nicotine is highly highly addictive, I should know I smoked for 20 years and it took me three tries to quit, I quit because I was sick of breathing like a dying hippo. the more the government says no no no the cooler it seems to kids so why bother? its just another overbearing policy
How would you feel if another person's smoking made you 'cough your head off'? Would it still be okay with you if others smoked in your presence? If you have never experienced 'coughing your head off' then you don't have a clue to the discomfort it causes. I don't think your bad habits should cause my discomfort, but your smoking does... just be considerate of others and ask before you light up!
Yes, smoking is not the healthiest thing to do, but damn 95% of you on here sound to me like a bunch of freaking babies, my goodness, unbelievable you all sound like a bunch of old freaking ladies, I don't know, maybe you are?? Or?? Maybe you all were born in the 80s? I remember before there was a smoking section in malls & restaurants when I was a kid that is anyways, I also remember when fagots got
beat up in school. What I'm trying to say here is people now days just like to bitch about
It is a responsibility of the gouvernment though. It costs our healthcare a ridiculous amount of money to to treat people that smoke and we all have to pay for it.
As far as I am concerned we should EITHER outlaw smoking and tobacco OR admit that outlawing peoples' bad health choices is wrong and decriminalize all drugs. What I hate is the double standard.
@formless777 decriminalize all the way, prohibiting such things is a waste of time and gives violent criminals a source of money. take alcohol, its a big problem for many people but if you ban it all of a sudden theres gangsters everywhere because people will still find a way to get it no matter what
I completely agree with you. For my money, what is worse than the violent criminals is the fact that those violent criminals will then have the money to completely riddle the government with paid off officials who they can then blackmail forever, wrecking every level of government. I think this is what has happened to the USA. Bad laws can make everything worse.
Up here in canada every socialist thinks its his or her business if you smoke. their argument goes something like "we pay for your healthcare so you smoking affects us." Its pretty damn fascistic if you ask me. They advocate taxes on cigarettes and banning smoking wherever they can. I don't smoke but I'm not going to tell others not to make a choice I think is stupid, because I want that same freedom. This is the fundamental difference between statists and anti-statists, paternalism.
i live in Canada where there pictures have been on cigarettes for as long as i can remember and its not effective. i remember when i smoked a couple work buddies and I would trade the pictures like trading cards. the conversation would go like " what did you get today?" "oh I got the brain" "oh i need the brain ill trade you for life support guy" lol
@adamdabester We're not 3 year olds. A scary wrapper isn't going to deter people from consumption. We know what cigarettes are and we know it takes many decades of continual usage to be at any real risk. I smoke maybe 4-6 times a year but if you smoke everybody groups you in with people that go through 6 packs a day.
I love you guy! God bless you! I tell the same things since years but no one listen. I'm glad you have my same point of view and even if you are on the other side of the world, I send you a warm hug! You rock man!
It stinks. It gets in my clothes. It is nasty. I don't care if you smoke. Do it in your car, windows rolled up, in your house, by yourself. Enjoy it. Please do. But don't subject me to your smell because you feel it is your right.
NO they wouldn't. Tell them to take a bath - in some jobs B.O. can be grounds for termination, also there are laws that were created to keep homeless people out of public places because of their offensive smell.
if no one smoked, there would be a hell of a lot less pollution. but the population would be higher.... which would eventually cause more pollution. its like being stuck between a rock and a hard place...
I don't care if people decide to smoke, but smoking isn't always something you can keep to yourself. If I have my window cracked and my neighbors a couple doors down step outside to smoke, I can smell it. Even inhaling trace amounts of second-hand cigarette smoke makes my head ache and feel nauseous.
All that said, I agree it might not be the government's job to tell people to not smoke.
The only reason I don't like people smoking around me is cos it smells bad and and it's annoying when their smoking around kids but if you want to go have a smoke by your self go ahead
In my country the tax rate on tobacco products is so high that the govt. easily makes their money back from the anti smoking campaigns it runs. Sure there should be warning and taxes but these days it's out of control to the point where you'd think they'd just ban it completely.
@blahblahblah11129 You know what else is bad for you? EVERYTHING if not taken in moderation. Shit, exercise is bad for you if you if you do too much of it. As far as smoking around people? Do you drive to work everyday? Because if you do, I shouldn't be forced to have to sit behind you in a traffic jam and breath in all of the dangerous carbon monoxide fumes coming out of your exhaust. You should wait until after I'm off the highway before you decide to go to work. Give me a break...
This whole contradiction of government subsidizing tobacco while at the same time taking the moral high ground as far as the risk, is a great example of having your cake and eating it too. Tobacco is a lucrative cash crop that brings in huge tax revenue. So they're not going to stop subsidizing it. At the same time, you still have to appeal to the campaign contributors from advocacy groups who send you money to get you re-elected. It's a clever balancing act that works great for political points
Not long ago I saw posts on my Facebook feed about a young guy who was a friend of some of my friends who died of a freak heart attack. I was curious, so I browsed over do his page to find a ton of images on his page described in the video of people with mouth/throat/lung cancer and he was one of those annoying pricks who constantly called them "cancer sticks". I immediately laughed my ass off and lit a cigarette.
4:40 "We can't predict why people do things?" What? Of course we can, we can run trials that eliminate everything but a single difference, and assuming that the trial is conducted right, we can find out *exactly* why people do things.
You're a nice guy Penn, but Jesus!
Advertising is a 300bn industry in the US, and companies are the most thrifty institutions known to man; why would they dump all this cash into advertising if they didn't know that ads will make more people buy their product?
@ExEverest10 Dude, fuck you. Advertising cigarettes is already illegal here and yet it's a billion dollar industry on it's own. How the fuck does your condescending fucking attitude explain that?
I smoke, i know the risks and it isn't your business, I'm not being brainwashed by ads (even with products that DO have legal advertising), it doesn't make a bit of difference. Stop trying to explain away people's problems by blaming it on companies. You're holding back the progress of all mankind.
@s0beit Let me respond in kind: how the fuck does your fallacious attitude explain that it's not an *even bigger* industry? I'm not claiming that you are being brainwashed, but a proportion of the populace significant enough to justifiably appeal to through advertising has it's decisions affected by the advertising they watch. With a trial, it doesn't matter if the cause is little fairies, that come from the TV and go into your brain; or deterministic influence.
@s0beit Unless the trial is fraudulent, the statistics of a big enough group don't, and can't lie.
As for it being not my business; on what grounds? Are you in fact trying to enforce a form of de facto censorship? So if I think you're making a poor decision I should keep that to my self? Go fuck yourself. As long as it's within the confines of the law (but even if it were not), I'll tell you *precisely* how I feel about you being a dumbass, whose cultural influence,
@s0beit while negligible, is existent, and which provides an inclination for your social surrounding to partake in the habits you do. You're the one who's holding back the progress of all mankind, not letting evolution claim your self-righteous ass, for partaking in a deadly hobby with no widespread upside, not to mention, for doing it in such a bold manner.
