How Many Cigarettes Do You Smoke? Ireland 1962

Reactions of smokers and non-smokers to a new report linking smoking with lung cancer.
Reports from the Royal College of Physicians in London and the Danish Cancer Association have pointed to the link between smoking and lung cancer. Opinions differ as to the impact of cigarette smoking on a person’s health among members of the public who spoke to RTÉ News.
One non-smoker comments,
"If you want to be fit and well, you have to keep off cigarettes...I think it weakens a man’s strength of character."
Smokers were in general agreement that cigarette smoking wasn’t of benefit to one’s health, but the findings of the report didn’t seem to motivate them enough to stop smoking completely,
"The doctors know their own business, but as far as I’d be concerned, the fella who’d smoke twenty or thirty a day might get a bit worried."
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking a comprehensive ban of all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 8 March 1962.

[@erenjaegerbomb8653]

"I'm not particularly worried about lung cancer because I don't currently have it"

[@Alex_T69]

🤣class

[@jasonkey7559]

Everyone is OK until they are not. That's what I used to say to my mam. She sadly died 8 weeks ago from a smoking related illness. And my wife's grandma 3 weeks before my mam. Again, a smoking related illness.

[@lucdoucette]

I'm sorry for your loss. @@jasonkey7559

[@PienioNawijaTV]

Wow, you're so much more conscious than a person from 60 years ago!

[@erenjaegerbomb8653]

@@PienioNawijaTV Humans have been roughly as intelligient as we are for at least 10,000 years. His deficit in knowledge is irrelevant, it's the nonsense logic I was poking fun at.

[@Pickchore]

“I’m a heavy smoker. I go through 2 lighters a day” - Bill Hicks.

[@yellow01umrella]

This Alex guy is hilarious

[@christopherwooll5423]

Hahaha

[@masonmanfree7804]

Classic 👌

[@bigtonyakacashmoney]

Bam

[@Bobby_T_]

I wonder how long would it take to go through a lighter or two in one sitting

[@SuperDare83]

What strikes me is how well/politely everyone speaks

[@DG-iw3yw]

Possibly because they would only air the polite ones...

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

Cuz they know they're on camera

[@Elvisism]

The possible fact that one of the women was 17 and a half startled me 😂

[@fluiddynamics3591]

It'd be hard to find a single person like this on the street nowadays anywhere@@DG-iw3yw

[@Randompersondoesntmatter]

Nope they were all like that. ​@@DG-iw3yw

[@dougl945]

I started smoking in 1985. My first carton of cigarettes was given to me in college by camel cigarettes. They set up a booth on campus with the ploy of being career recruiting. I believe this was a regular tactic to get people addicted young. They gave away hundreds of cases to struggling college students. Several people in my dorms started smoking then. I smoked till 2015. I can’t tell you how much wasted energy and money that nasty habit costed me. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done (quitting). I feel so much better now.

[@x2oChannel]

Bloody hell 🤯… These companies should all be help accountable for what they did

[@707josh]

@@x2oChannel at least now cigarettes are dying out. Plenty of people still smoke them but most of the younger generations don’t and it’s more of a taboo like using heroin

[@DILLIGAS-GAMING]

Camel with no filter is a hard core fire stick ! Shame on them . I quit couple years back , absolutely hard to give up cause so easy to buy and genuinely at the time makes you feel better but now I'm off them it seems madness to do it , I still think about them from time to time but its no way the same pull it was at the time, If im on my death bed I will smoke again get on smack and coke and drink booze 🤣🤣 then and only then.

[@DILLIGAS-GAMING]

@R Voit 🤣 true though

[@brianwalsh1401]

@@Collerz7 Yep it took me many times to quit. I found out I had copd and it still took me 2 years to quit. Then a year later I found cancer on my tongue and that was a whole problem. It took me another 6 years to give up the nicotine gum. I know I'm an addictive personality so I'm glad I was able to quit but cigarettes took their toll on me. The best thing to do is don't start to begin with and give them up as soon as possible if you have started.

[@brianforbes9315]

Everyone tells you that smoking will kill you. What they don’t tell you is that it cures salmon 🍣

[@floridianman]

What

[@Priapus212]

@@floridianman It's a joke. You use smoke to cure meats

[@CAVALIERKNIGHT33]

When salmon is smoked large quantities of brown sugar coat the salmon, sugar can kill too!

[@BabyOatmeal]

Sugar, Cedar chips, and Smoke does cure Salmon and Ham but yeh Sugar has killed multitudes more people than cigarettes. .

