Drag: A Look Into The Minds Of Smokers part 1 of 6

This is a documentary that I made for my final project for my Writing and Directing class. I did everything myself.
I've split it into six sections, as it's about 35 minutes long.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Smoking
• cigarettes
• smokers
• documentary
• loyola
• new
• orleans

[FathomlessJoy]

@TayZonday Oh and here's a cute little tidbit. I'm actually paid to NOT grow tobacco yet I've never had a tobacco farm in my life. Yep, several years ago I bought a house on an old tobacco plantation that came with a "tobacco base" and the US government pays me about $2000 per year, and subsidizes my property tax, to not put my base pounds on the US market. Why? Because the government is growing ("subsidizing") ALL the tobacco and doesn't like the price competition. That, mi amigo, is a fact!

[FathomlessJoy]

America sure wants us to stop drinking and driving, right? You see PSA after PSA about it, and billions are fined every year for it. Epidemic, right? Wrong! It is a farce. You know how many alcohol-related deaths on US highways are per year? Less than 10,000. And alcohol related means anyone in either vehicle that has .01 % or higher BAC. Smoking is the epedimic: 200,000 smoking related deaths per year and rising - more in 1 week than all the highway deaths per year. Roll that up and smoke it!

[FathomlessJoy]

@TayZonday BTW: on a American military base in spain, my brother got full flavor, American made Marlboro's for $4 per caton! This is compared to $40+ per carton in the lower 48. Why? Because of tax. Do the math on that tax; factor in that cigarettes are the most traded items on the world market, and we start to get a picture why the US does not want people to stop smoking.

[FathomlessJoy]

@TayZonday Yes, cool docu. At least 2 reasons it doesn't get more attention: 1) smoking's a VERY profitable enterprise, esp for the US government! If people stopped smoking and drinking overnight, the US would go bancrupt! 2) Society would rather condemn the smoker than understand. It's a societal problem, it was integrated, engineered into American society. Now we only want to condemn it. I quit 10/10/10, after 15+ years. In order to quit I had to rise above both my and society's hatred.

[lndac02]

this is actually a good documentary on a subject rarely mentioned that is why do the young still take up smoking knowing all the consequences...good filmaker, well edited, promising future

[TayZonday]

This is such a fabulous documentary on the topic. It is a shame that it has not received more attention.

[mikestonetkd]

THIS is a cross section of Layola University students?

It is difficult to believe from watching these interviews that the dumbest handfull were not carefully selected for this documentary.

Lots of smokers at Layola? Duh...

The students of this University certainly do not reflect the cross section of USA university students.

[crankthetoto]

gee wiz

[sprakenheit]

its big business--thats why its legal