@s0beit Neither am I blaming it on the corporations, they do what they can lest they want the competition with less principles to overtake them. As far as I'm concerned, the gov't should step in and dehumanize the products to a significant extent.
I find it odd that Japan is the 12th largest consumer of tobacco(out of all the countries in the world) and yet they have the #1 highest life expectancy.....
I lost my perceived immortality when I was 8 because one of my grandparents died due to cancer caused by the 20 pack a day habit they had so tobacco made me lose my immortality dam you tobacco because of you I know I will one day die its your fault. Hey I could sue! Tobacco cost me my cough….delusional Immortality and I demand compensation. Hey some one sued big M for getting fat.
Smoking is one of those issues where my generally libertarian views get a bit shaky. The reason for that is second hand smoke. I can't get solid information in either direction as to whether or not second hand smoke is harmful.
Sure, you could just smoke in your own home or other private areas, but IF second hand smoke is in any way harmful, people with children should not be allowed to smoke in their own homes. It's not okay to put harmful stuff in the air that other people have to breath.
If smoking a cigarette is so bad and offends so many, then what about all the crap that comes out of the tailpipes of all those cars on our streets? Fuck second hand smoke! Breathing first hand exhaust fumes is the worst! And hey, that offends me, but nobody's putting any pictures on the sides of all the cars and busses! And it screws up the air and creates smog! It's polluting our air and creating holes in the ozone layer! So are the big industry smoke towers! So why pick on the little guy?
Penn is right. People tend to overestimate the dangers of drugs. But just about everyone tends to underestimate their potential for addiction. That's why I'm against the complete legalization and dis-regulation of all drugs.
@Solensherre We tried that in Canada for a while. It caused a massive insurgence in convenience store robberies. Crooks were vaulting the counters, by-passing the cash registers and stuffing cartons of smokes into garbage bags! And smokes were smuggled in and sold cheaply to consumers on the black market. These funds then went to subsidize even worse criminal activity. Nope, I'm afraid taxing won't do it. What can we do? Educate and tolerate! Let the people decide. It's the democratic way.
@AmazingGordo So you bring an example of where it went bad. I bring the example of where it's GOING well. NORWAY! My homeland, country of the vikings, have extremely high taxes on cigarettes (and other tabacco products). Though people who buy these goods complain, the logical aspect is that people buy less of that which costs more. Though I agree, we should always educate, taxes in the long term and restrictions on who can sell causes a decrease in purchase, which I believe is the goal.
@Solensherre Actually my friend, I bring the only example I know of, which is that of my country. As you bring the example of your own country.
And I see your point, but my country is next door to the US and we are very similar to them and logic doesn't enter into it. as a matter of fact, when our cigarettes were taxed heavy here, the mob smuggled smokes over from the US, and my people bought them like crazy! They then took the profits and used them to buy & sell heroin, cocaine, and so on.
It's getting so out of fucking control in Australia, at the moment we have the diseased pictures and crap, and you can't promote cigarettes. Over the next few years there are plans to force packaging to be bland i.e. no colourful packs and such. And yet 1/5 of the population still smoke, in Australia that is 4.4 million people. But the government persists with this crusade against the cigarette companies, completely ignoring the massive culture of drinking in Aus. Way to go dumbasses.
I thought a libertarian would say "Smoke if you want to, I don't care. There is no objective moral code that says smoking is bad. But smoking is wrong for me," rather than saying "Smoking is bad for me and for you, but do what you want."
@CambridgeHeights I wasn't comparing Penn's thoughts to libertarianism directly. I was making an educated guess about the personal views and values a libertarian would have, and from that I tried to base a response to Penn on that. Libertarianism as a political ideology (not the libertarianism referring to free will) says nothing about a person's character directly, but I think there is a certain personality type that different political systems tend to attract.
No! You must do as I say. I cannot control your mind and actions, if you fail to believe what I tell you to believe. Allowing you to be free and make your own decisions may induce self-responsibility.
This vill not do, I vill not stand for such insubordinate behavior!
If they insist on putting graphic pictures on cigarettes packs, then we should extend this practise to other places where it might be even more important. Maybe we should put graphic pictures of police brutality on the sides of cop cars, or on their uniforms. Or how about pictures of war crimes at all the military recruitment centres? We could put similar pictures showing the various crimes of Government agencies on all their buildings. The White House and Capital would be completely covered
As most of the people I know that smoke can't afford to (They couldn't without taxes), maybe they should focus on banning nicotine and deadly poisons from cigarettes instead of launching dickless PR campaigns...
@Rensune Most people I know that drink Starbucks can't afford to do so. Maybe they should focus on banning caffeine because irresponsible people doing irresponsible things is enough to justify taking the right to do it away from responsible people, right?
@ctastrophe Nicotine is a proven chemically addictive substance (which interferes with a person's autonomy) As well, it is in itself highly poisonous in a more concentrated form. Caffeine, on the other hand, has proven benefits for asthma and while sychologically habit forming (like alcohol, or marijuana) is not chemically.
@Rensune Please tell me where you got the info that caffeine is only psychologically addictive. Because I went through a week of migraines and twitching when I quit drinking it 10 years ago. That would be funny if it was all in my head. And who cares if cigarettes are poisonous? Alcohol poisoning kills people, so does exhaust from cars. Ban those too? I don't want the gov't to act like my mommy and tell me what I can/can't do. I choose not to smoke and I 100% support anyone else's choice.
@ctastrophe The FDA. and there are capacities which the majority of the populace is too stupid to decide for itself. Look at elections over the last 120 years (at least) for proof of that.
@Rensune Firstly link me something from the FDA that says caffeine is only psychologically addictive. Secondly, read the wiki article on caffeine and notice the "tolerance and withdrawal" section. Thirdly, in your opinion the majority of the populace is stupid, but you're willing to trust the government that they elected to makes laws that govern personal choices? I say let people decide what they wanna do and not impose their life-choices onto others. Even if it would be for their betterment.
@ctastrophe Nicotine is a proven chemically addictive substance (which interferes with a person's autonomy) As well, it is in itself highly poisonous in a more concentrated form. Caffeine, on the other hand, has proven benefits for asthma and while psychologically habit forming (like alcohol, or marijuana) is not chemically.
I want to see a Penn and Teller "Bullshit" on all the anti-smoking propaganda. I wouldn't doubt all the studies that say smoking not only kills you but everyone around you was done by scientists being paid off by the lawyers that are suing tobacco companies (like Wakefield's autism linked to immunization study).
If person is killed in a fatal car crash at 25. does it really matter at that point if they smoked cigarettes. There are literally millions of people who die non cigarette related deaths every year. Which means those millions of got to smoke cigarettes and enjoy them and suffered no consequence one from them. so light up because everything can and eventually will kill you. even vegetables remember what happened with spinach a years ago.
