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americans love buying homes. ah, this was a funny middle part of how our political leadership and our country, large understood the bargain. you get a whole and then you know, rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system with the really interesting diamond back and think about no longer deeper history of what housings meant in the united states. not just that old question of the american dream, but the bigger question of who the dream has been for the cigarette smoking stands for freedom, sociability,
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for relaxation and enjoyment, smokers radiate eroticism and self confidence. or at least that's the promise. film stars and filmmakers have known this for decades. me today, the tobacco industry's promoting an entirely new generation of products and wisdom comes a new set of promises. whether it's a tobacco heater or an e cigarette, the traditional habit of smoking has moved into a supposedly healthier pastime. nicotine enjoyment, no shame or regret the greater the dependence on nicotine, the greater the profit in 2019 alone. the tobacco industry generated world wide
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revenues of over $800000000000.00. but what are the actual health benefits of these new products for confuse? all the latest innovations in smoking really as homeless as the tobacco industry wants us to believe all their promises of healthier smoking. nearly a tried and twisted trick that is safeguarding billions in profits. ah, i i ah,
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vanessa dylan who sells cigarettes from her boutique in the food on the small of paris for many years. the 45 year old was a keen cigarette smoke. today, she is an average a cigarette user the, according to vanessa, these innovative devices are more than the mere alternative to smoking. for the french women, the cigarette is the best nicotine replacement product you can buy you can mash up for like a group, much with young people to do all that is that well suited your critique. case a to ration the cigarettes gives users the feeling that they're doing something for their health. vanessa de la, who is firmly convinced that e cigarettes will help her quit for good. so what you there's,
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you can use it that sort of business that i think one of it, i've actually rush into more complex issues with dental who's customers have also been won over by this new smoking experience. so yeah, the, the bad to she see they can get no answer. she seemed to leave the carpet to shut you badly. live up. she said he'd ever safety magic if the number of e cigarette uses worldwide has increased dramatically in recent years. in 2011, there were around 7000000, so called vapors by 2018. the numbers had grown to 41000000, and the 6 fold increase, the relentless rise of the vapor cigarette has not escaped the attention of the tobacco industry. mm. the big players have now joined the bandwagon and marketing
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the innovation. oh, the me see and java long before was extra yard and the fortune industry on judgment and product on my comment. i was just for this one for the whole productive. they're gone for the entire office in order to get to is a better way to concept superstars. and it becomes a man or an a tv product to unbeaten because on the lease and get fond shifts of adults here. it's not the 1st time that the tobacco industry has sought to market its products as homeless to health in
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a nation wide survey. doctors and all branches of medicine were asked, what cigarette do you smoke? doctor brand named most was camels. tens of thousands of doctors, general practitioners, surgeons specialists, doctors and every branch of medicine were included. and according to this nation wide survey mark dr. smoke councils than any other cigarette. the tobacco industry has a history of trying to sell those products that they think are they tell us will reduce harm. now we have e cigarettes, right? and the question we have to ask ourselves is, do we trust tobacco companies with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce hard? especially when we know that they're fundamental motivation is to protect their business. and they need a new generation of users hooked on nicotine. i
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gross. do you think she's handsomely paid in hollywood? such as audrey hepburn in breakfast at tiffany's, showed how it was done. and we followed the lead. for decades, smoking was viewed as a harmless pleasure to be pursued. worry free like me to have was in the film was gilder the cigarettes gave you that certain special something the number 30 and the nothing personal. i know i was just talking away my frustration, but in the 1950s, the mood began to change. far more often it was said that tobacco cigarettes might not be as harmless. and so as clean smoking makes you know,
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i use in the use that follows american scientists would prove that smoking causes lung cancer and whistling to chronic bronchitis and other diseases. the american health authority said smoking is suicide is emotion against this backdrop. millions of people stop smoking. ah, the industry was faced with a problem. it's hard to make money from the manufacturer of products that cause illness or even death. ah, it did when i did, i just did the in the do in talk to but i do not dare put long to see apology if possible. and now, you know, there are many let loose so you know, net. so the d who said john is we have the whole game,
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it was all movie. pisca said the saddle don't, don't lead to cpg the and i cannot direct she not assume hiipaa. and the tobacco industry sets to work on new advertising campaigns and new products such as lights and mental cigarettes, as well as the filter. the message is clear, the new products are healthier. smoking is no longer quite so deadly. the companies did not acknowledge the scientific findings on its harmful effects. none of the things that had been found in tobacco smoke are concentrations,
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which can be considered harmful. the components themselves can be considered home for come in or anything can be considered harmful. applesauce is harmful if you get too much of it. i don't think many people are dying from not eating that much. elements in cigarettes, and they come to disagree which constant attendance whether they are on the or new york city in this way. the tobacco industry muddy the waters as intended, these downs provoked a debate. the distracted from the actual dangers of smoking. the corporations understood this and this internal industry document from 969 shows. and it works. once again, smokers, the cigarette symbolizes freedom and safe for life. smoking is relaxing and fun. ah, this is marlborough country. philip norris's sales of cigarettes,
