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Күн бұрынCigarettes are bad for you - you know they're bad for you. But how did they convince us to ignore that fact and do it anyway?
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Books
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (2009)
Allan M. Brandt - amzn.to/399QkAd
Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (2021)
Keith Wailoo - amzn.to/3P6mYmU
Documentaries
Butt Out: The Life and Death of Cigarette Advertising on TV (1992) - • Butt Out: The Life and...
Bright Leaves (1992) - www.kanopy.com/video/110134
Modern Marvels: How Tobacco is Made (2006) - • Modern Marvels: How To...
Addiction Incorporated (2011) - amzn.to/3MNTpES
Merchants of Doubt (2014) - amzn.to/3FCXA3T
Broken S1E2 "Big Vape" (2019) - www.netflix.com/title/81002391
KZfaq Videos
Jeffrey Wigand: The Big Tobacco Whistleblower - • Jeffrey Wigand: The bi...
Penn & Teller on Broadway | Talks at Google - • Penn & Teller on Broad...
Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - • Tobacco: Last Week Ton...
Astroturfing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - • Astroturfing: Last Wee...
The Twenty One Conspiracy - • The Twenty One Conspiracy
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Bill Maher: Be More Cynical - www.imdb.com/title/tt0250256/
Thank You For Smoking (2005) - amzn.to/38ICq7P
Penn & Teller: Bullsh!t! S1E5 "Second Hand Smoke" (2003) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0672536/
South Park S7E13 "Butt Out" (2003) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0705898/
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0:00 Introduction
2:47 Invention and Popularization
20:26 Health Concerns
42:57 Targeted Advertising
55:57 Litigation
1:18:32 Vaping
1:24:21 Conclusion
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@KnowingBetter Жыл бұрын
Make sure to check out Patrick Kelly's companion video on the science of the cancer link! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNNjhppirNGVoXk.html Director's Commentary stream will be on Sunday, 2pm Pacific. twitch.tv/knowingbetteryt Corrections - In 1900, pipes were 19% of total consumption, not 27%. - It's spelled Elixir Sulfanilamide.
@daarmonet Жыл бұрын
hi dood
@Baddawg_313 Жыл бұрын
So why DO you hate America? Haha jk. Thank you for your service. Happy 4th Idc if your phone says it's the 5th, when you love America everyday is the 4th of July 🇺🇲🎉🎆
@MrGameFly Жыл бұрын
I really like observing the increase in video production quality in your videos over the years! You can really tell you got a lot better at filming/lighting/framing etc
@insertcolorfulmetaphor8520 Жыл бұрын
"Smoke Spuds, or I will murder this bag of kittens that are off camera... Are you smoking Spuds yet? It's new. I want you you start smoking...NOW, or those kittens die by being drowned in a gross mix of tobacco produced spit and cigarette butts... They're SPUD butts, so they're NEW!" Serial Killer spokesperson
@grimtea1715 Жыл бұрын
You made my day with this video!
@recalrhet Жыл бұрын
"Having a smoking section in an airplane makes about as much sense as having a peeing section in a swimming pool"...I'm dying. Good stuff.
@crazierthan-u7571 Жыл бұрын
I got a seat in the smoking section of an airplane once. It took all the fun out of smoking.
@markprater1 Жыл бұрын
I remember the last time I smoked on a plane: 1989 from Philly to Brazil....
@PlayerJay425 Жыл бұрын
Or a convertible airplane
@mysticwizard1943 Жыл бұрын
@@crazierthan-u7571 Man I can relate. I was in the Atlanta airport a few years ago and was amazed to see an indoor smoking section. It was essentially a little 20x20 glass box between the gates and the food court. Being that I was alone, and hadn't seen a smoking section anywhere indoors in like 20 years, I had to go in. I immediately found a stand that sold cigarettes, because of course this post-911 airport sold them (with lighters to match), and went in. Terrible decision. It reeked (despite the fact that I generally enjoy the smell of smoke), I reeked, the cloth upholstered seats were sticky and brown with tar, everyone's eyes were watering. Just awful. I have to imagine some big-wig Georgian tobacco magnate who had invested in the airport insisted on there being a smoking section, but damn it would have been much better if they put like a thunderdome cage on the roof.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
All pools have peeing sections. They just call it the kiddy pool.
@kjorlaug1 Жыл бұрын
The most inaccurate thing about Stranger Things is the lack of smoking 😂
@the_rose_garden01 Жыл бұрын
Right? People smoked everywhere in the 80's, didn't matter where you were
@kjorlaug1 Жыл бұрын
@@the_rose_garden01 I remember sitting in a car on a trip with my grandparents, who smoked the whole way, windows rolled up
@evee8462 Жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha!
@willb5658 Жыл бұрын
The most inaccurate thing about Strangers Things is that Max getting medical treatment.
@Shaggy.Vibes- Жыл бұрын
@@kjorlaug1 that's not true. I was there. Don't forget that. I'm always there. I'm always watching you......
@holden_7597 Жыл бұрын
My grandpa started smoking when he was around 17, he managed to quit a few years after my father was born. Instead of smoking he’d suck on lollipops. He’d put on some weight, but he managed to walk it off. He managed to quit so thoroughly, that a few years ago, he passed away from a type of lung cancer that is most common in non-smokers.
@augustusaurelius2628 10 ай бұрын
Man that sucks. Imagine making your damned best to quit smoking for your health anf you still get lung cancer anyways.
@phoenixfritzinger9185 9 ай бұрын
Your grandpa got localized by 4Kids Entertainment 😂
@earningzekrom4173 3 ай бұрын
RIP, I'm so sorry for your loss, sending support to you and your family!
@Polavianus 3 ай бұрын
@@phoenixfritzinger9185 💀
@RedRose-id4sd Жыл бұрын
I figured out Penn and Teller were using sneaky tactics when their Stress episode argued that there was no such thing as stress and that your health couldn't be affected by stress.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
I knew they were lying the second a couple of magicians were claiming to be a legitimate source of information.
@erraticonteuse 6 ай бұрын
I figured to be wary of their sources and claims when they outright admitted to being "biased as fuck". They only said it in reference to wondering why people from the other side of the issue came on their show when they knew P&T were just going to make fun of them, but it did make me wonder about their sources as well.
@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 18 күн бұрын
Rationalwiki have a summary of which P&T episodes are crap and which ones are right
@vonriel1822 6 күн бұрын
All you need to do is just watch the framing of the episodes. While it's true that they spend time mocking the people who advocate for snake oil, they spend just as much - if not more - time mocking the people who fall for the scams. It's not about exposing grifts, they actually don't care _that_ much about exposing grifts. The show is about proving how stupid people are, and I couldn't help but feel like there was even a modicum of respect for the grifters. After all, they had succeeded in taking stupid peoples' money.
@AlternateHistoryHub Жыл бұрын
Knowing Better making feature length films now. Quite impressive
@sarahgruner7711 Жыл бұрын
Oh it’s my fav thing- I can get so much done while watching his content !
@MonkeyDefenceForce Жыл бұрын
You could also make one about "Kyogre", just saying.
@Roxanneredpanda Жыл бұрын
maybe you could learn a thing or two
@johnnybensonitis7853 Жыл бұрын
This guy actually makes learning feel like fun, which is most likely some sort of sorcery. I enjoy learning things about as much as I'd enjoy hopping into an oven and roasting for a handful of hours, but here he lets you feel as though were all just having a good time here only to pull out the M. Night twist: we've been learning this whole time...
@Grushdeva48 Жыл бұрын
Holy crap! I was gonna watch it at 3am before I sleep. Thanks for the heads up on the length of the video.
@RiverdudeCovers Жыл бұрын
The fact that cigarette commercials were banned because Big Tabacco wanted it absolutely shocked me, I never knew that and it's honestly incredible how much we don't know
@rayakoth Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is, they don't need marketing department anymore, which actually saved them money. Marketing departments are like the military. You have them because other organizations have them, not because they actually bring value to your business.
@christophertstone Жыл бұрын
In the US, Alcohol commercials never show the actual consumption of the product (only people holding it, or being around it). This is not a law enacted by congress, but a Trade Association rule, heavily enforced by the industry.
@ethanlenning Жыл бұрын
@@chad4858 just curious, what counts as advertisement to you? Are PSAs advertisements? Would it be advertising if KB shouted out another video of his in the middle of this one? What about a kid’s lemonade stand on the side of the street with a sign out front? There are a lot of types of advertising I’m just curious where you draw the line
@Dong_Harvey Жыл бұрын
@@ethanlenning I draw the line when some marketing student schills his way into a conversation about the tobacco industry and it's history regarding advertising
@corneliuscorcoran9900 Жыл бұрын
Then, this might be best read lying down.... 'Carbon Footprint', an invention of the oil industry, to make us feel responsible and guilty for using their products. Individual choices, in a world powered by oil, gas and coal, are not going to make any significant difference, but we are encouraged to imagine that if onky we were better people, the world could be saved. Ready? ... Plastic recycling, was an identically motivated invention of the plastics industry. They sell products, that they know are practically impossible to recycle, (only 9% of plastic is recycled,) but hey! If we only made a little more effort, we could save those turtles, YOU are currently responsible for choking on plastic. There are no depths to which these people won't stoop. The oil industry knew about global warming in the fifties.
@Heating56 10 ай бұрын
“Micronite filters were made out of asbestos.” The cold cut caught me so off guard I burst out laughing. I’m going to hell
@rickdoogie749 Жыл бұрын
I'm 69 and only smoked one cigarette in my lifetime. When I was 16 I tried smoking an entire cigarette so I could see what it was all about. I've smoked plenty of pot over the years, but never another cigarette. My wife smoked cigarettes in her early teens. When she was 16, she jumped in her car to drive to school one morning. After lighting up a cigarette, a hot ash fell and burned a little hole in her brand new blouse. She threw the remainder of the cigarette pack out the window and never smoked again. I love that story, because I would not have been attracted to her if her kisses tasted like an old ashtray.
@billy6044 8 ай бұрын
Nice, also at time of writing this, There are also 69 likes. So double nice.
@brahimdiop5506 7 ай бұрын
She lost one outfit and got rid of an addictive substance for the rest of her life. Glad you're still kicking
@foxybohv7732 5 ай бұрын
To think a single ash caused the marriage of two people
@vinnyandlin8510 4 ай бұрын
Even when smoking cannabis, I can't even tell how many clothes have a hole in them from hot ashes
@terrydavis8451 4 ай бұрын
Ever do coke or MDMA? You would have smoked a whole pack that night lolol
@peccantis Жыл бұрын
My dad has a story about a lumberjack his parents knew, who had a 10-mile trip to the nearest general store. One winter he did his usual bi-weekly supply run, skiing the total of 20 miles in a bitter cold, and when he unloaded the goods back at the cabin he noticed he had forgotten to buy his cigarettes. So he quit smoking.
@doughboywhine Жыл бұрын
I guess he wasn’t willing to walk 10 miles for a camel
@hyhena-gaming9986 Жыл бұрын
Lol that’ll do it I guess
@chrismanaloe3507 Жыл бұрын
@@doughboywhine i smoke camels and i wouldnt cross a room for one
@MrChopstsicks Жыл бұрын
@@chrismanaloe3507 I stopped smoking because I was too lazy to drive. Stay home and play games kids
@classyorange3362 Жыл бұрын
Man really went "nah I ain't heading out"
@scootinand Жыл бұрын
"diethylene glycol" Oh no "The filters contained asbestos" OH NO.
