Cigarette Crazy Reveals Why & How It Affects Him. He Kept Smoking......

Back in 1988 I got the opportunity to make a primetime documentary for PBS on cigarette smoking - on tobacco addiction - on the right of Americans to smoke when others are present - secondhand smoke etc. PBS gave me a grant but required that in order for me to make a program they would accept in the prime time, I had to present both sides. Both sides said I? What do you mean?
The Surgeon General way back in 1964 had said that smoking cigarettes is an addiction that kills people. PBS said that I had to make the program "fair and balanced" and present both sides of the nicotine story. Amazingly, people on both sides (the other side being the tobacco industry) said okay to being in my film.
Viewers have asked me what happened to this guy, a lifelong seriously addicted tobacco smoker and very knowledgeable about the effect of tobacco on him and others who are addicted. Sadly, I did not keep up with him after I conducted this interview so I don't know. I am hopeful that the relative of his someday sees this and lets me/us know how long he lived and how he died.
If you or someone you know smokes cigarettes and might like to quit, search the word "tobacco" on my KZbin channel and you will find a variety of video clips that have helped thousands to quit smoking.
If this clip has meaning for you, I would appreciate your supporting my efforts by clicking the super thanks button to the right below the video screen. That support allows me to keep on doing what I am doing on KZbin.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Here's how they sold you cigarettes back then - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gITHqmeYmdWYY6c

[@josephmedina6403]

I'll take a pack of them cowboy killers

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

Proof of all Historic Claims are Required.

[@justletmepostthis276]

How much did you pay George Bush to be the Cowboy at the beginning of the video or is that a friend deal...?

[@bccsivxx-xxivvii]

​@@josephmedina6403 and make sure it's the the real cowboy killers too, Marlboro Reds. Not Marlboro Mediums (now called the Red Label to make things more confusing) and not the Marlboro Lights (now called the Gold Label). I don't want them diet cigarettes.

[@ReVoltaire]

"I miss my lung, Bob!"

[@dangeroussneeze66]

My grandpa was a huge smoker back in the day. He was a 30s man, and a living chimney. But one day out of nowhere, he was about to light another cig but hesitated before crushing it and dropping it to never smoke again. He lived to 83.

[@Laca578]

Gosh, I expected that "he was about to light a cig, but a stroke claimed him at 32" Your version is definitely better!

[@elijaprice]

That's strange, my grandfather was the same, he smoked heavily for decades, then one day in his 50s, he was at work and lit a cigarette, thought it tasted horrible for some reason, stubbed it out, and never smoked again. Neither my grandma or anyone else in his family could believe it, but he lived to 82.

[@bensears7499]

Sounds like tough men

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Literally could quit whenever he wanted

[@DhirC35]

Those guys could actually quit whenever they wanted, both my grandfathers were the same. Idk wtf they put in cigs now but its definitely different from back then@@thefrenchareharlequins2743

[@ab6617]

This man was 25 years old at the time of filming.

[@ab6617]

Tim Lewis haha. Nice. Is he still a character on the Simpsons? I haven’t seen a new episode in years.

[@Kube_Dog]

It cut him off before he told us what to teach fourth graders.

[@brianglade848]

This guy looks so much older, he graduated with my son in 2002

[@Kube_Dog]

@@brianglade848 It's because he quit smoking. When you stop, you age really fast.

[@commonsense3055]

A B ... LOL!

[@roberttosa2560]

“Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it thousands of times”. - Mark Twain

[@MickDoolan]

vaping the best thing ever

[@Virus8208.]

@@MickDoolan no

[@IgnoretheButter]

​@@MickDoolan vaping may be worse. We know that cigarettes kill you. Vaping is an unknown, but it's definitely not good for you

[@jjg1501]

its easy for me. ive quit multiple times for years at a time with no real problems. i do enjoy the shit out of smoking though even after ive quit for 3 years i can start again cause its enjoyable

[@406MenaceRacecar]

They don't know the cause of the need to dose nicotine, so they keep removing the RESULT of the problem (nicotene) instead of removing the CAUSE of the problem.

[@kokolovitch56]

I almost died several times of a heart attack from smoking in my 50’s. As of this writing, I’m 13 years smoke free.

[@OrangeDiamond33]

I love a good cigarette with my coffee in the morning. 🚬 ☕️

[@truthkeeperfilms]

Your lungs have been healing and appreciating it for the last 13 years

[@barneyronnie]

Are you still alive?

[@kokolovitch56]

@@barneyronnie of course.

[@desert58c]

​@@kokolovitch56are your health good ?

[@mightylonesome9426]

April of 2018 I was diagnosed with emphysema (COPD). I did some tests to determine how much lung capacity I had and found out that I was at 27%. Simple things like showering, carrying in a bag of groceries, or walking the dog can leave me bent over gasping for breath. I smoked cigarettes for about 50 years and was aware of the health risks. I'm not making excuses or looking for sympathy, I have myself to blame. If you smoke please stop, it will save your life. If you don't smoke don't start, spare yourself the agony of struggling to breath.

[@bobbybabinjr.4388]

Don't they give you that really nice purple syrup though?

[@manano06]

@@bobbybabinjr.4388 you're an idiot.

[@93Jubilee]

@WeeStrom CO Guy Think more clearly about what you're conveying here. You want to put down what someone says because of how you judge their name? If you find the comment about "purple syrup" silly (which it seems to be, no argument), then just say that. But why ridicule a name, something we're given at birth? How seriously can a comment like this be taken?

[@niandraladie2953]

Okay

[@niandraladie2953]

👌

[@DihelsonMendonca]

💥 My grandmother smoked till 90 years old. I asked why she stopped at that age. She said that she finally discovered that cigarettes were doing harm to her. 😮😮😮

[@davidhunt8456]

The narrator is Peter Thomas/forensic files. He could read the phone book and make it interesting. R.I.P. Peter Thomas and phone books.

