Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Thanks to tobacco industry regulations and marketing restrictions in the US, smoking rates have dropped dramatically. John Oliver explains how tobacco companies are keeping their business strong overseas.
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The Google image thing actually worked...
Demitrium I cried laughing when I checked it out and found out it did.
Demitrium Still up there, though not quite as prominent than what it was in Feb, I assume
Demitrium just looked it up too. its not 1st, its second but still. thats damn amazing.
Demitrium Holy shit that is brilliant.
Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
Amazing what a good gag can change.
#JeffWeCan
The biggest issue I see here is that corporations have too many rights, too much money, and too much power.
^This
and that cigarettes are bad, m'kay?
i agree. it is absurd and just plain wrong that corporations can intimidate *COUNTRIES!*
any action such as that should be laughed at by even the smallest of governments, not appeased.
Corporations have incredible power and the resources to fight to the death. They love making friends with the right wing parties of nations around the world -- who doesn't love low taxes? They love poor countries with huge markets that are easy to exploit. And they adore countries with poor regulation so they can disregard the environment while sucking up all the money from natural resources before it has the chance to prop up government balances. Greedy world.
Isn't that always the case?
I'm a heavy smoker, I doubt I will ever be able to drop the habbit, and I'm in favor of any law that prevents people from becoming smokers.
Francisco Leto I’ve been a smoker for about 20 years. Don’t listen to @Feed ME Donuts. 100% cigarettes and tobacco should be illegal. If you want to stop, I wish you the best of luck
Try getting a vape
Dude it's an absolute bitch and I absolutely agree about more stringent laws. This also may seem far fetched but a doctor I worked with agreed to my theory that sugar, nicotine, caffeine and some illicit drugs piggy back on one another and encourage each separate habit. Quitting smoking is harder if you're a sugar fiend or hit the caffeine all day. It all has to go in order to be potentially successful in the long run.
@@chaz69 I bought an e-cig 7 weeks ago so I could "smoke" in my office, not intending to stop smoking actual cigarettes. Well, last cig I had was 6 and a half weeks ago.
same
I live in Australia, and I'm telling you, the packaging on the cigarette boxes are absolutely terrifying. The worst bit is that some people who don't throw them away properly. You'll be walking home from school and you'll see that eyeball. Just think about that
yeah thats what I say stupid litterers means non-smokers have to see these awful pictures
My stepfather smokes and he leaves the boxes around the house when he forgets to chuck them out. They’re absolutely horrifying
good, that mean they work
In Canada too . They're not on display in stores either. They're all covered so other people don't see them. Cheers ✌️♥️🇨🇦🥓
@@rajajonconcon exactly it’s like people are ignoring the point of the packaging lmao
Philip Morris lost its suit against Uruguay and was ordered to pay $7 million and other court costs.
good news.
Just imagine the guy, who made the call for the lawsuit, after losing the case against Australia already. His decision just cost $7 million to the company. And here I am getting shit for being 2 minutes late for work and being told that I'm costing the company.
yes!
I smoke and yet find the Tobacco Company Lawsuits Highly Offensive.
If they wanted to sue over the overtaxing of taxing of tobacco, please go for it.
But all a smoker need do is buy a nice cigarette case and transfer their smokes from the new packaging to it, preferably while wearing a blindfold as not to see the lung tumor or the dreaded eyeball of death.
The overtaxing of tobacco is a "source of income" for the country and really the only reason for them to allow the sale of Tobacco in their country, knowing the "harm(and the future healthcare cost)" it brings to it's citizens; therefore Tobacco Companies will not sue a government over taxing of their Tobacco product..
Tobbaco companies literally kill their best customers
alcohol numbs it all
According to your logic so do car companies
Abdul Rahman according to my logic the dumbass who uses a company’s products to kill himself or someone else is at fault not the company. Your logic states that it’s the company’s fault.
@@Otoskire tobbaco companies do though, you can make the argument that the people chose to smoke cigarettes, so it's their fault, but when a company sells something that has no benefit whatsoever, it's killing their customers, both cars and guns have their benefits, cigarettes have none, hope you understand.
Abdul Rahman Bugatti caes benefit no one, they’re extremely expensive and unnecessarily powerful, according to your logic the company kills whoever dies in their cars
It’s always good when a joke actually improves with age, especially a joke about Ye
Don’t give him the satisfaction of calling him Ye. It’s Kanye, and he knows what he did! Haha 😂
Ye 💀
I quit smoking 9 years ago. I smoked a pack a day. It can be done. It once was a serious important "need" for me and I no longer care at all and don't miss it a bit. Please know that you can be free of this addiction!
Congratulations!
Good for you
The biggest problem is most people don't quit till it becomes life or death scenario.. my mom quit when she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. She didn't actually choose to quit tho .. she was forced to.. as she was literally unable to get out of her hospice bed to go outside to smoke.
I'm still a work in progress ...
Congrats on the 9+ years!
congratulations, hope i get there too some day
Shouldn’t have started smoking on the first place
See libertarians, this is why government is necessary. Without governments corporations run amok.