@eldonad Жыл бұрын
Well at least that would reduce the number of deaths related to lung cancers I would assume...
@tnk4me4 Жыл бұрын
19:00 Had a doctor tell me "The only time cigarettes can make you lose weight is when you have cancer" before I got into college and it stuck with me ever since. But now all these things I've seen so far are blowing my mind.
@dominicguye8058 Жыл бұрын
That is brilliant
@tincanmaniac1931 Жыл бұрын
They can make you lose weight. It isn't healthy but it literally suppresses hunger. If a smoker doesn't smoke, they can get very bad pains in their stomach because their appetite was suppressed for so long and they haven't eaten for the whole day and now it's been 16 hours since dinner the night before and they're eating for the first time of the day. The nicotine just blocks it. A lot of smokers also associate hunger with nicotine cravings, so they go for a smoke instead and lose their appetite. It isn't healthy at all, not even talking about the heart and lung damage, just specifically the appetite they can cause, but it does often make people lose weight in the short term.
@theeccentric7263 Жыл бұрын
@@tincanmaniac1931 I can attest to this, but I also have a past history of an ED, so my hunger signals are already messed up.
@lionllew6601 5 ай бұрын
I've put on a lot of weight since I quit smoking a few years ago, but it's easier to loose weight than loose cancer.
@TimDavis77 Жыл бұрын
My mother was a smoker since her teenage years and we lost her to lung cancer a few years ago. I miss her terribly, so this hits close to home.
@aliciasnavely5109 Жыл бұрын
Same. I lost my mom 13 years ago when i was just 17. Lung cancer.
@teajay8769 Жыл бұрын
Everyone dies. She would have died without smoking too. So will I and so will you.
@TimDavis77 Жыл бұрын
@@aliciasnavely5109 sorry for your loss
@aaronmarks9366 Жыл бұрын
Right there with you brother. I lost my dad at age 5 - he had a heart attack at work and died at the hospital. All signs point to his decades of smoking, starting as a teenager in the 1950s, as the cause. The tobacco industry has the blood of millions on its hands. My condolences to you and your family.
@victorguevara9227 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather drank and smoked cigars frequently, according to my mother. He died at home in 1992, shortly after the Salvadoran Civil War ended, of dementia. My grandmother outlived her husband by over 28 years. She died in July 2020.
@Patchouliprince Жыл бұрын
I started smoking socially at 14, but I was genuinely never addicted to cigarettes until two years later when my friend gave me their marb smooths which is a type of menthol. That stuff had me so hooked. I managed to quit by using vapes, but then I was addicted to vaping for a few years! Finally managed to quit everything just last year. Been four years since I’ve smoked as of this month!
@azr15 Жыл бұрын
Thumbnail checks out
@steveharvey2102 Жыл бұрын
Congrats to you, it's one of the toughest things to quit. It took me 3 separate attempts. Cheers from Canada
@scottthewaterwarrior Жыл бұрын
Great job, it's a hard thing. Very glad I never even tried them, already have an addiction problem with video games, though the issue there is more of a time sync thing, at least since I stay away from modern games so don't have to worry about falling into gambling/spending traps.
@univon4892 Жыл бұрын
Kudos!
@kingthe13 Жыл бұрын
My dad after decades of smoking decided to stop with my mom and what he did was buy one last pack and said once this is gone no more and he did which not easy but if there's one thing my dad's good at is being spiteful stubborn
@thedebatehitman Жыл бұрын
I remember “smoking” candy cigarettes as a kid. Also, when I was younger, I used to pretend to smoke McDonald’s French fries. I’d just barely dip the fry in ketchup, and that was the glow of a lit cigarette.
@Dave0G Жыл бұрын
Pencil with a red eraser for me, still catch myself "smoking" the odd writing implement. There were chocolate cigarettes, complete with paper wrapping, but the chocolate was really poor so weren't that popular.
@generalludwig1637 Жыл бұрын
lmao that's so cute.
@nbewarwe Жыл бұрын
Kids at my elementary school would "smoke" smarties, which was just crumbling them in their wrappers and breathing in and out the dust.
@_GLXC Жыл бұрын
my mom would make taquitos and as kids we would blow through it and it would look like smoke was coming out the other end. also the times when it was cold we would pretend that the condensation was actually smoke and that we were smoking. the adults around me really nailed on how dangerous smoking was, so as a kid whenever i walked by someone smoking I would hold my breath as long as possible to avoid the cancer.
@kaynines5996 Жыл бұрын
@@nbewarwe While it’s not smoking…that can’t possibly be good for the lungs.
@caiterday6676 Жыл бұрын
I smoked for 7 years, and then vaped for another 6, thinking I could have my cake and eat it to. Then when I turned 37, I started feeling like I was slowing down, that I constantly had a heavy chest and I could barely go without the vape. It felt pretty impossible to quit, until I decided I had enough. I told my husband I was going to quit and started on the patch. It was very hard, I bargained with myself everyday for 4 months but I can say now I have gone one while year nicotine free.
@Natalie-101 Жыл бұрын
IM SO PROUD OF YOU congratulations I know that must have been really hard. You made the best decision for your current and future self and I'm so happy for you. Keep going!!
@isaacandersen1 Жыл бұрын
Based
@johnathanrhoades7751 Жыл бұрын
Dammit. This is my story, only I'm not as far in yet. Still vaping and trying to convince myself to quit that. I have 4 years left until 37, though.
@alexcarter8807 Жыл бұрын
And if you're a Real American(tm) you won't find out you've got lung cancer until it's terminal because preventative screening is *communism*
@oligultonn Жыл бұрын
One of your proudest moment. As a vaper who wants to quit but feels unable to it lifts my spirits to hear this. Well done madam 🎉
@terenceflynn4555 Жыл бұрын
My father got my grandfather to quit smoking by holding me up as a baby, and saying in a faux child voice, “Please stop smoking, Grandpa! I want you to be there for my graduation!” I’m now going to be graduating from college next year, and he’s still kicking (right now), and survived a bout of COVID as a 70 year old. If he had continued smoking (like my other grandfather had into his 60s) he’d likely be dead by now.
@gripen777 Жыл бұрын
Somewhat similar story with my dad. When I was around 4 or so, he was smoking as he always did. My mom had been trying to get him off of the cancer sticks ever since they got married, but this was the day that convinced him to stop. I believe I grabbed one of his cigarettes, put it up to my mouth and pretended to smoke, and said, "Daddy, one day I wanna grow up to be just like you!" He wasn't happy. Wife wasn't happy. He quit right then and there and has no regrets to this day. Grandpa still chews tobacco, though.
@giovannicervantes2053 Жыл бұрын
Boy a tank
@mads_in_zero Жыл бұрын
My grandma on my father's side apparently used to be an _incredible_ smoker, literally the pack a day type. But she managed to quit when she found out I was going to be born. I'm really proud of her for doing it, because I know how hard it must be - nicotine is addictive after all! She's in her 80s now, she rocks.
@kaitlyn__L 11 ай бұрын
@@mads_in_zero same except maternal grandmother. And it might’ve been an older sibling? But she quit abruptly too. She’s still going into her 90s
@amehak1922 11 ай бұрын
I was sick a lot when I was very young. My dad asked the pastor for advice, he said to quit cigarettes (among other things). My dad quit cold turkey and never smoked again. My dad lived probably 30 years longer than he would have if he hadn't quit smoking.
@ajbowers44 Жыл бұрын
I smoked from ages 12-24 and its been 4 years since I quit smoking cigarettes and I could start back up in a HEARTBEAT. To be honest, the heath aspect isn’t why I quit. It was almost entirely due to societal pressure. My ex wife and I quit at the same time and she went right back to it during our divorce so the only thing keeping me from relapsing is knowing that I’m better than her 🥰
@clownfromclowntown Жыл бұрын
Who lets a 12 year old get a hold a cigarettes??
@G_FRE Жыл бұрын
@@clownfromclowntown That's when my dad started smoking. 1975. Started smoking weed at 10!
@wendyleeconnelly2939 Жыл бұрын
@@clownfromclowntown kids younger than 12have always gotten their hands on cigarettes
@rickandhews2690 Жыл бұрын
divorced? but you sound like such a great guy lmao
@noahcarlton4625 Жыл бұрын
Mmm spite, the greatest motivator
@ehrenloudermilk1053 Жыл бұрын
I had asthma as a child. The day I moved out, I never had an issue with it. My parents were smokers. Also, it's super rad that you do what has to be countless hours of research and not taking for an hour or so of content. Thanks. Huge missed opportunity to shout out my man Stick Stickley
@dustinjames1268 Жыл бұрын
Glad you're not like me I have chronic bronchitis because as a child I was addicted to the 2nd hand smoke I didn't know it at the time, but for some reason, my parents lighting up a cigarette was always a cue for me to go in and talk to them It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized
@markwilliams2620 Жыл бұрын
Same. The first month at college I found myself cranky and irritable. Then I walked through a cloud of Marlboro smoke and man there went the Jones. Asthma from Dad's 2 pack-a-day fix.
@jpmnky Жыл бұрын
My brother used to get ear infections from my grandmother smoking in the car with the windows up. This was the late 1980s. She was told and continued on like nothing was wrong.
@dustinjames1268 Жыл бұрын
@Joshua Bailey Moderate consumption of weed actually cleans out some of the tar that built up Obviously smoking anything is bad for your health but it's definitely better than tobacco
@dustinjames1268 Жыл бұрын
@Joshua Bailey I forget the scientific terminology but it makes the cilia(tiny hairlike structures) in your lungs move and it physically cleans
@caoilfhionndunbar Жыл бұрын
12:12 one correction: this was the POPULARIZATION of trading cards; the concept of a collectible card with an image as an advertising method or product existed since atleast the early 1700s, with Christopher Gibson's usage of them to advertise his furniture store, and were used across Britain and in the USA decades before the Cigarette cards. but his were the ones that really made it catch on as a fad
@EmiStar070 2 ай бұрын
So once again the best marketer gets the credit?
@peifferunsx Жыл бұрын
Another fun fact: Smoking is a huge contributor to sleep apnea. My sleep issues have been destroying my professional life for the past few years. I quit two weeks ago when I learned that fact and I'm sleeping dang near normally again! Another amazingly thorough video from Knowing Better. Keep it up!
@caseyjones5145 Жыл бұрын
Heck yea dude 🎉
@garethbaus5471 Жыл бұрын
"death is not the worst thing that can happen to you" I generally agree with that statement, decades of suffering and pain like most people who have COPD and lung cancer is much worse than death.
@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын
Was my first thought too, but then the unsympathetic anoyingly loud man went the other direction.
@garethbaus5471 Жыл бұрын
@@jannikheidemann3805 yeah.