[@deeppurple883]

Bada bing Bada bang. 👏

[@joaovitormatos8147]

For those of you surprised by how "avant-garde" this interview is: linking tobacco to cancer has been done since the 1890s. In the 50s and 60s, the tobacco industry started working together to stop information and spread disinformation about tobacco being safe, that's why knowing tobacco is a problem *sounds* new, but it really isn't

[@pats3071]

I’m not sure you know what avant-garde means

[@EphemeralProductions]

Damn travesty.

[@claudiotavares9580]

Even Nazi Germany tried to ban cigarette consumption (it didn't work).

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@claudiotavares9580 yeah because Hitler was MAJOR anti-smoking. lol. He actually gave (nice) gifts to his soldiers and whoever if they managed to quit.

[@claudiotavares9580]

@@EphemeralProductions Because he was a authoritarian jerk and a pain in the ass to everyone when the subject was cigarettes. He did not care about the health of anyone, he just hated the smell and thought that was a thing of "lesser peoples" like gypsies and slavs. If someone had told him that "old aryans" smoked, he probably would not care at all for the healthy issues.

[@twerkingfish4029]

Especially a fan of that last guy. He’s all over the place but he’s just embraced it.

[@47times14]

Love the last guy as well

[@JohnnyMagorish]

😂

[@chekaschmeka4283]

Absolutely got his 70 or so seconds of fame and embraced it.

[@Elvisism]

Absolutely

[@BambuuucaCZ]

is it just me? but i thought hes high af on something

[@kengruz669]

Every single respondent was well-spoken and courteous, no attitude given or offense taken. The last gent- no doubt a poet, a drinker, or both.

[@russellwhite1581]

The last gent seemed like he ought to have been a famous actor.

[@brap_brap_]

this comment is amazing

[@dadadebroglie]

A lot of drinkers think they're poets but he was just a drunk.

[@tinman3747]

Well he's irish. So no doubt

[@Alice45894]

Or he could be on the spectrum

[@purefoldnz3070]

in Ireland in those days you had two hobbies available either be a drinker or a smoker.

[@kalj0x379]

being both was the most common choice

[@SurrealExistence]

Or both

[@sl_721]

There was a third choice. Become a priest

[@DanAmsterdam]

What about weed

[@SurrealExistence]

What about becoming a living priest weed plant

[@maddyg3208]

I have always loved how the Irish people answer personal questions with "I do", "I do not", "I am", "I am not" etc rather than just "yes" or "no". Must have its roots in the Irish language.

[@lordracula2461]

Great observation, Irish & scottish gaelic don't have words for yes & no.

[@DRAGONS147]

@@lordracula2461 Tá is Yes & Níl is no in Irish.

[@lordracula2461]

@@DRAGONS147 That's wrong, you have to use them appropriately to respond to questions. They aren't exact negative/positive yes no answers like in english

[@maddyg3208]

@@lordracula2461 Thanks mate

[@lauraswann5543]

@@maddyg3208 It doesn't have its roots in the Irish language. It's because Irish people used to love to talk, you would never get a straight yes or no from them. Most of the people nowadays from their 30s down do not have the language skills and social skills that the Irish used to have, because most of them are glued to their smartphones so you might get a bare yes or no from them, or, more likely, a blank stare.

[@sullywinn4225]

The gentleman at 1:52 is a great example of street smarts. Very observant of the way cigarettes affected his peers' behavior and correctly deduced they weren't healthy.

[@svíþjóð]

Duh, people weren't stupid back then.

[@speedos]

@@svíþjóð yeah they were

[@svíþjóð]

@@speedos ↑↑↑ Typical modern-day arrogance at full display

[@speedos]

@@svíþjóð i think it's arrogant to assume things were better just because they were in the past

[@RantGrumps]

are you dumb?@@speedos

[@FinalPattern11]

The philosopher at the end and his drunk statement 😂

[@CrazyCubsfan11]

Dude was easily 15 beers and 30 cigarettes deep

[@hellaspatriot2733]

Out of everyone I thought the guy at 1:57 looked like the biggest smoker, turns out he was the only non smoker 😂

[@Bbbbbfs]

Probably an alcoholic that makes you skin thinner

[@dylanmurphy9389]

He was just inhaling pollution instead

[@nitroxylictv]

whiskey and exhaust fumes do wonders

[@hellaspatriot2733]

@@dylanmurphy9389 😂

[@hellaspatriot2733]

@@nitroxylictv lmao

[@user-im7uh5nl6t]

4:09 $50 says this guy had a nickname among the staff of every store/restaurant he went to

[@brandont4693]

Dude is a character 😂

[@luigiwastaken]

That last guy was really struggling to say "Even though you don't smoke you're still going to die anyways. We're all going to die ... if I die a little bit sooner I really don't care." but I could read it in his face.