Lol they seem to run amok half the time anyway with government. Without government I can't even imagine the terrible place we would live in.
Yes, and this is why we need our (European) government to NOT make more such (secret!) trade agreements with the USA.
The only way we can fight the aristocracy is if we band together.
That is it.
And that is what liberal (not dem v repub liberal, but John Locke liberal) democracies are SUPPOSED to be.
US.gov is SUPPOSED to be the collective will of the people.
The problems are (A) income and educational inequalities through the tax rate that has been messed up since the late 70s; (B) laws restricting voter and citizen participation (why election day, why not election week or month? Why, don't pollsters go to people's house and work to collect votes?, etc.); (C) gerrymandering effecting not just the unfair GOP majority in the house for the bast 3 years, but control of state governments; (D) the Senate (Alaska's 730,000 generally conservative voters get the same representation as California's almost 40,000,000 generally democratic voters); (E) the electoral college; (F) police disenfranchisement of citizens; (G) corruption of prosecutors and judges and the legal system in general.
We had more per-capita government under FDR during the height of smoking than we have now.
What?
Okay...?
But in the sixteenth century government was smaller and nobody smoked because tobacco hadn't yet made it back to Europe.
The day we passed the Plain-Packaging laws in Australia I was so proud. It was a big middle finger to the tobacco companies.
***** ?
*****
Are you an Australian woman who has sought an abortion, or the partner of one? Because I've witnessed the process through having an abortion, and they made what was going to happen and the effects of it very clear.
Australians are pretty "hands off" with the whole abortion thing, from what I've seen. The only people I've ever heard of having a problem with it are American.
Australia also ban games like GTA and Saints Row 4, so it's not like Australia are bad at banning things..
Australia is just one massive nanny-state. Its sad.
I quit smoking 10 years ago. Best choice I ever made.
Nice
congratulations!!
Good job
Well done!!
I'm one year in.
I think we need a Part 2. So much has changed since, but the industry has only grown.
9 years worth of kids have grown up and started smoking so I'd say it's necessary T.T
Update: the smoking baby ended up quitting cigarettes at the age of 5!
And he smoked almost 1/2 his life...
That's good news
Still not good that he did so much damage so young
Hopefully won't restart at 7...
Thanks for saving me some time to look it up. Source would have been nice, though...
"some people would prefer having smaller babies" reminds me of "global warming is good because warm weather is nice"
Perfect analogy.
Yes, except no Republican candidate has ever publicly questioned the existence of babies. That would make an amusing speech though.
Fredex
"The concept of babies was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. mothers non-competitive."
- Donald Trump, probably.
The amazing thing is that that was actually accepted behavior at one point. My medical school pathology professor told us how some women used to only smoke DURING pregnancy to make their children smaller and childbirth easier.
Good analogy.
But seriously, though, how creepy is saying, "Some women would like smaller babies"? It's almost like he's trying to hit on already-pregnant women: "Hey, ladies... you know, if you smoke, your vagina won't hurt so much and potentially rip when you push that thing out of you in a few months. How long until you're due again? There's always time..."
In India we have absolutely horrific images on cigarette packs. Whenever a character in a movie is smoking or drinking, there is a little warning message. Not just that, they also roll a video message from a man who died from lung cancer due to tobacco.
Greedy demons selling their poison!
If only we were that strict about pan too. None of the public warnings or fines stick for long and even news channels show ads for it.
I've recently been diagnosed with asthma and the doctor told me "it doesn't matter if people smoke outside or not, if they're not changing their clothes, showering and brushing their teeth and using mouthwash after every cigarette, you're at risk of secondhand smoke."
A third of the students in my sixth form would go outside the gate and smoke at break time and then would go to class. In my history class, 70% of the students smoked.
There should be laws here in the UK stating that schools should not only be no smoking zones, but laws that state students should not be allowed to smoke during the school day because it can cause serious harm to an individual with breathing problems. An asthma attack (which can be triggered by cigarette smoke) can, and does, kill. 3 people in the UK die from asthma attacks every day. Plus, 16 and 17yr olds aren't even legally allowed to buy cigarettes. There should be better young person protection laws in schools and colleges.
That is 100% false. The bad carcinogenic tobacco smoke you inhale when you smoke a lit burning cigarette is not the same as the tobacco smell left behind on your clothes or tobacco tar left on your teeth. The smoke inhaled is bad and can be secondhand smoke within a few feet. The smell left behind after smoking a cigarette, is not carcinogenic. It’s just a odor like all other odors. In fact, less than 1% of a cigarette is carcinogenic, and the person consuming that is the first hand smoker.
And this is WITH all the cigarettes hidden from view behind supermarket counters & advert bans here xxx
Quit smoking on July 16, 1993 after 29 years of addiction to nicotine. This will be my happy, healthy 25th anniversary of smoke free existence.
Chuck Washington Congratulations
@@merlind.wizzard3558 keep going dude!
Great job, both of you!
Congrats!
Same here, although it was "only" 10 years for me. I think the most sad part about being a smoker is when I hear a smoker say "I don't want to quit because I just enjoy smoking". What smokers call "enjoyment" is really just relief from addiction.