If person is killed in a fatal car crash at 25. does it really matter at that point if they smoked cigarettes. There are literally millions of people who die non cigarette related deaths every year. Which means those millions of got to smoke cigarettes and enjoy them and suffered consequence one from them. so light up because everything can and eventually will kill you. even vegetables remember what happened with spinach a years ago.
Most smokers, like nonsmokers, die of causes that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with cigarettes.
More to the point that political hustlers don't give a rat's ass about you, smokers LOWER the total cost of medical care because they tend to die at a younger age. EVERYONE who is fortunate to die from old age diseases requires lots of medical attention as their disease(s) progress. Smokers simply die quicker, and so don't cost as much.
The category is not my construct. Ask the medical researchers and those who report on such for the details of their categories. However, it doesn't take much education or any medical training to realize the validity of my point.
Like most such obvious reality checks of the endless hysterical hoaxes used to incrementally strip Americans of their liberties, this one was quietly made, though hardly reported, following the anti-smoking hysteria and gov't theft thereafter, years ago.
@diddymuck Just because you don't like my answer, which exposed the false presumption of your question, doesn't mean it's a dodge. Buck up and try to address a point.
I just don't get why you haven't gotten more subscribers yet. It takes time I guess.
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I get the "I don't do things in moderation so I don't try" but c'mon, shouldn't everyone try everything once except folk dancing and incest? I respect your choice but I try anything that is legal (in Sweden, i.e. nothing).
@bleunt it costs money to pay the people who's job it is to make sure the pictures get put on the packages. They pay people to make the warnings, paying artists and consultants.
There is an entire office somewhere filled with people who would not have a job except for the warning labels, that is not free.
how much is spent in court fighting with people who break the warning label law?
Anything the government does costs money. Anything!
@vesman81 No. The companies manufacture their own labels. After the court settled it, it's up to the companies to obey and use their own money to print the warnings.
@bleunt is there not an office somewhere filled with people who's job it is to make sure the companies manufacture proper warning labels? I just heard in the news about how long its taking the FDA to approve new warning labels... are they doing it for free?
when you order someone to do something, you need to pay someone to watch them to make sure they do it, or else there is no point in ordering it in the first place and its just a paper tiger.
@lewrites You don't need a picture of a fatty on a Big Mac. Next time you're in a McDonalds, just look at the person next to you while you're waiting for your food. It'll be like looking into the future.
Watch the Bullshit episode on fast food -- they're trying to make it illegal for a fast food restaurant to be in a certain area (I think it's low income areas or something?) -- or tax them heavily for it or something like that? Don't these government fucks give us any credit to think for ourselves? If I wanna big mac, I'm gonna get one. If I want some drugs, I'll do them. I don't need the government making decisions for my personal and private actions and behaviors.
The new obama laws and taxes passed against tobacco are downright criminal -- Smoking is NOT a government issue; it's a social issue -- hence unless we have a SOCIALIST government, they should stay the fuck away from social issues. This is the reason why a pack of Nat Sherman's cost $16 in new york, and I can no longer order them over the internet -- and now they're trying to tax the Indians too -- but they aren't standing for it and are in court right now.
This country is just getting even more exponentially fucked every day. I really wouldn't be that surprised if on his last day in office in 2013, Obama shit the bed.
A big steaming Lincoln Log on the Lincoln bedspread; and then lights up a cigarette, saying "OK, I'm gonna bounce now."
In a country where everybody chips in and pay texas so that everyone can have universal healthcare it is costing a person money if another person gets cancer from smoking. Every cigarettepackage should have on the side a picture of a cancer-filled lung.
The obvious solution is for the government to stay the FUCK out of health care then, or anything that has to do with the private life of it's citizens other than a reasonable flat tax and protecting our rights.
You don't need to predict what will happen if they put these warnings on. Just look north. We've had these in Canada for years, and when they first came out, I remember seeing Jr. High/High school kids COLLECTING them.
You want to make smoking even cooler, this is one way to do it.
My opinion on this is the same as Bill Hicks: "There is good news for smokers. The surgeon general’s warnings are different on the sides of each pack. Mine says, “Surgeon General Warning: Cigarette smoking may Cause fetal injury or premature birth.” Hey, fuck it! just don’t get the ones that say lung cancer. "
well i think it's to help the younger people and y do you thing the drug trade in the US is so bad becouse it is easy to go out and get out and get drugs then get beer so they need 2 crak down on drugs more and lower the drinking age that may help with the problums and then maybe smocking will follow after lol
Dennis Leary did a bit about cigarettes in which he said you could put them in a black box with a skull and cross bones on it and name them death and people will still smoke them. Kinda sums it all up, it doesn't matter whats on the pack, people are still gonna smoke.
great point - kids don't care about their bodies. if you want to slap deterrent pictures on cigarette packs, make them pictures of some dude freezing his ass off smoking in front of an office building in a snow storm, Or a picture of someone paying 10 dollars a pack. Instead of "cigarettes cause cancer" the warning should say "cigarettes make you smell like shit". Those are the reasons I never started smoking.
@pink3y The only issue with that is driving a car won't absolutely lead to health issues later down the line. Smoking is going to hurt you, no matter who you are. You're welcome to make that choice, the picture is there to help make that choice clearer.
And BTW, when I took my 5 hour class for my driver's license, we got a pretty healthy barrage of horrific images which, to be perfectly honest, are always at the back of my mind when I'm driving. Was it 100% necessary? No. Am I more careful? Yes
@smiledammit24 Can we put pictures of fatties on all hamburgers? Driving a car most assuredly affects my health, have you seen exhaust fumes? Talk about death!
@pink3y You don't need a picture of a fat guy on your hamburger. Next time you're ordering a triple-bacon-cheeseburger, just look around you and you'll see all the fat people you could ever dream of. It'll be fun---like looking into the future.
Another thing is that cars only kill people when used improperly / not as intended. You probably shouldn't drive your car off a cliff, and you shouldn't suck on the exhaust. But cigarettes are meant to be smoked, and that indubitably causes damage.
Penn, if you think what the US is doing now with cigarette packets is bad, you aint seen nothin yet. I live in Australia and our government has been talking about forcing tobacco companies to make cigarette packets plain black and white. They will come in white boxes with black text, all in a standard font type and size dictated by the regulators. In fact, the only colour on the packets will be the pictures of black lungs and gangrene.
@sonic123488 Doesn't matter, the government shouldn't be forcing people to put shit on their products. Especially since all the money the government uses to do this is the product of THEFT. The government steals from people and then tells them what to do with what money they have left. This is fine if you believe the government owns everyone and everything, but for we few libertarians who thinkk we actually own our bodies and the result of our labour, its a criminal act, regardless of intentions
@korleonis he provided his time and services to a charitable organization, that's all he "needs" to donate. Making people aware of a charity is not a bad thing. There's nothing wrong with people begging for the well-being of other people.
