How War Made the Cigarette

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[@darkmysteryYT0]

the title shoud be how war made cancer

[@siarhian10]

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[@3.2213]

Are u making videos or try to sell me stuff? Please don't use crap youtubers give in there links.

[@steviesavagegs8791]

I think 99% of people watching this use discord and willingly give all our info to chine anyway, others will always have your info

[@IMPERIALYT]

@@siarhian10 Try now, it should work, apologies for the broken link.

[@alxndrmzksm8387]

Guess WW3 rations will feature vape pods in the near future

[@poindextertunes]

VREs… Vapes Ready to Exhale 😂

[@fluoriteByte]

Imagining gen alpha fighting the 2nd cold war in some random proxy country while sniffing nitrous and blasting fnaf music

[@joba6067]

Ukrainian drone pilots have been vaping more than smoking recently. I’m sure ground soldiers are switching too.

[@YEARCITY]

In the military I’ve seen cigarette smoking decrease dramatically I’ve seen dip and vapes get drastically beaten by nicotine pouches like zyn or on. Overall I see fewer people addicted to nicotine now than before.

[@timbrwolf1121]

​@fluoriteByte honestly terrifying 😂 have you ever thought about what it would be like if the military embraced woke and made entire woke units 😂 like try being Khomeini when a division of furries and transsexuals cross the border into Iran

[@sbef]

My grandma started smoking in 1945 (20 years old) when Americans came to liberate her small village in Northern Italy and were distributing Lucky Strike cigarettes to the locals.

[@uvbe]

🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🔫🔫🚬🚬

[@gtPacheko]

Based

[@万恶共匪毒害中华]

That's evil, smoking is bad

[@belgianfried]

​@@万恶共匪毒害中华 Womp womp

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

I think they were doing to relieve stress and feel better but it bad way of doing it and it nerf you time weaken the immune system making you more likely to get sick

[@Conjeron]

Five hundred cigarettes.

[@rasiah2415]

Five hundred cigarettes.

[@ottojansen3556]

And one million beers

[@TheManLab7]

"I've never experienced, such a flavour"

[@ozan1234561]

I must have more

[@quitoxictv8307]

Such flavor

[@talljake]

The motion graphics and typesetting in this video are absolutely stunning

[@Extremething-gc2zv]

Yeah but the framing of this topic by him is objectively retarded comparing cigarette companies to drug cartels

[@TerryWhisk]

Totally agree. A lot of video essay channels are super lazy when it comes to these but the production value and audio considerations (quality + mixing) for this channel are extremely nice and pleasing to consume.

[@Chamuko99]

​@@TerryWhiskthat and most video essays just throw memes every 5 seconds

[@Steve-GM0HUU]

Yes, illustrations are possibly the best I have seen on a KZbin video.

[@gurunugget]

Have you not seen the billions of Blender youtube videos on YT? everyone is doing it its pretty annoying

[@nikolaitregouet]

The USSR was hooked on the cigarette as well. The absurdity is that at one point the Russian Orthodox Church had a near monopoly on imported cigarettes

[@elkpants1280]

Wow. How did that work?

[@veiserexab1428]

Papirosa was popular in the soviets

[@nikolaitregouet]

@@elkpants1280 unofficially through loopholes in laws, until it blew up with a scandal in 1996😁

[@ExtraThiccc]

And people say communism is good lmao, commies are just as greedy as capitalists

[@shryggur]

Didn't/don't the holy dudes also have their share on the alcohol market? Maybe some brothels from brothers on the side?

[@rileygladue3979]

It's astonishing how in a century the Cigarette went from being something enjoyed by the lowest of society to a marker of wealth and class and then back to something being enjoyed for the lowest of society again

[@poindextertunes]

didn’t even take a century. more like 40-50 years

[@AlmightyPooFlingerVI]

It's like modern energy drinks being made only for the wealthy in Japan I think it was and nowadays it's available to poison everyone. Haha what a world!

[@jiveassturkey8849]

They are like $10 a pack now. When I was a kid you could get Camels for $1.59.

[@masterpython]

Opiates are on a similar path since doctors started handing them out like candy

[@CantTellYou]

@@masterpython But now that they’ve stopped handing them out like candy (in the US anyway) is it going to go back to being a wealthy person’s drug again?

[@_faultee_]

My grandfather during WW2 said men would almost riot if the cigarettes showed up later. He said that was why he never smoked.

[@万恶共匪毒害中华]

Good for him, smoking is bad

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Sound like they have an addiction sheehs

[@eurosonly]

What?

