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How Can Big Tobacco Make a Comeback? Is Smoking Over?

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0:00 would you like cigarette flavored coffee hey you know what there are something Cino Cino [Music] dude all right we're going to talk about smoking all right I'm going to give you guys some stats and then we're going to try it's scary know did you used to smoke like this what the wow that's kind of hot afod my nipples got hard that's a that's a that's a leftover cigarette can you do that again that's how to make the cigarette come can now remove your hand that was a cigarette right there I like these one by one instructions as it keeps happening so here I'm going to give you some stats first and then I'm going to tell you what we're really

0:50 talking about all right so in year 2000 one in three people on Earth was a smoker wao I've noticed that no one's smoking cigarettes no more yeah in 2022 I kind of miss seeing people one in every five people are smokers a big decline yeah big decline according to the world World Health Organization there's uh 150 countries that have successfully reduced their tobacco prevalence but six countries have had a rise which ones do you think those are oh six okay six countries I would say somewhere in Africa India oh that was my yes Vietnam yeah I'll say Vietnam southeast Asia what about Mexico Republic of Congo is one ah I was right Africa you said a

1:40 continent two African countries Indonesia is oh yeah three African countries Jordan is another one Middle Eastern country oh yeah and then mdova and Oman Oman these are the only six countries where like smoking went up because they don't have access to Vapes do you guys think smoking looks pretty cool hell yeah yeah dude if it didn't ████ up my lungs I would smoke all the time and I feel like SM I be smoking right now smoking is a cool ass luxury y it's just really bad for you it's just like there's just no upside to doing it except for looking really cool and and get the edge off bro kicking it with the boys yeah kicking it with the boys is nice my first cigar last week and I looked so lame doing it cuz I didn't know what I was doing were you doing it like this no like

2:33 this the first tip is you don't hold a cigar like this she's like why was I deep throating my cigar he's like how deep in do I need to smoke this he's one of the guys that puts his whole mouth on it oh you do that oh do you want to share here your turn no you don't share cigars dude don't you have to get the whole thing wet tip to tip get the wet to tip yeah the whole thing it's ready to go now I don't know why it won't light now I'm guessing cigars stats is way different oh yeah cigar stats doesn't even count no one cares about cigar stats I like cigars no not like that let's let's consider this so tobacco is down by 25% in the last 15 years so the World Health Organization has a massive fear that the tobacco industry is gearing up for a big return because they're they need to make a comeback right what what what do you

3:23 think they have to do to get smoking back up let's like think of ways that they let's predict how they're going to do it so like actual tobacco right not like Vape where they have like nicotine actual big tobacco as a as a conglomerate movies what about influencers do you think do you think that would make sense for like an influencer to start smoking cigarettes like for brand deals yeah that's what I mean for these for these companies to reach out to influencers because like who has the most everyone's attention it's probably influencers but then like influencers are also doing anti-smoking stuff but that's the other thing though too is like is like would that ruin someone's personal brand if they just started smoking find studies that prove that tobacco is now good for your health that's what they used to do yeah they used to do that they can bring it back dude same they had doctors remember back in the day there's black and white footage of doctors going like physician approved physician approved that clean

4:13 smoke flavor yeah maybe they just pivot a little bit and just change some of the chemical compounds within their yeah now it's healthy now improves their health vaping is still considered part of the tobacco comp yeah because vaping was still nicotine but because it wasn't as much like smoke it wasn't like tarring your lungs in the same way but it picked up like crazy but still cancerous as ████ you know what I think they should double down on on hookah oo so you know hookah is cultural right like a lot of the like places they'll they they still do it it's like a family thing kids adults whatever so if you make that if you could spread that more yeah but that might be such like a small percentage and it doesn't have the stigmatism of like cigarettes I saw this one um Tik Tok it was like a a middle eastern lady and then you know how sometimes they do these super like aesthetic ████ cooking things this lady was busting out