[@MassPickers]

YO I KNEW I HEARD THAT VOCE SOMEWHERE HAHAHHAHAHAH FORENSIC FILES

[@shanewhitefeather6298]

He looks so cool smoking!

[@jillwinterberg6570]

He lived in Naples at the end of the life and was a client at the wealth management firm I worked at. I never spoke with him but my colleague was assigned his account and it would give her chills when he's call her to say "I need to make a transfer into my checking account" in that distinctive voice of his.

[@carlosmatos9848]

@@jillwinterberg6570 Lol, that voice of his is pure gold. Iirc, they forensic files producers referred to his voice as "the franchise" because lets be honest that show wouldn't have been nearly as good without him.

[@Gazdatronik]

I recognized, from Hardcastle's 19

[@BulletsAndBloomers]

I quit smoking and started eating live porcupines.

[@stanleyqc2244]

lmao

[@JQuintero189]

Same

[@gotohellaaron]

Very "sharp" idea you have there.

[@plainlogic]

How much has your health improved?

[@sancho7863]

Fip Dibwibbler i’ve been thinking about switching to live porcupines myself

[@whiteeyedsh4rk697]

Big props to the people who found out about the health risks and made it public, just as well as the people who educate us about it

[@titanomachy2217]

Hahaha I dunno if you would reaffirm that sentiment if you knew who actually first issued public PSAs about the negative health impact of tobacco. It wasn't Americans in the 60s, it was Germans in the 30s, and Germans in the thirties were, well, yaknow, the bad guys from WWII movies.

[@ron1836]

Kinda common sense. I would think. But people are pretty dumb. They don't have a thought unless first told to have one. And also what that thought IS

[@supercoolyguy]

All you have to do Is smoke a pack yourself. Just 3/day. One week later, You'll notice.

[@JoshPhoenix11]

Its not the tobacco itself that is the danger, its the added chemicals they adulterate it with. From its growing to its curing and processing, and the bleached paper you smoke it in thats what is cancer causing and responsible for the addiction being a significant problem. The Native Americans were supposedly the first people to cultivate tobacco. If tobacco was cancer causing they would of been the first to know it, yet never considered it dangerous. They in fact considered it a sacred plant and tobacco was ceremoniously used, and even has some properties that help balance certain states. Like grounding for instance, even thought theres a lot of Air element in smoking which is mental in nature, it uses the transformational and clearing element of Fire to catalyze Air with Earth into the body and has a grounding and aligning of the mind/body. It technically involves all elements although moisture levels are minimal. Its only since the commercialization of tobacco its been a problem. Thats actually another issue with commercial tobacco, inhibiting mold. Cause if moisture levels in tobacco are too low the smoke is harsh, loses its flavor, its body and character. So to have a moisture level for a smooth smoke its chemically treated to prevent mold which is really really dangerous to ever inhale.

[@kevincortez5994]

Very interesting. I'm on day 90 cigarette free today.

[@felix2672]

Freak show

[@Nick_Goblin]

​@Pedro Gunderson ''Keeping track of days'' all he has to know is the day he started. 90 days is 3 months.

[@derrickforeal]

@Pedro Gunderson I'm on year 5 and 5 days Or day 1,830. I will never smoke again but because I can keep track of when I quit how is it discouraging. I remember being so excited that I went 1 month or 3 months or 1 year.

[@sidjeffreson4343]

Kevin Cortez day 60 here and I'm doing good

[@kevincortez5994]

@@nikigrow7347 ya i use quit tracker its awesome :)

[@robert4167]

i didn‘t smoke for over 6 years then i startet elementary school

[@CitizenSnips69]

looks like you didn't quite finish lmao

[@egamilos917]

HahHaAHAhaHahaHa this is funny humor

[@Borals]

Did you drop out when you sparked your first ciggy

[@jahlaune]

O,g lol 😂

[@Mars-77]

Same here. I started in the 3rd grade. Smoked for 54 yrs.

[@Paul_Michael]

I started smoking cigarettes since my teenage. Got addicted for over 23 years. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[@RodriguezGorge]

Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine,alcohol and cigarettes.And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.

[@DebanckKim-rd6to]

I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.

[@dustinstacey5181]

Yes im sure getting hight af on a psychoactive drug healed you of your addiction lmao gtfoh

[@furerorban9324]

@@DebanckKim-rd6to divorce?

[@spookygeorge1969]

bot

[@SteffiReitsch]

Many years ago I worked in a grocery store. People came in to buy cigarettes who were in their 70s, so I thought, humm, cigarettes must not be so bad after all. However later I found out those folks who I thought were in their 70s were actually in their 50s.

[@Jayantan846]

😀😀

[@jackheinemann1994]

You you only see/hear from the folks who are still alive

[@malcomM96]

😂😂😂😂 i shouldn't be laughing

[@davidaustrian9455]

In Australia I see many people like you described. They are in their 40’s and 50’s but look 20 years older. They started smoking In their teens. Their faces have wrinkles that look like cracks, and dry reddish looking skin. They also look thin in a lot of cases. What can you do.

[@jackheinemann1994]

@@davidaustrian9455 Im Australian and yes your right, to many folks like that here. Drugs too age you really quickly. Meth is the worst. My father is 71, he did the smoking thing 50 years ago like everyone else but stopped after a few years. He barely has a wrinkle on his face and is in much better health inside and out than most people you see on the street. Smoking now goes hand in hand wth lower socio-economic status, so there are more factors than just smoking itself

[@thehardnesschannel1605]

I’m going to start smoking at 77, I’m 40 now, can’t wait!!!

[@sonnydayz2118]

I may start 1 year b4 I die. 😂

[@cht2162]

Began smoking at 14 in 1954 and finally quit in 1977 (23years). Surgeon General's Report gave me the will to finally overcome this terrible addiction. Am now 84 (2024) Still breathing.