[@Alex_T69]

Its a fair view on life ngel

[@arthurmorgan2026]

@@Alex_T69 if it's integral to your quality of life at that point then it speeding up your end doesn't really matter it's not like he'd want to live longer if he was more miserable. I'm trying to quit smoking myself I slowly got into them, and there was never a point where I felt I was "addicted" until I really was deeply addicted. 40-60 a day when I could. Burning through pouches like tissue in a flame. I'm using nicotine pouches and have given up vaping. Although last week I was really drunk and gave in to a cigarette. I felt like sh*t even then because I betrayed the promise I made to myself. If I die before my due date I don't want it to be drowning in years of self harm in the form of tar. Smoking is disgusting and I hate how it's captured my life so much. Its a nasty addiction and it's so deeply ingrained in my mind and it's what I turn to in stress or times of calm.

[@Alex_T69]

@@arthurmorgan2026 ye i smoked as well its pretty bad i think if u can vape its alr and especially if u learnt to be a social smoker anw gl bro

[@arthurmorgan2026]

@@Alex_T69 gl to you too man. Keep the chin up king we got this

[@lucasallanrogers]

@@arthurmorgan2026 black lung no more

[@creativetrance1]

I smoked for 4 years and quit now 10 years ago, but I can really respect the last guy. I would never dictate what people should do. It's really great if people know what they're doing though.

[@rcordiner]

Everyone interviewed for this video was aged 17 and a half at the time of filming.

[@snailsaredumb9412]

I started when I was 13 and it was 2013 back then

[@dogidogediggidydogedd957]

@@snailsaredumb9412 You say it like its a thing supposed to be proud of

[@snailsaredumb9412]

@@dogidogediggidydogedd957 I said it like a bad thing to be ashamed of. If you thought it was "cool" thats you

[@dogidogediggidydogedd957]

@@snailsaredumb9412 Look dude many people here flex at such dumb things, your comment would be 1 of them, sorry and have a good one

[@torronthemighty]

@@snailsaredumb9412 I started when I was seven in the late 1990s. Finally quit this year. Still hard to abstain but my breathing is getting better.

[@leftyspade]

Cigarettes helped me quit chewing gum!

[@FrankHudsonbass]

Rodney Dangerfield joke?!

[@leftyspade]

@@FrankHudsonbass Yup, you'd be my worst enemy at the Comedy Club- :)

[@markmauk8231]

17 then, 80 now. Hope she's still doing well.

[@ViceCityMasta]

17 and a half

[@Freethinkingtheist77]

80 and a half

[@bartmix8994]

Dead and a half.

[@_ShaDynasty]

She's not

[@markmauk8231]

@@_ShaDynasty And you know that because....

[@priilynx]

"it weakens the mans strength of character"

[@IGermano107]

Uow

[@RockyRoader]

Mr Maher was a complete spaceman, I bet he was great craic to meet in a pub!

[@irishemperor]

I wonder if he gave up crack instead of cigarettes for lent that year :D

[@michas7993]

He seemed to be a very smart and sociable fellow. If I had lived then I would have totally invited him to take some molly and coke with his company and then proceed to shrooms or lsd. I bet he had many interesting and witty stories to tell to laugh all night.

[@BaseheadEntertainment]

He as definitely hammers and crack was around in the 60s… let alone in Ireland

[@Howyourleadersare]

Imagine a reporter today asking regular folk if they’ve read a specific article

[@tomshaw5025]

Hyper-normalisation

[@emiloguechoons9030]

Sure but this was a time with 3 or 4 channels on the TV, with many programmes being seen by massive portions of the population, information sharing was far more homogenised than it is today.

[@petergibson2318]

The west of Ireland got Television for the first time the previous year. (RTE television opened..)There was only one I radio station “Radio Eireann” so everybody was listening to the same news. The Gazellion outlets we have today would amaze those people.

[@hutchlong3778]

it wasn’t just a single article it was like the biggest news in the world at the time that a study and report found the very direct link between smoking and cancer

[@fuckoff187]

@@emiloguechoons9030 and are people smarter now or stupider?

[@argopunk]

The last gent is pissed out of his gourd. Love it!

[@fuckdefed]

The cod philosophy from that last bloke cracked me up! 😂 Thanks for sharing!

[@Gunzee]

It's bloody amazing how mature they all look. You'd never guess that girl was 17. Mr Mhar/Marr with his expressions & thoughts reminds me of Jim from Taxi. What a good speaker.

[@davidhayden6116]

I watched a video about the age/appearance thing the other day, it's actually really interesting. These people look more mature because the clothes and hairstyles they had are the same or similar to what those same people (who are now much older) wear today. So it's actually an illusion caused by us associating different fashions with different age groups. People have taken old pictures and edited them to change the clothes and hairstyles to match modern trends, and it makes the people in the images look younger.