I noticed that wasn't Uruguay, mostly because I'm from Paraguay XD
Me too mostly because I'm from Uruguay LOL. Now I need to go to that bus stop to take a pic of Jeff!
oh no way, I'm from Paraguay too! Saw it right away that it wasn't Uruguay! We need more Jeff signs.. Where about in Py you from???
meals24u I'm from Canada and even I caught that one right away.
I'm from the US and I knew that was Paraguay, although I would imagine many people would not lol.
adamhaye I'm also American but I can't even find my own country on a map. Lol
Storytime: my mom told me a story of when she was younger (this is in Egypt in the 70s/80s) there were cigarette ads on TV that were literally just an image of a pack of cigs for a few seconds and it's gone. THAT'S IT. and then one day my grandma (mom's mom) sent the maid out with some money to get something from the corner store and she came back with cigarettes. No one in the house smoked, they'd never requested them from her before. So they asked her why she got them, and she couldn't give an answer. She legit just said she has no idea why she bought them, and they ended up throwing the cigs in the garbage.
Since then, those ads have been banned but smoking rates are still really really bad in Egypt unfortunately. :/
It’s a well known tactic called Subliminal Messaging- it’s illegal in a lot of countries & has been for a long time because of just HOW SCARILY EFFECTIVE it is. Your story is literally the textbook perfect example of why subliminal messages are illegal in places like here in Australia.
Lol, wow, I didn't know that "SMOKE" joke from Family Guy was actually this blatant/subtle
Holy shit the “that’s not Uruguay” bit made me remember where it was 6 years later.
Australia just won its international lawsuit : )
Well done!
I r8 that 9/8 m9
I r8 that 9/8 m9
omg fuck YES
Yeah man!
Uruguay just won theirs as well =D
John deserves a Nobel Prize
Yes.
+MyOwnStatement Agree
+MyOwnStatement I agree, but he does have a team of writers behind him.
+MyOwnStatement Amen
BetterThanReal If you want to start an argument look somewhere else
2021 and Jeff is still the first thing you see when you look up Marlboros mascot.
2023 and I can confirm!!
2024 he’s still up there, first two results 🚬 🫁 🤠
Marlboro: Don’t be a maybe
Me: Ok I’ll definitely get lung cancer from your murder sticks
Lung cancer is the least of your worries. It kills you quickly. Emphysema is the really nasty consequence. Imagine spending 15 years slowly suffocating to death.
I totes heard your response in my head as if John was saying it. lolz
Don't "maybe" die of cancer,
Ensure it.
@Jan van Coppenhagen that's quitters talk!
Better stop eating processed food. Touching (most) plastics. Drinking water. Walking in the rain. Using household chemicals. All which have been proven to have the possibility of catching cancer
@@LeeLee-ix8lw you dont catch cancer.
@@owenjames8575 You equip it.
You’re four times more likely to die of non-smoking-related cancer than smoking-related cancer. I say you better look at the food you’re eating, because I’m from Greece, a country with 50% smoking rate and a life expectancy 4 years higher than America and 3 years higher than the UK. Weird how half of us don’t die of cancer, in fact only 0.2% of us do. Shocker.
I love how john oliver just pisses of douchey companies.
Same 😂 it's amazing
its slipped to the 4th line. lets bump it back up where it belongs!
not just douchey companies, also douchey Republicans
me to but I am amazed by how he gets away with it
Patrick Hearne I love how you can't spell off.
I am a pack and a half a day smoker who's tried to quit a million times. I wish "plain packaging" was a thing with cigarettes here in the US
Keep trying! Don’t give up on quitting.
You're not quitting because of the packaging?
I started at 14 & was a pack a day till 36. My Dad was diagnosed with a terminal illness & begged me to let him pay for whatever treatment it took to quit so he could die without fear that I was right behind him. After several previous fails, his request enabled me to finally quit cold turkey. I didn't even crave or get moody. It was the "miracle" I needed, though I can't exactly recommend it to others. It was also the best gift he could have ever given me. Miss you, Dad.
Bittersweet but touching story. Thanks for sharing and rest in peace to your dad who clearly loved you deeply.
I never thought I'd hear the line " just across this bridge, lies the home of the small fishing village that has the smoking baby"
To be fair, if you were going to hear it anywhere, it would be here.
Sounds like something you'd hear during the Vietnam war...
@@gabealexander88 yeap america did proudly light up quite a few babies during that dramatically failed incursion. I'm just glad Vietnam wiped the floor with the useless paid thugs that america shipped over to kill people.
"... that is home to the smoking baby"
And here we see the smoking baby in its natural habitat
Hearing people talking about quitting or being motivated to quit from this video is heart-warming.
Right?? These comments are like SUPER personal
Well when I watched this for the first time when it was released I was motivated to quit smoking but I wasn't in the right mentality to do it. Now it is almost a week since I had my last smoke and I'm using this video to get that motivation again as the withdrawal is getting worse...