@dragonsword7370 Жыл бұрын
"Sure Bill I UndErSTand 'labored breathing' your point. However let me 'labored breathing' belittle your point. 'breathes laboriously and digs into their large bag' Since it's not a 'Breath' problem see if my excised lu-'BREATHES'-ng is an issue 'BREATHESSss' 'chucks tar and cancerous lung at his calf's from the stage seats'." I find it sad I found him funny for several years in the last 12 or so... I mean that time before several years ago when he became an asshole republican outright again.
@transkryption Жыл бұрын
Lung cancer won't take decades
@heavenshound6775 Жыл бұрын
what about bodily autonomy does it not apply ? You can bunjee jump which is extremely dangerous, you can sky dive, you can swim with sharks, but we need to ban cigarettes ?
@star_seraph Жыл бұрын
Love Penn's little suppressed cough as he tries to say "breathing secondhand smoke [doesn't cause] cancer" at 1:14:30. Feels like he should be looking at his own show on his show. Kinda like that scene in Spaceballs.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
I like to think they did like 30 takes and that one was the best one they had.
@WTFG78 Жыл бұрын
If I’m not mistaken, P&T were going to do a series finale about how “Penn & Teller: Bullshit” is Bullshit, but the show was cancelled by Showtime before they could do so.
@PresAlexWhit Жыл бұрын
1:40:30 doesn't exist Edit: I found it at 1:14:30
@star_seraph Жыл бұрын
@@PresAlexWhit thanks! edited.
@teddyfurstman1997 Жыл бұрын
Love Penn and Teller, but their opinions on Second Hand Smoke are kinda dated. Love their BS series due to their entertaining content, even if there are some things I disagree with.
@alexcarter8807 Жыл бұрын
Candy cigarettes came in two types. One had real cigarette paper around them and were made of gum. Between the paper and the gum was flour, so you could put it in your mouth and blow out, and get a puff of "smoke". The other kind were made of candy kind of like Necco wafers. They were bright white with a fluorescent pink tip, that was designed to look like a lit cig. Both kinds came in neat packages with joke names like "Cool" designed after the Kool package, with a little picture of a penguin carrying some suitcases like he's working as a bellhop. And the penguin smoking a cigarette of course. There were also candy and bubblegum cigars.
@abz_414 10 ай бұрын
Personally I favored the brontosaurus ”pack" 🦕
@OscarGomez-hg8cb 9 ай бұрын
Here in Mexico there where chocolate cigarettes. You can still find them in some places in fact. Though I never liked smoking, even as a kid, I loved those things XD they where the dryest, chalkiest stuff ever, but weirdly tasty!
@matthewmagda4971 8 ай бұрын
You can still buy them, they're just hard to find.
@tux_duh 8 ай бұрын
I was obsessed with the ones that blew smoke 😭😭
@ammebee16 8 ай бұрын
I loved those as a kid, I thought I was so cool lol
@jennybloom819 Жыл бұрын
90s kid here. You unlocked some memories for me. My dad wasn't a smoker, but his best friend was, and my dad would take coupons from his Marlboro packs and save them up for free stuff. I remember him getting a branded red flannel overshirt. Anyway, smoking is gross.
@lotharbeck71 Жыл бұрын
I was a casual smoker, but collected tons of "miles" from coworkers and would peel them off of discarded packs at bars. They had really nice stuff.
@StAngerNo1 7 ай бұрын
Yeah, it also revived a lot of memories from my childhood (also 90s kid). My mother was a smoker since she was 16. She quit 3 times, first when she was pregnant with me, then when she was pregnant with my sister and then for good. But the fact that she returned to smoking twice says a lot about its addictiveness. Even today she says that, when she smells cigarette smoke she still has a yearning for a cigarette. Also I remember that (here in germany) every restaurant and inn was filled with cigarette smoke when I was a child. The air smelt like cigarettes and so did your clothes after you returned home. 15 Years ago smoking in bars and restaurants was banned in germany and I remember how controversial it was, but nowadays it is pretty much universally agreed upon, that this was one of the best changes. I luckily never started smoking, I only smoked on parties in my late teens and I too prefered menthol cigarettes as well as vanilla flavoured ones we had in germany at that time, so it is probably good that they got banned here and should probably also be banned in the US (I mean the menthol ones, because the flavoured are apparently already banned).
@jrmcdonald7510 Жыл бұрын
My mom picked up her smoking habit in - you guessed it - Nursing School from fellow doctors and nurses (late 60's). It wasn't until I was born under weight and had to stay in the ICU for a while that she toned it down - to only one pack a day. On humid days, brown nicotine would run down our walls. She would get bronchitis all the time and died of heart disease in her 50's. Thank you, KB, for educating people about the history of this.
@steveharvey2102 Жыл бұрын
Congrats. The extra strength has to come from somewhere. For me it's friends and family. For others it's religion. I say. As long as it helps you get to a better place, it's okay with me. As long as it's not crack or something worse ;)
@VerrouSuo Жыл бұрын
I lost two grandparents to lung cancer when I was a small child, and it’s nice to know the history behind the loss. Thanks, KB.
@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын
F
@AmberAmber Жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry for your losses. I lost my grandpa to emphysema, my nana to heart disease (from smoking & dry cleaning ‐ my grandpa ‐ but affecting my nana by proxy obvs); my mother‐in‐law to lung cancer (smoking); my cousin & his wife - lung cancer (smoking). I feel you. I've survived cervical cancer 2x now & hence, I quit smoking (by vaping) going on 11yrs now. I don't use juuls though ‐ I don't even know if they have them here in Canada tbh... Vaping Is FAR less harmful • though juuls flavors had semi carcinogenic aspects apparently? Cos big tobacco loves to murder its consumers i guess... I dunno ‐ just something I saw. Anyhow ‐ peace, love, & best of health to you & yours.🫂♥️
@spookygloberotter05 Жыл бұрын
I lost my grandma to lung cancer and my grandpa's voice was radically altered due to throat cancer before I was born (this made him really sad because it mean I'd never hear his true voice). They were both smokers when they were young. I get you. So sorry for your loss
@Tornado1994 Жыл бұрын
Lost my Eldest Aunt to Pancreatic Cancer. She was a 2 pack a Day smoker, REFUSED to Quit.
@ethanstiles948 Жыл бұрын
As a high schooler from 2012-2016. I can tell you that vaping was already a thing amongst high schoolers in 2013 before anyone ever heard of JUUL. First time I saw anyone vaping was in my math final exam freshman year lol. Thought this kid was smoking a cig mid test while the teachers back was turned and was so confused. It definitely wasn’t common until my junior year, and it certainly exploded into the mainstream with JUUL and all the college kids looking to party. Thought I’d share my perspective as a teenager in that era lol.
@kaitlyn__L 11 ай бұрын
Lol yeah, I’m a bit older than you but I remember seeing someone in a train station at night circa 2013/14 vaping and was so confused. I thought it was a strange disembodied hookah pipe at first (it was really long by even wand vape standards) 😅 but he kept going at it for like 30 minutes so I knew smth else must be up.
@dominicspier6917 10 ай бұрын
First time I saw a vape was the back of a middle school bus, the kid was a relatively normal kid and he was telling everyone about how it's great and there's no health risks, that was 2012 and I finally quit vaping in 2021
@radiobob1908 10 ай бұрын
@@dominicspier6917 Hey, congratulations!
@themightymcb7310 9 ай бұрын
I remember early vape mods being mostly party tricks back then. I knew a few kids who had nicotine juice but just as many got 0% nic juices and just wanted to learn how to blow Os. Same age as you, 2012-16
@haruhirogrimgar6047 8 ай бұрын
Idk what school you went to but I was in highschool 2013-2017 and I had never seen a vape pen in my life.
@_cody_withac7504 Жыл бұрын
High schooler here, the grip that vapes have on high school (at least in my area) is pretty severe. It's unspoken knowledge that if the bathroom suddenly smells weird, you get out of there because someone is vaping. I watched someone drop their vap pen in the lunch line. I hate it, and I hate thinking about how they will be hooked probably the rest of their lives because people are starting at 14 or younger
@univon4892 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow!
@alexcarter8807 Жыл бұрын
I was a 1970s high schooler - the bathrooms were always full of smoke and we kids just got our ciggies out of the cig machine or well, any little corner store happily sold them to us. I'm still amazed I never got hooked on cigs.
@tshred666 Жыл бұрын
Especially since vaping is easier to conceal and juul and other salt nic vapes hit harder than smoking
@soffren Жыл бұрын
It's important to remember that zoomers operate on an accelerated timeline. They got hooked on vapes 10x faster than their recent ancestors got hooked on cigarettes. I believe they will cut them out of culture just as abruptly and completely by the mid to late 2020s.
@Speedojesus Жыл бұрын
Are you one of the sheltered kids not working a service job, or have parents that aren't a missed bill or two away from being destitute? If yes, then I don't want to hear your opinion on drug addiction. You're a child.
@PatKellyTeaches Жыл бұрын
It was great working with you KB! Your video turned out to be a whole ass documentary!
@tomatochemist Жыл бұрын
You did an amazing job!
@PatKellyTeaches Жыл бұрын
@@tomatochemist Appreciated -- thank you!
@ScrumbynPlumbo Жыл бұрын
Wow your comment definitely needs to be bumped up more.
@grimtea1715 Жыл бұрын
You deserve WAY MORE subs (gained one from me bro). This whole video is a 🔥🔥
@santiagoochoa4984 Жыл бұрын
My man, you're in a league of your own in the way you choose topics and present information. I'm a journalist and I truly believe watching your videos has made me a better writer and helped me in the way I conceptualize stories. Keep at it bro, you've got yourself a new Patreon patron.
@18skeltor Жыл бұрын
Lovely comment 🌹
@tylerkeller7120 Жыл бұрын
This was single handedly one of the best anti smoking things I have seen and has made me want to quit more than anything you should make a class length version of this so it can get shown in classes
@Redralphred 10 ай бұрын
I’d argue you could break down the segments to a week of classes, and frame it as a history advertising and smoking.
@revan7383 9 ай бұрын
Good luck if you do try to quit!
@Techn9cian123 Жыл бұрын
You wouldn’t believe the amount of cool items my parents and grandparents had gotten from Marlboro Miles rewards program and they were still going as late as the year 2000. When you started talking about women and cigarettes, I immediately knew where it was going. My mom smoked Virginia Slims for many decades.
@turtleanton6539 8 ай бұрын
Oooh😮
@williamdixon-gk2sk 5 ай бұрын
My uncle had a legit nice leather motorcycle jacket with Joe Camel embroidered on the back shooting pool and smoking, it was purchased with camel cash.
@motherofthetans Жыл бұрын
Hoo boy, there's a lot I could talk about here. I smoked my first cigarette at fifteen an it was a match made in heaven. Whatever this was, my brain *needed* it from the first one. That started a twenty seven year love affair; at one point I was up to two packs a day. I finally quit two years ago and it's been amazing to actually feel my body heal from it. I can breathe deeply, climb stairs without getting winded, my voice quality is clearer - I had no idea the damage I was actually doing to myself, I just figured I'd get cancer one day and that was it. I never gave much thought to what was going on between here and there. I will mention this, though--for the last ten years my cigarette of choice were Parliaments, and when that commercial came on, despite never having seen it before (come on, I'm not THAT old), it made me want one. Advertising works, y'all, and addiction is real.