[@b.andrei84]

He has all my respects🎩!

[@TheLifeOfKane]

Interestingly, I started smoking because the Army has an unofficial rule that Smokers only half to work 75% of the time compared to Non Smokers Every hour you'd get a 15 minute smoke break, I'd go with the smokers and bum a cig, and just NOT INHALE I did this until somebody complained 😂 and I started inhaling, not wanting to lose the privilege Anyway, 20 years later and I'm finishing a cig as I type this

[@hanknichols6865]

My high school football coach said he started smoking as an 18 year old soldier. He was freezing in a trench awaiting attacks by North Korean and Chinese soldiers. He said it would have made no difference if someone had told him it would have negative health effects later in life. He said he much more worried about surviving the next 24 hours.

[@chrisd997]

Hollywood for sure played a gigantic role.

[@19ate4]

They been playing this role for 1000s of years

[@adia8126]

Lol bro has film even existed more than 200 years​@@19ate4

[@davidlupu1063]

@@19ate4(((they))))

[@lauri4950]

Same with cocaine booming in Europe now

[@bensanders7392]

Yep...showing people smoking on stage and the silver screen. Associating cigarettes with celebrities and movie stars.

[@ordinal2361]

This video gave me crippling nicotine addiction. 10 out of 10.

[@Drench3]

when you going to make more videos man? love your work

[@ordinal2361]

@@Drench3 I'm rewriting the script for one atm

[@cupofjoen]

In fact I just smoke one the minute I watch this video. What's ur cigs bro? I have luckies blue and Marlboro unflitered

[@ordinal2361]

@@cupofjoen I just inject concentrated nicotine directly into my blood stream

[@cupofjoen]

@@ordinal2361 lmao, weird flex but okay bro.

[@charliebrown4799]

My grandpa (RIP) joined the Army back in the '50s. He said he got a pack of smokes with every C ration. Back then u couldnt do 'nothing' even if u were taking a break. So he smoked cigarettes on his breaks. Lol anything but standing around with your hands in your pockets. He died a 2 pack a day smoker at 79 years old

[@billynomates920]

my dad went five years earlier. it wouldn't surprise me if it was because rothmans launched a new brand where you got twenty-five for the same as twenty. i live in uk and the government tax cigarettes (i'ma say it) tax them to death and you spend your life hating them for it until either you give up or someone you love dearly has to. 😟

[@charliebrown4799]

@billynomates920 we had the same thing on our side of the pond with Marlboro 25 pack (25 cigs per pack instead of 20) but I think they discontinued them. Our government taxes us out our ass on tobacco also. May our next of kin keep each other in good company until we're reunited with them on the other side🙏

[@krono5el]

at least back then the tabaco was still natural like the natives always smoked for millennia. it wasn't till they became super industrialized that they turned into chemical sticks full of cancer and little real tabaco

[@charliebrown4799]

@krono5el it wasn't 'still natural like the natives' in the 1950s. Cigarettes had bad chemicals in them for as long as they were called cigarettes. It wasn't until they started putting filters on them that people got cancer and other health problems that contributed to an early death. If you've ever sneezed into a kleenex by a window during daylight hours, u may have noticed those little kleenex particles floating in the rays of sunshine coming thru the window. When u inhale a cigarette with a filter on it, similar little particles are being inhaled into your lungs. Those particles are carrying their own chemicals as well as those from the tobacco clinging to them. When they enter your lungs, they stick to them because the moisture in our lungs makes them too heavy, and they then get absorbed by our lungs. Before filters, it was just tobacco, and it wasn't in there long enough to do any major damage. Just a quick in and out. This is just a theory based on logical reasoning and no scientific research. But I haven't heard a better theory as to why health problems drastically increased amongst cigarette smokers after the introduction of filters. Although genetics probably has a lot to do with it as well

[@nathancochran4694]

I serve aboard Submarines in the US Navy. My first boat, the USS Ohio, built in 1981, had an air purification system that was designed to accommodate a third of the crew smoking a pack a day. They prohibit smoking on boats today, except under certain conditions (i.e. the captain lit the smoking lamp). It is odd to see how much the military made cigarettes popular, and how they knew of how bad they were decades before big tobacco got dragged in front of congress to admit it.

[@Seeker0fTruth]

🫡 USS Oly…that’s crazy I never heard that about the air scrubbers. Interesting factoid! Thx for sharing!

[@MCSkiure]

i took 2 smoke breaks while watching this

[@SunriseLAW]

I fired up my Volcano and sucked a couple bagz.

[@sanger1265]

why didn't you smoke while watching?