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@@jordanlewis4983 und das
I felt slightly satisfied with myself when I saw that they had Uruguay as Paraguay before he pointed it out.
As figured out here in the comments:
-Australia won its International Lawsuit
-Uruguay won its case
-The Smoking Baby quit smoking at the age of 5
All if right with the world! Take that Big Tobacco!
haha you think the packages are bad here, wait till you see the ads that run all day, nothing ruins watching T.V. while eating dinner more than seeing a tar filled lung getting juiced out into a petri dish
YES.
This! I can't believe he didn't show any of the advertisements. They're pretty damn revolting.
They're brain washing the people because people don't know any good.
It's sad really.
ankurama
Into thinking smoking's bad? It does cause a whole range of cancers that can kill you along with many other horrible things you know...
ankurama
You call it brainwashing. I call it reality and reality tends to have a very liberal bias ;)
The best journalist in America is from England.
actually its Jon Stewart who discovered Oliver.
babak asaseh Jon stewart didnt discover oliver, oliver just replaced stewart for a couple of weeks and everyone liked oliver and then HBO decided to have their own show with oliver in it.
babak asaseh The teacher has become the student.
Docktor Jim you mean the student has become the teacher? I agree
Uncrowned Oliver was Stewart's correspondent for years just like Colbert. Jon discovered him and these are Oliver's words not mine. You can search him on CZcams.
My grandmother said she started smoking when she was young because she worked in a bar and all the smoke bothered her, and someone told her that if she started smoking it wouldn't bother her anymore. We did lose her to lung cancer a few years ago.
I'm from Uruguay! That joke was great because I always have to tell people "it's just a small country in South America" LOL
Have they banned indoor smoking yet?
I quit smoking on February 9th, 2019 because I felt embarrassed by how unwillingly I was playing into everything cigarette companies are doing. I was smoking despite knowing the risks and Jeff was the punch in the lungs I needed to finally stop. Here's day 25! Thanks John Oliver and Last Week Tonight staff.
You better be cig free
We love you btw
I hope its going well so far
Keep it up, man. I'm on day 45 and it does feel very liberating. It only gets better.
Had a family friend quit not long ago, and she commented about how much damage those cancer sticks did to her house and how the smell never really comes out of fabric. She had to buy new clothes and get all her furniture and carpets professionally cleaned cuz it kept making her crave a smoke even though the smell was definitely not a pleasant one. Hope you're still going strong. Best wishes for your lungs
I'm so proud of you, its very difficult.
Man, I gotta admire just how far John takes things on every single episode here.
An Ena fan I presume?
Right? I'm from Togo and i was so surprised to hear that they reached out there. Too funny 😆
Just wait until he blackmails Congress
I remember when I was a child and I first learned how bad and addicting smoking really was and what it can do it your body, either at school or on a commercial. I started crying for a time and even went up to my mother, who was a smoker at the time, and begged her to quit. For a while I even had this desire to get rid of any packs in the house that I might've acted on occasionally, though I'm sure I was caught trying, more times than not. I don't know how often she'd smoke but when she did, I do recall her bedroom being a bit smokey, though honestly that was probably just from her not opening her window than smoking too much. Thankfully, not only has my mother been smoke-free for maybe 5 or 6 years (according to her, anyway, though personally I think it's been much longer, I'm 21 at the time of this comment and I recall hearing the news - with confirmation - when I was a lot younger), but so far nothing smoking-related has happened to her body. However, one cigarette alone can cause plenty of damage, there's no such thing as 'too many cigarettes' or whatever. If you smoke more than others, it only does more damage than it normally would, plain and simple. I was born in 2000 and for my entire life I've felt the desire to *not* smoke or drink instead of the desire *to* do either of those. Unfortunately, there are still smokers in my family, some who smoke enough to smell of the stuff, including one woman who looks at least 20 years older than she actually is from chain smoking that has even caused cancer to manifest in her which was treated in the past, and she's in her early 70s today. I hope people continue to see the dangers of smoking, smokers or otherwise, and the smokers are able to quit, no matter how long they've smoked and regardless of age. Something may have happened to their body from smoking, but I believe quitting will give you more time than continuing to smoke under the belief that you 'might as well', if you get what I mean.
Hopefully, one day, smoking cigarettes, at least, will be banned altogether. At least marijuana doesn't have stuff used for rocket fuel in it, like, why the hell would you stuff these things with such garbage? Is plain tobacco even safe without all the extra crap or is it bad, too? Cause, there are some plants out there that can do some… unique shit, to say the least, to Humans.
You can’t ban cigarettes, smokers (like me) will always find a way to get them. Or it’ll lead to us smoking far more dangerous things like crack. Prohibition failed because the government didn’t realize how many people liked drinking and this wouldn’t work as well. I do admire your willingness to encourage people to not smoke though
Cigarettes pair up too nicely with booze for me to ever quit it entirely. Sorry >
Not much worse than watching older family members struggle with breathing problems for years before they finally are killed by these evil products. Sadly, I've seen it at least 5 times in just my immediate family.
In Sweden it's illegal to market tobacco products in any way.