@PrimericanIdol Жыл бұрын
I love how you fully spell out all your numbers.
@madcat789 Жыл бұрын
My first was Marlboro, and I remember precisely what happened. I threw up. Never touched another since.
@Spielername Жыл бұрын
Prohibition is the dumbest way for everything. We saw it at war on drugs and alcohol and we'll see it if we starting a war on nicotine. Nicotine is a highly addictive drug and we should handle it as such. Make it extremely uncool to smoke and give the people (youth) the feeling you look like extremely like an idiot with these electric pipe in your mouth. We need a change of culture. You've said it, the cat is out the bag and we all know that cats are very hard to catch. If you have to go to special shops to get tobacco and you need a receipt from a doctor you'll probably think twice before you start with these extremely uncool and inconvenient habit. And vaping is a very good solution for those who are already hooked and need to quit or even to survive long enough to see how their grandchildren grow up. Vaping ain't healthy, but it's a lot better for your lungs then cigarettes are... Make it an medical machine for extreme sick people... nothing is more uncool and less sexy then that.
@eamonia Жыл бұрын
Good for you, hun. I'm happy for you that you took that step. I'm sure your wallet's pretty psyched, too.
@neglectfulsausage7689 Жыл бұрын
you're probably genetically predisposed to dementia, schizophrenia, or alzheimer, since nicotine have nootropic brain growth effects and stabilizes people who have the threee aforementioned diseases in their family. Thjats why you enjoyed it. It made you normal.
@leandervr Жыл бұрын
Nicotine isn't just addictive, it's easily one of the most addictive substances there are. I've gone through some serious substance abuse, and I'm clean now. I can confidently say that nicotine was the hardest thing to quit.
@zeb_reynolds Жыл бұрын
My cocaine addict, alcoholic grandfather said that cigarettes were by far the hardest substance for him to quit.
@darksu6947 Жыл бұрын
@@zeb_reynolds Grandpa knew how to party!
@zeb_reynolds Жыл бұрын
@@darksu6947 Thats very true!
@PopeBarley Жыл бұрын
Is that due to the pharmaceutical effect of nicotine, or the comparative inescapabulity of nicotine products in mainstream society?
@darksu6947 Жыл бұрын
@@PopeBarley Both, I would imagine.
@edithhuelskamp1649 Жыл бұрын
His suggestion for sucking on a mint at the same time as smoking is legit. I smoked a few cigarettes a day for about 15 years. Out of all that time there were probably fewer than 10 cigarettes that I smoked straight. I started out chewing gum each time I smoked, but I quickly switched to Starbursts. One Starburst per cigarette. All my friends thought it was very peculiar. I lucked out in quitting a few years ago too. As my workplace was about to ban smoking on the property, I got a prescription for Chantix. I think I took it two days and then I got very sick for several days - felt weak, no appetite, dizzy, tired. I had two cigarettes left, smoked one, couldn't finish it, threw the other one away. And that was it. Don't understand it at all.
@melissahollowell7255 Жыл бұрын
I remember an anti-smoking lesson from my childhood. They used the soiled filter to show us what was filtered out---now just imagine what actually got in!!
@waynejohnson1786 Жыл бұрын
First time I ever smoked a cigarette is when I found a pack someone lost at a ballpark. My friend and I hide them in a rock pile near my house then went back everyday to take a couple puffs and cough our lungs out. That pack lasted us like 4 months.
@lewismcdermott3024 Жыл бұрын
How many packs do you smoke now (out of curiosity)?
@Ttegegg Жыл бұрын
I’m getting 10
@lljw7151 Жыл бұрын
lucky
@waynejohnson1786 Жыл бұрын
@@lewismcdermott3024 Like 2 packs a day lol
@veryde_3356 Жыл бұрын
This is a great breakdown not only of the history of smoking in the states (it's more prevalent in Europe) but also about corporate logic and how companies manipulate not only the individual client but entire demographics.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
Capitalism will murder every last living organism on the planet if means the ownership class(even if it's just their corpses) gets one extra penny of profit that would have otherwise gone unextracted.
@Nobody-Nowhere Жыл бұрын
You want to watch "The Century of Self" byt Adam Curtis to understand how this was done. And who was the man behind "torches of freedom".
@joekoch7428 Жыл бұрын
In the US you are told where to smoke in Europe your told where not to smoke. It's a whole different culture.
@MW3boy12345 Жыл бұрын
I was a freshman in high school when JUUL became a thing. I eventually got myself a JUUL in 2018. At the end of 2019 the age was raised to 21 and I wasn’t grandfathered in. I used nicotine pouches to thankfully quit 5 months before I turned 21. Thank god they raised the age because I never formed a habit of going to the store and buying nicotine for myself. My friends that weren’t as fortunate as I are now struggling to quit vaping, or they’ve moved on to tobacco products. So your conclusion is very accurate. Those late teenage years really are the deciding age for nicotine addiction. And that doesn’t mean only young people can quit. I also have older friends that have eventually quit - it’s just a lot harder when you get older.
@MikeScarbro Жыл бұрын
July 23, 2022 marks 10 years since I've had a cigarette. I still get cravings for them almost every day. If I could smoke without any of the health concerns, I'd start again in a heartbeat. I only smoked for four years, but it was during that window you described of 18-22 years old, so I'm not sure if I'll ever be rid of the temptation to start again.
@ahatcho2028 Жыл бұрын
bro vaping has waaaay more nicotine than a cigarette and has been proven to be as bad for you as that cup of coffee in the morning, vaping is pretty much smoking without any of the health concerns, let loose my friend.
@univon4892 Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t targard exist for a reason?
@lopiklop Жыл бұрын
What a great way to live. So much better. You say it's been 10 years, but it feels like it was just yesterday. I can quit tomorrow and feel the same way!
@Not_Always 6 ай бұрын
My dad grew up in the 60s and 70s. Both his parents smoked. It was amazing that only one of their 4 kids took up the habit, which would be my.dads older brother. He was also the first to die at 64 of congestive heart failure, largely caused by decades of chain smoking, which he did until his dying day.
@gcanaday1 6 ай бұрын
I quit in the cardiac intensive care on Oct 9 2010. I was already trying to quit, had not had one since Oct 7. I don't get the urges but I still miss it sometimes.
@darricshhh Жыл бұрын
I have been smoking for 34 years. This video has come along at a time when I am about to quit again for probably the 10th time. This time it needs to be permanent for health reasons. I have been addicted to other things in the distant past. A few of those things were not physically addictive. Some were. Valium for instance was a nasty recovery. Very tough. The hardest drug to quit in my experience so far has been nicotine. I was successful for almost 6 years at one point and it still pulled me back in. Thank you for the video. I was aware of most of the information presented, but not all. I smoked throughout the whole thing. In two days, my will and fortitude are going to be tested. I think this video is gonna help that.
@lShishkaBerryl Жыл бұрын
Heroin users say it's easier to quit heroin than cigs lol. You got this, you already did some practice runs now it's time for the real deal 👍
@Osric24 Жыл бұрын
Bless you, man. You've a hard but worthy fight ahead!
@rick-potts Жыл бұрын
I started at 11 and quit 2 years ago - after smoking for 39 years. Everyone is different, but I can honestly say the nicotine is the least of your problems. Its the "hug" you get from your cig when you are stressed. The "mistress" who will listen to you when you have a Barny with the wife. The "diversion" you get when you are bored. The "tick-tock" cigs provide that become a regulator of time/events. Find a substitute - glass of water, fidget spinner, 2 pages of a book, playing with your lighter - and do that for as long as it takes you to normally smoke a cigarette - the urge WILL pass. I put a post it note up every day on my wall - with the "days since last smoked" count on it. Every time I felt the compulsion - I sat and stared at that wall. I stopped needing that after the 46th post it note. I carried this around in my wallet "You are NOT giving anything up. You ARE gaining control." Its liberating. I miss the weight and click of my zippo - but that's it. Good luck.
@JamesDecker7 Жыл бұрын
@@rick-potts I replaced the insert in my zippo with a flashlight cartridge. Used that for a whole year as a smoking “binky” after I quit.
@tacokoneko Жыл бұрын
i smoked tobacco 4 times ever and each time was more than 1 year apart, i'm glad it doesn't tase good to me because i thought "what if it makes me addicted just from one"
@ThatBum42 Жыл бұрын
My grandpa has Alzheimer's. Occasionally he'll repeat phrases from his youth, one of which is "And they are mild!" It's immensely sad to me that he can't recognize his two daughters but he still remembers this stupid marketing slogan.
@aturchomicz821 Жыл бұрын
Woooow....
@laguerrapiutotale9208 Жыл бұрын
This is the power they have over public perception
@Silvermoon424 Жыл бұрын
That's so tragic.
@clanmclaren6647 Жыл бұрын
Should be known that while complex memories like those of people are destroyed by alzheimers, very simple things like slogan jingles and favorite songs are one of the very last things that stick around. He did't love you guys any less, he can't help it his brain was literally dying.
@emilymoisuc8579 Жыл бұрын
Sad. The irony being that nicotine has been shown to help stave off Alzheimer's. Using it, minus cigarettes, as a therapy is being researched now.
@AdrianMartinez-gq7ne Жыл бұрын
I currently live in South Korea, and I've seen those gruesome warning labels on all their cigarette boxes. However, this very much doesn't stop Koreans from smoking quite a lot. I'm pretty sure I've seen far more Korean smokers than American smokers.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
South Korea smokes cigarettes in a way that is literally impossible to see anywhere in the U.S these days. It's honestly shocking.
@matei-gabrielshelby3480 8 ай бұрын
@@Praisethesunson I don't think it's that surprising, given the East Asian work culture. Those people work so hard, they put the rest of the world to shame. I imagine it's the same in Japan and China
@Praisethesunson 8 ай бұрын
@@matei-gabrielshelby3480 In China they do something called 9-9-6. They work 9am-9pm 6 days per week. That is 72 hours per week. Thankfully I live in America. Where I only have to work 70 hours per week :(
@lmao2302 8 ай бұрын
As a Zoomer it was so surprising seeing Korean kids and shit smoking in manwah. Not because it's a bad thing to do but because out of all bad habits kids could illegally do smoking cigarettes is the most outdated. In the US and espcially in my school almost nobody smokes compared to the high amount of people who vape. I remember a friend of mine making fun of the only young person in our entire school who smoked like she wasn't a frequent vaper. Shit was a core memory cause the irony of it.
@izza_19 7 ай бұрын
As an indonesian. Yep, here too is the same
@spartan4613 4 ай бұрын
The "I liked South Park before it was political" crowd proved to me how little media awareness most Americans had. They would literally be criticizing topics all the time and people that agree with them would somehow laugh along without realizing
@11conormcloughlin Жыл бұрын
TLDR: Cigarettes aren't a symbol of freedom rather it's a symbol of how powerful corporations degrade the quality of life of its customers while simultaneously profiting immensely. I'm a former smoker (Marlboro gold/reds) I'm 20 (started smoking at 14) and I quit a little over a month ago. I know it's difficult for people who have smoked for a much longer time than me but from my personal experience if you want to quit bad enough you will do it. It is a testament to the human will to be better and if your will is strong you will be! The last part of the video really moved me because while I never got into the vaping myself I know a ton of my peers who did in middle/highschool. Most of whom still vape to this day and I've noticed a significant change in many of those people who do still vape.