[@MCSkiure]

@@sanger1265 i can't smoke inside because my girl doesn't like it getting into her hair. i also like standing in the wind outside like a 1940s detective

[@sanger1265]

@@MCSkiure I understand, what brand are you smoking?

[@MCSkiure]

@@sanger1265 usually i smoke lucky strikes or marlboro reds, however since i am in europe i am smoking b&h blues (london) or am rolling mine own with pueblo

[@redgrizzly1492]

My grandfather was a heavy smoker, but he finally quit when he turned 50 according to my mom. His smoking came back to bite him later in life as he had periodic bouts with asthma, bronchitis, and pneumonia. The doctors said that it was good that he quit but at that point the damage had been done. He recently passed away due to complications from pneumonia. Never have and never will touch the stuff. RIP Grandpa

[@asdf9890]

I smoked for 20 years, it’s a terrible habit. I finally quit in 2012. Hope I don’t develop anything in my older years, my lungs definitely feel better now!

[@abooga8]

I feel sad that this happened to your grandfather although he had quit. How long did he smoke for?

[@Cooe.]

6:35 WWI/II era cigarettes weren't "white and brown" because they didn't have fliters on them. Flitered cigarettes didn't become a thing until the 1960's when the health consequences of smoking finally become well known as a way for tobacco companies to try and pretend they'd "fixed the problem", when in reality it just made people smoke MORE cigarettes to get the same nicotine hit as before. 🤷

[@JamesCarr-yy5gv]

Non filtered cigarettes always confuse me. Did they just roll some paper up in the bottom?

[@Cooe.]

@@JamesCarr-yy5gv No, It's tobacco filled from end to end, just like a traditional rollie. You can still buy them. 🤷

[@kankerdriewieler4338]

And filterd is even more dangerous than unfilterd as you pull more harmful stuf through the filter because you have to suck way herder

[@apsele6790]

But the filling of filterless cigarettes was brown back then as well I guess

[@wailingalen]

Which was good for their pockets!!

[@Exigentable]

I quit smoking years ago. I still have a cigarette once every 6 months or so to remind me why I quit. It's a sweet buzz but it smells and tastes awful once you break the spell.

[@Exigentable]

@@bendybus5165 I never actually quit nicotine, just cigarettes lmao. Switched to vaping, then pouches. Now I vape a disposable and have zyns for when vaping isn't appropriate (office setting) The thing about cigarettes is the quick absorption into the blood stream. If you get used to the slower delivery methods you can stop chasing that cigarette buzz.

[@cloudmaster182]

​@bendybus5165 3 years? Just stop lmao

[@overzone666]

@@bendybus5165 pretty much just stop. you'll replace it with something. make sure its something healthy.

[@jarehelt]

​​​@@bendybus5165"Just quit" doesn't work, people have no idea how addictive nicotine actually is. For me it was find an alternative that allows you to control nicotine levels. Like switching to a mod. Make sure it's a hard switch, throw the cigarettes away DO NOT DO BOTH. Everytime you buy a new bottle of juice, lower the nicotine ever so slightly. It's still not easy, withdrawals will kick in around 3 mg and by 0 you will puff on it like your life depends on it, but after a couple of days on 0 its over! You are officially nicotine free and the withdrawals will cease. Also keep your mind busy, dont sit around bored. Aformations also help, I kept telling myself "tomorrow will be better" and eventually it will I promise

[@Exigentable]

@@bendybus5165 I never actually stopped using nicotine. I switched to vaping & zyns.

[@chasecannon4120]

The visuals in your videos are amazing

[@grant9316]

The fact that the government got everyone on cigarettes for money from tobacco companies and then tax the cigarettes for more money is crazy..

[@krono5el]

tale as old as time from people that come from that side of the planet. tabaco was around for millennia in the Americas and never was used by the OG Americans to enslave everyone, like it was by the foreigners.

[@michaelellringer5600]

Napoleon encouraged the French to smoke as he needed the tobacco tax revenue to stage his Napoleonic wars!

[@sharrpshooter1]

The fact that there was once a time when cigarettes were looked down upon (and completely rightfully so given how bad it is for you), and then it took over 100 years to even get close to being back to that point is so depressingly sad

[@nedisahonkey]

Meh cigarettes have been pretty stigmatized since the 1980s at least so I wouldn't say 100 years.

[@krono5el]

those corpo lies stick, thats why europeans think they have connections to things like tomato's and potato's when they have absolutely nothing to do with those thing historically. the lies persist.

