The Insane Cigarettes that used Asbestos?!

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[@SyxxPunk]

There was a Marvel villain that went against The Human Torch (the first one) by the name of Lady Asbestos. She had a full body suit made of asbestos to protect herself from his fire. She eventually died of mesothelioma.

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Is…is that actually cannon??

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Holy crap I looked it up and it is

[@sicarius6501]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[@SyxxPunk]

@@historyofeverythingpodcast My mistake, her name was Asbestos Lady, real name Victoria Murdock. Her first appearance was Human Torch #27, but her origins were shown in Captain America Comics #63. I originally heard this from the College Humor game show Umm, Actually. They talked about weird Marvel villains, like Bong Man.

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

lol immune to fire but got killed by poisoning

[@everett2367]

The ENTIRETY of the ceilings in my high school that I am enrolled in are made of asbestos. They covered them up with ceiling panels, but the panels fall/rot/stop working when it rains/snows.

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Dear god

[@capnboomstick]

Fun fact, every K-12 school in the US has an asbestos Management Plan kept on site. It’s a public document that will let you know if and where the asbestos is located in the buildings, as well as any management strategies the school is supposed to take. Schools must be inspected every 3 years by an accredited asbestos inspector. If you’re having issues with asbestos in your school, I think an anonymous call to your state’s environmental protection agency may be in order.

[@treeherder42]

My primary school (elementary school for the US) had both asbestos roof tiles and what I will call fracture plates in almost every room. So these plates or whatever they are called were two pieces of plastic holding a glass center across a larger crack in the wall, the idea was they had measurements to show if the crack had grown or would shatter if it grew significantly. Yeah that place got demolished a good few years after I left, turned out they built it on a bog, when they tried to sell the land later a surveyor was quoted in the local news as saying "only an idiot would try to build here, this land will never sell". Well that land still isn't sold almost a decade later and the bog/nature has reclaimed its former territory.

[@aDeprivedSeal]

My highschool had the same. Someone lit a bathroom on fire once, after the firefighters were done the school was shut down for months to deal with all the disturbed asbestos

[@briantyson7095]

@@historyofeverythingpodcast not exactly dear.

[@rookhobbes9055]

"Every Kent cigarette blesses you with the smooth, refreshing sensation of a tiny shotgun pumping a round of steel flechettes into the very DNA of the cells in your lungs!"

[@ElmoGetsLaid]

i love kent imma buy more! smoke em down to the filter!

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

Smokers choice!

[@DeaconBlues117]

One of the little touches in the Fallout games - their society sort of "froze" in a 1950s-era mentality, with corporate interests above all. In the postwar Wasteland, you can find packs and cartons of cigarettes. When broken down for components, one of the things you get is asbestos. (Also fiberglass, but only from cartons.)

[@bunnygirlerika9489]

Holy shit i never noticed that! Damn the devs really did their homework on the 50's, im impressed.

[@ewhays]

Fallout's America is also a mix of anarco-capitalism and nationalist authoritarianism so there's that.

[@kevinkanzler495]

Corporate interests are far more powerful, prevalent, and, especially, consolidated than they were in the 50s.

[@helloyt4799]

Questioning why you got asbestos from scrapping them led me here lol!

[@arx3516]

I even downloaded a mod that allows the player character to smoke cigarettes and cigars, complete with its animation.

[@willsith9762]

It's absolutely hilarious how asbestos was just... everywhere. Used in everything. And then they found out, "Oh, this thing is killing people. Damn."

[@reeyees50]

Mainly in the united states, further proof that your goverment will sacrifice millions for cash

[@voidsage9359]

Its a common problem throughout history, actually. We think we know a lot, but we actually know so very little. Most likely, we will completely ban Children from accessing social media in the coming years as we discover more how harmful it is to mental and social health. But that didn't stop Zuckerberg from rolling it out to begin with!

[@reeyees50]

@@voidsage9359 yea but the USA, being the most industrialized populous on that time (1880-1970), greatly overproduced and over utilized the material asbestos. Basically, they used the most asbestos and paid the biggest prize.

[@voidsage9359]

@@reeyees50 Your message is confusing; what is your point?

[@reeyees50]

@@voidsage9359 my point is you americans should stop fucking up everything

[@zcarp8642]

The irony of selling asbestos cigarettes as a less cancerous option is just insane

[@pebblepod30]

Capitalism may have done the same thing with covid vaccines.