@terrystevens3998 Жыл бұрын
And how people will reflexively defend it and be reactionary to any and all laws
@cuckoophendula8211 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the freedom to choose to be manipulated by such companies by getting hooked on their product ironically makes such people less free (but they still believe that they're free since there's a bit of cognitive dissonance keeping them from admitting to the taboo that they're actually hooked).
@Craxin01 Жыл бұрын
Predatory advertising is a terrible thing. You look at advertisement evolve from simple awareness campaigns to matter of fact descriptions to selling a product as a lifestyle. Greed destroys everything.
@terrystevens3998 Жыл бұрын
@@timrube lol I bet you were one of those tools that protested the friendlys shutting down for a month.. the people that think they are self sufficient in modern society are just the people that are too stupid to recognize how much everyone relies on society.
@11conormcloughlin Жыл бұрын
@@timrube I don't advocate banning them. As a former smoker I know all sides. I'm not going telling people how to live their lives when i've barely got my own figured out. EDIT: On your point about responsibility and chaos I think the USA is already past that point of no return. Most peoples lives are so detached from the situation on the ground that when the house of cards fall (which I believe it is slowly) people will be in for a very rude awakening. If all the crazy news the past few years isn't an indication of that than idk what is.
@Ralkaneous Жыл бұрын
KB: *produces content literally on par with feature length documentaries in scope and depth in a topic* Me: man, too bad he can’t post more stuff
@Tetragrammaton22 Жыл бұрын
He'd have to pay his actors more.
@ybokors8524 Жыл бұрын
If the only complaint is „I wish there was more“, they did a good job.
@TheModdedwarfare3 Жыл бұрын
@@Tetragrammaton22 That would not be very capitalism of him.
@eamonia Жыл бұрын
For real. Why isn't he cranking out 2 or 3 of these a week? Lazy asshole...
@valdemarjuel1267 Жыл бұрын
@@TheModdedwarfare3 that would precisely be capitalism. He would have to invent profitable cloning first though
@wildbill7267 Жыл бұрын
The micronite filter is nuts! Directly expose your lungs to tobacco and asbestos simultaneously!
@fugawinow1636 Жыл бұрын
You likely already know but in case you don’t. There’s a documentary called “The Century Of The Self”, and it’s one of the most awesome docs I’ve ever seen. The whole first episode covers Bernays’s importance to the entire concept of the documentary. There’s three parts, and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t regret seeing it. Thanks for all the great content you’re making! Sent my mom some humble pie on thanksgiving, in the form of your video on the subject.
@lopiklop Жыл бұрын
When you send "humble pie" to somebody, it's called "condescension." Something she won't miss when she's gone.
@stephenmymomtoldmenottoput1459 Жыл бұрын
I'd highly recommend the book: "Thank You for Smoking" by Christopher Buckley. It's very different from the film and is more so about corporate corruption than libertarian messaging. It actually covers a lot of the things that you mentioned in this video. Great job, Mr. Better.
@pax6833 Жыл бұрын
Thank You for Smoking is a very entertaining film, unfortunately I now cringe at a lot of the movie's messaging and themes looking back at it (corporations need defenders, social ills are good because freedumb, social activists are murderous or stupid, women get ahead in life by sleeping with people)
@chumimintv9052 Жыл бұрын
My Sociology teacher actually showed us the film. I know the book is different but the whole thing is great to understand how the industry works. A detail that my teacher also pointed was how there was 0 cigarettes lit throughout the whole thing.
@arrgghh1555 Жыл бұрын
@@pax6833 You know the movie is satire, and is making fun of all those things?
@addammadd Жыл бұрын
I’d also like to recommend Boomsday by the same author. It’s hilarious and frankly ahead of it’s time in terms of modest, yet useful solutions to our current political situation.
@Mitsuraga Жыл бұрын
That's good to know, because I didn't like the movie.
@Nickelbag610 Жыл бұрын
Not to do with smoking but my great grandpa use to call my Pokemon cards cigarette box cards. I assumed it was because an unopened pack of cards looked like a cigarette box. And hearing you talk about how trading cards came in cigarette boxes brought back that memory. But I guess I know why he called them that now.
@JamesRichardsPlays Жыл бұрын
I love this video! Entertaining, yet informative and not over-bearing. I started smoking when I was 13. I was born in 1982. I think I picked it up as a rebellion thing. I didn't think it was too bad. I was still able to run a mile, I watched people who smoked since they were kids grow up to be old men. It wasn't until 2013 when I noticed... I couldn't run a mile anymore. I had a hard time breathing, especially if I went into a sneezing fit. I quit smoking in 2013 and started vaping. Immediately, I had more oxygen in my blood and my lungs were much healthier. I could run a mile again. I had slowly dropped the nicotine content in my vape juice until it was none. Now, I vape recreationally, usually when I drink (another habit I am curtailing, haven't had a drink in a few months. Usually only special occasions now) I tried gums, patches and lozenges. Maybe it was a combination of not wanting to quit yet or they really weren't that effective, they just didn't help me quit. I am always encouraging to not start smoking in anyone I meet, young or old. It was a nasty habit and robbed me of a few years of productive life.
@cookies23z Жыл бұрын
the downside of being a fallout fan is these commercials for deathsticks make me feel nostalgic and joyful... I wasnt even alive for those early ones...
@Agaettis Жыл бұрын
The candy cigarettes still exist but they call them "candy sticks" and they taste awful. My dad was a smoker and always told us to never smoke, but of course never stopped once he was diagnosed with cancer. His years of struggle trying to quit made me never want to even try. Most of my family smoked and died young because of it
@DustinRodriguez1_0 Жыл бұрын
They ALWAYS tasted awful. Well, boring anyway. They were just sticks of sugar, like those sticks in Lik'M'Ade that you dip in the sour sugar mix.
@ccggenius Жыл бұрын
@@DustinRodriguez1_0 There's a slight difference. I could've sworn I remembered them having a slight marshmallowy taste, something close to a wintergreen lozenge but without the cooling effect. Personally, I liked them... though I also like Necco wafers, and therefore fully accept that that means my taste buds are a cruel prank of nature.
@Alex-xd9gw Жыл бұрын
I went to Istanbul recently and was shocked at the cigarette box coverings. Images like blackened lungs and disfigured throats. I was pretty surprised, but the more I though about the more it made sense. Despite these horrible images, cigs still littered the sidewalks in the hundreds. Thank you for this video.
@lShishkaBerryl Жыл бұрын
Canadian law has the packs be 2/3 of a warning image and the rest of the pack is the same gross brown for every brand with just their name being customized.
@llamennfarce4104 Жыл бұрын
Yeh, in Europe the images on cigarette packs are a stuff of nightmares - blackened lungs, dying people, hands and legs affected by necrosis, holes in the body (really). It’s gruesome but probably pretty effective at not making smoking cool
@TheChrzan1 Жыл бұрын
@@llamennfarce4104 Not really, I live in EU and I picked up smoking around the time when they introduced these images on the pack. Some of my friends picked up smoking around that time as well. It may be shocking to the outsiders, but here we didin't really pay attention to it. Some even started collecting various labes like cards. What really made me quit smoking was the tax associated with it. When it started to get expansive I just quit.
@Crick1952 Жыл бұрын
@@llamennfarce4104 I live in Europe and the pictures don't do anything. Everyone, including kids, smoke and vape WAY more than back in the US
@k.umquat8604 Жыл бұрын
The pictures don't do anything for those used to smoking,they think they'll get cancer and die anyway so they don't give a damn
@helenr4300 Жыл бұрын
The whole second hand smoke issue and no smoking places. Even if passive smoking were not dangerous, being forced to breathe in someone else's choice of smoke is anti social, especially when no alternative to move away. I loved your smoking section on a plane with the swimming pool comparison
@peepperson444 10 ай бұрын
I had an amazing high school history teacher that was unsettlingly similar in size, shape, and overall demeanor to you. It’s definitely just coincidence but I’m happy to know that the subsection of highly enthusiastic short men with facial hair teaching people about fascinating history is still going strong.
@lmao2302 8 ай бұрын
He used to be a history teacher. Bro might be him unironically.
@baileyayyy5085 Жыл бұрын
I was just about to enroll for my masters program when this knowing better video inspired me to drop out of school, take up smoking, and become a libertarian. Thanks knowing better!
@everythingisscience658 Жыл бұрын
If there is one benifit of smoking, it's that it creates evolutionary pressure against libertarians. Sure let everyone do whatever horrible thing to thier body that they want and we will see how many of them pass on thier genes and ideology.
@darksu6947 Жыл бұрын
That was a good call.
@brianfederico5854 Жыл бұрын
What's wrong with being a libertarian
@baileyayyy5085 Жыл бұрын
@@brianfederico5854 yes
@univon4892 Жыл бұрын
@@baileyayyy5085 Is that it?
@imacanoli897 Жыл бұрын
This video was one of the straws that broke the Camel's back; I quit nicotine cold turkey 4 days ago. Keep up the great content!
@oliviabees Жыл бұрын
Hope you’re still doing well now!
@samuelfraley8737 Жыл бұрын
How’s it going? If you failed and relapsed just try again!
@jamesrosewell9081 Жыл бұрын
@@samuelfraley8737 holy fuck I thought you said you hoped he failed and relapsed again. Holy fuck
@samuelfraley8737 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesrosewell9081 noooo lol. Relapses happen though and I want this person to know even if that happens it’s ok and to keep trying!
@Trainer_Ruffles 11 ай бұрын
@imacanoli897 hope you have continued on your quiting journey. Keep on trucking.
@willgeorgiadis2025 Жыл бұрын
As an ex Juul smoker ( who quit smoking the "real" thing with them), juul is to cigarettes what crack is to cocaine. The way the nicotine affects you is hard and fast, similar to the former drug listed ( unfortunately an ex user of both of those as well). Before I quit I was going through 2-3 pods PER DAY, the equivalent to the same number of packs of cigarettes. I am afraid to see what scientific study reveals in the future about vapes.
@onewholovesvenison5335 Жыл бұрын
1:19:58 Cigars still come in all sorts of flavors, like chocolate, vanilla, and grape. They are probably left alone because cigars are not meant to be inhaled (although frequent cigar smokers still have high rates of oral cancers, and a somewhat higher risk of lung cancer than non-smokers). However, not all of the flavors would appeal to children. I don’t think any child has ever said “Yum! I love espresso and rum!”.
@maxerd Жыл бұрын
12 year long smoker here, 3rd day quitting, have an unopened pack sitting nearby, didn't touch it. Also biggest takeaways are: Big Tobacco wanted TV ads gone and wantted warning labels. Fascinating.
@markkrousos5011 Жыл бұрын
Good luck on quitting! Where I come from we have a nickname for cigarettes 'καρκινοσωλήνες (= karkinosolines)', cancer tubes.
@seekinggodfirst754 Жыл бұрын
@maxerd Throw out the unopened pack. Distance yourself from the temptation.