[@elemenopi55]

cant wait til alcohol gets there again. dont give me that "prohibition didnt work" argument. it's stupid.

[@occam7382]

@@elemenopi55, I mean, it didn't. It failed miserably.

[@coolio7234]

@@elemenopi55 surely ur just tryin to get people mad... surely u don't actually think that

[@cripsterg.9425]

My grandfather served in the Romanian military in the 1970s and he started smoking during his service time simply because smokers were granted a smoking break that wouldn't have otherwise been given. I also started smoking at 17 because 90% of the students in Romanian high schools smoked (and a high percentage still smoke today) but have partially stopped now, thanks mostly to the fact that I switched to cigars. Great video!

[@Darkest_matter]

cigars are much harsher. i get a huge nicccy rush from them.

[@DPPOfficial]

"I switched to cigars" 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@saadahmad438]

Cigars are just as harmful

[@cripsterg.9425]

@@saadahmad438 cringe

[@saadahmad438]

@@cripsterg.9425 u r gay

[@rgmolpus]

Cigarettes were so in demand during and after WW2 that they formed a replacement for currency; a pack of cigarette was worth about $3.00 on the street in Germany. You could pay for a meal, drinks, and a movie using cigarettes, which for cash-poor soldiers (who had free smokes in their rations) was a fantastic bargain. Different brands had different values; Chesterfields, Camels, and Lucky Strikes demanded the highest price, as they were the most popular in the USA; Pall Malls, Murads, and Sweet Caporals (all second tier brands) were less valuable in trade. Sending a serviceman a carton of cigs could mean a huge boost to a soldier's pocketbook.

[@correctopinionhaver]

Can't wait for someone to make the same video but about Zyns in 10 years

[@Ew4ya]

Zyns are nothing new the brand name might be but every single bar/salloon had spit trays before people smoked

[@thomasnorge224]

I dont even smoke or want to smoke, but for some reason, I really like those cards

[@QuinnKallisti]

Gotta smoke em all!

[@CantTellYou]

@@QuinnKallisti lol imagine if Marlboro partnered with GameFreak/Creatures Inc in the late 90s to put Pokémon cards in every pack of cigs. Pretty much what they were on back then with those Will’s Cigarettes trading cards

[@QuinnKallisti]

@@CantTellYou yeah, I mean, paper crack bro.😎

[@ExtraThiccc]

That's a big reason why cigarette cards were banned. Because kids would want the cards from their parents, which subconsciously made them want cigarettes, or at least have a positive association for them.

[@thomasnorge224]

@@ExtraThiccc Imagine if it wasnt illegal and they started having pokemon cards in them LOL

[@MGrimm1226]

Engaging title, stunning editing, subtle music that doesn't overpower the narration. This channel's bound for success, great work.

[@zawa322]

It's easy to stop smoking. I quit every week. Let me be serious, the military officers and politicians that promoted smoking were in the pockets of tobacco companies.

[@poindextertunes]

just like now except its the corporate lobbyist that do the dirty work

[@tomlxyz]

@@poindextertunes not really, the numbers of smokers was steadily shrinking in the US, adverdising is restricted and many places banned smoking

[@orapoix6877]

Least conspiracy theorist leftist

[@Zyzyx442]

Or war is hell and trench war is hell on steroids. At least before a battle could last between 1-4 days, rarely more except sieges. With modern warfare a battle can last years, potentially decades. Letting soldiers calm their nerves is not evil.

[@Artyomi]

Every week? That’s weak, I quit every single hour. But now with this new fangled invention the ‘vape ™ ®©℠’ I can quit every 5 minutes!

[@johannesr8709]

Holy! Every frame / composition of this video is a masterpiece in itself in creativity, style and animation. I find myself almost not listening and just looking and these amazing visuals. The freakin helmet hanging from the knife or the musket being loaded with a cigarette and the in- and out-animations. Props! You guys are at the very top with this stuff! Absolutely amazing job!

[@unpopularopinion8771]

Who is worried about cancer when your in a war

[@JackSmith-xx5mi]

Cancer a decade or three away lol These days the food gives you cancer anyways

[@michaelellringer5600]

@@JackSmith-xx5mi And the microplastics you drink every day?

[@DjAboo1]

I used to smoke a couple packs a day, then I realized I need my lungs to breathe air. I don’t do it anymore, but I enjoy smelling it at a distance when others use tobacco. As a kid, there was a tobacco pipe shop in our town and I always liked walking through to smell the different blends.

[@krono5el]

real tabaccy from like the Natives is way different from the corpo cancer sticks for sure when it comes to smell and taste.