[@whoaitstiger]

@@davidhayden6116 Exactly. My first impression was she looks like a teenager wearing mid 20th century clothing. Her face looks very young, there is no way she could be over 20. I swear some people just don't pay much attention.

[@Chilavertish]

Maher or Meagher 😃

[@vintage_hart6392]

Now 17 yr Olds look like degenerates

[@Pedro-of4tn]

@@davidhayden6116 did you by any chance, get this information from a vsauce KZbin video?.

[@deeppurple883]

There's always one, the geezer at the end, classic Dublin Nut. 👏☘️✌️

[@Kyleburkerules]

Legend he is.

[@AthelstanKing]

That dude was infinitely better off mentally than 99.9% of people in the youtube comment section

[@Vor_Tex_Sun]

Seems totally liberated

[@ignacio6454]

@@Vor_Tex_Sun Yes, freedom was a thing back...

[@DrunkenDemon]

​@@ignacio6454well, you could argue that a smoker always infringes on the freedom/ health of those around them. So there is a Limit to that particular freedom.

[@danieldaniels640]

Everybody is such a gentleman/gentlewoman

[@mh-ht2fp]

The term you're looking for is "lady" not gentlewoman lmfao.... Don't let DEI rot your brain out.

[@DavidLS1]

Just ten years earlier, doctors were appearing in cigarette commercials.

[@martinslennon]

God bless you Mr. Maher, wherever you are, you put a big smile on my face!

[@JB-rl8ki]

Probably dead.

[@EphemeralProductions]

He is probably quite elderly now.

[@lollipopsaresmelly]

@@EphemeralProductions long gone haha. He'd be at least 120 if Still going.

[@grzyruth9205]

May Allah accept him into his glorious kingdom

[@martinslennon]

I would like to think he's in the great bar, where it's happy hour all day, every day and he is sitting on a stool at the bar sharing his philosophy with his fellow punters!

[@captainkielbasa5471]

I love how frank and honest these people are

[@smokesgtp]

That's the Irish. Good, no-nonsense, people

[@perfboi69]

Different generation, and Irish.

[@user-kx1vy1il8h]

really? ask them about immigrants or homosexuality or opening a mosque next door lol

[@captainkielbasa5471]

@@user-kx1vy1il8h they'd give you the right answer

[@CommonContentArchive]

@@user-kx1vy1il8h Eh.. they weren't all bigots back then, and millions immigrated to England/Aus/US, so it's not like anti-immigration circlejerk was a big thing then either

[@andreviana8255]

So good to hear these people, so easy to understand.

[@chronitized]

Loved it. Hope to find more :)

[@alohathaxted]

The most sensible guy was the third guy. The Captain of the Hurling team.

[@rogerdalzell]

the last guy is literally just insane lol

[@BlacKi-nd4uy]

thats what math is doing with your brain

[@muscleinwiththechef]

Stereo typical bad guy from most of the movies you've watched 4:52 😂😂😂😂

[@divingdave2945]

The last guy reminded me of a math teacher I had. Same exact position, but in 2015. I kind of respect that.

[@Grandstonie]

True

[@BlacKi-nd4uy]

my math teacher told me there are 2 ppl: ones they believe in math and the others understands math. but i was the third party

[@gamerman7276]

"How many cigarettes do you smoke a day?" "Yes"

[@lynxau]

I did smoke 25 a day I gave up 40days ago the cough has just about gone already.

[@oliveryt7168]

All of them!

[@bwlove25]

“I don’t have lung cancer at this second, so I’m good to go”

[@Dreamskater100]

Brilliant. Great footage. That last guy was unique.

[@mmaphilosophy]

Love these old interviews. How the times have changed

[@BlacKi-nd4uy]

i actually would like to live these days for a week or so.

[@mmaphilosophy]

@@BlacKi-nd4uy Same. Maybe for a few year lol

[@niallchiara2410]

Bloke at the end started out as Peter O’Toole and ended as Brush Shields

[@LimerickWarrior1]

ROFL🤣

[@epstone]

Oh dear... thats so on point - he do looks and talks like Peter o'toole!

[@Roger_Ramjet]

Brush fuckin Shields!!!!! Hahahaha

[@Wackdeeznutss]

Mr.Mar is awesome. True perspective of one's ways.

[@Nobddy]

Crazy that that last guy was only 22 years old

[@renef.8468]

How do you know? He never said that did he?