[@Iowarail]

Indians gave us tabaco and we gave them Smallpox.

[@LoydAvenheart]

fair trade

[@harrygooch8943]

Yea trade back then was strange

[@k3kboi665]

The indians dont play around 100milion deatgs due to tobacco in the 20th century and 1bilion in the 21st century.

[@k3kboi665]

@livey oone every body get syphilis no matter the race.

[@k3kboi665]

@@x2gloki ancient creeks took cannabis saunas but people in europe started smoking only in the 1500's and 1600's so how does that work?

[@DominikPavel-fk2wb]

I started smoking cigarettes since my teenage. Got addicted for over 23 years. Cigarettes addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[@DebanckKim-rd6to]

I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.

[@Jacksonstatham-tf8ov]

Psychedelics/psilocybin made me quit a lot of bad habits and gave me a more positive outlook on life and the appreciation for other people.The day after one trip I came out as a better me, nothing can compare, I owe it to psychedelics, it cannot be described in words.

[@user-hj9tz9hr1n]

why would cigarettes make you depressed and mentally ill??

[@Sumofallfears]

You just went from cigarettes to mushroom addiction.

[@ricardo9013]

why do i keep seeing this comment on videos

[@metaparcel]

When I was a caregiver I remember a sweet old lady who had an oxygen tank attached to her wheelchair and it went with her everywhere. I asked her one day "What advice would you give me about life" and she said "Don't smoke, it's just so bad for you. Look at me" She was such a nice person and though I did smoke at parties and the casual bullshit smoking phase we all go through I eventually stopped altogether and almost 16 years later I still remember her. Smoking just demolishes you and you pay for it one day.

[@cokiez48]

I took one cigarette at the age of 18 while I was in the military & haven’t stopped since. Don’t do it I feel like shit afterwards & people notice your smell immediately.

[@living4adrenaline]

try gum

[@mikemiller659]

The smell comes from your pores..its in Every part of your body..not just your mouth@@living4adrenaline

[@Humaan372]

@@living4adrenalineworks like magic

[@Darksky333-eu7cq]

I moved to zyns after smoking for over 10 years best decision ever

[@The03021956]

Quiting the smoking is the best decision i took in my life !! Was a smoker for over 45 years !! I feel much much much much better now!!

[@RyleKittenhouse]

Just quit my self. You still going strong ?

[@retroguy9494]

Well, that's good for YOU dude. I smoked them for 32 years and quit 7 years ago and I feel like shit! When people ask me (assume really) if I feel much better I say 'hell no...if anything, I feel WORSE!' This is because I have other health issues and they're getting worse.

[@kolarz2128]

​@@retroguy9494how can You know if your health wouldnt be much worse if you continued smoking?

[@shanghunter7697]

@@kolarz2128 Oh my......i can't take anymore.

[@kolarz2128]

@@shanghunter7697 ?

[@19ADAM80]

The older guy is telling nothing but the absolute truth..

[@charlesramsden1022]

Except calling the natives Americans Indians... just sayin

[@antonb9459]

@@kemolowlow Because Asia is only China and India?

[@tlahuicolebarrraz7772]

335714051 we’re all African bro. You’re my beautiful brother or sister

[@donovanfox7752]

@@charlesramsden1022 Would you kindly stop being that one guy

[@Zylork0122]

So help him god?

[@whyamiwatchingthis7577]

I quit cigarettes exactly 1 month and 4 days ago, after smoking since I was 12 !

[@whyamiwatchingthis7577]

I8thumper still not smoking 👍🏼

[@michaeloladepo]

How did you access cigarettes at age 12?

[@whyamiwatchingthis7577]

Michael Oladepo I was in Russia at that time so it wasnt hard

[@ChocoThulhu]

Why Am I Watching This how old are you?

[@whyamiwatchingthis7577]

Adrian Garcia I’m 28

[@jasonb5511]

I quit smoking on 6/6/06 dont miss that shit at all . Still have some other habits I need to lose . Best of luck to anyone tryin to quit smoking or any other habit/addiction

[@user-lq1dk6gr3p]

Jason B what a date to chose to quit lol

[@OF01975]

Wish quitting weed was as easy as tobacco

[@rusemode]

@OBEYTHEWALRUS G59 fuck you too!

[@user-lq1dk6gr3p]

o 44 its much easier in my opinion though. You just get depressed because your brain is withdrawing from dopamine. After 2-4 weeks you’re good. I’m still craving a cig almost a year after quitting and battle not to smoke any when I’m drinking

[@enricod2061]

o 44 bro I quit weed with ease and never touch it anymore. With tobacco you’ll crave that shit for the rest of your life.

[@Gandim45]

This bloke is a marvelous story teller

[@stepanzadorozhny3823]

The most British sentence you could possibly make

[@baronmilhaven11]

Smoking caused my mother's early death at 67 due to COPD. She smoked from age 16 up until the few months prior to her death. My dad was a Lexington smoker for 25 years...in 1983 he had a mild heart attack and literally threw his box of cigarettes and lighter in the bin. He is still alive at age 84.

[@colmmcdonnell6256]

I was led to the believe lifespan average is three score and 10 so (70 )so on average with your parents your beating that .im sorry your mum didn’t make it over 70 but if we accept 70 as average it’s great if we beat it and enjoy drinking smoking and any vice we might enjoy in life .its better to enjoy life than live old craving for things you deny yourself so you can be older

[@joewalsh1054]

I quit smoking 7 years ago. I met my wife the next month and she said she wouldn't have stayed with me if i smoked so it worked out

[@theepicpeguin]

Turned out your wife is your mom

[@spottedhorsecannotbekilled4409]

Now you know how to get rid of her if needed...