[@Fido-vm9zi]

How did you quit?

[@DjAboo1]

@@Fido-vm9ziI just quit one day cold turkey. Made up my mind and stuck with it.

[@sarahlevine776]

My grandpa was one of the solders in WWII and smoked, though he managed stop before my oldest uncle was born. Grandma also smoked and she quit around the same time. Unfortunately, my grandpa didn't manage to avoid lung cancer, though that could have been caused by other factors, such as the poor air quality in the factory he worked at.

[@stephensteele2844]

The molchat Doma shirt single-handedly made me watch the ad all the way through

[@hensontauro]

Glad I'm not the only one!

[@autisticbleach2]

Same, lmao

[@thijs-p9185]

This is so good!!!! I got the chills at some parts in the video. It just captures you. No reuse of footage and the way its told makes it so you are focused completely on the video. Great job!

[@sevenproxies4255]

Note: cigarettes were considered effeminate because a gentleman was expected to smoke cigars or pipe tobacco. So it wasn't smoking itself that was the problem but the format.

[@goldwold]

Whoever did the graphics for this video did a great job! Big props.

[@Hison-Dcarman]

I'm a veteran, was actually addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Got severely traumatized, i also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

[@juanbergaaa]

I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.

[@ErnestoHorner88]

Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏

[@CathieGomez-mp8sk]

YES sure of mycologist Pedroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

[@canerbakar-jv2si]

Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. 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. I will pray for you all.

[@EthanEdward-wx7ut]

Where do I reach this dude? If possible can I find him on Google

[@MestruTrmonen]

500 Cigarettes

[@OMFGWTFLOLZ100]

I feel as if I have been standing my entire life and I just sat down

[@gtPacheko]

I was curious to taste it

[@nacli4516]

Adapter

[@timfagan816]

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[@Tortee2]

i was looking for this comment

[@billalax8362]

I dont have internet connection in my new apartment yet so i downloaded this video, because i found it interesting.. i smoke ... Its such a well put together video and such well edited if you have an editor they did an good job for sure . Anyways i just wanted to come here and comment my congrats on the video getting me hooked on every second. It reveals truths its filled with great information that not many people and smokers know and its such an interesting story. I never comment on yt videos or on any other platform but great work like this deserves praise. Keep it up man

[@kirokure]

the sensation is most pleasing. FIVE. HUNDRED. CIGARETTES.

[@MoonlitWood]

"The Young Men's Christian Association, also known as the YMCA" So was anyone going to tell me that was what YMCA stood for or was I just supposed to figure it out myself.

[@mmhoss]

you could've googled it at any point

[@loganmacgyver2625]

I'm a non American so I thought it was just an acronym made up by the Village people

[@darylmorning]

There was a YWCA as well, fir females.

[@ExtraThiccc]

Very ironic that a CHRISTIAN company is popular amongst gay men

[@jacobmiskomusic]

⁠@@ExtraThicccMORE ironic that a ‘Christian’ company distributed cigarettes, which are mind altering and therefore sinful. “The mind governed by the flesh is dead” (Romans 8:6). Why focus on gay consumers when the hypocrisy of the company’s Christian leaders is so evident?

[@jovanweismiller7114]

The US daily ration in WWII included five cigarettes. Obviously, once addicted, 5 cigarettes are not going to cut it, therefore gift cigarettes from home were vital.

[@nekomasteryoutube3232]

Im going on 32, I started smoking around 17. I really hope that either I stop smoking all together, or I become cool enough to die very old. (My current rate of smoking is maybe like 0-2 smokes a day, way down from 10 years ago where I was smoking a pack a day at 24, now sometimes I go days without ciggies and only get reminded by my addiction when media shows smokes.)

[@socialmediaaccount404]

You should vape, they have better technology now.

[@Dia.dromes]

@@socialmediaaccount404 uh no??? don't do that??

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

I think they link smoking with coolness to make people more like to smoke and now we have teen vaping try to look cool

[@loglad5394]

​@socialmediaaccount404 vaping is way more addictive as it's literally constant availability of nicotine with zero reminder of the habit, and whenever and wherever you want. It will do nothing but make you cripplingly dependent. Everyone I know who actually wanted to quit had to stop vaping after they tried to swap and go back to just 1 or 2 cigs a day to finally ween themselves off to quit.

[@timfagan816]

I smoked just like you used to, it was bad, I gave up when I was about 31 I'm 36 now. For me, I went to a party, got super drunk, and smoked like a mad man that night, I woke up the next day, absolutely hungover, feeling like shit, lungs like an ashtray. I got out of bed to have a smoke, and the hangover hit even worse. I snapped my 5 or 6 remaining cigarettes in half, went back to bed, and never touched a cigarette ever again! The hangover and thought of lighting up really put me off. Thank goodness!