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or thought to have increased exponentially on the 1st 8 months of its campaigns for the new manambra country. the advertising promises have global reach, also in paris. ah, remembered advertising from childhood. jenny has needed to get your secret and that they can fully she don't need any account or any cindy or clicking anything any more. she may to a, coming from a horse again, and i can clarify the nike now the thing to them that they might
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be for the last time she has sunk mom, brew and other well known brands for over 30 years. now she wants to free herself of her nicotine dependence. today, she has an appointment of the outpatient addiction clinic of visuals. pompey to hospital in paris. she wants to remain anonymous to kennedy for any focus she, unless she's seen. and she can surmise it's, you know, the probably need to get a little punching in the dr. las i will as seen, is the head of the local department for addictive disorders. according to her, many medical professionals in france are themselves dependent. and it's the nicotine that makes giving up so difficult to cleanse. katina silly,
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pudgy key key hall i did. and kelley absorbing from me and kelly. i thought i'd just plan on getting it all set to whom. so different and then you could change from dollars to vote and you just couldn't go off. it's done this 50, correct? i left was u p. o street to new york also post, you know, buffering balance after the left, the key, the morning between a person and just the more dependent they become. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation. let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,
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very political time. time to sit down and talk when i would chose the wrong when all just don't the rules yesterday out the same because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart and we choose to look for common ground. you know, when you go to deal with a 6 day marathon of creativity, a multi cultural festival, and the biggest variety is the competition for a few days. became
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a russian cultural capital. 28 categories. ahh. from filing a piano to the parenting and data protection night years just throwing up over the water where you're not there. if you could get some kind of a 3 or for them to be here. they filter when read in the context the delta gains only take the very best of the best buy i oh,
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the corporations were quick to recognize the role played by nicotine in that product. a document from 1976 from british american tobacco, lays it out. nicotine is an important aspect of satisfaction, and if the nicotine delivery is reduced below a threshold satisfaction level, then surely smokers will question more readily why they are indulging and inexpensive habits. us a product with too little nicotine constitutes a threat to the industry is increasing numbers of consumers. quit smoking. it's not just the question of a loss of revenue in the long term. it could even harold, the end of the $1000000000.00 industry. nicotine is a natural component of the tobacco plans. so how can the tobacco industry pass on as much as possible to the user? me in this national retreat and sigma,
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ng and chemists are studying tobacco products. you regulation state. the tobacco monthly contain a maximum of one milligram of nicotine. here the scientists regularly assess whether germans backhoe products adhere to the standards. the nicotine content is tested using the smoking machine. but how dependable are the values that it provides with infancy, safety, clean, illegal that monday this hour, at least half of the on the roost. crank him after hours. leg seat then is full time the diner can restock when you pull out your discount. so they don't get offered when the machine know apart for student decides toasty 70 lots. humans do hill vote by looking to get on done, but they didn't. what this means is that on the smoking machine, the holes enable compliance with the league the required nicotine levels. a closer
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look at the filter reveals the miniscule perforations. but most of these holes mean for smokers, that also did you get to you don't want them to encourage you to she didn't thing on down the voltage. so 50 puts in dilution to get picked the now because it is concerned, you know, obvious me and you continue happening shots often get the football going to to the shot of me. ah, me, i'm really going to get it is because it's spirit for pulmonary stage one or 2 of the day of and they're from football. and i'm going to show you know how fun, when off teat,
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little to help and of india lots you can do to relieve as many comforts you get clean and fresh as all outdoor, absolute pleasure. you get in the clean, fresh pace of bel air. you bel air, a light menthol cigarette, that gives you through the back of the holes in the filter hawk back to when tobacco companies 1st introduced the light cigarette. thanks to the whole, they managed to lower the nicotine levels measured by the smoking machine, giving the impression that they all know and nicotine. that doesn't mean that my cigarettes on their home for today their band. but the whole innovation has endured me. the tools used as i see often no one feel nuclear teen to fulfill the hearts of in on the out of this cash for you. hot eco, here's nuclear teen done. we assist in a go to market when swire to get in and this new teen fluted inside him,
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so gentle and when the when, when the sash no because you cut so decent scientist and so to freedom, is there quinn did mean to use a market to be consistent into my control, you know, the more rapid, the nicotine supply, the more satisfied the customer call for dr. la fall scenes. patients. the nicotine is what makes it difficult to kick the habit itching and getting annoying management. looking after my land, they have proclaims really a trace route t. as can see, the doctor now advocated with bern. if come on physician, then die, we will say, for dr. the fall as seen, the addictive factor of nicotine is comparable to that of heroine. alarm voltage issue now could look almost, she mean, she says here,