[@grantmills4184]

I suppose life’s been good for you since you quit smoking

[@toddfryman849]

I tried many times to quit smoking and different methods but finally did quit... The method that got me over the hump was buying the shittiest cheapest nastiest tobbacco and used the patch while smoking.. Naturally smoked less until smoking was no longer enjoyable... Now when I want a cig I put a cough drop in for that throat burn that I miss... Hope this helps someone

[@rcppop3090]

Todd Fryman dude that’s a pretty fucking brilliant idea man! NOTHING WORSE THEN A CHEAP ASS SHIT BRAND TASTING CIGARETTE!

[@josephsharpe2669]

I did the same it works but you still have to really want it

[@Jakob-zs1qu]

I quit smoking 11 years ago and haven't touched them since but still have dreams of lighting up and enjoying it. So I definitely believe it's the most addicting drug in the world

[@jaketoffen2454]

I smoked for a decade before I quit a few years ago. Best decision I ever made. You can do it !

[@hydrowashpressurecleaning]

I quit Cigarettes when i was 31, and i am now 56. I can put it down quite simply to this. It was the worst thing i ever took up, but it was the best thing that i ever gave up.

[@damachine3]

My dad was a big smoker but one day while playing golf he felt a tightening in his chest during his backswing. He attributed it to smoking. At the time he had two young boys and he decided he had to quit for us. He never had another cigarette after that day.

[@theodoreconstantini2548]

My father was one of those that gave up smoking as a response to this report, in around 1966.

[@Mascotal]

10 Years later. I still want a cigarette.

[@willhoren9200]

Same.

[@davidaustrian9455]

I will have a cigarette for you tonight mate.

[@Mascotal]

@@davidaustrian9455 No thanks mate. I'm happy not having that monkey on my back anymore. Here in Canada they charge $18 for a pack of 20 butts.

[@Ken-fh4jc]

Really? I quit like 5 years ago and don’t even like being around 2nd hand smoke. It’s gross.

[@Mascotal]

@@Ken-fh4jc Then I would guess maybe your parents didn't smoke. My addiction started as a kid being exposed 24/7 around adults in the 1960's / 70's. Then I bought my own at age 13. I quit at age 58.

[@Hn-gz5iw]

Cigarette addiction can be very strong. My grandfather died from causes unrelated to his heavy smoking and when he was unconcious in his hospital bed his hands still did the smoking gesture back and fourth to his mouth as if he had a cigarette in his empty hand.

[@basedghost6775]

This is so scary! Gonna have to light a cigarette to calm me down

[@yamac488]

You still with us?

[@antonioangeconeb3196]

@yamac488 I think that nigga s dead

[@senti7965]

Update us or we will assume you got reincarnated

[@sunnyblueskies6505]

I remember where I was exactly when Yul Brynner begged me (I took his warning personally!) to never smoke. I was five when that commercial came out, which also announced his death due to smoking. Because of that commercial, I’ve never done it. I wish everyone would quit. So many health issues and premature deaths 💔

[@folksurvival]

But most supercentenarians (aged 110 years or more) are/were smokers.

[@Clarkticus]

Right, because they lived through a time where smoking was very prevalent. I think you would be mistaken if you were to say that their smoking is what caused their long life

[@folksurvival]

@@Clarkticus There's no way to know for sure if they would have lived longer or shorter without smoking but it's interesting to think about. It's possible that it helped increase their lifespan due to the purported neuroprotective effects of nicotine etc and there was a study, for example, that showed pipe smokers lived longer than non-smokers. Maybe they just had good genetics and would have lived to that same age regardless of what they did or maybe if they hadn't smoked they would have lived even longer.

[@smelltheglove2038]

Breathing the air of a city turns out to be far worse for your lungs than smoking cigarettes. Sure, they’re not necessarily good for you, but the danger has been way over blown.

[@sunnyblueskies6505]

@@smelltheglove2038 I am an RN. I’ve taken care of a multitude of people over the years who’ve lived through torturous week, months, and years before blessedly passing away to be free of their pain - all due to smoking. I’ve seen postmortem what smoking does to organs. I’ve also seen what effect quitting before any emphysema, COPD, etc. sets in, and their lungs sound and look almost as healthy - if not as healthy - as someone who’s never smoked. Don’t try to kid yourself or anyone else that anything else is worse than smoking for your lungs/body. Except maybe being morbidly obese. If you have both, your life expectancy usually drops by 20 years. People who survive until their octogenarian + years by smoking every day are the exception - not the norm.

[@miket.220]

What I find funny is that the same people that shamed everyone for blowing cig smoke everywhere and the "dangers of secondhand smoke" are seemingly fine with the non-stop marijuana smoke you smell everywhere in every city. Feels like you can hardly go anywhere without smelling weed smoke coming out of someone's car, on the street corner, etc., and no one says anything. Isn't it still second-hand smoke, or is this different somehow?

[@giuseppenasca2091]

It's basically the same it happens a combustion that produces Co2, it was all about to prevail on others nothing less

[@D-Fens_1632]

It's not quite as dangerous (neither is second hand tobacco smoke, but that's a different argument). I've supported legalization for decades but am also tired of smelling it everywhere.

[@PanthraxIV]

You think "anti cigarette" stuff was a democrat thing or something? also, I rarely smell weed in public, and I live in a city with legal weed. You're being a bit silly here. And yea, weed smoke, though still not healthy, is not comparable to tobacco smoke, healthwise.

[@miket.220]

@@PanthraxIV Second hand smoke is second hand smoke. And I don't really see Republicans fighting for weed legalization, do you?

[@PanthraxIV]

@miket.220 not all smoke is equal lol. Ask a firefighter if they'd rather inhale smoke from a wildfire or smoke from a car/house. Humans have been sitting around fire for thousands of years. Cigarettes have 500 or more added chemicals that are all terrible in their own ways. Even worse than pure tobacco alone. That applies to second hand smoke as well. None of it is great for you, but it absolutely varies depending on the substance. Also, I'm as far from republican as a person can be.