[@literaldirt]

@@pebblepod30 what

[@pebblepod30]

@@literaldirt What is so surprising about that? Do you think big pharma & big tobacco are very very different? Or regulators dont have the same "revolving doors"?

[@gramfero]

@@pebblepod30 ...what?

[@pebblepod30]

@@gramfero I thought what i said about the lobbying & regulatory situation of Big Tobboaco 70 years ago having parralles to Big Pharma today was quite logical & obvious, esp when it cane out that they lied about transmisson & got away with it (until Danish Regulators forced them to be questioned). So what is the issue you have? I am not anti vax or ani science btw, my comment is about how Capitalism (economic freedom of most powerful to do what they want to the rest of us) corrupts everything else

[@matthewrobinson6091]

All I can think of when I think of asbestos cigarettes is a blender in a stick.

[@martintodd9944]

Blender in a stick? I may be a bit slow here, but I don't get thay

[@aduckwithayoutubechannel]

@@martintodd9944 I think they’re talking about how it would absolutely destroy your lungs?

[@martintodd9944]

@@aduckwithayoutubechannel yeah I got that much, just a very odd way of picturing it, you know?

[@randyslegacy99]

Though not these, my grandmother smoked Kent Kings for 61 years, quit 15 yrs ago and is now 92.

[@prestonjones1653]

Companies: We have a new filter that removes any harmful toxins from the tobacco! Smokers: Yay! Companies: By replacing them with something significantly worse!

[@lv67890]

I had a very sweet uncle who died in 1986 from asbestos exposure. He was an architect, and used loads of asbestos when building. I can only imagine what the construction workers were dealing with. It is so sad.

[@donaldstraitiff7827]

My grandfather smoked Kents. He was diagnosed with emphysema in 1975, quit smoking, but only made it another 7 years. Those things were brutally deadly.

[@spencer1980]

Asbestos really is an amazing compound though. If we could find something that does what asbestos does without killing people? That would be useful.

[@oceanbytez847]

well we do in some ways. Aerogel is even better than asbestos at heat and fire resistance. Unfortunately it is also rediculously hard to make and is exceedingly expensive.

[@shaneh1003]

Cannabis

[@frankmcgarry3155]

@@shaneh1003 cannabis burns Einstein

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Kaowool does basically the same things, but is also basically asbestos...

[@tomjardine100]

Fibreglass, rockwool, aramid fibres, PVA adhesive much safer

[@madcat789]

I own a huge Asbestos Rock that I keep in my room. It's the constant reminder of the dangers of things we once thought safe.

[@BirdThatEatsPrometheussLiver]

Hopefully contained without ventilation

[@madcat789]

@@BirdThatEatsPrometheussLiver I've got it on the shelf.

[@madcat789]

@Tony B An excellent suggestion.

[@vwertix1662]

You should probably seal it inside a container so you aren't breathing asbestos.

[@madcat789]

@@vwertix1662 Every morning I give it a good sniff for good luck.

[@Raja0]

Makes you think about what we're eating and consuming now that we'll find out years later we're harming us. Love this type of video great format

[@Raja0]

@meme meme if it doesn't make you think they you have no brain. I have a degree in science and science is constantly changing we don't know everything, in fact even recently skittles have been restricted in the eu because of the possible dangers of the titanium dioxide. Maybe think again before typing a dumb uneducated response.

[@Foogi9000]

@meme meme Science is fucking amazing

[@misham6547]

Basically everything that isn't fresh fruits and veggies, even then they have pesticides and PFAS. So yeah everything is and

[@oceanbytez847]

@@misham6547 and lead. Our soil, and by extension, animals and plants all have a baseline of lead exposure due to remnants of leaded fuel exhaust. there is essentially almost always a part or 2 per million of lead in samples. Thankfully that amount is so small that it is usually negligable.

[@gooberbob2705]

Bro is popping out videos like nobody’s business. Keep up the grind my guy

[@notgabbyb]

he enjoys making these history videos a lot 😂

[@gooberbob2705]

@@notgabbyb I’m so proud of him 🥲

[@coltonnewton9559]

My friends grandpa was telling us that he once smoked years ago, but he didn’t smoke long. He said that the cigarettes were hurting his throat making him cough a lot, (more than average smokers). I ask him “what brand did you smoke?” He said “I smoked Kent, the micronite filtered cigarette.”

