped in opium or it's sprayed on the tobacco😎

I would assume it was processed in some way or another in order to work with this delivery method.

Madak (a blend of opium and tobacco) has been a recreational drug since 16th century china. So they had a process perfected for years beforehand. They’d boil hemp and opium and then mix that with tobacco and then dry it out.

So.. I have a somewhat extensive knowledge-base in this topic. Don't ask me why. The short answer is, yes it will work properly. Due to the same concept as how smoking (really anything) works. It won't be the most efficient method, but it absolutely will work. When you smoke something, you aren't actually getting any effect from what is combusted (ie. turned to smoke). Only what is vaporized is what is bioavailable. In other words, the smoldering cherry is essentially just a heat source and any alkaloids (like morphine, or nicotine) touching said cherry are being destroyed. But what is BEHIND the "cherry" is being vaporized, hence when you smoke anything you are in reality vaporizing it in a somewhat inefficient manner.

Smoking opium was very common in China but usually done with pipes. Raw opium was usually used rather than the more familiar refined opium extracts (Morphine, Codeine and Heroin) used in Western countries after 1880. Sherlock Holmes was an opium user in the early stories.

Time Ghost History WW2 channel delved into this topic.

Thanks for the info.

Started long before WW2. Check out the Opium Wars.

@@shawnr771 check out that nearly all fentanyl recovered by law enforcement in the States was produced in PRC. They may not be original or even fast learners, but they learn well.

@@JD-tn5lz and? The only reason it is here because people are buying it.

@@shawnr771 you certainly have little knowledge on the nature of addiction, especially in a society where there are few repercussions to not being productive. Go get some education

@Shawn R Or alternatively the CCP is trying to weaken its greatest enemy from within? Thats the point he was making. The Chinese had to buy the opium too.

This is that. The british were in control here, and still are.

The British Opium War was more about pure greed than any military strategy though. They went to war to continue selling opium; they didn't sell the opium to achieve a military objective. The Chinese only accepted silver for their goods, and Britain was running low on Silver, so they needed a way to get it. Solution, sell Opium to the Chinese in exchange for Silver, then use that Silver to buy the really wanted Chinese goods like silks, tea etc. I just wonder though, why didn't the Chinese just grow their own opium??

@꧁Mike Sully꧂ very true mike.. a very profitable means to an end. Do you now any good literature on the subject? I would love to now more about the whole thing. Such a complex matter.

Indeed. I take all of the stories about things being laced with other things to create addicts with a large sack of salt and of things being laced with other thing to incapacitate or pacify only slightly more seriously. Even if you are open to recreational drug use it doesn't mean you are going to enjoy every drug and certainly not if you're not expecting it. You'd think, correctly, that you had been poisoned or at least spiked and avoid the offending 'product' rather than seek it out. I can imagine that opium laced cigarettes would be the best thing since sliced char sui if you already had a taste for the stuff but otherwise... Nah... The side effects are bad enough when you have opiates for medical reasons. I have no doubt that spiking does occur with all manner of things but short of intending to kill the spikee with a quick(ish) acting poison it almost always causes more problems than it 'solves' and makes little to no logical sense.

@@xxxggthyf I'm sure they found their market. Most smokers wouldn't want the opiated ones. Not only the taste, but the smell would be obvious. Easily detected by NCOs & officers. So take the weapnization with a large grain indeed. Did it make a lot of money for crooked army officers? Sure.

The British dropped opium laced cigarettes during WW1 to great effect. First they dropped propaganda covered cigarette packs. The Ottomans just ignored the propaganda and smoked them. Then they dropped the opium ones, and took the city while everyone was sleepy.

@@HALLish-jl5mo Coming up next on "Things That Never Happened".

Blankets used by smallpox and measles patients were given away thus by immigrants in early North America and also Australia.

Wow I would love to hear about your opium smoking days as I haven't smoked opium except for a few summers

@@bradpnw1897 Everythings in my autobiography.

I’ve always wondered what Opium was like, I assume it would make you itch a lil bit and possibly get sick if you’re new to it kinda like morphine. But I imagine it’s also super relaxing and that a opium den would be a great way to relax

Seems improbable to me. How would the British soldiers have 'provided' opium-laced cigarettes to an enemy garrison during a war? If an enemy soldier walks up to you and says "Here, free cigarettes!" then of course you'd never smoke them. And you'd capture the enemy soldier. What possible interaction could have involved such an exchange between both sides? How would British troops in the Sinai desert or Palestine or Iraq or wherever this is supposed to have happened have had access to opium in the first place? The Japanese operation was organized at a high level and incorporated an extensive espionage and business network in order to acquire the drug, add it to cigarettes, ship it into enemy territory and sell it to the Chinese. How could a British army group of whatever size possibly have had the resources necessary to achieve such a result in the middle of a campaign?

@@off6848 Once, just once, it would be nice if you weekend warriors, and psuedo experts would refrain from muddying the waters with your incessant need for validation. Go stand in the corner and be quiet while the adults discuss the issue. You are wrong. Isn't there an NA meeting you should be attending? GSITCABQ

That's fentanyl.

that's too expensive to do, he probably laced the weed with other stuff though

Nearly all traceable fentanyl recovered by LEO is produced in the PRC...communist China. I actually never saw any that wasn't.

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