[@difencrosby]

I quit smoking November 2004, saved myself a lot of money over this time period.

[@deliveryman1970]

Keith Richards is a living cigarette

[@ericfranchi1354]

He finally quit yesterday. 🤣

[@thomashugus5686]

I did some medical transport after my firefighters career and I picked up an old gentleman that claimed he was the “Marlboro man” in all the commercials. He had pictures to prove it! He was emphysemic and very unhealthy at the time.

[@crackinskouls]

I don't think that guy is tobacco crazy he would rather hear or see children being aware of the history of tobacco as well as the harm that tobacco can cause from early ages so the youth won't smoke like the generations before them.

[@dimebagdarrel7190]

Smoke weed everyday

[@travisbickle2401]

@@dimebagdarrel7190 that's terrible advice. You have problems if you smoke every day.

[@evansaltz1162]

dimebag darrel occasionally is fine

[@k3kboi665]

@@evansaltz1162 everything in moderation.

[@jackmaster3134]

Fucking quitter

[@littlehouse894]

I've been a habitual smoker for 60 years, and the trouble is that i thoroughly enjoyed it. I have no expectation that i will live for ever, just make sure that a carton of Winston are buried with me.

[@Chet73]

Amen

[@mr.t658]

60 years, you're a beast!

[@jesusisking8502]

I wonder what the non smokers will be doing hundreds of years into the future? They will get to see so much now that they have immortality.

[@3thano1]

I quit smoking when I was 25 and switched to vaping for 5 years. I continued to cut my nicotine back to 0mg and then was finally able to quit for good. The crazy thing is that I haven't touched it in a year, and I still have cravings. Even watching this video was kind of triggering. But when this happens I think of the progress I've made, the fact that one smoke would erase years of hard work, and the fact that I don't want to wake up unable to breathe at some point in my life due to a poor decision I made when I was younger. I knew it was addicting, but I had no idea just how addicting it truly is. Never would have thought that after all of this time I would still be having cravings. But at the end of the day I'm just so thankful that I was able to quit as "young" as I am now, as I can imagine this only gets even more difficult with age.

[@VideoSaySo]

One smoke wouldn't erase years of hard work! You would be remembering it well enough when you had to start back over at square one! Lol!

[@michaellefort6128]

I'm sixty and and I think I was twenty before I saw either of my parents without a cigarette dangling. I didn't start until I was in the Marines and believe me, when your pucker factor clears six or seven a cigarette could relax you. I noticed after several years that I was making a concious decision to smoke that first one if the day. So I didn't light up and found I could get through the morning with out it. I ran out of smokes once and didn't feel compelled to race out and but some. A week later I noticed that I hadn't missed it. Lucky me.

[@dand3975]

So as a part of your VA retirement plan, does the government purchase for you cigarettes as part of your monthly payments? Or is part of your monthly VA disability payments spent on cigarettes??????

[@danimalousbearmaximus786]

it's been 2 years since my last cigarette, did it for my kids ,I did it for life.

[@benjamintekin616]

RIP Ed Brecher, He passed in Pennsylvania in 2011 at the age of 91 so he did live quite a long life in spite of his smoking.

[@christophersmith4156]

THATS UN TRUE HE DIED 1989 AGE 77 HE TOOK.HIS OWN LIFE

[@prostre7005]

@@christophersmith4156 Yes, he took his life aged 77, because he suffered from colon cancer for more than a decade. Smoking is a contributing factor to colon cancer.

[@Alejo846]

And lung cancer ​@@prostre7005

[@AngryLoo]

Cigarette smoking is bad for you. If you want to be - and feel like - a healthy and virile individual - don't smoke. THAT BEING SAID... Smoking is at times an extremely pleasurable way to pass the time. You may value that next smoke over being able to run up the stairs without ending up short of breath. It all depends on your personality. You be the judge.

[@simpleton8554]

Ill take the cig

[@ggff3761]

Oh a nice benson and hedges after a slap up meal, pure heaven.

[@bindig1]

Think about the first person that thought, "hey, I'll roll up that dried leaf, light it on fire and breathe in the smoke". The whole act of smoking is really bizarre when you think about it

[@jojorobino5312]

I could never quit either. I quit smoking for 2 days back in April 2018. Thats the longest I've gone without since I started.

[@shane8911]

It’s not smoking that’s addictive. It’s the comfort it gives you

[@HeronPoint2021]

I was dating an incredible young lady in the early eighties, one of the smartest in the room. I asked her why she smoked and she was surprisingly honest: it cuts off oxygen to my BRAIN and calms me down!! At least she had an idea of what it did. !!

[@scrappyhustler7467]

Im now 4 months and 3 days smoke free and two years soda free lol my kids are much happier i feel so much better breathe better smell better skin looks better im no longer coughing im walking daily and i went from 258lbs just a hair over 6ft and im now down to 221lbs its really crazy and my testosterone levels are off the charts no roids either drug free just excersize fairly healthy diet of mostly greens fruits seafood chicken and tuna i feel great if u really want to lose weight and become healthier its definitely a lifestyle change but really worth it imo and i you transition slowly u will notice u feel better by the day oh and another thing i found as a smoker i got sick more often abd since quitting not once no flu shot and ive been around the virus a few times this winter good luck

[@randomrojas589]

How long did you smoke?

[@conorpentony1568]

Awesome man!

[@scrappyhustler7467]

Since 14 stealing cigs from adults and hanging around the local vfw where they had a cigg vending machine lol so from 14 and im currently 34 next month 35 so oh wow holy shit i smoked for 20 years! Sad very sad and my doctor just had my lungs checked out and amazingly theu are as if i was 21 and never smoked!

[@randomrojas589]

joseph lesko we are the same age I drank since the age of 15 and the doc says I’m good to go . But it is great that you stopped.