@roblesterfilms ....I highly doubt alcohol is worse for you than smoking. Your liver repairs itself alot faster than most other organs and is quite resilient.
@Raptik666 well ok valid, mild smoking is no big, and alcohol seems best in more than one or two for most if not all, so why not a smoke or five a day, better than the same rule for strong drink, plus i know a few teen who started drinking early and smoking early, and it was the liver that got screwed up, but the smoke does it job too, just takes a time.
think of Britain and the smoking ban in pubs and bars, place of work and restaurants, great but costs traders from making cash
You'd love living in Sweden. We're actually free, not like Americans are "free".
We have warning labels on cigarettes, sure, but they're not exaggerated. Just simple phrases such as "Smoking is highly addictive" and "Smoking causes deadly lung cancer". Only provide true facts and let the people decide for themselves what they want to do with that information.
Then they complained their scare ads weren't big enough, and increasingly wanted to use more space on the box for their moralising shit, while removing any of the manufacturer's marketing and logos and shit.
I don't smoke. Hate the crap. I think you're a fucking idiot if you start.
i dont like to smoke BUT the truth is when i drink i need to have a smoke or i just dont get drunk :s i smoke only when i drink ones or twice a week ,not so bad
nicotine is highly highly addictive, I should know I smoked for 20 years and it took me three tries to quit, I quit because I was sick of breathing like a dying hippo. the more the government says no no no the cooler it seems to kids so why bother? its just another overbearing policy
MrROTD 3 weeks ago
How would you feel if another person's smoking made you 'cough your head off'? Would it still be okay with you if others smoked in your presence? If you have never experienced 'coughing your head off' then you don't have a clue to the discomfort it causes. I don't think your bad habits should cause my discomfort, but your smoking does... just be considerate of others and ask before you light up!
philzimelman 4 weeks ago
@philzimelman P.S. It's not just your health, it's also those who you are around!
philzimelman 4 weeks ago
Yes, smoking is not the healthiest thing to do, but damn 95% of you on here sound to me like a bunch of freaking babies, my goodness, unbelievable you all sound like a bunch of old freaking ladies, I don't know, maybe you are?? Or?? Maybe you all were born in the 80s? I remember before there was a smoking section in malls & restaurants when I was a kid that is anyways, I also remember when fagots got
beat up in school. What I'm trying to say here is people now days just like to bitch about
yrusonoitall 1 month ago
@yrusonoitall Alot of old ladies smoke so I highly doubt it's them.
JRSanchez93 1 month ago
so true
GLICKSCLASSICMOVIES 1 month ago
It is a responsibility of the gouvernment though. It costs our healthcare a ridiculous amount of money to to treat people that smoke and we all have to pay for it.
1frozenfire1 2 months ago
As far as I am concerned we should EITHER outlaw smoking and tobacco OR admit that outlawing peoples' bad health choices is wrong and decriminalize all drugs. What I hate is the double standard.
formless777 3 months ago
@formless777 decriminalize all the way, prohibiting such things is a waste of time and gives violent criminals a source of money. take alcohol, its a big problem for many people but if you ban it all of a sudden theres gangsters everywhere because people will still find a way to get it no matter what
MrROTD 3 weeks ago
@MrROTD
I completely agree with you. For my money, what is worse than the violent criminals is the fact that those violent criminals will then have the money to completely riddle the government with paid off officials who they can then blackmail forever, wrecking every level of government. I think this is what has happened to the USA. Bad laws can make everything worse.
formless777 3 weeks ago
Up here in canada every socialist thinks its his or her business if you smoke. their argument goes something like "we pay for your healthcare so you smoking affects us." Its pretty damn fascistic if you ask me. They advocate taxes on cigarettes and banning smoking wherever they can. I don't smoke but I'm not going to tell others not to make a choice I think is stupid, because I want that same freedom. This is the fundamental difference between statists and anti-statists, paternalism.
Hashishin13 3 months ago
He's right.
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Luigi84289 4 months ago in playlist Season 1
i live in Canada where there pictures have been on cigarettes for as long as i can remember and its not effective. i remember when i smoked a couple work buddies and I would trade the pictures like trading cards. the conversation would go like " what did you get today?" "oh I got the brain" "oh i need the brain ill trade you for life support guy" lol
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@adamdabester We're not 3 year olds. A scary wrapper isn't going to deter people from consumption. We know what cigarettes are and we know it takes many decades of continual usage to be at any real risk. I smoke maybe 4-6 times a year but if you smoke everybody groups you in with people that go through 6 packs a day.
Luigi84289 4 months ago in playlist Season 1
I love you guy! God bless you! I tell the same things since years but no one listen. I'm glad you have my same point of view and even if you are on the other side of the world, I send you a warm hug! You rock man!
Catrazal 6 months ago
It stinks. It gets in my clothes. It is nasty. I don't care if you smoke. Do it in your car, windows rolled up, in your house, by yourself. Enjoy it. Please do. But don't subject me to your smell because you feel it is your right.
papermermaid 6 months ago
@papermermaid If I found that black people smell would they have a right to subject me to their awful stench?
skeletoramone 4 months ago in playlist Season 1
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NO they wouldn't. Tell them to take a bath - in some jobs B.O. can be grounds for termination, also there are laws that were created to keep homeless people out of public places because of their offensive smell.
papermermaid 4 months ago
if no one smoked, there would be a hell of a lot less pollution. but the population would be higher.... which would eventually cause more pollution. its like being stuck between a rock and a hard place...
Turtleluver26 7 months ago
I don't care if people decide to smoke, but smoking isn't always something you can keep to yourself. If I have my window cracked and my neighbors a couple doors down step outside to smoke, I can smell it. Even inhaling trace amounts of second-hand cigarette smoke makes my head ache and feel nauseous.
All that said, I agree it might not be the government's job to tell people to not smoke.
Wezli333 7 months ago
Teller like it is, Penn.
wiggmortem 7 months ago
Cigars ftw! Fuck cigarettes!
Sumoto999 7 months ago
i love your videos dude. But stop with the camera switch! Shit makes me dizzy!
yshabanov 8 months ago
The only reason I don't like people smoking around me is cos it smells bad and and it's annoying when their smoking around kids but if you want to go have a smoke by your self go ahead
Bayzz2 8 months ago
In my country the tax rate on tobacco products is so high that the govt. easily makes their money back from the anti smoking campaigns it runs. Sure there should be warning and taxes but these days it's out of control to the point where you'd think they'd just ban it completely.