@maxerd Жыл бұрын
Lol Elon Musk is an Exec. Prod. on 'Thank You For Smoking'
@WinterReflections Жыл бұрын
@@markkrousos5011 "Cancer sticks" are a slang term used in America as well.
@HorkPorkler Жыл бұрын
Keep with it brother! I smoked for 16 years and quit about a month ago. It feels great and the want for a cigarette has lessened tremendously.
@mh4971 Жыл бұрын
I remember working with a woman at my first job, I was 15 or so. She was maybe 30, but looked quite a bit older in pretty long-term smoker fashion - sunken in eyes, hollow cheeks, aged neck and chest etc. She didn't seem completely happy with her life, considering she was working at McDonalds at 30, which isn't bad but I think you have to *really* enjoy McDonalds to enjoy working there at that age. She had a short-fuse but she often said she had a soft spot for me. One day as I was taking out the rubbish, she was out near the big bins on her smoke break, looking rather miserable to be standing next to a stinking bin. I throw the rubbish bags in the bin, and as I am walking back to go inside, she asks me "do you smoke?" Having grown up with a smoker father who died and an ex-smoker mother, I was always incredibly averse to smoking, I confidently replied "absolutely not". She walked closer to me, cigarette in one hand, softly grabbing my shoulder with the other, and said something to the effect of "I started smoking at 14, you are around that age, right? I see girls around your age at work join me for smoke breaks and they probably think they are cool for joining the 'big adults'. That's how I started. If I could go back and stop smoking, I would in a heart beat. Darlin', don't do it to yourself, none of those girls are cool, they look incredibly dumb to me, and in about 20-30 years time, you are gonna look so much better than they will, and you will definitely be richer too with how expensive cigs are nowadays." As she was speaking to me, the harsh smell of cigarette smoke invaded my nose. I nodded, softly yet quickly saying "Thanks" as to not start coughing from the smell and walked back inside. It was the first time someone in my life told me they regretted smoking. And, I see the girls I went to high school with who still smoke, and they have sunken eyes, aged neck and chest, crows lines, everything, and this is only 5 years after finishing high school. We are in our early twenties. Not good.
@cravinbob Жыл бұрын
Do not try to be an author of stories because this one is very amateurish. Thank me later.
@mh4971 Жыл бұрын
@@cravinbob You know, I started my day hoping to god you would tell me what you thought. God is real - he answered my prayers.
@aliciasnavely5109 Жыл бұрын
@@cravinbob lol agreed. 💯👏🏽 I was cringing reading the entire thing.
@Dash62g Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this anecdote. I had a similar experience once. Kudos for not biting these argument-bait replies, lol.
@bekkimadison Жыл бұрын
"Yeah that almost sounds like something real human beings say to each other"
@ireneshankweiler-qb4ve Жыл бұрын
As I 90s kid I honestly do not remember bubble gum cigarettes, but I do very clearly remember those weird chalk like ones with the red tip, that came in the packs that looked like lucky strike and Marlboro packs, I believe they still make them, I also remember big league chew that was supposed to be like chewing tobacco
@thepassingstatic6268 10 ай бұрын
I loved Big League Chew. Looking back at the packaging, they were just showing the loud part in plain sight
@injusticeanywherethreatens265 Жыл бұрын
Quitting smoking is EASY! What are you talking about!? *I quit my smoking habit all the time. Again. And again. And again....and again...*
@MrTaxiRob Жыл бұрын
A good friend of mine was an on-air radio personality climbing his way up the ranks at some local Clear Channel properties at the time. He was actually doing quite well for himself; but when smoking bans started, he became one of those "smokers' rights" guys. Ten years later he died of cancer.
@asmaran9262 Жыл бұрын
It is insane that I (22 yr old) can still remember a time when going to a restaurant almost always started with "Would you like to sit in the smoking or no smoking section?" Just a bit of a mind blow when I look at how rare smoking is anymore, and that basically no restaurant has a "smoking section" anymore
@Jakob165 Жыл бұрын
it's also just flat out illegal in a lot of states now. Minnesota in particular completely banned smoking indoors in buildings opened to the public. can't remember when but it's been that way up here for quite a while.
@rugbybeef Жыл бұрын
All one need due is stand an adequate distance from a hospital and you will find a group of staff members (and quite often patients) smoking rapidly. The differential adoption and failure of anti-smoking campaigns to address the socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and class differentials in smoking patterns continues to leave the underprivileged at a disadvantage. Yes, smoking is largely gone in many white collar workplaces and in public accommodations (restaurants, hotels, bars, etc). However, it should be noted that in many blue collar workplaces smoking is still very tolerated and deeply rooted. At hospitals this tension is acutely demonstrated as it is more frequently technicians, facilities, administrative support, and janitorial staff who continue to smoke and much rarer to see nurses and physicians.
@lainiwakura1776 Жыл бұрын
I don't remember that at all, but I live in California and they probably had those rules in place when I was a toddler in the late 80s.
@lainiwakura1776 Жыл бұрын
@@rugbybeef I think it's more that nursing is a high stress job and smoking helps take the edge off, kinda like food for the fat nurses.
@rugbybeef Жыл бұрын
@@lainiwakura1776 I was saying that I no longer see nurses smoking anymore compared to the beginning of my career approximately 15 years ago. These days it appears much more common for other staff members (medical imaging technicians, phlebotomist, medical assistants, patient transport, etc) to be smoking I personally believe this is due to RNs and NPs are generally from more privileged backgrounds and able to attend BSN and MSN programs,, growing professional stigma and sanctions for smoking, generational effects, and their higher levels of medical education and direct experience with patients suffering from chronic conditions related to smoking.. In my experience it is rare to see RNs, especially younger RNs smoking at all. In my experience, there were a few older nurses who smoked when I started my career. Back then, it seemed that CNAs and LPNs (part-time, night school, or vocationally trained) were more likely to smoke. Our health system also stopped hiring staff who use tobacco products nearly a decade ago, so it is basically implementing a date restriction on tobacco. Noteworthy, I haven't seen someone recognizably an RN or smoking in quite a while. (The health system I know assigns a particular scrub color to roles/credentials so it is easy to identify RNs/LPNs versus those in other colors by dept & job) There was a guy on my hall my freshman year of college who dipped. He and his roommate became very close as they were both on the wrestling team and had arrived a week or two early to start practices. His roommate ended up picking up his dip habit pretty quickly and the first guy's girlfriend was unphased by it. My step-brother dipped, so I was kind of used to random repurposed bottles being around and didn't really give it a second thought. The other folks on our hall though were mostly from upper-middle and upper class families where no one used any tobacco. They never really got used to these two guys walking around with Gatorade bottles as informal personal spittoons*, and were totally grossed out now and then when they would leave one accidentally on the lounge table or the shelf in the hall bathroom. They didn't even want to touch the bottles to throw them away and were madden just knowing they there may be a few floating around into their room. It's funny, I haven't thought about that at all in years. *Not spitting from across the room Bugs Bunny style, just like carrying with them doing laundry, studying or whatever and holding it up to their mouth when the collected saliva filled their mouth.
@37parman Жыл бұрын
39:30 my dad died in 1995 at 54 years old. He first had abdominal pain in June and diagnosed in August with mesothelioma. He died on thanksgiving day. I remember he smoked Kent cigarettes.
@nunnaurbiznez8815 Жыл бұрын
Did he just say they have a way to make carcinogen free cigarette but they just don't? Think of all the garbage people are exposed to that could be made much safer but corporations don't because of $$$.
@corbid5093 Жыл бұрын
Knowing about the history of cigs really opened my eyes to a lot. I’m already rather against smoking, I never met a whole set of my grandparents because they died to it before I was born and I watched my other grandma die slowly of lung cancer at the age of 5. But this really fueled it Maybe anti smoking campaigns should teach more about the history of cigarettes
@backsfx Жыл бұрын
Well it would be better than the scare campaign they do today in denmark ...
@alexcarter8807 Жыл бұрын
That's the real hillbilly way to go ... dying of lung cancer at the age of 5.
@peterheinzo515 Жыл бұрын
you watched your grandmother die when she was 5? that’s heartbreaking.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
Teaching the history of cigarettes is too close to teaching the evils of capitalism. Can't have that.
@injusticeanywherethreatens265 Жыл бұрын
Ya I feel that the history of something is what we need to establish the 'origin' of these devilish tactics. We already know here and now why they advertise the way they do: to make as much money as possibls - fuck all the consequences. But when lookijg at the histiry of the BIG TOBACCCO'S fight against public health over centuries it bdcomes more and more apparent how psychopathic they aare!
@Entrailss Жыл бұрын
Your room is the only time I can ever imagine “12 years a slave” and “starship troopers” being mentioned together.
@Pantalaimon91 Жыл бұрын
@@chompythebeast The first movie is satire. The book is absolutely not and an active proponent of militarism.
@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын
@@chompythebeast I understood after first watching it. I wasn't dead sure it was satire, but when I saw the KB video I felt really validated on picking that up.
@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын
Slavery guarrantees citizenship!
@AryaOghuz Жыл бұрын
Hey, I like the video but the indigenous peoples of America actually did inhale the smoke of tobacco. It just depended on the group. Famously Aztec shamans and other meso and South American peoples smoked (and inhaled) the fumes of the Nicotiana Rustica plant. You are correct when you say it did act as a hallucinogen though, as they would often continue to inhale until they were unable to do so anymore. They believed that this would allow them to communicate with higher powers/gods. Even today Rustica has the highest nicotine content of all tobaccos. In modern Thailand (as well as other countries) they smoke it with bamboo water pipes. Some parts of the Middle East also use Dokha which is a strong tobacco (not sure of the species) mixed with herbs for flavor that creates an extremely intense “head wrap” nicotine high that can last for minutes. Cigar smoking also originated from Mesoamerican shamans, although they would often wrap the tobacco with leaves from other plants
@joelfer1172 Жыл бұрын
I've been smoking for almost 4 years. I started at 16 because I reeeeeally believed it would make me look cooler. I knew about the spook story's (Marlboros cawboy, cancer in the family....) But I didn't take them seriously. Knowing the truth about the industry has been a game changer. I'm already leaving the habit as I write this, one day after the video. I wish this was obligatory knowledge in school curriculums. I believe it would really reduce smoking world wide.
@Bleh1217 Жыл бұрын
Best of luck!
@Mienarrr Жыл бұрын
good luck to you! dont be sad if you end up giving in a few times. the road of quitting is hard, but once you are actually free of it, however long it takes, your quality of life will be soooo much better! ❤
@jessicagothie2951 Жыл бұрын
For what it's worth, not everyone who started smoking as a teen (I was 13) is doomed to keep smoking forever. I started in 1983 and quit in 2003, two packs a day, cowboy killers in the flip top box. (Fwiw, I quit cold turkey because the gum and patches and stuff were all STUPID expensive.) Also, note that sometimes it takes people a couple of tries to get the hang of quitting, so don't be discouraged if it doesn't work the first time you try. Just learn from the experience and try again. You can do it! I did!
@shawnrazzi5569 Жыл бұрын
Doesn't fit the narrative he's presenting though. Hilarious tjah in a 90 minute video he blames everyone involved except the smokers themselves. I smoked too and I only blame myself. This wasn't in the 70s and 80s though.