[@HK47_115]

Glad this is gone. I don't need extra cancer in my cancer sticks. The level of cancer in my Newports is decent enough. Oh and before anybody goes giving cigarette shit, remember that some of y'all drink.

[@JDMOON55555]

Ong bro drinking is way worse and nobody can convince me otherwise

[@waynebimmel6784]

@@JDMOON55555 let's say becoming an alcoholic is worse than becoming addicted to cigarettes

[@vwertix1662]

Smoking kills. I don't drink.

[@domi7007]

Drinking is literally better.

[@ant.rileyss8840]

@@domi7007 keep on drinking and you'll change your mind

[@DarthRevan03]

My high school had asbestos in the ceilings since it was built in the late 70s, during my time there it was basically falling apart and three of the departments were renovated. They had to cordon them off and guys in hazmat suits went in and removed all the asbestos. Eventually they decided to build a new school building and demolish the old one but that didn’t happen till literally the summer I graduated 😂

[@iaw7406]

They used the cancer to destroy the cancer 😂

[@lordlossthedead]

Ciggy smoke and Asbestos... Jeebus. 2 for 1 cancer dancer

[@capnboomstick]

Want to know what’s worse? Smoking and asbestos exposure have a synergistic effect when it comes to causing cancer. If you smoke you are 10 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Asbestos exposure increases your chances by 5 times. If you do both, you have a 50 times greater chance of developing lung cancer than the average person. That’s what makes these cigarettes so crazy.

[@P-C-Principle]

It’s 2:30am and nothing feels more at home than mesothelioma commercial. Oh wait

[@LegendStormcrow]

Asbestos concrete water pipes are still common. The Asbestos is sealed with minerals, just like how it does with lead pipes. Guy's like me are always at risk when working on these pipes, but they also are dangerous if the water changes a bit. Like, well Flint Michigan.

[@useaol]

Oh yeah. Transite pipe for one, plus countless steam pipes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5mlk3lrqK-ej68

[@alexvolesky]

Seems corporations never change, great video, really enjoy these videos!

[@yaboiara]

Binging as many videos as I can. Love your content

[@alexanderklimek9354]

Looping back a year later to watch the early ones i missed - it’s impressive how far you’ve come, props man! You and your wife are great!

[@Cristian_Adejandro98]

I'm already a KZbin subscriber, pateron knight, twitch subscriber and podcast follower plus coffe buyer love your content. this is video is another reason why I will never smoke, vape or snort anything in my life.

[@jaimemunoz5920]

So in like 1999/2000 that school year a drunk driver ran through our school and they had to close our school down for like a week because of the asbestos in our school. I mean I was only like 23 years ago.

[@IsaacClodfelter]

Asbestos is a scary thing. Fluffy death blankets.

[@mattstakeontheancients7594]

That mesothelioma commercial lives in my head rent free it and the diabitis supply guy.

[@JDGansGaming]

So a cigarette company decided to add even more cancer to their cancer sticks.

[@STDynamite8008]

I just want to comment about one of your last shorts. In the past like 3 weeks to month since I started watching your videos I've been appreciating the plugged shorts because your real content is actually good so what if your advertising it's a better promotional format than at least 90% of the ads I see anywhere these days

[@lungz9260]

ive heard pf kent cigs, as a canadian i have no direct experience but i know theyre still made (without the myconite filters of course) and are made with charcoal filters instead, making them a direct competitor to premium charcoal filter cigs, (charcoal filters make the cig taste less bad and more clean, though people used to think it actially os better for you and some still do its not exactly proven in the medical feild if charcoal folters are better, they however usually are a sign of a high end cig)

[@paulharrison6568]

I looked for asbestos cigarettes in the search bar just to see how cancer causing somthing could be and your video is the first one to pop up awesome

[@Erik-dl3vn]

Before planes was there ever an attempt at war hot air balloons throughout history love all the videos keep going brother👍

[@chris_scott]

There was my dude, The American Civil War and WW1 both had hit air balloons used, generally to get above hills and see what the enemy was doing

[@pheorrungurd8746]

I hope they were forced to chainsmoke those things like health potions against the BBEG!