[@shivamkumar-zc8om]

"Dragging the hands to early grave", fabulous selection of words

[@Cold_Cactus]

Love the animations editing , narration , pacing 10/10 Subbed

[@colintang3910]

I love that you use a single red line to tie quite literally history together!

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

I'm surprised you didn't mention but in the 1920s, Edward Bernays - Freud's nephew and one of if not the greatest ad-men in history - also started envisaging campaigns promoting tabacco use by women (which had previously been somewhat taboo) by getting performers in certain parades to publically smoke etc.

[@NoWoke2099]

Thanks!

[@More_Row]

Probably your best video yet. Amazingly well produced mate.

[@landondolan1779]

Cigarettes must of stayed in the army pretty well. My grandfather said the only time he smoked was in Vietnam when he was in the service.

[@josemontiel2326]

the production quality throughout this whole video essay is absolutely remarkable, great job at sharing such niche information and history

[@lahuk1194]

17:19 Funny they regarded it as patriotic, when their packing became, essentially, the Japanese flag.

[@aidanwelch4763]

IIRC Japan was essentially always depicted with the Rising Sun Flag at that time

[@Darkest_matter]

red circle with white background wasn't the flag at the time

[@aidanwelch4763]

@@Darkest_matter It was one of the flags, just not as commonly depicted in the US

[@zaikolebolsh5724]

​@@Darkest_matterwasn't it their "war flag" something that soldiers would most likely be familiar with?

[@occam7382]

@@zaikolebolsh5724, the national flag of Japan, the plain white background with the red circle (also known as the Hinomaru) is Japan's national flag, and has been since the 1890's. The Rising Sun Flag was the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and a modified version is used as the ensign of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces to this day.

[@mohs1nsha1kh]

The Production quality of this video is brilliant

[@jingalls9142]

The production quality on this video is very good. This was fascinating. Great job. Youve gotten another viewer.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Mike North, a host on WSCR sports radio Chicago at the time, organized a 'smokes drive' for Desert Storm troops, after hearing they were hard to come by. Contributors could drop off unopened cartons or packs at locations spread around the area. Lotsa liquor stores participated as well as stops in NW Indiana where a lot of people go for gas and smokes. He picked up the shipping and other particulars of the endeavour. Solid move, even though smoking almost universally makes you a public pariah...probably the last 'smoke drive' ever, for anything.

[@Eden-z8k]

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

[@Bryzerse]

Good timing with this one

[@benparrish672]

2 of my favorite things: Guns & Marlboro Reds

[@LateNightHam]

Sometimes I miss smoking the old cowboy killers

[@Colt19]

Amen brother.

[@michaelellringer5600]

Would you believe it, Marlboro's are custom designed for women. It had a cellophane tip so lipstick wouldn't stick to it.

[@Colt19]

@ you learn something new everyday..

[@zoewainwright9440]

My grandather served in the British army from North Africa to the shores of Normandy. I remembered him mentioning that his rations included more cigarettes than he knew what to do with. Amazing video!

[@ristube3319]

0:39 being an addictive substance helps

[@justdejf]

the shere quality of this video is crazy

[@michaelwilliamson4060]

We had a student smoking area in Highschool. It was 1977. Try that now.

[@asha4736]

We had one too, back in 2005... It was just hidden from the faculty 😂

[@loganmacgyver2625]

We had one in 2023, I went to highschool in Budapest though

[@ExtraThiccc]

Can't smoke in school anymore... because of woke (/s)

[@giuseppenasca2091]

Graduated a year ago we didn't have a smoking are, we used to sit on emergency stairs outside and smoke with our teachers

[@krono5el]

@@asha4736 called the bathroom on the 3rd floor : P

[@BehroozMousavi-dn5nj]

Beautifully documented and voiced over. better than tv documentries. well done good job. thanks

[@MrTPF1]

Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, nearly everyone smoked everywhere, including in hospitals. Sadly, all of my relatives who smoked, including both of my parents, died of lung cancer and suffered with COPD in the end. Sad addiction indeed.

[@penhullwolf5070]

Subbed.for the excellent quality of the production. You put a lot of TV studios to shame.

[@obsidian_oki]

5:24 there's a France TWO !?!?!?!?!?!‽‽‽‽!?!?!?!?