And it's great!!! Sweden is like the most healthy country in the world
+collin ohlinger "Horrible rape problem", lol! In Sweden, girls don't get punished for reporting a rape even if they're lying, unlike many other countries where they would. We don't have more rapes, only more reported rapes because we don't brand girls as whores or lying bitches when they say that they've been raped.
+collin ohlinger It's also very common for girls to report a false rape only to get back at an ex or someone they hate, because even if it turns out she didn't get raped, she won't get punished in any way.
Damn, really? Why is like 90% of the shit in Sweden so perfect?
roadhouse699 Fun fact, It's also illegal to market alcohol and have advertisement targeted at children.
You know, half of my grandparents died of lung cancer, and both of my parents used to smoke. Smoking has done so much harm to my family that I have promised never to touch a cigarette in my life. However, I realize now that that decision means nothing, as what these tobacco companies have done gave me cancer.
I’m so sorry.
Best of luck to you. Hang in there. I’ve been there.
I came across this episode right after reading an article on the conversation about the judgments :
-Australia won it's international suit, paving the way for any country to implement these plain packaging laws
-So did Uruguay.
This is my first day trying to quit smoking. watching this video was more motivating than I expected
Best of luck to you, and I would recommend getting regular health checks during and after quitting
@@DarthDestructusTheSithLord thank you so much
I just switched to vaping nicotine. You're still inhaling your nicotine, and you still exhale a cloud, but it's not smoke, and it costs about 90% less than cigarettes.
👍🏽
Geraldine Piche hope you’re doing well
Curious George is always getting into such crazy shenanigans! Like transforming the Man in the Yellow Hat into a gigantic, diseased lung
Did that even make any sense?
Too many drugs my friend!
isn't that a.....dead giveaway?
Arwyroe
c'mon, don't tell me John Oliver doesn't look like curious george, and Jeff the diseased lung like the Man in the Yellow Hat'?
Hi The Grogory Brothers! Love your videos! Glad to see you're fans of John Oliver too!
What's great about Australia's plain packaging laws is that there is now nothing glamorous about smoking. It is seen as the disgusting, boganish habit that it is.
My father died of emphysema at 74 , after smoking since he was 9 years old. I was the first child ever born in my family with asthma. I was diagnosed with COPD at the age of 29…and I am on oxygen at 58…I never smoked, but being exposed to second hand smoke since being in the womb has passed asthma down to my only daughter and my only grandson. I hate Big Tobacco with the fire of a thousand suns that bellow cigarette smoke.
See, that's pure genius right there; for not only does Oliver provide quality entreatment, but he's also, dare I say it, doing his part to change the world! The new Jon Stewart!
Agreed
he's a LOT better than Jon Stewart
To be honest, John Stewart's perspectives were mostly limited to American culture, but Jon Oliver seems to be cutting across borders. Both are great though.
Yes Both are brilliant (Brillent hehe) in there own way! But it is kind of sad that the world in general has come down to this state where greed and power is consistently bullying common sense and moral conduct. In the extreme cases greed and power are hiding under the guise of common sense and moral conduct!
Unfortunately, he's a slave of the liberal party. Sometimes advertising stuff that's equally dangerous as smoking tobacco. For example, smoking marijuana.
love this guy
and fyi, Uruguay won the international trial against malboro
TheMaco1984 Awesome
Amazing! So, the justice sometimes DOES prevail in a court.
I'm from Chile and we've had that sort of packaging for many years now, I have no idea if we've been sued.
We in the UK also have plain packaging. I'd like to see PMI try that shit with us :-)
Vivat Uruguay
I smoked a pack or more a day and quit 1 week before I met my wife in 2011. Never went back and I’m so glad I was able to quit that time. If you’re thinking about quitting, do it. Your life will be so much better. I’m now an avid cyclist, runner, and amateur fighter. None of this would be possible if I still smoked.
In less than 10 years, John has gone from 35 to 70 😂
|I quit after 57 years smoking between 20 and 40 per day - February 18, 2019 was my last cigarette - so, i hope this an incentive for anybody else out there! BTW I'm 70.
Good stuff Rob MorrisHuge inspiration!!
Well done mate!
Many Thanks!@@rickoneillable
My grandfather smoked for at least 50 years, rolled his own, so no filter. He quit when he was around 70, lived to be 93.
I don't believe this for a second.
I absolutely love the ending. Simply gorgeous.
The thing I regret the must about the 30 years I smoked is my disregard for other people. Because it smells terrible, and is terrible to breathe for non-smokers. See, I wasn't thinking about other people- because I had a need. Therefore I was more important than them.
I cannot speak to other people, but i had convinced myself that I had a right to this.
Callous indifference to other people was implicit in my cigarette habit. Having stopped smoking, I certainly wish I had never started.
Congress should pass a bill requiring Jeff to be on all Marlboro packaging.
a big youtuber without a single reply on the comment ??
Don't mind me, it's free real estate !!
That was the idea
@@4bs_ben eg
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With the plain packaging laws, he kind of is.
Yeah, except capitol punishment for drugs doesn't stop drug use in the countries that enforce it. So....