[@Nobddy]

@@renef.8468 joke: noun: a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter

[@renef.8468]

@@Nobddy ok and where's the joke

[@Nobddy]

@@renef.8468 it’s right there ⬆️. I didn’t say it was a good joke. Are 100% of your jokes funny? Here. Allow me to explain my entire thought process. I watched the video. I scrolled through the comments. Other people had made similar bad jokes. I thought they were so dumb that it would be funny to make another one to further pollute the comment section. Who is the joke for? Well, mainly for me, I suppose. Why are you so offended anyway? Did you believe me or something?

[@renef.8468]

@@Nobddy Actually your comment was the 3rd one I saw so I was pretty confused and went back to the part in the video to find it. So my question was genuine. But I didn't mean to offend you. Thanks for clarifying!

[@dotz7616]

People seemed so much more considerate and polite back then

[@JoeSmith-eo7rc]

Yes and now they’re either degenerate idiots or passive cowards

[@DJTXD123]

4:10 Christian Bale is taking his role as an Irishman in 1962 very seriously

[@NimsChannel]

Irish batman.

[@user-zp9nf5qo8j]

@@NimsChannel Irish psycho

[@JokahFACE]

He looks kinda like jimmy stewart

[@oldtyres36]

Ted bundy

[@d993s]

John McAfee

[@annihilationHaven]

I am blown to pieces at the pace of the reporter and the calmness of the interviewees. Stark contrast between that time and my own life. I have never had a calm conversation with anyone yet and I'm already 42.

[@tgb-vf4es]

I think this is because of movies. I don't watch movies at all, haven't since college. Ten years ago. I noticed people tend to not be calm when speaking. But I am, and generally they calm, too. Then last week I happened to watch a movie at a friend's place. It was on, we were having dinner. It felt awkward how all conversations were artificial and agitated. And if everyone watches movies or tv series, they start speaking like that. I write and edit for a living. The only people who are reasonably calm are the programmers. Everyone else, especially in sales is dialed to 220% one way or the other. Nobody seems to be calm, but maybe I am also exaggerating a bit. I do understand your point.

[@slaughterround643]

@@tgb-vf4es have you considered us growing up in a mass extinction event the likes of which history has never seen, while having for the past 40+ years had to work longer and longer hours for less and less pay maybe has something to do with being just a touch stressed?

[@tgb-vf4es]

@@slaughterround643 that's not what this discussion is about... You are aggressive but missing the point.

[@LitCactus]

Hmmmm have you considered that you are the common denominator in these conversations?

[@slayerhuh404]

lay off the coke bro

[@moixdollASMR]

i like the scent of cigarettes on late summer nights, when the roses has started to blossom

[@hiroyopoetker]

the last interview was classic!

[@noa3075]

I started smoking at 13, managed to quite when I was 20. I’m 22 now and I feel great :)

[@RichardT2112]

Good on you mate!

[@Bodyknowledge77]

I started at around the same age and stopped at 16. I'm 45 now. Keep it up and you'll be proud to look back on this and possibly a lot more good decisions.

[@noa3075]

@@Bodyknowledge77 Hopefully I’ll have your muscles at 45 mate!!

[@Bodyknowledge77]

@@noa3075 Use them, do it and it might be you too! 🙂

[@stevenlangdon-griffiths293]

Good for you.

[@ziogis8935]

Damn, that last guy could talk non smoker in to smoking :D

[@JayConstantine]

3:25 “I’m 17...and a half”😂 PS: She looks 30, I guess it’s too late to tell her to stop smoking.

[@shanehughes3511]

People aged shocking in the past. Honestly looking at previous decades you can see it in their skin and eyes. Look 40 at 20

[@ssttbb_]

Perhaps they looked older because of the fashion of the moment (make up, hairstyles, social behaviour protocol), the pollution due to combustion and carbon monoxide of vehicles, alcohol, in addition to cigarettes of course (she may have started very young).

[@PaulTC777]

she was pretty

[@sleep3417]

She was pretty though

[@kengruz669]

She was a stunner. If I had randomly met her back then, I would've been smitten.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

I grant that I do agree they Zap your energy . 😆 🤣 😂 😹 lovely man & love these videos.

[@keircampbell9374]

Sap your energy, he says. It’s a normal turn of phrase miss O’Reilly

[@sean864]

This is such a great channel, nothing like it.

[@Alpine_flo92002]

The last guy was living his best life. Maybe cutting it short a bit but hey he was having his way

[@conky7521]

why does the guy at 1:56 look exactly like Abraham Lincoln...literally give him a beard and a top hat lmao

[@erniebuchinski3614]

That last guy had gotten an early start that day with some kind of intoxicant, hadn't he? What a character . . . 😆

[@liamc1102]

No. He's just a smart fellow

[@rlm2933]

@@liamc1102 You got to be kidding me

[@Roger_Ramjet]

He was fluttered

[@BRuane-pw6xq]

A pseudo intellectual Drinker Smoker

[@RichardT2112]

I hope and pray everyone in this film made it alright without cancer … Bless the man at 1:57 …we need more of this logical rationale today more than ever!