JewTube001 8 months ago
it stinks and i have to smell it....
papermermaid 8 months ago
it stinks and i have to smell it....
papermermaid 8 months ago
@blahblahblah11129 You know what else is bad for you? EVERYTHING if not taken in moderation. Shit, exercise is bad for you if you if you do too much of it. As far as smoking around people? Do you drive to work everyday? Because if you do, I shouldn't be forced to have to sit behind you in a traffic jam and breath in all of the dangerous carbon monoxide fumes coming out of your exhaust. You should wait until after I'm off the highway before you decide to go to work. Give me a break...
jboyko3 9 months ago
This whole contradiction of government subsidizing tobacco while at the same time taking the moral high ground as far as the risk, is a great example of having your cake and eating it too. Tobacco is a lucrative cash crop that brings in huge tax revenue. So they're not going to stop subsidizing it. At the same time, you still have to appeal to the campaign contributors from advocacy groups who send you money to get you re-elected. It's a clever balancing act that works great for political points
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northmemphis48 10 months ago
Not long ago I saw posts on my Facebook feed about a young guy who was a friend of some of my friends who died of a freak heart attack. I was curious, so I browsed over do his page to find a ton of images on his page described in the video of people with mouth/throat/lung cancer and he was one of those annoying pricks who constantly called them "cancer sticks". I immediately laughed my ass off and lit a cigarette.
bluetextonwhitebg 10 months ago
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!!... thats all you know. hahahaha love you penn
gongtatoot 10 months ago
This guy is great because he speaks for the everyman. If he drank, I would love to have a beer with him.
jimmyjohnsman1 11 months ago
4:40 "We can't predict why people do things?" What? Of course we can, we can run trials that eliminate everything but a single difference, and assuming that the trial is conducted right, we can find out *exactly* why people do things.
You're a nice guy Penn, but Jesus!
Advertising is a 300bn industry in the US, and companies are the most thrifty institutions known to man; why would they dump all this cash into advertising if they didn't know that ads will make more people buy their product?
ExEverest10 11 months ago
@ExEverest10 Dude, fuck you. Advertising cigarettes is already illegal here and yet it's a billion dollar industry on it's own. How the fuck does your condescending fucking attitude explain that?
I smoke, i know the risks and it isn't your business, I'm not being brainwashed by ads (even with products that DO have legal advertising), it doesn't make a bit of difference. Stop trying to explain away people's problems by blaming it on companies. You're holding back the progress of all mankind.
s0beit 11 months ago
@s0beit Let me respond in kind: how the fuck does your fallacious attitude explain that it's not an *even bigger* industry? I'm not claiming that you are being brainwashed, but a proportion of the populace significant enough to justifiably appeal to through advertising has it's decisions affected by the advertising they watch. With a trial, it doesn't matter if the cause is little fairies, that come from the TV and go into your brain; or deterministic influence.
ExEverest10 11 months ago
@s0beit Unless the trial is fraudulent, the statistics of a big enough group don't, and can't lie.
As for it being not my business; on what grounds? Are you in fact trying to enforce a form of de facto censorship? So if I think you're making a poor decision I should keep that to my self? Go fuck yourself. As long as it's within the confines of the law (but even if it were not), I'll tell you *precisely* how I feel about you being a dumbass, whose cultural influence,
ExEverest10 11 months ago
@s0beit while negligible, is existent, and which provides an inclination for your social surrounding to partake in the habits you do. You're the one who's holding back the progress of all mankind, not letting evolution claim your self-righteous ass, for partaking in a deadly hobby with no widespread upside, not to mention, for doing it in such a bold manner.
ExEverest10 11 months ago
@s0beit Neither am I blaming it on the corporations, they do what they can lest they want the competition with less principles to overtake them. As far as I'm concerned, the gov't should step in and dehumanize the products to a significant extent.
And fuck you too, moron.
ExEverest10 11 months ago
I find it odd that Japan is the 12th largest consumer of tobacco(out of all the countries in the world) and yet they have the #1 highest life expectancy.....
andrewm153351 11 months ago
I lost my perceived immortality when I was 8 because one of my grandparents died due to cancer caused by the 20 pack a day habit they had so tobacco made me lose my immortality dam you tobacco because of you I know I will one day die its your fault. Hey I could sue! Tobacco cost me my cough….delusional Immortality and I demand compensation. Hey some one sued big M for getting fat.
darkblood626 11 months ago
Smoking is one of those issues where my generally libertarian views get a bit shaky. The reason for that is second hand smoke. I can't get solid information in either direction as to whether or not second hand smoke is harmful.
Sure, you could just smoke in your own home or other private areas, but IF second hand smoke is in any way harmful, people with children should not be allowed to smoke in their own homes. It's not okay to put harmful stuff in the air that other people have to breath.
Applemangh 1 year ago
If smoking a cigarette is so bad and offends so many, then what about all the crap that comes out of the tailpipes of all those cars on our streets? Fuck second hand smoke! Breathing first hand exhaust fumes is the worst! And hey, that offends me, but nobody's putting any pictures on the sides of all the cars and busses! And it screws up the air and creates smog! It's polluting our air and creating holes in the ozone layer! So are the big industry smoke towers! So why pick on the little guy?
AmazingGordo 1 year ago
Penn is right. People tend to overestimate the dangers of drugs. But just about everyone tends to underestimate their potential for addiction. That's why I'm against the complete legalization and dis-regulation of all drugs.
CambridgeHeights 1 year ago
I'm a fan for adding taxes to cigarettes for the simple reason that the government makes more money, and the sales for cigarettes fall. Win-Win imo.
Solensherre 1 year ago
@Solensherre We tried that in Canada for a while. It caused a massive insurgence in convenience store robberies. Crooks were vaulting the counters, by-passing the cash registers and stuffing cartons of smokes into garbage bags! And smokes were smuggled in and sold cheaply to consumers on the black market. These funds then went to subsidize even worse criminal activity. Nope, I'm afraid taxing won't do it. What can we do? Educate and tolerate! Let the people decide. It's the democratic way.
AmazingGordo 1 year ago
@AmazingGordo So you bring an example of where it went bad. I bring the example of where it's GOING well. NORWAY! My homeland, country of the vikings, have extremely high taxes on cigarettes (and other tabacco products). Though people who buy these goods complain, the logical aspect is that people buy less of that which costs more. Though I agree, we should always educate, taxes in the long term and restrictions on who can sell causes a decrease in purchase, which I believe is the goal.
Solensherre 1 year ago
@Solensherre Actually my friend, I bring the only example I know of, which is that of my country. As you bring the example of your own country.
And I see your point, but my country is next door to the US and we are very similar to them and logic doesn't enter into it. as a matter of fact, when our cigarettes were taxed heavy here, the mob smuggled smokes over from the US, and my people bought them like crazy! They then took the profits and used them to buy & sell heroin, cocaine, and so on.
AmazingGordo 1 year ago
It's getting so out of fucking control in Australia, at the moment we have the diseased pictures and crap, and you can't promote cigarettes. Over the next few years there are plans to force packaging to be bland i.e. no colourful packs and such. And yet 1/5 of the population still smoke, in Australia that is 4.4 million people. But the government persists with this crusade against the cigarette companies, completely ignoring the massive culture of drinking in Aus. Way to go dumbasses.