[@rebecca_stone]

This video is hands-down absolutely stunning. And the music is far and soft in the background, where it should be. Beautiful work wow

[@jasondeeprose3161]

I will never get over incredible quality and attention to detail in the animations, lighting and 3D models used by Imperial. Simply stunning!

[@parkerdyche9872]

This was one of the most beautiful and well edited KZbin videos I've ever seen in my life and I loved the music in the back ground.

[@tylerbryanhead]

I started smoking 2019 in Korea where a pack of smokes on post was $4. When they hit $10 in the US I quit

[@matthewandrade1893]

Try $25 a pack for Camel Non Filters in some cities.

[@tylerbryanhead]

@@matthewandrade1893 bro, just buy regular Camels a rip the filter off

[@krono5el]

holy shit i quit in 2000 when ciggies hit 5 bucks in the states. never felt they were worth more than 2 bucks so i held on a bit.

[@michaelellringer5600]

I've been making my own for 23 years: $2.25 a pack.

[@adriancutner4814]

Congratulations on a wonderfully informative presentation. Keep up the good work.

[@LongX49]

all evil come down to money

[@frostfright]

Great video! Lots of excellent info baked into it!

[@halfsourlizard9319]

And ... cigarettes are back to being a vice of the underclass ...

[@QoraxAudio]

Yep, that's the way fashion works. It always goes in cycles. It either cycles through the classes or through the decades, or both.

[@MaxSpencer-o1n]

If both of you actually had money you would be in social circles where you would learn that that’s not true at all. Vaping is a vice of the underclass though.

[@cooliseli]

Incredible video production. Captivating script, stunning visual aids, and provocative graphs. Well done 👏

[@nurah6923]

Watching this while smoking

[@fevinman7162]

Excellent video 👏! I knew about a lot of the points discussed here individually, but not particularly how they were linked and resulted from each other. Thanks for producing amongst the highest quality content in this segment on YT!! Always love when one of your videos releases!!

[@TheNumberForty2]

People were talking about cigarettes the way people talked about weed later. Really interesting.

[@GrandDawggy]

Little did (and still do) people realise that tobacco is worse for your brain than cannabis.

[@kingshussein5409]

This video was well put together! I loved the animation and the poetic wordings. Well done!

[@clr977]

“This, is the story, of how war, made everything”

[@ahmedeisa1479]

the visuals on this are so well made 👏

[@bryant-fr7sr]

I smoked a cigarette while i watched this. I definitely smoked more when I was in the army, and aslo being a cook. It controlling my cortisol levels helped with stress in those environments, even though addictive. Theres worse vices available.

[@lukasholgersson2851]

I think you are using some psychological tricks to fool yourself. Smoking is literally one of the worst vices that exist excluding heroin, meth and alcohol.

[@Aiklos5546]

Same, I remember always telling myself how I would never smoke because it was disgusting, until I joined the army, that's when I started to smoke

[@sestorm2159]

Same smoking is a way to cool your head when you’re standing in a kitchen all day every week. Sad to say the least. I do use snus too but you are still in that kitchen

[@jacobmiskomusic]

Defending your cigarette addiction by saying there are worse vices is like a heroin addict touting his abstinence from fentanyl. Don’t use poor logic to justify your bs.

[@michaelellringer5600]

@@jacobmiskomusic Always remember, tobacco is an herb with medicinal properties. I'm totally opposed to people smoking store-bought cigarettes. Make you own with raw, natural tobacco, much healthier.

[@patrikkorintus8105]

Insane how good the graphics in this video are. Awesome work.

[@rossomecha]

Would you be willing to do a video on the Marshall plan? Thanks for the great content!

[@polyglotornot]

real

[@Nick-xc3qh]

Man the graphics & editing is amazing I love these videos

[@mindob766]

Ill still take those 500 cigaretts

[@michaelmacaulay8074]

Fifty years ago, smoking was advertised as "the thing to enjoy" with non -smokers regarded as being "unsociable". Many people stopped smoking when the government added 200% purchase tax !!!

[@Darlene-m1r]

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

[@O2F2]

Depends on your definition of "the universe"

[@JudahMaddox-qj5oy]

Well made video, kept my attention the whole time, keep up the great work!

[@loglad5394]

I am only 21 years old and was almost killed in a high speed collision 2 nights ago now. A Mercedes suv turned left at a light in front of me when I had the green and I hit them head on. Thankfully they were completely fine and I came out with fairly minor injuries and a cracked rib. First thing I did when I got home was light one up and stop thinking about living forever. Enjoy life, what you love, you don't know when it's going to end.