[@weelebaseknowles4410]

It was the greatest health risk of smoking in history

[@slammedek6452]

Was used in brakes a lot too.

[@carlsaganlives4036]

Asbestos is still a major money maker for a new generation - of lawyers.

[@cowboybebo3027]

Can you talk about the case with the Ford Pinto sometime? I feel like it’s another case where a large corporation chose profits > human life

[@chuckles_chuckles_chuckles1019]

Can you talk about the history of blood types and how they were discovered?

[@johnnamyreve9391]

The irony of trying to filter out carcinogenic chemicalsby using a carcinogenic chemical😂

[@Dazdigo]

Remember that the fake snow in the Wizard of Oz was asbestos.

[@PlumberDaddy]

And none of the actors died of lung cancer.

[@bgiv2010]

"Innovation" strikes again! I hate how marketing kills people.

[@theprohetmoistbeardhair5825]

Not sure if you've talked about it before but an interesting topic could be the Tunguska Event from 1908, some interesting theories there...

[@eazy8579]

This video dropped within a week and half of Knowing Better’s video on Ciggerettes, where he talked a bit out these, and I have to wonder if there is a connection

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Actually I had no idea anyone talked about it recently. I was asked to talk about this from a tiktok comment and I wanted to make it into a full video

[@eazy8579]

@@historyofeverythingpodcast Oh cool. The video he posted is like an hour and something long, and it’s super detailed in in the absolute fuckery the tobacco industry got up to, including putting the main ingredient (the toxic part) of antifreeze into Ciggerettes.

[@nebulaemori3039]

Everytime I think mankind's stupidity and greed cannot surprise me I learn a fact like this and I have to re-evaluate my opinions on how terrible we can be

[@charlesendres2417]

Dude please longer videos

[@antesosic1600]

Its still very common on roofs and cealings in buildings in Croatia and other ex-communist countrys. My friends roof is made out of asbestos, and so is the roof of my house in the village.

[@nicholashobart8140]

My school has a lot of asbestos in the ceilings, pipe flashing, and probably the floor tiles too

[@jacak47410]

Work in a plant where 60% of the floor tiles are asbestos and half the exterior walls are asbestos as well.

[@darkko1969]

I was in middle school when they began doing large-scale removal of asbestos from our school ceilings.

[@AustinWhiteMopar]

If you have ever worked a job like plumbing/ electrical work/ or radon you have likely seen or handled asbestos in old insulation. Stuffs everywhere

[@TarPick-dh3dv]

How to speed run life 101

[@boldone3517]

Litigation laws changed in 1978, before that the owness was on the platiff to prove guilt. In the 1950-60s. If it wasn't the filter it was the tobacco and tar, that would kill you. There was endless advertising that promoted health and sunshine and vrainbows. Every movie and TV star represented one cigarette or another. The industry refers to cigarettes as "nicotine delivery systems", I could say so much more but, please continue with these videos on the industry. Much Success!

[@childofnewlight]

The question I'm curious about, and I don't feel like was satisfactorily answered: Did Lorillard know at this point asbestos was cancerous, or, how dangerous it might be? Just because they were concerned about the dust being in the smoke and that their competitors were going to run an attack campaign about how asbestos is harmful, doesn't necessarily mean Lorillard was aware just how harmful it was. I'm trying to look at it from a legal perspective. If they knew asbestos could be harmful, but thought it was less harmful than the toxins they believed it was removing, they may have thought it was a justifiable risk. Granted, they're still liable for failing to disclose this information to consumers. But at face value, the thought process, when viewed from a 1950s perspective, doesn't seem quite so heinous. They used asbestos for hospital filters and for soldier's gas masks. It doesn't seem like an unreasonable jump to try and use it on a cigarette. Of course, I don't know what additional information they had. Which is what I'm really hoping someone could fill in.

[@tonkdestroyer_404]

The M39/40 is the weirdest tank if ever seen.

[@5688gamble]

I wonder if they invested in new machines and had a deep clean of their factories done, or if they just used the same machines that were contaminated with asbestos for the new filters.

[@Kerorofan1990]

Decades ago? They still show that commercial today.