[@jakew.1859]

This guy articulated so well why I can't deal with doing stuff with my Dad. We work on a car, need a dozen smoke breaks, need to go somewhere, gotta smoke first, in the parking lot, oh mind if I smoke in your car, well before we get started let me get a smoke, let me get a smoke and take a think. It's obnoxious.

[@johnmurphy7442]

1 in 5 smokers die of lung cancer so if they were smart enough to stop they probably had a normal lifespan.

[@josephzimmer6364]

@@jakew.1859 I told mine to get out, he just lights one up as soon as his ass hit my car seat

[@banankyjoe]

@@jakew.1859 its an addiction you idiot thats how it works

[@LibertyValence.]

Everyone dies

[@erikperik1000]

The sound is amazing

[@walkingTVwithadog]

The beatnik at the end had the right attitude,I mean,why wait around for a contradiction to die? Very well put

[@jumbe]

That last guy was a bit eccentric. At a pack and a half per day, he was definitely addicted.

[@adambritain5774]

Amazing to hear how well they speak.

[@jasonkey7559]

Yeah that's what we used to speak. Before chav culture and other cultures got hold.

[@SurnaturalM]

Imagine what knowledge companies are keeping away from the public right now.

[@autoporridge]

Just look at what commodities the government subsidies the most and follow the paper trail. Sugar, bananas, corn, milk... Oil too, but they're connected to almost everything, so its a little hard to follow.

[@jasonhatfield4747]

It must have been wonderful to be alive back then. Ignorant bliss is heavenly.

[@natedogg5708]

The fella at the end was a pretty decent actor, good bang for the tobacco companies bucks

[@bcj842]

Dr. Teeth and the last guy both brought the highest quality philosophies.

[@fireflameft2964]

Last guy was performing mental gymnastics to justify his addiction.

[@bcj842]

@@fireflameft2964 I watched it through again. It doesn’t seem like he’s “justifying” his addiction so much as he is excusing it. He’s not justifying it by lauding what he perceives to be beneficial as it concerns cigarettes, he’s simply saying that he’s comfortable with inevitably dying and he’s not going to quit just because someone informed him of the dangers. I still think he’s got an apathetic, fatalist outlook on the matter, but I’m saying that his stance and “Dr. Teeth’s” stance on the issue were the best articulated out of the lot. Ultimately, I agree with Dr. Teeth, but also I get where this guy’s coming from in a limited way.

[@brdane]

"Dr. Teeth" Damn, man. 😂

[@chinny_reckon]

It's just like talking to an old person really. Nice. ❤

[@SuperBeanson]

Some deep truths from the guy at the end. He seems to have a lot worked out...

[@TheGazza83]

Look at the style back then lads. Pure class

[@Chilavertish]

It was! Deinm has a lot to answer for 😃

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

Men were much more stylish and Masculine back then.

[@thenoblepoptart]

Idk reading James Joyce makes me glad I wasn’t born in 20th century Ireland

[@Roger_Ramjet]

@@emilfrederiksen.1622 Their cheap suits reeked of tobacco, booze and piss.

[@Roger_Ramjet]

@@thenoblepoptart I grew up there. It was epic.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Love these videos a great natural laugh

[@doktormabuse464]

I love how each one of them has a black eye, like they would get just out of a barfight😂😂

[@epstone]

Omg i had to check 😂 definitely looks like it due to the lightning

[@user-ip5ui4jd7c]

I'd love a follow up with these guys and what happened to them in life

[@adfasfuiuiui1056]

most are probably dead by now.

[@briankelly8297]

I love hearing the differences in accents.

[@nipdrip34]

A proper interviewer.

[@vinsanity982]

I smoked for 25 years and I quit two years ago. Before I quit, I was up to two packs a day. Walking up a flight of stairs made me feel winded. My heart rate would speed up just getting up out of bed to go take a piss. Man, it was difficult but I was determined to find a way to beat it. And god I feel a million times better now. Being able to breathe clearly is the most wonderful thing.

[@EWolf-fv6wv]

Bless up

[@Lattrodon]

I find it fucking amazing that I can perfectly understand everything they are saying despite this being from Ireland 60 years ago yet I can barely understand most Irish people today.

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

How do you mean you can barely understand Irish people today?

[@Lattrodon]

@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 Like their english is so broken and im used to old videos of people talking old fashion wise and barely understanding them.