[@SunriseLAW]

Glad you made it and everyone was fine. Didn't it hurt to smoke with a cracked rib or, did that pain hit the next day? Also, you seem to have been a smoker PRIOR to the wreck so to me it seems like you are justifying a habit you already had. When you first started, did you get a really strong buzz that had a lasting effect? Most people get that buzz on their first few cigarettes. Then they endlessly 'chase the dragon' but you can never get those original effects back, even if you quit for years.

[@loglad5394]

@SunriseLAW I actually was more heavily addicted to nicotine while vaping trying to not smoke so I went back to smoking and now am fine using only 1 - 2 cigarettes a day and am weening myself off the dependency. Really the exact reason I hated vaping is because I honestly appreciate how smoking makes you feel dirtier for doing it, because I'm a fairly self disciplined and aware person with most things, and vaping completely blocked that out for me with nicotine. Because of this I now always have a long strong ass buzz from cigs that sometimes is so much that I don't want anymore nicotine for the rest of the day haha. Totally agree nicotine can very easily become a chase the dragon thing and that's why I've weened down and have been finally doing my best to knock the convenience. I also use RYO vs pre packed so I HAVE to put in the effort. It also is a very depressing feeling when you keep doing it constantly so yep it definelty changes to a burden, I know that feeling from the vaping. As for pain nope it really didn't hurt as like I said I'm thankfully a very light smoker and weening down so I don't ever really smoke cigs to the point of my body having a coughing fit which coughing at all def hurts right now. Honestly thank you for your genuine curiosity and care on the subject because so many people dehumanize and villainize smokers rather than the substance so it's refreshing to talk about it constructively. While I would agree I def justified it a bit from that but I am also someone who enjoys phyto-chemistry and have had a strange fascination with the tobacco plant itself and history even before I smoked, which I do suppose could just be another justification within itself lol

[@sharrpshooter1]

@@loglad5394 The fact you went from vaping to cigarettes is just wildddddddddddddddddddddddddddd lmao

[@leeghathaway]

@@loglad5394 It’s wild that in 9 days you went from being heavily addicted to nicotine vaping, to surviving a near fatal RTA, to becoming a heavy cigarette smoker, to then weaning yourself to 1 - 2 a day. That’s quite some journey!

[@andreahighsides7756]

Addiction is your dopamine system tricking you into thinking doing the thing that gives you more dopamine is rationally justified. Good luck.

[@rhsdinful]

The production value in your videos are INSANE

[@bearlogg7974]

War trade offer: You receive addictive rapid advances you can't comprehend at the price of complete decadence in terms of values and intelligence

[@keithandemonas4461]

its the first video i see of the channel, waht amazing animation bro, it´s gorgeous

[@ArythNeon]

1:19 Molchat Doma Shirt Based

[@belgianfried]

Lyudi nadoyeliiiiiu

[@idekaaaIC]

И НИКОГДА НЕ УМЕРЕТЬ! И НИКОГДА НЕ УМЕРЕТЬ! И НИКОГДА НЕ УМЕРЕТЬ! 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@Shatnerpossum]

Real recognizes real

[@autisticbleach2]

Я не коммунист, не коммунист. Я не коммунист, не коммунист. Никто не коммунист, не коммунист. Никто не коммунист, не коммунист.

[@daddiodizzle8990]

Great vid "Plunging production"....plunging usually means a downward trajectory, not an increase.

[@hartfordhouse6997]

Made sure to fire up a freedom torch while listening to this. Also, how was this video not sponsored by Fum?

[@HishaamAhmed]

As always, amazing work

[@SaintClutch]

The fact the average American in 1887 understood the concept of decedance shows our worthlessness

[@Sara3346]

Oh well then explain it academically then. Surely if you understand it so well you could become an educator on the topic in great depth and nuance.

[@mj.l]

@@Sara3346 it's pretty simple: the average american in the current day has been ideologically poisoned by consumer capitalism that they're less capable of sober critical analysis than americans of 1887

[@l1wzEqsWwy]

What a nice Saturday treat

[@castrot2701]

Man this made me want a cigarette 😂

[@DronPanchal]

This is such well designed video. Kudos to the team

[@ScoriacTears]

24:58. . . the tobacco plant has been used for eons on many spheres to treat particularly virulent cases of humanity.

[@O2F2]

????

[@doublewrek2889]

​@@O2F2If you don't get it now you will.

[@michaelellringer5600]

It's an herb with medicinal properties. When Columbus took the first boat load of tobacco to Spain, the scientists recognized its medicinal properties, and was only going to use it medicinally. But the pleasure principle took over!