I quit 10 months ago feels good to not be a slave to something
Robert Phillips that’s awesome dude!!!!
Really wish I could say the same. I KNOW how terrible it is for me.....well aware of that.
But....I have a very addictive personality, and I _love_ the ritual and aesthetics of lighting up.
If there was a way to smoke without, you know....cancer, I'd be thrilled. Sadly, I think I'm simply going to have to cut it out period.
Fucking sucks. :/ But I also like living....
i switched to a vape, i feel so much better. i'm tapering nicotine i'm down really low. ill be on gum next then off
avedic a product I would recommend is nicotine gum, thus you are getting nicotine without having to smoke
@@avedic its been over a year know and still free of it. if you really want to quit you will. good luck man
I love that at the end of the "Don't be a Maybe" clip the warning lable on the cigarettes translates into "Smoking MAYBE deadly"
I started smoking when I was 18, and quit when my first son was born. It was difficult, but not impossible. It's a disgusting habit from a disgusting industry.
This is just amazing. I wish more media had the guts to actually intervene not just report on horrible stuff.
And dont forget governments. Especially ukraine.
Uruguay, A county you think about so little, That you didn't even notice that wasn't Uruguay. Priceless (:
Except for those of us who knew that was Paraguay ;)
Jesses is that you
He said let there be CZcams and other random shit
Not me!
***** How relevant is it that 1 of hundreds don't get the joke?
The thing I couldn't stop thinking about once it got to all the lawsuits is why there isn't some kind of international legal agreement that health comes before marketing I mean. . . surely we can agree on that??
Obviously the tobacco companies wouldn't lol but we could stop them from ever getting the chance to argue their 'delusive, fatal' cases if there was some kind of international law, something protecting public health measures from being threatened by corporations on the basis of damage to their brand.
It just makes no sense that something like this doesn't exist??
One of the most successful episodes of this show in my opinion. Really showed the world the power of J.Oliver's show.
John Oliver putting that HBO dragon money to good use.
ba-dum crash
So that is why they cant afford 3 Dragons anymore?
:D
@@dropstoneva5950 worth it imo
Update: We have just adopted plain packaging in Canada, exactly like Australia
Awesome! 👏
@@charismatic4217 well the only noticeable difference/change is the taste. The cigarettes taste so horrible now. Any pack that was prior to plain packaging, I'll grab it right away. That's just me, though.
Wait for it because the next step is to treat smokers like cash cows for the government, nobody benefits but the government
@@roadrunner1271 annnnnnnnnnnnnd also the people that don't die from smoking-related diseases.
@@AwesomeEth9 but they'll die of something won't they
9:37 I could listen to that MP talk about trade deals all day
If “master of your own destiny” means choosing when to die, then Marlboro will help you with it!
Not really. If I want to choose when I die, bullets will be a whole lot faster.
So will a .38 that's in the bedside table
@@blackcountryme probably less painful, too!
That might be the single greatest piece of television I have ever seen
I was holidaying in Indonesia a few years ago. I was on a small island in the south for a week doing some scuba diving and I was talking to a local nurse who lived there. She told me that that day she had to break the news to a 17 year old that he had terminal lung cancer. I asked her if he smoked, she said yes. Then I said something like 'Yeah, well y'know, I guess that's what happens' and she said 'No, cigarettes aren't that bad if you don't have too many'. I was stunned.
Also, one time during the trip we were travelling down a highway and I saw a huge billboard with a smoking ad on it which just had a picture of a guy in a leather jacket smoking with the text underneath just saying "NEVER QUIT". Dead serious. Loved the country btw, had a great time, but boy oh boy do they have a tobacco problem over there.
how do nurses break the news to babies when they get born in countries such as... syria? GATCHA!
that is horrible...
Correct, we also have porn problems, I remember when I met a child that is about 7-8 y/o, He said he wanted to "borrow" my phone and also wanted me to not tell their parents because he wanted to watch Hexxtai animes. Thankfully I declined and reported to his parents instead
it's quite surprising the nurse said that, because they're not supposed to said that word. it was like an angel giving you the advice to masturbate every night to cure depression.
as a people who've been born here, it's very weirdly usual to see cigarette ads on every street in my eyes even i know it's caused problems for another, even not a smoker. the government has been doing something just like what does Australia did, every convenient store needs to put a curtain for the cigarette section, and there's a plan to raising tax for a cigarette. but, we have a problem with corruption, we had a lack of awareness of ourselves, and education it's not perfect too. it's pretty hard to solve this when both of the problems from the executive side and the public side is come from here. there are some people wanna fix this but these problems is very rooted
There's even a local quote that said "Ora udud paru-paru ora smile" or "No smoking equals sad lungs". Guess when tobacco industry is a big source for the economy, they obviously want to keep it that way.
I absolutely loved Joe Camel as a kid, in the 80s - and I'm not even American(grew up in the UK, and Canada). They knew exactly what they were doing.
I have a cigarette allergy that almost killed me as a baby because my mom smoked while pregnant. And then refused to quit when i was born. The doctors said if i lived I'd likely be brain dead.