[@sallyvillarreal4294]

I was in the second and third grade in 1988. We focused on the harm from cigarettes. Surely we talked about addiction, but it doesn’t stick in my mind the same as coloring a healthy lung pink and a smoker’s lung gray. I think addiction is important to discuss, that you can’t quit anytime you want. But we were also talking about drug addiction at that age. I did the infamous DARE program in 1991. Obviously, just saying it’s addictive isn’t enough. However, constantly beating fear into kids doesn’t work either. I would love to see if there’s some connection between the Just Say No overreaction of the 1980s and those who chose to start smoking despite what we know. BTW- love the Tobacco Institute guy who scoffs at the info, but does nothing to refute it.

[@Therealtruthsocial]

As a hospice nurse for many years, you couldn't pay me to smoke. I've taken care of so many patients with COPD and Lung Cancer. My parents both died of smoking related illness. You can usually get away with it until you are in your 50s to 60s then all the health problems begin. I have taken care of so many patients gasping for air and nothing takes the shortness of breath away. To move someone from the bed to a wheelchair with oxygen on and they are severely out of breath for 15 minutes. A friend from school has smoked for 40 years and hasn't quit even though her mother died of COPD. I keep telling her she's going to get COPD and she can't quit. THANK GOD I DON'T SMOKE!

[@johnflavin1602]

What if you smoked for say 35 years and stopped and now vape instead. Would you say the damage is already done and that person will still have health issues in their 60s?

[@brianglade848]

Oh my gosh, my son graduated with this guy in 2002, he looks so much older

[@davidiverson2541]

I smoked for around 40 years. For many years I only smoked 2 to 3 cigarettes a day. My lungs are fine. I quit because my Wife didn't like it, they are expensive and I don't believe they do me any good. I really enjoyed them. I haven't smoked for around 6 years. I believe smoking affects people differently. Some people who smoke live to be over 100. I also believe that if you only smoke 2 to 3 cigarettes a day it hurts you less than a heavy smoker. I would not recommend the habit to anyone. I also feel that if you have to give up everything you enjoy where is the reason for living. I believe it is a persons own business if they choose to smoke. Many habits done to excess are harmful. If a peron is obese that is probably as harmful as smoking.

[@BoneyRasputin]

That hardest thing about quitting cigarettes is WANTING TO QUIT...

[@ericfranchi1354]

Good point

[@BassPlayer9000]

Dang right, It's like when I smoke that voice in the back of my head knows it is bad but by god I enjoy smoking a cigarette. To me their is something relaxing about smoking a cigarette

[@Dutch94]

@@BassPlayer9000 It is relaxing because the nicotine has created an urge you did not have before.

[@fattony123082]

I’m glad I’ve never started but you are the only one to convince yourself to stop. Your brain is a very powerful tool.

[@OUigot]

One guy I knew said it's easier to quit cocaine than cigarettes, I totally agree with him.

[@john1-29_aka_LHT-LFA]

but not oxycodon, unfortunately

[@nicholasyoder]

I quit smoking 15 years ago, but we have 5 kids now and I got so stressed out one day I started smoking again damnit and now it seems even harder to quit. My News Years resolution went to hell.

[@GManStritz8]

How you doing now mate?

[@jonathanlindsey858]

I believe this gentleman's name is Edward M. Brecher. He was a science writer a book author and died in 1989 from a self inflicted action.

[@OffGridInvestor]

He had colon cancer and was a euthanasia advocate and that's how he died.

[@frodehedstrom]

I quitted smoking 1 day ago, i started by burning a whole pack of Cigarettes one ciggarete a time

[@ats-3693]

Lmao

[@Jeffshighonlife]

It was harder for me to quit cigarettes than it was heroin. Thank god I’ve been off both of them for over 7 years

[@wayne6777]

How many hogs did you gargle to get your next score?

[@YuppiBum]

I knew someone who said almost EXACTLY the same thing you said! Though in his case, it was meth that he could get rid off easier than smoking. I SWEAR, that the tobacco companies lace their cancer rolls with some additional addictive chemicals! BTW, personally without Red Marlboros for almost two years, YAY!

[@mikemiller659]

Marlboro's add ammonia to there tobacco to make the nicotine hit harder@@YuppiBum

[@quixote_7]

congrats bro, hope you keep at it for decades more

[@bz3105]

Congratulations and keep going! I'm coming up on 8 months without a drop of alcohol and I feel like a new man.

[@thesoultransferprotocol721]

I quit smoke at age 35. I am 54 now. That is why i am still alive. Best thing I ever did.

[@westnilesnipes]

You know things are bad when the man warning folks about nicotine addiction has an ashtray filled with cigarette butts and is actively smoking lol. I get it though. Smoked for 15 years myself. Quitting was one of the hardest things I’ve done.

[@bluestarindustrialarts7712]

My mom would take me for checkups when I was about 4 or 5. I remember the pediatrician examining me, listening to my heart, with a lit Chesterfield between his lips. circa 1963

[@cozmicmojo2181]

It has been drilled into kids heads from an early age at this point. I can honestly say I never tried it because all of my shows, cartoons, video games and movies told me not to.

[@darraghgregory891]

Here it's €13 a box of cigarettes and €18 for tobacco , I'm going to quit this year I'm starting to feel the effects of it and I'm only 21

[@Roybaaa]

I gotte be honest, as a teen in the early 2000's the Marlboro cowboys were still around in the commercials and they indeed played a part in why i started smoking. I did quit yrs ago, but the Marlboros had something special about them.

[@hajile2468]

Mr. Hoffman, you have a truly amazing KZbin channel

[@rovingmauler7410]

It’s funny that now that barely anyone smokes, 80% of people are on prescription drugs, cancer is higher than ever, everyone is obese, 50% of kids say they’re gay or trans, and everyone is more sad, angry, and divided than ever. I would love to bring back a world where everyone takes smoke breaks and shares cigarettes with strangers than whatever this is we have now.