YoungScienceGuy 1 year ago
I thought a libertarian would say "Smoke if you want to, I don't care. There is no objective moral code that says smoking is bad. But smoking is wrong for me," rather than saying "Smoking is bad for me and for you, but do what you want."
atheoexistentialist 1 year ago
@atheoexistentialist Alas option number 2 is considerably more realistic...
Solensherre 1 year ago
@atheoexistentialist You misunderstand libertarianism.
CambridgeHeights 1 year ago
@CambridgeHeights I wasn't comparing Penn's thoughts to libertarianism directly. I was making an educated guess about the personal views and values a libertarian would have, and from that I tried to base a response to Penn on that. Libertarianism as a political ideology (not the libertarianism referring to free will) says nothing about a person's character directly, but I think there is a certain personality type that different political systems tend to attract.
atheoexistentialist 1 year ago
You can get into more trouble with the law by growing tobacco than you would for growing marijuana...
Get the government out of the nanny business...
SirWinstonChurchill 1 year ago
No! You must do as I say. I cannot control your mind and actions, if you fail to believe what I tell you to believe. Allowing you to be free and make your own decisions may induce self-responsibility.
This vill not do, I vill not stand for such insubordinate behavior!
TheComputerNazi 1 year ago
Thank you for smoking.
BlankxxPage 1 year ago
If they insist on putting graphic pictures on cigarettes packs, then we should extend this practise to other places where it might be even more important. Maybe we should put graphic pictures of police brutality on the sides of cop cars, or on their uniforms. Or how about pictures of war crimes at all the military recruitment centres? We could put similar pictures showing the various crimes of Government agencies on all their buildings. The White House and Capital would be completely covered
kittyprydekissme 1 year ago
Video starts at 1:27
216trixie 1 year ago
As a former smoker I completely agree with this video.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago 2
@lewrites I think that's why Grimace isn't in the commercials anymore. or the pediphiliac clown.
concord327 1 year ago
Those labels are just another example of the nanny state showing its overall stupidity.
lokicdn 1 year ago 7
holy fuck does the camera need to switch every 3 seconds?
ind20000 1 year ago
@lewrites that's what the scary motherfucker Grimace was for
hairyhoff 1 year ago 2
I'm more cool with adding nearly useless graphic depictions of the harms of smoking on the pack than with making smoking illegal in bars...
puellanivis 1 year ago
As most of the people I know that smoke can't afford to (They couldn't without taxes), maybe they should focus on banning nicotine and deadly poisons from cigarettes instead of launching dickless PR campaigns...
Rensune 1 year ago
@Rensune Most people I know that drink Starbucks can't afford to do so. Maybe they should focus on banning caffeine because irresponsible people doing irresponsible things is enough to justify taking the right to do it away from responsible people, right?
ctastrophe 1 year ago
@ctastrophe Nicotine is a proven chemically addictive substance (which interferes with a person's autonomy) As well, it is in itself highly poisonous in a more concentrated form. Caffeine, on the other hand, has proven benefits for asthma and while sychologically habit forming (like alcohol, or marijuana) is not chemically.
Rensune 1 year ago
@Rensune Please tell me where you got the info that caffeine is only psychologically addictive. Because I went through a week of migraines and twitching when I quit drinking it 10 years ago. That would be funny if it was all in my head. And who cares if cigarettes are poisonous? Alcohol poisoning kills people, so does exhaust from cars. Ban those too? I don't want the gov't to act like my mommy and tell me what I can/can't do. I choose not to smoke and I 100% support anyone else's choice.
ctastrophe 1 year ago
@ctastrophe The FDA. and there are capacities which the majority of the populace is too stupid to decide for itself. Look at elections over the last 120 years (at least) for proof of that.
Rensune 1 year ago
@Rensune Firstly link me something from the FDA that says caffeine is only psychologically addictive. Secondly, read the wiki article on caffeine and notice the "tolerance and withdrawal" section. Thirdly, in your opinion the majority of the populace is stupid, but you're willing to trust the government that they elected to makes laws that govern personal choices? I say let people decide what they wanna do and not impose their life-choices onto others. Even if it would be for their betterment.
ctastrophe 1 year ago
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@ctastrophe Nicotine is a proven chemically addictive substance (which interferes with a person's autonomy) As well, it is in itself highly poisonous in a more concentrated form. Caffeine, on the other hand, has proven benefits for asthma and while psychologically habit forming (like alcohol, or marijuana) is not chemically.
Rensune 1 year ago
So, how does the subsidy thing work?
coffeefish 1 year ago
Yeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh......no extra hand camera.
216trixie 1 year ago
Watched this video smoking a cigarette...lool
Lasukie 1 year ago
If I could, I would hand out all of the Danish water that I could! some of the cleanest water in the world =D
KaptajnKaffe 1 year ago
Good way to pimp the iPad as well.
kensuke0 1 year ago
I want to see a Penn and Teller "Bullshit" on all the anti-smoking propaganda. I wouldn't doubt all the studies that say smoking not only kills you but everyone around you was done by scientists being paid off by the lawyers that are suing tobacco companies (like Wakefield's autism linked to immunization study).
RoboticsNShenanigans 1 year ago
@RoboticsNShenanigans they did do an episode on second hand smoke
alnwicktkd 1 year ago
@alnwicktkd Oh sweet I'll have to look that up, thanks.
RoboticsNShenanigans 1 year ago
Show starts at 1:27.
Don't forget to support Charity: Water.
MooseOfReason 1 year ago
@MooseOfReason Thank you.
Sack42 1 year ago
just like the US government should not be dealing with other countries issues and occupy it for whatever reason.
1xDannyHey1x 1 year ago
If person is killed in a fatal car crash at 25. does it really matter at that point if they smoked cigarettes. There are literally millions of people who die non cigarette related deaths every year. Which means those millions of got to smoke cigarettes and enjoy them and suffered no consequence one from them. so light up because everything can and eventually will kill you. even vegetables remember what happened with spinach a years ago.
Ixtrixle187 1 year ago
If person is killed in a fatal car crash at 25. does it really matter at that point if they smoked cigarettes. There are literally millions of people who die non cigarette related deaths every year. Which means those millions of got to smoke cigarettes and enjoy them and suffered consequence one from them. so light up because everything can and eventually will kill you. even vegetables remember what happened with spinach a years ago.
Ixtrixle187 1 year ago
penn looks professional as fuck with that sexy ipad in hand..that said, i care.
gODfall 1 year ago
Don't smoke!
ws9ca 1 year ago
@lewrites If the horrible hypocrites PETA gets its way most likely pictures from inside a slaughter house.
Roushfan5 1 year ago
Corporations are not people. Freedom of speech is a war you will never win when it comes to corporate marketing. Wise up.
j0hnwi11iams 1 year ago
Most smokers, like nonsmokers, die of causes that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with cigarettes.