My mom and dad always got smoking ads, specifically marlboro ads, in the mail. They'd also go racing with Marlboro all the time. My dad's fingers are now a pretty solid yellow color. Neither of my parents can breath very well, and neither can I because of the secondhand smoke I inhaled. I went to the doctor and he asked me how long I've been smoking. I said never and he said I had the lungs of a 2 year smoker.
So sad to hear. I hope you are breathing cleaner. I remember reading that it takes 7 years for your lungs to "heal". Also sad is the burden smokers put on our children when we age.
Jesus, how much did your parents smoke!?
@@Exceltiaawesome That's what I'm wondering. His/her parents must be hotboxing the car with cigarette smoke
It get's better over time. Try to stay away from second hand smoke
@@Exceltiaawesome if the fingers are yellowed that's a 2 pk+ a day habit.
April 7th, 2016 and Jeff is still one of the first few images on Marlboro's image search
holy!
Hahaha I just googled It, nice!
May 1st, 2016. Still there, the first related search!! I love this sooo much
june 29 , 2016 still first related.
july 19th, still there.
I love this show. And i'm a smoker. Anytime a kid asks me to buy him a pack of cigs i always say "do yourself a favor and stop now".
This might be the single best Last Week Tonight with John Oliver video on YT.
Awesome!
That Mike Bloomberg joke aged well.
What's the story? Hardly any praise for the donation.
It's still true
That Kanye West joke aged well.
President Trump granted Gen. Michael Flynn a 'full pardon.' The Department of Justice previously moved to have Flynn's case dismissed, but Judge Emmet Sullivan did not approve the motion. czcams.com/video/wU-QsSjSHI0/video.html
Unlike Bloomberg himself who already looked like a melted ball of cheese then.
This dude needs an award.. an oscar, an emmy, something lol he does the WORK lol
+Charell8831 he's an emmy winning writer
***** I didn't even think about that
+Daud A. How do you know ?
All the great stories of people having the will power to quit smoking is so inspiring that it makes me want to quit even though I haven’t smoked ever in my life
Never too late to start
Let’s be real the cigarette ads are exactly like beer ads today
Oh for sure. Alcohol ads are rampant.
Its hard to quit alcohol when its damn near every other ad, and they make it look so tempting
@@jurassicsmackdown6359
It's kind of strange to me to ban advertising though. Like I know it's hard to feel sympathy for Big Tobacco, & I don't but why do we draw the line there? I think it's reasonable to ban advertising it to younger people, but banning them altogether? It'll never be reversed though. Why don't we also hit McDonalds ads aimed at kids?
Jeff is among the top in google searches after I searched Marlboro.
perfect hahahahha JEFF THE CANCEROUS LUNG SHALL WIM
Yes lol... just did it too and Jeff is right up there.
Jeff will go to heaven, like us, just a lot earlier than us, but not before he struggles through painful life and death struggle with lung cancer then finally succumb. He will have to watch his loved ones cope with the realization that he will be "taken" sooner than necessary...all because he is too immature to control his childish "want" of that next puff.
He is #1 for me :)
Also I love how John Oliver (and his staff!) just go out and actually do these things like post the billboard and give out t-shirts. It feels so light-hearted yet it may have a serious bona fide impact.
This show actually made me consider getting HBO but I think it has geographical limitations (I'm not American)
Joonha Shcal Sadly, Jeff is coming up pretty far down now in a Google images search. We need to revive him!!
When that Uruguay map came up, my first thought was "I thought Uruguay was on the coast" ha ha
They actually pointed at Paraguay looool
Does anyone else remember watching a Wizard of Oz anti-smoking video in school? It had the stupidest theme song. “Smoke is no joke. Smoking is a very bad habit. Smoking is bad for a woman or man or a kid or a chipmunk or a rabbit.”
When he showed the picture of Uruguay I thought he just made a mistake, and was really annoyed, but I just got whooooshed.
Bruh I searched "Marlboro mascot" and the first thing that popped out is a Wikipedia reference for the lung cowboy mascot lmaao
Mission accomplished by Johnny boy! 🤣
And it still is mine months later. It's all Jeff!
This video has been out for over 4 years now. My Google search today showed Jeff as the first 7 pictures shown, and was 8 of the top 10. Marlboro is *never* going to get that mascot momentum going again.
#JeffWeCan #JeffWeDidButWeWillKeepFuckingGoing
I noticed that it wasn't Uruguay
+shilelea Dito
Same
What the fuck is an Uruguay? Some manner of car?
+shilelea yeah, they won 2 world cup after all :-)
+shilelea I am so confident of my geography skill.. or WERE i should say. i didn't notice DAMN IT!!! x'D
In Australia 2022 it's $45 for a packet of 25's ....
I quit smoking 🚬 🚭
The people who want to smoke should be able to, but I even as a smoker agree that no one new should be lured in . I would not want my kids to smoke, but I think making something illegal is wrong as well .The drug war proves this point. Advertising, however, is not something that should be protected by law.
Mark G Well said mate.