[@matthewsmith2787]

My grandma used to make asbestos textiles in a factory in the 1960s and she is still alive and in good health at 85 years old

[@fritzdaddy-135mmgetstagger4]

One lucky as lady ..I'm glad to hear that

[@SynTheLich]

Dope vid, quick question tho How’d you come up with your name? I’ve been wondering the origin story of it since way back when I started following you in Instagram lol

[@AC-ox4mm]

I actually put on an old gas mask with an asbestos filter luckily my friend told me not to breathe at all

[@Tb0071]

Can you pls put thoe in the titel so we can easily watch all of them? Love the series and ur channel!❤️

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Oh that is an excellent idea for easy recognition

[@NOTSOSLIMJIM]

Decades ago? Every time I go into the VA.....

[@smiledespite]

My great uncle has absestose all threw his lungs from working on a navy ship non service related of course

[@xander.rarends6926]

I wonder if they were only in the us or over the hole world

[@professoroak7545]

Where are these full podcasts the about section mentions bro?

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

historyofeverythingpodcast.com

[@jollyroger296]

Holy shit! I used to work for a company called H&V. I don't know if you read these comments but are you referring to Hollingsworth and Vose? If so, I had absolutely no idea they were tied in with the cigarette industry.

[@Boop__Doop]

There's asbestos in the water pipes in my town Like all the pipes here have asbestos

[@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf]

Hell I think they still run that commercial lol.

[@wyattridinger13]

My great grandmother smoked these till tje day she died of lung cancer

[@mikebocchinfuso9437]

My office was entirely made of this from 1978 to 1995.

[@hwertz10]

Oof! I mean, I thought "Well, it's sounds bad, but it probably stays in the filter." Nope!

[@bigstupidgrin]

Mesothelioma ads are to 90s kids as Raid Shadow Legend ads are today.

[@briantyson7095]

Love the swords, despite your level- headedness.

[@stetonwalters574]

Victoria Murdock AKA the asbestos lady was a Marvel comic book villain that wore a costume lined with asbestos

[@MyTv-]

The cigarette brand Kent, still exists.

[@argus4650]

Oh my god😱

[@aceofswords3215]

Hey, any idea if you are going to move your podcast to Stitcher? It's the main area I listen to podcasts.

[@noone2706]

I thought all cigarette filters have fiberglass in them

[@DeathMetalDerf]

There's absolutely nothing more American than the story of tobacco products and the American public.

[@manchuriancandybar864]

What do the other cigarettes use?

[@miked6335]

What does Vincent Price and Sonny Fox have to do with this (4:33)? Kent did have some real catchy commercials in the mid 60's; "To a sailor... its a sail, sail, sail, to a whaler... it's a whale, whale, whale

[@Z.O.M.G]

Ciggies are ciggies, it's taking minutes of your life span in all scenarios

[@devinwalton408]

Here from the shorts feed.

[@azrieljale]

"TrUST ThE ScIEnCe, SMoKe ThE aSBeSToS yOu BigOt"

[@tylerlcollins1260]

My dad smoke Kent's. And as you can imagine, it didn't end well. 😢

[@nintendomii5994]

At least it's not in my cereal

[@DanA-Doppl3r]

Where these guys ever sued?

[@war.neverchanges]

THATS ASBESTOS? I’ve seen hella broken school buildings ceilings with them…

[@davingilsdorf213]

I picked up my phone to "skip the add" and realized it was just the video.

[@heinzaballoo3278]

I'm guessing the company was never seriously punished?

[@panqueque445]

The possibility of getting cancer from tobacco isn't enough for me. I want asbestos to fuck me up too.

[@user-xy7lf1tx1d]

Well.. they did as best as they could to get rid of that filter. (get it?)

[@mendoza19-34]

Could you make a video about the battle of badr? Not really sure why, but pretty much all of the Islam prophet's (mohamed P.b.u.h) battles are almost never talked about, even though they sound amazing.

[@alkaisar7950]

Watching this while smoking a cigarette. Yeah I see

[@romaniangypsy3640]

I just clicked this so i can learn about asbestos and realised you are the youtube shorts guy

[@amirattamimi8765]

Hey they are cigarettes companies what did you expect

[@seanmorgan2356]

My great grandma smoked kent cigarettes.

[@benjaminclifford2095]

This is hilarious considering asbestos was known to be very bad in the 1920's

[@steveo984]

Now I know why when I scrap cigarettes in fallout I get asbestos lol