[@biblicalbroadcasting2639]

I remember reading that when the British Health Minister Iain MacLeod made the same announcement concerning the relationship between tobacco ans cancer while actually smoking.

[@marsbanditnyc9043]

I think this guy is completely right about teaching kids young about cigarettes, I smoke a little weed from time to time but have never had the urge to smoke a cigarette, since I was a young kid I’ve always viewed them as cancer sticks since that’s what I was taught in school.

[@kayjay6039]

I'm so glad I watched this video. Shows me just how wonderful cigarettes are, you can quit. I will go on.

[@BodhiBushido]

I mean, I quit cigarettes years ago, but to this day, sometimes I’ll be walking into a store and see a half smoked cig in the ashtray and my brain will scream at me like Sam Kinison “SMOKE THAT SHIIIIIIT!” I never do, but it happens. Nicotine is a helluvadrug.

[@willy2447]

My mom died in 2011, she was 52, 6 kids, 4 grand children. Missed my wedding my house my promotions at work, my kids, my wife, my life. Missed it all. Quit smoking. I smoked for 10 years and quit cold turkey. 3 years after my mom passed. Its not easy.

[@jimdavis8391]

Stopped smoking about 6 months ago. That's the second time I've stopped and hopefully the last. I found it easy enough, just used to do it through boredom and loneliness.

[@LoydAvenheart]

I think it hit me when I was riding in the car with three other guys. I was smoking but I wasn't addicted yet and still am not, and two of them just started freaking. Asking me to short them over and over again, I wound up shorting one of them but the desperation was shocking like one of them had the jitters even before I pulled out my pack. I'm just gonna stick to weed.

[@smoke1forthedeadhomies837]

Lloyd Nix lmfao soy boy vibes

[@Helmuesi911]

“Short them”? What does shorting mean?

[@dntfrthreapr]

shorts is when u give the end of the cig to some fiend. Crackhead shorts is when the filter is almost burning and u give it.

[@hebneh]

I was amused by Scott Stapf of the Tobacco Institute being all high & mighty and belligerent about how all those anti-smoking people were so demeaningly telling smokers they were addicted. Which makes me wonder where he is today, decades after this documentary was made - if he smoked, as probably most of the tobacco industry people were expected to, he's either long since dead or at least regretting he'd ever smoked.

[@fakeascanbe423]

Actually, he became the lead singer for the band Creed. So yeah, it's been tough

[@blankanonymous5214]

He was killed by anti-smokers. Because they thought he was a filthy drug smoking addict.

[@Bigboss192x]

Despite with health issues and the marketing campaigns, not every smoker regrets smoking and to this day still enjoys it. Thats simply crowd thinking.

[@jstevinik3261]

@@Bigboss192x To be fair, people enjoy the relief of withdrawl symptoms that some may not be aware to be caused by smoking. It is easier to relieve withdrawl than wanning/cold turkey. The incideous nature of addiction is that it perpetuates itself in which re-admimistrstion is the solution to the withdrawl it causes.

[@rustydemz7919]

@@jstevinik3261 lmfao...Christ, Canyu get anymore academic douch-like on our asses?! lol...ffs

[@SANVM2]

my grandpa smoked a lot every day all day since his youth till his death, he died 99 years old with a sharp mind

[@tomservo5347]

Both of my parents smoked for years. I can still remember those disposable ashtrays that used to be in fast food joints. I smoked for years and eventually started just rolling my own because of the ridiculous sin tax on tobacco. I've switched to vaping. What I don't understand is cigarettes get taxed liked crazy and it's the lower/middle class paying the 'sin tax' while things like soft drinks, sugary sweet junk food, energy drinks, and lots of food with high fructose corn syrup slips under the 'sin tax' radar that is legitimately wrecking peoples' health with diabetes and a slew of other health problems. My 76 year old Dad still smokes but he never was a heavy smoker. He jokingly states every time he lights up how cigarettes are becoming illegal while weed is totally fine to smoke nowadays. My question is what will the government tax next to replace revenue if cigarettes become so expensive it'll either make people quit or create a black market for them.

[@jkutnink87]

Because people who eat and drink the stuff live longer still. Plus smoking pollutes everywhere and effects everyone in the vicinity. Can't get lung cancer from zero sugar pop, can't get it from gum or a candy bar. You can't get heart disease from zero sugar pop unless you are consuming 600mg of caffeine a day

[@AustinMichael]

So you are upset tobacco is taxed but soda isn't? Both legitimately hurt human health. Also weed is less addictive than tobacco but taxed just as much as tobacco is.

[@mikemiller659]

Soda IS taxed..sf ca Oakland CA and places in colorado

[@savagerampage69]

Cannabis

[@mksolid82]

I smoked a Hookah just once. It was so relaxing. Aside from that, I never smoked. It’s a shame we can’t enjoy these vices.

[@nathanmcdonald610]

I am thoroughly convinced that smoking is one of those things that affects people on a case by case basis. My paternal grandmother whom is 81 this year has been smoking consistently since she was 12 years old give or a take couple of times she quit for a month or two in an attempt to kick the habit. She's not in the greatest of health with emphysema/COPD, she is on oxygen these days and still smokes like a freight train. Conversely I've known people who started smoking around 20 and died of lung cancer in their 30's. At 35 I eat healthy, exercise daily and stay miles away from cigarette's because of how randomly it seems to affect people among other reasons, I know it's bad for you all together. It's just wild to me how some people can smoke their whole lives and still live to an old age and others can die within a few years of picking up the habit.

[@paulallen1899]

Like thousands of other things in life it most certainly affects people on a case by case basis. How many people out there lived pretty harsh lives and still managed to get to a really old age. Good genetics and a bit of luck is involved. Some people never drink or smoke, eat healty, work out and still die young while others live unhealthy and get to 80-90y old.