More to the point that political hustlers don't give a rat's ass about you, smokers LOWER the total cost of medical care because they tend to die at a younger age. EVERYONE who is fortunate to die from old age diseases requires lots of medical attention as their disease(s) progress. Smokers simply die quicker, and so don't cost as much.
The whole anti-smoking thing was a shakedown.
TylerNull 1 year ago 32
@TylerNull what's your example of an "old age disease"?
diddymuck 1 year ago
@diddymuck
The category is not my construct. Ask the medical researchers and those who report on such for the details of their categories. However, it doesn't take much education or any medical training to realize the validity of my point.
Like most such obvious reality checks of the endless hysterical hoaxes used to incrementally strip Americans of their liberties, this one was quietly made, though hardly reported, following the anti-smoking hysteria and gov't theft thereafter, years ago.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull Hello??? What's your example of an "old age disease"?
diddymuck 1 year ago
@diddymuck Hello ???? English Comprehension much ????
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull dodging the question, a lot??
diddymuck 1 year ago
@diddymuck Just because you don't like my answer, which exposed the false presumption of your question, doesn't mean it's a dodge. Buck up and try to address a point.
Any point.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull you made that "old age disease" stuff up, didn't you?
diddymuck 1 year ago
@diddymuck Have your mommy Google it for you, princess.
TylerNull 1 year ago
I just don't get why you haven't gotten more subscribers yet. It takes time I guess.
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I get the "I don't do things in moderation so I don't try" but c'mon, shouldn't everyone try everything once except folk dancing and incest? I respect your choice but I try anything that is legal (in Sweden, i.e. nothing).
johanneswiberg 1 year ago
I care if you smoke, because you fuckers stink and I'm tired of smelling you.
DocKro23 1 year ago
@DocKro23 then go away
drklucavi 1 year ago
Exactly my point.
n90master 1 year ago
It's NOT costing tax payers money to print the pictures on the packages. I agree with everything he says, but he should stick to facts.
bleunt 1 year ago
@bleunt it costs money to pay the people who's job it is to make sure the pictures get put on the packages. They pay people to make the warnings, paying artists and consultants.
There is an entire office somewhere filled with people who would not have a job except for the warning labels, that is not free.
how much is spent in court fighting with people who break the warning label law?
Anything the government does costs money. Anything!
vesman81 1 year ago
@vesman81 No. The companies manufacture their own labels. After the court settled it, it's up to the companies to obey and use their own money to print the warnings.
bleunt 1 year ago
@bleunt is there not an office somewhere filled with people who's job it is to make sure the companies manufacture proper warning labels? I just heard in the news about how long its taking the FDA to approve new warning labels... are they doing it for free?
when you order someone to do something, you need to pay someone to watch them to make sure they do it, or else there is no point in ordering it in the first place and its just a paper tiger.
vesman81 1 year ago
@vesman81 You think we should get rid of the FDA. I disagree.
bleunt 1 year ago
@lewrites Yup. They're already going after your food.
ZzDe0 1 year ago
The monitor was fixed! holy shit!
mecher3k 1 year ago
@lewrites You don't need a picture of a fatty on a Big Mac. Next time you're in a McDonalds, just look at the person next to you while you're waiting for your food. It'll be like looking into the future.
smiledammit24 1 year ago
@lewrites
Watch the Bullshit episode on fast food -- they're trying to make it illegal for a fast food restaurant to be in a certain area (I think it's low income areas or something?) -- or tax them heavily for it or something like that? Don't these government fucks give us any credit to think for ourselves? If I wanna big mac, I'm gonna get one. If I want some drugs, I'll do them. I don't need the government making decisions for my personal and private actions and behaviors.
surgeyX 1 year ago
Are they going to start putting pictures of 600 lb women on big mac cartons?
adrenacrumb 1 year ago
The new obama laws and taxes passed against tobacco are downright criminal -- Smoking is NOT a government issue; it's a social issue -- hence unless we have a SOCIALIST government, they should stay the fuck away from social issues. This is the reason why a pack of Nat Sherman's cost $16 in new york, and I can no longer order them over the internet -- and now they're trying to tax the Indians too -- but they aren't standing for it and are in court right now.
surgeyX 1 year ago
This country is just getting even more exponentially fucked every day. I really wouldn't be that surprised if on his last day in office in 2013, Obama shit the bed.
A big steaming Lincoln Log on the Lincoln bedspread; and then lights up a cigarette, saying "OK, I'm gonna bounce now."
physicalgenius 1 year ago
In a country where everybody chips in and pay texas so that everyone can have universal healthcare it is costing a person money if another person gets cancer from smoking. Every cigarettepackage should have on the side a picture of a cancer-filled lung.
sugmegpls 1 year ago
@sugmegpls
The obvious solution is for the government to stay the FUCK out of health care then, or anything that has to do with the private life of it's citizens other than a reasonable flat tax and protecting our rights.
surgeyX 1 year ago
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chrisdturner 1 year ago
Waaaaay too libertarian for me.
TheAuraSword 1 year ago
You don't need to predict what will happen if they put these warnings on. Just look north. We've had these in Canada for years, and when they first came out, I remember seeing Jr. High/High school kids COLLECTING them.
You want to make smoking even cooler, this is one way to do it.
PRWelke 1 year ago 3
what was the name of the NRBQ song?
MrBrightsideXVI 1 year ago
Freedom my friends, is a dream long past. Let us bask in it's shadow while it still remains....
ninjaswordtothehead 1 year ago
My opinion on this is the same as Bill Hicks: "There is good news for smokers. The surgeon general’s warnings are different on the sides of each pack. Mine says, “Surgeon General Warning: Cigarette smoking may Cause fetal injury or premature birth.” Hey, fuck it! just don’t get the ones that say lung cancer. "
virus1244 1 year ago 3
Penn on caffeine....
JESUS CHRIST, THE WORLD IS NOT READY FOR THAT!!!!
Tounushi 1 year ago 2
"Jesus Christ, motherfucker!" Pretty sums up my feelings too
SeriousPsyche 1 year ago 33
@SeriousPsyche If Jesus was God. And God impregnated Mary, does that make Jesus a motherfucker in the literal sense?
ghandi8749 1 year ago
@ghandi8749 Ahhh, good point. Yeah, I think it does, haha
SeriousPsyche 1 year ago
well i think it's to help the younger people and y do you thing the drug trade in the US is so bad becouse it is easy to go out and get out and get drugs then get beer so they need 2 crak down on drugs more and lower the drinking age that may help with the problums and then maybe smocking will follow after lol
oldlyswansea 1 year ago
Dennis Leary did a bit about cigarettes in which he said you could put them in a black box with a skull and cross bones on it and name them death and people will still smoke them. Kinda sums it all up, it doesn't matter whats on the pack, people are still gonna smoke.