5:03 a whole set of like snacks and ████ food and everything just for a hookah session and if she was like prepping that ████ I was like ████ I miss hookah and I never did it like this like you know like when they when you see do the Turkish coffee oh in the hot sand oh yeah just make it a whole thing dude but I'm guessing like imagine how many billions and trillions of dollars were spent on people just like quickly getting a cigarette taking a smoke you can't like you can't take your ████ smoke break and set up a hookah Cole and ████ put hookah kits in all costos that thing will go you know where they ████ up is they should have just copied Japan's cigarette success and made flavored cigarettes that are like dude in Japan they have these like popping flavors like Boba no it's like they have these little bulbs on the

5:53 filter and then you can have a regular cigarette and then you pop it and it turns Menthol and you pop it and it tastes like fruit punch and then you pop it again and it tastes like orange cream yeah that's I think cigarettes were created do to be convenient right because before that it was pipes and cigars that took too much work so they made a cigarette to be more convenient it was technology but then that's vaping now Vape became more convenient than cigarette so I feel like they're just going to double down on vaping cuz it's like there's no point everyone does it still constantly like people just can't stop sucking that thing down well they they they should sponsor Dave Chappelle you know how he's always smoking on stage and he doesn't give a ████ but that ████ makes smoking look cool yeah really cool it makes me want to smoke I don't know why and he has that raspy voice what other I'm never going back to cigarettes what other effects his tobacco have like can you make Salon pass out of ████ tobacco like tobacco make paper you can make paper yeah yeah

6:44 yeah yeah make a rope may there's something really good about cigarettes and coffee though there's some that combination is like the best breakfast it's almost the same thing to me like in a way like real coffee and a cigarette it's yeah it's like in the teeth whitening cigarettes oh ████ energy cigarettes that's good sounds expensive energy cigarettes are like Airborne like zinc or ████ vitamin C cigarett multivitamin cigarettes how do you offset what about the lung cancer aspect though that you can knock bro no you can create some sort of filter that will filter out the cancer or something you think so Tobacco For Dogs your dog stressed out smoke them out a little bit take the edge off your dog always barking is your dog whining too much here Tobacco For Dogs

7:34 dude I think they're pivoting too so because Vapes are going to take over but they're going to transition towards marijuana cuz I'm I'm told that they're buying out fields for marijuana and so they're they're prepping for something like that to take over the mariju just do ghetto Style mix Weed with tobacco spliff right sweet it gives you a ████ head high though dude black and miles are the best smell like smoking smell it the plastic tips you as Joe jitsukawa what would uh big tobacco have to do to get you back as a customer I don't like I don't like the after feeling so I smoke a good cigarette and it feels good but then after I get kind of tired or like weird easiest way is to just ████ hook him up with a bunch of exstasy cuz then he's going to start chain smoking like crazy and that's what get that's what's almost half of my friends who were dropping back in the day they got into cigarettes because

8:24 they would chain smoking cigarettes out ra and stuff yeah and then and then when you're done rolling stuff you still got that that need for the nicotine so you'll just smoke casually and then that's how people got addicted to cigarettes it makes your lungs feel light have you guys do you guys ever take uh like nicotine supplements or anything like that what that's a supplement yeah the zims dude I guess you wouldn't call it like nicotine pre-workout they have like nicotine toothpicks have you guys had oh yeah yeah like like tea tree ones almost because that's that's what helps people quit let me tell you cuz you're supposed to still like subtly take your nicotine hit while taking away like the tar and the smoke aspect of the cigarette so wains you out but then people are people abuse everything I think it's the the the movement and the habitual like act of the act of deep breathing is very nice too it's like I don't think I'll ever go back to

9:14 cigarettes I smoked that ████ for ████ 25 years man nothing can win you back huh no and when you quit it was like how did it feel to quit it was a crazy feeling because a lot of the things that I had that were health issues I didn't know was caused by cigarettes I didn't even know I had health issues cuz you just ████ SM what if it what if it looks like a cigarette it hits like a cigarette but it's vapor and there's no nicotine and there's health benefits why would you want an invisible ████ and it doesn't even feel good it's confusion but it does feel good A plus b equals 9 I think I missed the actual Taste of everything it's like nothing is act as good as the actual thing would you like cigarette flavored [Music]

10:04 coffee that would be crazy hey you know what there are Cino Chino dude Cino that sounds derogatory as ████ don't call a person that it sounds really bad for Cino it sounds like a slur [Music]

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