@75aces97 Жыл бұрын
Not everyone is, but the earlier you start, the deeper the addiction later on. Just like not everyone who smokes a pack a day will ultimately die of lung or circulatory diseases, but odds are tha most will. That's what most of this is about: probability. Side note: my great granddad started smoking cigarettes at 11, smoked another 75 years, and then quit just because. He lived another 11 years, no apparent lung problems. Dont ask me how. 3 of his sons smoked, and didn't live anywhere near as long.
@HauntedXXXPancake 9 ай бұрын
@@shawnrazzi5569 Yeah, He definitely lost some credibility with his dismissiveness of personal responsibility and more so with the statement "addiction is a disease".
@vulpes7079 7 ай бұрын
I know someone who relapsed 6 times. She was successful the 7th time and has been free from tobacco for the past 5 years
@vulpes7079 7 ай бұрын
@@HauntedXXXPancakeaddiction IS a disease
@nickw5682 Жыл бұрын
I’m 21 and started smoking/vaping when I started working at a coffee shop half a year ago. Hardly touched it before then but being surrounded by my coworkers who both heavily smoke/vape I started because it sorta came with the territory. Something about the caffeine and nicotine is a popular combo for baristas. That paired with people stuck in poor, working class jobs makes people love their mild stimulants; however, I realized that giving myself a nic addiction was incredibly stupid. Having been using nicotine for the better part of a year I decided to quit. I’m 2 weeks clean off of it and I wanna stick with not doing it anymore. I worry that if I keep it up especially while I’m still relatively young I won’t be able to quit in the future.
@alexsm3882 Жыл бұрын
Mate I'm 24 and I've quit like 4 different times
@ZiddersRooFurry Жыл бұрын
My mom died of smoking-related COPD. Her father died of a mix of heavy smoking and years as a firefighter during a period where safety procedures were 'wear a heavy jacket and don't step on the line'. Trust me-it's not how you wanna go.
@Tornado1994 Жыл бұрын
Vaping and Smoking are two different things.
@atl6s Жыл бұрын
@@Tornado1994 nicotine is the same thing regardless of how it enters your bloodstream. the consequences of each consumption method vary, but the nicotine is still making you feel like shit whether it's realized or not
@nickw5682 Жыл бұрын
@@archaic1026 it’d probably be about 500 bucks over the course of 6 months, which is very little. I’m only 21 and already have more put aside in my 401k
@meeeka 8 ай бұрын
I'm American born but live in Australia and have a 20 year old daughter. She started vaping during the 2 year exam prep all high schoolers here and Covid. She told me about it a year ago and I went nuts. But here, vapes come in fruit and ice cream flavors and the government says it's fighting tobacco (on all cig packs are the worst photos of human distortions,all attributed to tobacco.) Plus a pack of cigs is close to $30 with all the taxes put on them. But last week she came crying to me that the breaking off of the habit is getting nowhere, so she's moved to patches. After watching this, I'll not sleep all night.
@christinafidance340 Жыл бұрын
Just wanna say that I used to smoke Parliaments and YES, that extra bit at the end absolutely has a great mouthfeel! It was actually really difficult for me to even go back to regular cigarettes after them. It doesn’t feel like wet paper in your mouth at all. It’s cardboard, yet it doesn’t get soggy for some reason. I don’t smoke anymore (I vape- I KNOW! But it’s an improvement at least. I def want to quit vaping too eventually though.)
@erisdiscordia5429 Жыл бұрын
The 12 Years a Slave poster is kinda subtle on the addiction thing. Actually, I really like the subtle manuevering between pictures, blocking the addiction aspect to switch to the "We know this is stupid but we're gonna build an entire culture around being super proud about doing it anyway" aspect of Starship Troopers. Well played, KB prop master. Well played.
@bitnewt Жыл бұрын
I spotted the little cigarette props on the shelves but didn't get the significance of the posters! This is neat!
@enock542 Жыл бұрын
i think dude has that there every episode
@erisdiscordia5429 Жыл бұрын
@@enock542 Yer, does seem that way. Everyone's gotta notice at some point, though.
@enock542 Жыл бұрын
@@erisdiscordia5429 that's a fact family. hope you're enjoying your night yo. stay up
@erisdiscordia5429 Жыл бұрын
@@enock542 Same, bud.
@maltaethiron Жыл бұрын
Thank you for adding the bit about harm reduction. Vaping flavored nicotine has gotten me, my brother, and both my parents off of cigarettes permanently, but I definitely discourage people who don't already smoke from picking up vaping.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
The problem is cigarettes are so bad consuming literally any other product is an improvement.
@cornettotrilogyenjoyer Жыл бұрын
it's easy to switch from cigs to vaping because vaping is more convenient by every possible metric, but it's not easier to quit nicotine through vaping
@StefanoFierros Жыл бұрын
@@cornettotrilogyenjoyer that's the point of harm reduction tho, it's pretty much impossible for very heavy users of cigarettes to just quit, so you have to minimize harm with things like vapes.
@ManiakPL22 Жыл бұрын
"the spittoon was replaced by the ash tray" is such a powerfull raw line holy shit! I love this line.
@bjorn-falkoandreas9472 6 ай бұрын
Mr Better, sir. I am 20 years your senior and had the good fortune of my mother insisting we leave the US back in the 70s. I am acutely aware of the past 50 years of filth accumulated in German history and the most famous 12 years by virtue of a lot of education. When I left the US in my luggage was a picture book and a record. One of those Disney Golden Books. My favorite one was The Song of the South. Took me decades to learn that that was bad. Took me another decade to learn that the bits that were extracted were actually good and probably the only good thing Disney Corp managed to get right. They had actual folk tales which were Americanized version of west African stories. That rabbit was a trickster spider god in most version and Disney somehow managed to Brother's Grimm that by talking to people before that oral traditon was lost. That is the kind of complex relationship I was brought up with in the US. My parents parked me at a black church so they could go their merry way and you can imagine the amount of cookies I was fed with and how alien the concept of racism in the US was to me. And then there was the 90s. Man, Bill Maher and South Park. I was in my late 20s when the ManBearPig episode aired. That was the day South Park stopped existing for me. They apologized for that one decades later. It was obvious back then. What annoys me is how long the McDonalds thing and the fiction of the frivolous lawsuits leading to payouts lasted in the US. All of that is something observable with cold hard facts and yet people get their education from entertainers with no obligation to veracity. The US -to this day- uses the code word "hygiene" for circumcision. It took me 30 years to understand the lotion jokes and that American men are not naturally filthy and don't know how to wash. I am certain a lot of people repeat and do things unthinkingly just because it was always done that way. Shyster got a shipment of novelty pickles? Sell it to people cosplaying as Germans to hang in their christmas trees. That one has stopped being a curio in German news magazines ages ago. Deluded eugenicist and failed bland cereal salesman is obsessed with masturbation? Make the US the most circumcised nation with no religious background for it whatsoever. Actual science had to be done and ignored to refute this particular brand of idiocy. Elderly woman suffering 3rd degree burns to her thighs and genitalia to the point of skin grafts? Have comedians repeat the lines spun by the lawyers of a fast food company going on about frivolous lawsuits. Uncharismatic politician picking up the cause of climate change, a phenomenon so well understood it was taught in my school back in the 80s? Bunch of weirdos from California who made their low-effort sweatshop animation their brand make fun of it. Young woman groomed by a man in power? Make fun of her till the end of days. Entertainment, religion and pseudo-science. You are teaching a valuable curriculum and the source critique you frequently do is now more important than ever. A young person cited a NYP article as news to me and I wasn't able to explain the propaganda techniques to them. You will need to do one on that one. Propaganda as entertainment and propaganda as news because that is the oldest unrefuted falsehood that the US does not do propaganda.
@valritz1489 Жыл бұрын
27:56 Slight correction, while diethylene glycol does occur in antifreeze, it's as a byproduct of ethylene glycol, the main ingredient. Also, fun fact, in the 70s diethylene glycol was used by Austrian vintners to artificially sweeten their wine without regulators detecting added sugars. Since it's hilariously toxic, it caused a string of paralyses and poisonings that just about wrecked the industry for a while.
@swarnimvajpai6373 Жыл бұрын
Finally, a fun fact i ACTUALLY knew lol
@austinkopp9811 Жыл бұрын
Additional fun fact, ethylene glycol is an antifreeze agent common in heating systems, while propylene glycol can be used similarly (not as effectively), but is also non-toxic and is a common food and drug additive.
@nithia0999 Жыл бұрын
If you haven't already (which you might have) Freidrick Knudsun has a video talking about that whole incident. Absolutely incredible video and content creator in general. He's similar to KB, but talks about a wide variety of non-political content.
@aribantala Жыл бұрын
Ah yes the Austrian "Antifreeze" wines... Love the fact that the Austrian officials finally linked the paralysis "epidemic" until some random person came to a police station in Vienna, bring a bottle of wine and said "This wine contains glycol, please investigate this" (or something along that line), put the bottle in the front desk, and leave immediately without any elaboration
@Nerobyrne Жыл бұрын
Lol I thought that was just black market wine runners 😁
@mike000000000000able Жыл бұрын
As someone about your age who also loved Penn and Teller, thank you for ripping into them when deserved.
@lainiwakura1776 Жыл бұрын
But the episodes where they talked the crazy stuff were good. They made me see cheerleading in a new light as well.
@peterdollins3610 Жыл бұрын
Excellent piece. An Uncle let me smoke a cig when I was ten, laughing. I stared at him thinking there's nothing in this. Adults must be so stupid. At 15 1957 I started work as a fireman on the GW Railways in the UK. Starting the firebox fire meant standing in front of green thick smoke streaming up into the face. Even on running Stream Traains the smoke could abd did get back into us. So I coud never and never wished to smoke. Good work.
@seandobson499 Жыл бұрын
This is the best video I have seen on the lies put out by the tobacco companies. I am English and was only a very light smoker until I joined the British army at seventeen and a half, being posted to West Germany at eighteen where we could buy duty-free cigarettes, and they were a great comfort and stress reliever on active service. I smoked about 20 cigarettes a day for some thirty years, plus a small cigar after a meal. The army, cigarettes not withstanding, kept us in peak physical condition, so I never has a smokers cough or shortness of breath, but after many years of army service, upon my return to civilian life, not only were cigarettes much more expensive in the UK, but I began to hate the stench of tobacco on my clothes and I reduced my cigarette intake to about ten a day but began to enjoy smoking less and less so some fifteen years ago, I decided to quit smoking, relapsed once but quit on my second attempt, purely on will power and the very real desire to quit smoking and have not smoked now for close to fifteen years and its one of the best decisions I have ever made, I no longer smell like a walking ashtray and my sense of smell and taste improved so much so that I can not stand the smell of smoke from cigarettes or anything else combustible and if I am walking behind a smoker, I have to cross over the road.
@ianmacdonald9201 Жыл бұрын
As a kid, I remember the smoking section on the plane For those too young to remember, imagine 80% of the plane lighting up and you are one seat behind all of them in the "no smoking" seats. Bonus was breathing the recirculated air on a 10 hour flight to Europe. It was the same for restaurants at the beginning but at least you were out of there in less than an hour.