MrSchwach 1 year ago
I dont think cocaine is harmful if you only do it a couple times a month. It does harm my wallet though. =D
defect530 1 year ago
@defect530
Don't lie to us, Dr. Rockso. XD
Tounushi 1 year ago
great point - kids don't care about their bodies. if you want to slap deterrent pictures on cigarette packs, make them pictures of some dude freezing his ass off smoking in front of an office building in a snow storm, Or a picture of someone paying 10 dollars a pack. Instead of "cigarettes cause cancer" the warning should say "cigarettes make you smell like shit". Those are the reasons I never started smoking.
MasterJurgen 1 year ago
so Penn is straight edge
WillyM79 1 year ago
@MRaverz That is simply not true. I don't know a smoker who doesn't think they're killing themselves...
TrueEmergence 1 year ago
Can we put graphic pictures of people getting killed in car accidents on cars?
pink3y 1 year ago
@pink3y The only issue with that is driving a car won't absolutely lead to health issues later down the line. Smoking is going to hurt you, no matter who you are. You're welcome to make that choice, the picture is there to help make that choice clearer.
And BTW, when I took my 5 hour class for my driver's license, we got a pretty healthy barrage of horrific images which, to be perfectly honest, are always at the back of my mind when I'm driving. Was it 100% necessary? No. Am I more careful? Yes
smiledammit24 1 year ago
@smiledammit24 Can we put pictures of fatties on all hamburgers? Driving a car most assuredly affects my health, have you seen exhaust fumes? Talk about death!
pink3y 1 year ago
@pink3y You don't need a picture of a fat guy on your hamburger. Next time you're ordering a triple-bacon-cheeseburger, just look around you and you'll see all the fat people you could ever dream of. It'll be fun---like looking into the future.
Another thing is that cars only kill people when used improperly / not as intended. You probably shouldn't drive your car off a cliff, and you shouldn't suck on the exhaust. But cigarettes are meant to be smoked, and that indubitably causes damage.
smiledammit24 1 year ago
This exact scenario was part of the plot in Thank You for Smoking. It is still stupid in both cases.
XShrike0 1 year ago
As long as they don't do that poisonous shit around me or my children I don't care.
eicebleu 1 year ago
Penn, if you think what the US is doing now with cigarette packets is bad, you aint seen nothin yet. I live in Australia and our government has been talking about forcing tobacco companies to make cigarette packets plain black and white. They will come in white boxes with black text, all in a standard font type and size dictated by the regulators. In fact, the only colour on the packets will be the pictures of black lungs and gangrene.
BobGeorgeAU 1 year ago
I FUCKING LOVE COCAINE
BarrySatoroisNWO 1 year ago
@lewrites it's america, just make the box reflective.
d4m4s74 1 year ago
in australia we have them and it does put people off smoking, because you can know what it does, but that doesn't mean you've seen what it does
sonic123488 1 year ago
@sonic123488 Doesn't matter, the government shouldn't be forcing people to put shit on their products. Especially since all the money the government uses to do this is the product of THEFT. The government steals from people and then tells them what to do with what money they have left. This is fine if you believe the government owns everyone and everything, but for we few libertarians who thinkk we actually own our bodies and the result of our labour, its a criminal act, regardless of intentions
Hashishin13 1 year ago
i fucking love smoking
669ELGUAPO 1 year ago
I love how you put sad music behind your begging. BTW how much money have you supplied Penn, to make little 3rd world counties fresh water?
korleonis 1 year ago
@korleonis ad hominem to quoque
rapzeh4 1 year ago
@korleonis he provided his time and services to a charitable organization, that's all he "needs" to donate. Making people aware of a charity is not a bad thing. There's nothing wrong with people begging for the well-being of other people.
Raptik666 1 year ago
Bottles of beer should have labels with pictures of fat naked women on them. That would make guys think twice when they are at the bar!
DeliciousDave444 1 year ago 3
in the UK, the Govt. forces tobacco companies to have big black writing saying how bad it is, AND horrible graphic images on the packs.
even inaccurate generalised claims on other tobacco products, its ridiculous.
we've all known for decades, those who smoke, know its bad for us, people who dont, know its unhealthy, get over it!
mikeloaf 1 year ago
all too often agree so much, smoking is not as bad as alcohol
roblesterfilms 1 year ago
@roblesterfilms ....I highly doubt alcohol is worse for you than smoking. Your liver repairs itself alot faster than most other organs and is quite resilient.
Raptik666 1 year ago
@Raptik666 well ok valid, mild smoking is no big, and alcohol seems best in more than one or two for most if not all, so why not a smoke or five a day, better than the same rule for strong drink, plus i know a few teen who started drinking early and smoking early, and it was the liver that got screwed up, but the smoke does it job too, just takes a time.
think of Britain and the smoking ban in pubs and bars, place of work and restaurants, great but costs traders from making cash
roblesterfilms 1 year ago
FF to 1:25 to skip the BS
chbrules 1 year ago 3
@chbrules i feel sorry for you mate!
Saber10inch 1 year ago
thumbs up and favourited
roblesterfilms 1 year ago
u work 4 them eivl Tobaco Corprationz who fap 2 thur custumrz dying
BAN TOBACCO
LEGALIZE WEED
Apptendo 1 year ago
During the last several months I have heard about cancer that inflicted two guys I know who were in their late twenties.
One died.
"Oooooh my god! I can't believe he died. He was just 28."
My question: "Did he smoke?"
"Yes."
My question to the guy who is-- so far-- still alive- "do you smoke?"
"Two packs per day."
So... Yeah, people, you should know by now... Jesus....
Idi0cracy 1 year ago
You'd love living in Sweden. We're actually free, not like Americans are "free".
We have warning labels on cigarettes, sure, but they're not exaggerated. Just simple phrases such as "Smoking is highly addictive" and "Smoking causes deadly lung cancer". Only provide true facts and let the people decide for themselves what they want to do with that information.
Mitzness 1 year ago
it depends on what you smoke... tehe ;)
HerrSpieldose 1 year ago
@HerrSpieldose
Honey Smoked Baby.
freedom0speech 1 year ago
Penn trying to convince us that $ 5,000 isn't that much money is somewhat hilarious.
Superphilipp 1 year ago
@Superphilip For what it is for its not really that much.
defiythelie 1 year ago
@defiythelie I agree. I completely get what he's saying.
Still, it's a bit funny. :-)
Superphilipp 1 year ago
Already being done in Australia. Google it.
Then they complained their scare ads weren't big enough, and increasingly wanted to use more space on the box for their moralising shit, while removing any of the manufacturer's marketing and logos and shit.
I don't smoke. Hate the crap. I think you're a fucking idiot if you start.
But this government is BULLSHIT!
IRONMANAustralia 1 year ago
i dont like to smoke BUT the truth is when i drink i need to have a smoke or i just dont get drunk :s i smoke only when i drink ones or twice a week ,not so bad
aassaa99 1 year ago
Tobacco crops helped build this country's economy.
TheStigmadeign 1 year ago