[@stanleyqc2244]

Two years smoke free. My blood pressure went down by 15 points on the average (systolic and diastolic), I can move and do physical activity without being short of breath, my cardio has improved and I feel overall more relaxed. The secret? My father had spots on his lungs, I went with him to get checked out at the pulmonary department - it turned out it was pneumonia, and not lung cancer. However, I took a good look at many stage 4 and stage 3 lung cancer patients. You couldn't say they were sick just by looking at them. Young, old - normal people. That's when I "internally" realised that this could also happen to me. I said to myself that I wouldn't smoke after this. The big challenge was the first 3 months or so. Now, after 2 years, I rarely get urges and even if I do they're not as bad as before. I'm even able to be near friends who smoke and I don't even feel like smoking. So guys, it is possible. You just have to be motivated!

[@htcdedited2425]

Yeah its just like me. I quit 4 months ago and i hang out with my friends that smokes and they try to bring me back to smoking but im through with that finish na. I just want to continue a healthier living.

[@DavidPhelan-w3w]

The narrator is the best there ever was. They stopped doing Forensic Files when he died because he couldn't be replaced.

[@0ldFrittenfett]

We really must tell the children that smoking is not good. I was born in 1977 in Germany where the Tobacco lobby is still very strong and everybody who smoked seemed a bit cooler to me than non smokers, I think because of advertising. I remember that my aunt was the only non smoker of the adults in my family and I really found that weird. I started smoking at the age of 14 and made several attempts to quit, one attempt lasted over a year, but I always relapsed and have reduced my smoking now to 3-5 Cigarettes a day, but still. In Germany it is still allowed to advertise smoking on Billboards.

[@0ldFrittenfett]

Now that was Quick!

[@DemsRNutless]

My mother died of lung cancer due to smoking. My brother is hooked beyond help.

[@eatmybutthairslittletinyman]

I’m sorry for your loss

[@shackusratus]

Stopped a little over four years ago. Two weeks of irritability and cold-like symptoms, then counting days, weeks, months, and now years. I can say the counting really helped. I thought, if I start again, I would just be throwing away an ever growing number. Each day strengthened my resolve. It's kind of strange now. I can't imagine ever smoking again. And I still remember not being able to imagine life without smoking.

[@AnHebrewChild]

I'm REALLY bummed. I had quit for around 5 months. Then one day, I was stressed out at work, decided to buy a pack and promised myself I'd just have a single cig and toss it. Then it was two... then "just this one pack." This was a month ago. I couldn't tell you how many packs I bought since then.

[@strangus]

I traded cigarettes for weed. Best choice I've ever made.

[@harrisonmccartney4878]

I think everyone is different when it comes to what they're addicted to. I've smoked plenty of cigarettes in high school and even a few as an adult, but I never felt addicted to them. Even when I was smoking every day on lunch break in high school, it was easy for me to drop the habit when I was finally tired of it. That's not the case for me and caffine, however. What some people experience with being unable to give up smokes, I experienced with being unable to give up coffee. I'd even start getting the jitters and almost felt like I was acquiring a stomach ulcer from the acidity, and yet I couldn't stop. I had to have my morning coffee. To this day I'm still drinking coffee or yerba mate for a caffine fix, and I don't know that I can ever put it down. I feel as hopelessly addicted as any cigarette smoker, but to a completely different substance.

[@joshblacker3512]

Me and you both

[@TheFairyintheFishBowl]

People don’t talk about this enough… I think there is way more to uncover about coffee, that few want to hear about or accept.

[@nicepke3520]

Haven't had a cigarette in almost ten years. The smell of the the smoke that comes off the tip of a lit cigarette is great to me still. The smell of cigarette smoke coming off of a person is one of the worst smells in the world.

[@Chicagocubs21]

This guy is great, started smoking at 8. Stopped at 21 due to crazy Chicago prices lol 😝

[@0Imtheslime0]

Quit smoking after 17 year. I don´t miss that shit either. Norway is $11.00 a pack. i gained weight after i did which is common for quitters, so i started riding bike to work (16 miles to work back) and i also started to eat healthier, quit sugar drastically (im more addicted to sugar than i was to cigarettes). I can´t stand cigarettes and the smell anymore. But will give myself atleast a year before i can consider myself smoke-free. I was mostly mentally addicted to it so it was not that hard for me as my body for some reason does not crave nicotine so badly. I could go for 2-3 days often without a puff so why not just quit for good. So so long Camels and Marlboros. I wont miss you.

[@duhsixsixsix]

Bravo. I quit 3 months ago myself. I don't miss it at all either, nor do I miss the smell of it.

[@jellyacc]

when i quit smoking i became really depressed and i kept missing meals. i ended up losing a lot of weight

[@johnkennedyreyes2634]

Bra for deg

[@houseis]

$40 a pack in NZ now (which is equivalent to 27 USD)

[@rumble1925]

​@@houseis Holy shit. No one can seriously feed their habit without buying smuggled cigs, right? Black market must be huge which in my mind increases the risk of teens and kids having easier access to nicotine.

[@joeblogs-vx4ep]

Addiction to nicotine was the quintessential image of freedom and self sufficiency ???? Your not very free or self sufficient when you can't wander far from the cigarette shop because you don't want to go through nicotine withdrawal ..

[@AG.Floats]

4 years smoke free here

[@seanryan7515]

I smoked for 13 years, hardest thing I have ever done was quit. I've been 1 year and 4 months in 6 days without a cigarette. It's hard to quit but totally worth it in the long run.

[@kelefane6233]

I've smoked all my life. I smoke 3 in my mouth, two in my nose and one in each ear all at the same time. Smoking is life. I'm 95 years old now.

[@MrCageinblood]

I smoked cigarettes for 35 years and I have COPD. I'm on oxygen, I haven't smoked in 5 years cigarette smoking is the hardest drug a person can ever tolerate