@LMvdB02 Жыл бұрын
That's really quick dining lol
@LMvdB02 Жыл бұрын
American?
@spaceman081447 Жыл бұрын
@ian macdonald I can remember when "NON-smoking sections" on planes and in restaurants did not even exist.
@Blauefrucht Жыл бұрын
In Germany, our former chancellor Helmut Schmidt is famously known for smoking menthol cigarettes. He even stockpiled tens of thousand for them, when they were outlawed in 2013.
@truegemuese Жыл бұрын
Ich wusste gar nicht, dass er die gehamstert hat.
@caseclosed9342 Жыл бұрын
If you look at the Reagan presidential library’s KZfaq channel they have a video of Schimdt’s arrival at the White House and the top comment is “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Schmidt go this long without a cigarette!” 😂😂😂
@markwilliams2620 Жыл бұрын
Germans are stubbor......er set in their ways?
@lShishkaBerryl Жыл бұрын
Lmaoooooooo I had an old roommate message me to ask if I'd drive an hour to get her mother menthols at the native reserve before they were banned, then presumably drive another hour to deliver them. I did not, she can go there herself if she wants them bad enough.
@Colorcrayons Жыл бұрын
Here's another question: Why am I only seeing this video now, after your latest release? I am studiously subscribed to your channel, as I view your meticulously researched content to be culturally and socially significant. And this video, never showed up in my feed, ever. As a former smoker who took great pains to quit after many years under it's yoke, knowing such a video is likely somehow being suppressed (intentionally or unintentionally) by the almighty tube algorithm, is disheartening. Excellent quality as usual. You never disappoint. Thanks for your effort. These videos have much value.
@k.c1126 Жыл бұрын
Same. I wondered why there was such a long break after the neo-slavery one ....
@timothymclean Жыл бұрын
KZfaq's algorithm is an inscrutable black box, at least to the end user. It promotes some videos and smothers others for reasons known only to the engineers at Google and the people giving them orders. I've seen some people speculate that videos from more progressive channels get less coverage than ones from centrist/right-wing ones, but all we have is anecdotal evidence, because the social media industry hasn't explained how they work to anyone and isn't about to start now.
@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023 Жыл бұрын
KZfaq has become unreliable regarding notifications in my experience. Every now and then, I notice that some channel that I have "rung the bell" for has dropped a video that I didn't get a notification for. Not terribly often, but it is still irritating.
@timothymclean Жыл бұрын
@@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023 When were KZfaq notifications reliable?
@JoshNoodleSoup Жыл бұрын
Same
@mitch7525 Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate this video. I rewatch it occasionally, the only problem is that it makes me extremely cynical for the next few days. It's sad to think how much of our culture simply exists to extract a profit from the masses at any cost.
@zacharynolan9553 Жыл бұрын
Very timely video. I’m 22 and have come to the island nation of Cyprus for my first international internship. I never smoked in high school, only hitting a juul once before deciding I didn’t like it. When I came here to the EU, and witnessed the immense smoking culture, I couldn’t help but be peer pressured. It’s been only a few weeks but now I’m reminded of the real damage they do. Not gonna buy another pack or ask for another cig. Thanks KB
@serbsi2922 Жыл бұрын
Good luck
@TheRunningLeopard Жыл бұрын
As someone who traveled for the first time to Europe for a study abroad, I was shocked by the smoking culture in Italy. I have overall pour lung constitution, with exercise induced asthma that leads me to get bronchitis every once in a while, and I could tangibly feel the difference from irritation. Stay strong man, the peer pressure is tough but your body will thank you in the end. - Another 22 yr old dude.
@reptile_loki Жыл бұрын
Cyprus is the country with the most smokers on Earth , you literally landed on the only place in Europe where smoking is a regular
@yannick245 Жыл бұрын
@@TheRunningLeopard I'm happy that I'm living in a state in Germany _(Baden-Württemberg),_ where it's still allowed to smoke in small bars. Larger ones can have a designated smokers room. But beer smell and cigarettes smoke is what makes a bar a bar. But other states go the full _"US way '_ and ban all indoor smoking. Many bars had to close because of that. For example: 42,4 % of al men from 30-35 are smokers. These are the guys hanging around at bars. Overall, smoking is much more prevalent in Europe and is not seen as a social stigma, like in the US. I'd always play the _"I'm European"_ card if over there. What's funny is that our cigarette boxes got worse and worse over the years with all the warning signs and slogans and now with these disgusting pictures. While the US is the only place I can think of, were there's only a small one-liner about the dangers of smoking, printed on the side. But you guys, while being the greatest anti-smokers in the world, still have just _"normal"_ looking packs!
@yannick245 Жыл бұрын
@@reptile_loki Actually, Greece is #1 in the Europe, with 42%. Cyrus _"only"_ landed at place nine, with 39%> _Sources:_ _Eurostar:WHO_ _Statista 20022'_ But they still have a life expectancy over 80, just like Japan. But with Japan it might have something to do with that all cigarettes over there have a charcoal filter. I know that it's nothing but a hypothesis of mine but I think that's something to have a look in.
@sabaducia Жыл бұрын
As a millenial, I am now feeling a need to re-examine so many things that I consumed as a teen/YA 😬
@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын
Good. Good. Let us know what else you find in terms of potential germs of degeneracy in your childhood.
@pax6833 Жыл бұрын
I can't believe I ever thought Bill Maher was smart. It only seemed like his takes have been getting worse the past decade but it turns out he's always been a center right libertarian moron.
@hallamhal Жыл бұрын
1:14:12 I love how Penn wheezes and splutters several times during this rant
@DevynPlaysGames Жыл бұрын
I started vaping freshman year of college. I started with no nicotine, then went to 3%, then 6% in box mods. Then I bought a pod based vape and was quickly up to the 50mg nic salts. Then I burned the coils in the pods, and used the 50mg juice in my old box mod. I was vaping to get a high that essentially knocked me out. Like, I would fall on my bed, light-headed, and just lay there for like 15-30 minutes. My social anxiety helped me quit by preventing me from going to vape shops to refill my stock of juice/coils. Vaping is not good.
@Starfox2020 Жыл бұрын
I love your cutaways to period pop art. It's really enlightening to put words into cultural context.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
It was nice to see Billiam "Boomer republican" Mahr has always been a piece of garbage.
@cofeewarior Жыл бұрын
I started smoking when I was 17. I smoked a lot for 8 years before I tried to quit for the first time. I always told that it was my own choice and I believed all that nonsense, I overlooked the warning lables on packs, even dismissed the science about secondhand smoke. Your video was very interesting in showing that all the tobacco contreversy is fabricated by the tobacco industry and that it successfully pushed it through an entire generation. I believe that your video should be shown to a lot more of people, smokers or not, to expose even more this industry and deter any kid from smoking. If my 17 year old self would have seen a video like this, he would have never touched his first smoke because we all know that smoking kills, but we do not all know that the tobacco industry lied to us so viciously and fooled us. I'm still struggling to stop smoking completely, but by the Lord's grace, I will eventually make it. If I can give an advice on anyone here that think that smoking is cool or want to try his first cigarette: the best way to stop smoking is to never begin.
@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын
Fun fact. The cigarettes given out to soldiers during world war 2 killed more people than the actual war.
@doughboywhine Жыл бұрын
As they say, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
@lShishkaBerryl Жыл бұрын
You can do it! I started smoking at 14 and quit 18 years later. Vaping is what finally helped me, I tried every patch gum and pill known to man with no results. Over 6 years tobacco free now, still vape 3mg juice I make myself. I haven't gotten a cold or flu since I quit smoking either, used to be at least once a year.
@rodh1404 Жыл бұрын
I genuinely wish you well with that. Unfortunately, all too many smokers quit only after too much damage has been done.
@commisaryarreck3974 Жыл бұрын
Started when i was 18 Quit when i was 22. Was slightly irritated for a week, anyone incapable of quitting cold turkey is simply suffering from personal failings and a spineless wretch trying to shove responsibility for their own life and choices to others Also fuck ciggarette companies, not defending those scumbags here, just can't stand the bullshit excuses everyone makes Addiction is personal failing, grow a goddamn spine and take responsibility for your own life for ONCE in your pathetic existence
@lambsauce1468 Жыл бұрын
I was a child of the 70s in Australia and Paul Hogan was my hero. He regularly told us on the television 'Anyhow, have a Winfield'. Which was the brand I smoked from 9 years old until I finally quit when I turned 50.
@Valyssi Жыл бұрын
This was a great insight into not just tobacco, but how easy it was to manipulate the public, using techniques which are still widely used today. Of course there's something to be said for today's ability to instantly Google something (like what the special interests of various 'institutes' are), but it's also made it similarly easy to spread propaganda in the first place
@kensurrency2564 8 ай бұрын
thanks, Freud
@brenndanmcdonaugh1672 Жыл бұрын
I never thought I'd hear about diethylene glycol being consumed outside of the Austrian Wine Poisoning. But holy shit you've proved me wrong
@iamjustkiwi Жыл бұрын
Any chance you learned about that through the Well There's Your Problem podcast ? If not they did a good video tackling it.
@brenndanmcdonaugh1672 Жыл бұрын
@@iamjustkiwi Fredrick Knudsen's "Down the Rabbit Hole" on the subject. But I'll check the recommendation!
@iamjustkiwi Жыл бұрын
@@brenndanmcdonaugh1672 aw heck yeah, another great channel. I found them through their mouse utopia experiment video and loved their work ever since.
@TheOneTrueAnthemis Жыл бұрын
@@brenndanmcdonaugh1672 same lol
@cauhxmilloy7670 Жыл бұрын
There's plenty of spouse murders with it. Forensic Files, wooooo.
@insertcolorfulmetaphor8520 Жыл бұрын
I remember easily accessed pull operated cigarette machines in the local Denny's like restaurants, still in 1996. Every child smoker from the nearby middle school and the high school would always get cigs (a pack) for about $1.75 in quarters... Wild times. Child of the 1980's ( a X'ennial generation kiddo)
@EnigmaticLucas Жыл бұрын
I'm too young to remember when it was allowed everywhere (born in 2002), but I do remember a few local restaurants having smoking sections as recently as 2013 or so
@LuciFeric137 Жыл бұрын
Yep. I used to stock those. Great little profit centers.
@TheOneTrueAnthemis Жыл бұрын
I've heard X'enniels referred to the Oregon Trail Generation Uniquely positioned to see the full analog and digital worlds
@t_ylr Жыл бұрын
@@EnigmaticLucas I'm about a decade older than you. I remember smoking sections and cigarette machines, even at Chuck E Cheese lol. Tho where I lived that stuff went away in the mid 00s. I remember a lot of adults complaining about having smoke outside in the rain and the cold haha.
@lukewarmwaterr Жыл бұрын
@@EnigmaticLucas I was born in 2000, I remember having to sit in the smoking area one time at a restaurant with my parents because they were out of space in the normal section. came back a few months later after the ban and now there is no smoking section!
@valentins.2637 Жыл бұрын
Can't believe you skipped over the "how to light Something without Matches?" Part. That Shit got me hooked