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

@@Lattrodon Yeah, true. I mean it depends on the region you’re talking about. These people are city folk, and you can understand them better. On the west coast, the farmers and communities there have a rather impenetrable brogue to understand. And they always have. That’s where my lot were from. So tricky to understand, no one would get anywhere if they tried. But I take it that you’re actually talking about young Irish in the present day, who are lazy with their English? Like they have developed a modern gibberish or something?

[@-Loki--]

In the past decade or so studies revealed that ironically "some" smokers are less likely to suffer first time fatal heart attacks. These are smokers whose hearts (rarely) developed additional blood vessels opening up additional blood supply to heart muscle. These are the exception not the rule, but an odd fact. Unfortunately smoking and Atherosclerosis are linked.

[@Howitgoes799]

That’s really damn bizarre

[@Enoughdata]

I don't think that's linked to smoking though. We technically never lose our ability for arteriogenesis.

[@-Loki--]

@@Enoughdata Yet smokers would appear to have achieved it more often than non smokers. I see a link, though it makes me uncomfortable to acknowledge it.

[@Enoughdata]

@@-Loki-- Well if we could isolate what link is between smoking and growing new blood vessels (maybe it's just the nicotine), that might lead to better medical procedures. I might be incorrect, but I think some sirtuins, gene repairing proteins, have nicotine in their chemical structure. If that's the case, that's where I'd look.

[@-Loki--]

@@Enoughdata Lets not forget the hydrogen cyanide? I jest of course. I'm sure those doing the studies will pin it down one day. Maybe future generations will all be able to heal or rejuvenate damaged organs like we heal a headache today. God forbid if it encourages people to smoke with reckless impunity again though.

[@nasidctg]

I quit about 6 months ago. Used to smoke about 10 a day but during the lockdown I started going through a pack a day and sometimes even more. Smoked for about 13 years. Started in high school. It was hard at first but now I feel great.

[@tyronebiggums3853]

Good for you brother

[@chesspunk489]

I quit 11 months ago after smoking 2 packs a day for 15 years. It sure is a difficult road.

[@nasidctg]

@@chesspunk489 Congrats bro and yes it’s a hard road, specially the first few weeks.

[@CustardShop330]

Well done mate, should be proud of yourself, never as easy as you think

[@jedaaa]

I stopped for 13 months back in 2019/20. I've always been told, ' hey, your sense of smell and taste will improve immediately, you'll start to feel great after a few weeks/months, you'll have more energy' Well that was a load of bollocks, I never noticed a damn thing

[@shirvy]

The last guy was profound ❤️💯

[@hansblitz7770]

Dude at the end must have been some kind of musician, writer, something like that.

[@geneharrogate6911]

Before he even began speaking, I had a hunch the last bloke was going to impart a more philosophical response.

[@jaycristoval6155]

I just thought he was drunk...

[@barryk00da]

@@jaycristoval6155 what’s the difference

[@HarryDuBois616]

he literally babbled completely nonsense. I don't think even he knew what he was trying to say

[@canadian0099]

@@jaycristoval6155 amazing that some took that as philosophical. This world…special place lol.

[@kalebjames2292]

Man, we are going backwards, listen to how well spoken all of these people are, how well they present themselves, these people would be stand out citizens in today's day, pretty wild.

[@andrewstephens8790]

you have no idea how right you are. i was reading about the first pugilists in 1800s britain, the poorest of the poor fighting each other for scraps, yet their "trash-talk" in the press is written like TH White or something. they were light-years ahead of us in terms of average intelligence and basic physical health.

[@Chad-Giga.]

@@andrewstephens8790the internet will be our downfall

[@frank6842]

​@@andrewstephens8790they were also racist and believed all kinds of awful ideas. Just because someone is well spoken doesn't mean they're intelligent.

[@fatjack9460]

@@frank6842 it's still a valuable trait to have

[@sipper2136]

Every black and white man on the street interview generates droves of these same comments regardless of the speaking ability of the interviewed. The stilted speech of at least a couple of the interviewees really makes me question the veracity of this common impression.

[@southof.nowhere6096]

The audio quality was amazing! I felt like I was watching a modern film that was stylistically aged. I swear, of the many things happening now, on my top 5 of most exciting technology advancement is our abilities to restore old media and to look back to the past in ways more familiar to us. I watched this and felt like I was seeing and hearing these people as I would with my own two eyes, which even just a decade ago wasn't all too possible with the limitations of cameras and microphones at the time of shooting.

[@Aria23331]

Nerd

[@southof.nowhere6096]

@@Aria23331 You're gat damn right!