Mark G Freedom of speech? As long as they're not blatantly lying anyways
Mark G You might want to pay attention to some of the other videos on this channel and notice that the war on drugs has almost nothing to do with drugs. If cigarettes becoming illegal affects you like the war on drugs affects people who use drugs then claiming you're black is a very safe bet.
Mark G Hi.man. Get this book - Easy way to stop smoking by Allen Carr.
Dude I did watch the video. I didn't say those particular people aren't lying, I was responding to someone saying smokers shouldn't be allowed to advertise.
Not on kids' channels though.
John Oliver is like a troll that's on our side lol
he's kind of biased sometimes so keep that in mind
@@stsk7 It's called having principles.
@@GreenGretel No, thats not what its called.
@@shr00mhead Yeah, it is. That charge of bias in this context really means 'I recognize ideology I don't agree with.' Everyone's "biased" in that sense - John Oliver backs up his beliefs more soundly, consistently, and morally persuasively than most people do.
@@GreenGretel No, he doesnt. He just makes terrible jokes.
I love how INCREDIBLY FAR John Oliver is willing to go for a bad joke.
“Pat-punch…little pat big punch” 😂😂
I'm a smoker and this video is probably convinced me to quit smoking more than anything else.
So did your quit already?
Way to go due, John Oliver really does affect our lives.
Read this before watching. I'm a smoker I'm afraid of watching don't wanna quit but wanna quit what do i do god please help me
@@claudiacruz3693Try vaping, much safer!
It's easy to quit smoking. Some people do it every week.
I smoked for 20 years before finally quitting on March 10th, 2017. It was the most liberating feeling to finally break free of the monotonous routine of smoking. I suddenly felt like I had more time in the day, more time to relax, or more time to get things done. Work was more enjoyable when I wasn't watching the clock, desperate to get outside and light up. I feel like I won my own personal battle with the tobacco companies, and I refuse to give them one more cent of my hard-earned money.
Well done Vin, that's a hard-won battle! :)
Won a battle against companies selling a product that is bought and sold voluntarily!?!
That's not a battle: it's called a decision...
@@gabrielhowardMKE - I was referring to his battle against addiction, habituation, the fight against ourselves when we know a particular behaviour is detrimental, yet we struggle to change it.
I'll call bullshit.
Time? Multitask, and takes seconds not minutes or hours.
More time to relax? Why do you think most of us smoke in the first place? Its to destress.
Work isn't enjoyable, because its called work. Unless you get your dream job(s). If people cant go 2-4 hours without smoking, clock watching all the way, then your work isn't enjoyable regardless of your habits.
Just say 'i quit ___ ago, i'm still happy', you attention seeker
Congrats!
1:29 I love he just casually brushes aside that question
My grandpa told me that when he was a kid his doctor used to smoke while examining him. He was born in 1910.
Because smoking was good for you in the 20th century.
If the mainstream news organizations were on the same level as John Oliver, the world would be a much better place.
I'm glad I was born after the tobacco ads were on tv so I don't have to deal with this
Stupid tobacco companies
Deal with what? Ignore tobacco ads?
I was born in 2002 btw
yeah, that 'don't be a maybe, be Marlboro campaign' was, to quote John Oliver: "a pile of horse shit"
My grandpa died of smoking and drinking, so I am allowed to say that
Finding out that the baby quit smoking is the highlight of my day
I honestly thought that Last Week Tonight was going to help Lome (government of Togo) fight back against Phillip Morris in court. Which would've been the most incredible thing they've ever done
That Marlboro ad was almost cartoonishley evil.
Have you ever considered starting taking a recreational drug that will have severe impacts on not only your physical but mental and social health? Why not start?
nothing says independence like a crippling addiction to burning leaf particles
I remember them as a kid in the late 60's.(Clustered to around after the dinner meal, when the adult would jones for a cigarette.) Kids were pushed pure sugar breakfast cereals during Saturday morning cartoons. The gigs though...They ruled the prime time airways. For a while it felt weird not seeing them anymore. Silver Thins, Marlboro , Kools, Virgina Slims were the "Liberated Lady of then'70's" cigarette ". Low tar, High tar, Micronite filters on Kents, No filter, toasted,100's length .. Complete almost laughable bull$it.
@@redhedkev1 The 'all the Marlboro men died of cancer' story is a myth: the number of Marlboro men who died of cancer was in line with the general population. Statistically speaking, we can expect 2 of the 6 'Friends' cast to die of cancer, does that mean the show was responsible?
@@CalvinsWorldNews
Just cancer, or "smoking related diseases?" Which is what John Oliver said.
Uruguay, A county you think about so little, That you didn't even notice that wasn't Uruguay. Priceless (:
Yes, it was Brillent
i actually knew that wasnt uruguay. i was confused on why they showed the wrong country, it isnt like LWT to make mistakes. i didnt, however, know that was paraguay, so....close enough
I've been trying to catch up on the episodes, & with every single episode I watch, I get more & more jealous of John Oliver's wife😂 The team at HBO MAX has been doing a FANTASTIC JOB 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🫶🏻🤟🏻