[@TheCito]

Well with all the advancements in video technology over the decades it’s quite easy to forget that audio was something perfected quite early, and that hasn’t changed all too much for at least 30 to 40 years. Most high end audio equipment of today like headphones and mics uses the same technology as developed in the 70s and 80s, advancement in audio were quite incremental since My point being, the audio doesn’t particularly have to be restored, it could’ve equally been recorded in such quality already back then

[@JC-ji1hp]

The man in the end was ENLIGHTENED

[@Ma-official_]

wtf he was talking nonsense

[@JC-ji1hp]

Same with the non-smoker guy both have their points. Only god can really judge

[@Jack13001]

Jaysus the interviewer stared into the soul of every interviewee😂. I’d be uncomfortable somebody being that close to me staring at me like that.

[@leonardo9259]

People used to be very direct back then lol

[@paidtobehear8823]

The Mic he is using is fucking fire! Holy shit where is Kurt Ballou with this one? Also a channel 5 (all gas no brakes) reference is necessary. Holy fuck this is so good. 🙏

[@james_daniels]

This is amazing. Over sixty years ago and you were able to get different views from all sorts of people. The one pretty girl was so sweet. You could tell she hasn’t experienced much in life yet. Hope she was able to quit or at least not smoke more. The guy at the end smoked 40 a day? He looked so thin. I like how he was trying to use philosophy as a way of explaining it.

[@Johnny67Bhoy]

Smoked for 10 years from 22 to 32. Went cold turkey and it was one of the hardest things ive ever done. Been off 4 years now and feel so much better. Having a cold beer and a smoke on a friday after work was awesome though 😅

[@413XAj0n3z]

What’s it like being gay?

[@ItsHollowfied]

4:26 was trying to get on KZbin before KZbin was a thing. A true visionary

[@fidelcatsro6948]

True..I doubt he's still around today..even the little teen should be 80yrs old today

[@ChestersonJack]

17 and a half? Geez… but it’s not older than many of my peers started vaping, so it’s not like I can say much

[@sbm5379]

If it makes you feel better she's 77 now and still smoking her 10 a day

[@brianallen858]

@@sbm5379 Peggy is 79, and she still has that herring bone coat 🇮🇪 🍍👍🇮🇪

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

I'm 39. Back in the 90s most of my peers were smoking by that age. But she looks about 25 tbh.

[@themaskedman221]

@@daithiocinnsealach1982 Yeah, I thought she was 25ish as well.

[@davidmg1925]

@@themaskedman221 I thought early 30s tbh

[@pieceofshitzu2]

I do agree with the man at the end. Let people do what they want and others shouldn't dictate what they can or can't do to their body

[@turbogaleb]

this is amazing

[@keeganclick1346]

2:31 this guy's perspective is amazing!

[@operator91210]

I think that can also go with any addiction of that matter or even yet children who are to close to their parents or rely on their friends to make decisions for them. Very interesting point that man made

[@pedromateus9575]

Can someone explain me please

[@SurrealExistence]

The last guy was the most real of all of them

[@nottooherbal]

Nice to see some tough opinions on smoking. Some daft ones too .

[@garystefan8550]

I know of a few people who were life-long heavy smokers, they all died prematurely from either cancer or massive strokes. I was a light smoker for around ten years, it was easy for me to give up because I hated the habit.

[@goyjin5676]

You’re still not safe Gary. Deaths bell will toll for thee you charred lunged bastard

[@user-yx1pe4ny7t]

and how much you smoked a day?

[@Taydrum]

grandpa smoked 2 packs of unfiltered camels a day for 30 years starting in the war, lived to 94, mind you he quit when he was about 50

[@moorshound3243]

Or you could just take the jab and spin the wheel weather you will live or die.

[@rowleyzero]

Mr. Mahr died 2 weeks later from smoking.... he was lighting a cigarette and got hit by a bus.

[@hyperleap4876]

Did he actually or are you just joking?

[@Roger_Ramjet]

@@hyperleap4876 don't listen to him. It was a train. He was hit by a train.

[@vintagefilms6590]

Why would he joke about something like that?

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

@@hyperleap4876 what do you think

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

@@Roger_Ramjet he was hit by a Tesla

[@opencurtin]

Mr Maher at the end seems to be straight out of the Gate theatre .

[@278grams]

Last guy was ahead of his time

[@Agirmetal]

I really liked these beautiful people. I hope they are in peace wherever they are

[@Peter-gi3re]

That last guy was a bit of a loon …… I think he was smoking more than cigarettes 😂

[@Idontno307]

💯 he was 🤣🤣🤣

[@me1747]

Thought the same. haha

[@adriandrysdale661]

@Lala he would be an anti vaxx nut job for sure

[@vilamor007]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@john8058]

he been smoking banana skins