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molig with whom. so any point sort of a family committed to you, mickey, we can visit about medicaid, the mileage about continuous me, see how much chip mall in, in to sure if you want to to see they're connected. surely. who does that caution decor? she's who she said, for decades, the tobacco industry pretended to be unaware of nicotine addictive qualities, such as during this hearing in 1994. when chief executives of the 7 tobacco giants testified before us congress just yes or no. do you believe nicotine is not addicted? i believe nicotine is not addictive. yes, i don't believe that nicotine for our products are addictive. i believe. i believe the nicotine is not protected. probably with the next day it is not a decade. and i do believe that they can do this
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but is that the truth? in the same year, the university of california in san francisco was sent thousands of internal documents from 8 bank who industry whistleblower ah, on may 12, 994, a box of about 4 or 5000 pages of secret internal tobacco industry documents got delivered to my office, the return address was mr. but which is a tune. carrick are in a popular comic strip here. my boy, some tobacco holes. don't watch my 1st and the documents were the 1st look inside the tobacco companies. and what they showed when you were looking at the correspondence and the communications between their
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top management and their top lawyers and their top scientists and their top public relations people was they, they had figured out the smoking cause cancer in the 1950, stayed for year out and caused heart disease in the 19 sixty's, they recognized nicotine as an addictive drug and $960.00 and we're designing cigarettes to maximize their redemption all the time publicly denying all of this. and so it was just amazing to be wet behind the curtain. the internal documents revealed the truth. they showed the importance of nicotine 40 tobacco business. in the early seventy's, a document from r j reynolds states. a tobacco products is essentially a tool for the delivery of nicotine. the liquids for e cigarettes also contain nicotine, one reputation does nicotine enjoy?
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here? vanessa de la really takes the view, the nicotine is vital for the satisfaction of the consumer. it's the only way of preventing the vapor from taking up smoking again. language they will when they get comfortable lives, i believe it's i boys and girls will also request plenty. keep your past, anita anita, that the truth on you destitute, nego resume. she think was like she came that actually she make sure to rescue me from isn't yours. you prosecute sodium to talk to me, lucy. oh indeed, the classic a cigarette does not burn tobacco. all important liquids are poured into the device the batteries activated and the liquid is heated. as soon as the use of pulls on the device liquid evaporates,
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the vapors can be enabled. ah, liquids come in smooth vials. these are available in a variety of flavors. such as pineapple with coconut wild strawberries, liquids also come in different strengths. as far as the customers are concerned, the nicotine in the liquid is as harmless as it is indispensable. can you see ellen, good teeth goodness hoped and spent the cigarette met none and nichol. tina took in the hooley, come gotta see, you have any pencil. she was also outside of france. vapors are
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persuaded that these new products are less harmful than traditional tobacco products in germany to there's a general belief in the concept of harm reduction because not surprisingly, the spokesman for the cigarette association is convinced of the benefits of electric smoking. heating this is have to convince dusty, it's got to include auto vinegar sheet issues as the talk to go on to help in the field. just hoping natalie isn't trust us, but we just need help us getting hope, a hope to death. the state of school for the chemo ignite things of the focus of the cigarettes, as seen as a solution to the tobacco epidemic. we already have to the other folk who glowed federally as the to go to this municipal can also show
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a stomach to go on and be up and young and put it in a syrian is alcohol until the time night are hurt. my darling, so forms bucko industry also sees the problem in the burning of the tobacco and not in the nicotine for going on with this whole problem on the some loose the, but equal to the soviet it says agen gibson. vital distribution, convince viking and does need to hopefully, hopefully conquer this kind of dog meaning them on to the nicotine of named in art and visitors in on dot com, you know, the either not even inch beer on does one activism shaft love switching from 90 percent on non non puts in vinegar easy. this is all reminiscence of the health promises of time is gone by images such as this suggest that it's possible to use
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e cigarettes with little or no concern. is this indeed the case? the cigarettes generate the error, saw by heating up a liquid, but they don't set it on fire and people are saying, oh well, that's better because you don't have combustion. but the fact is that errors all those very, very tiny particles that are a 50th 100. the size of a hair are themselves tremendously dangerous. they cause heart attacks and cause lung disease. they cause strokes a trigger inflammatory processes. and e cigarettes, you know, differ from cigarettes to talk about that the daniel m and knows all too well the risk to health posed by e cigarettes. at one time, daniel had dreams of joining the navy. the ships, the water. they were always his passion. this dream is gone forever. i last 50
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days of my memory from the charges that they gave me in the hospital 1st pain, etc. because i was so sick. i just kind of woke up and i had the scar and that's really the only reason i knew something bad had happened. like the dodgers hadn't told me, i really wouldn't have known what had happened. join me every 1st day on the alec simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the, the, the, the, the,
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the, the stories you shake, the way here. now t kale has had a bad sweeps. the power in afghanistan reportedly the last protect to drink, to freedom that seems to be closed for the next 2 days to evacuate those already inside with thousands, desperately trying to use it to escape the country. despite the devastating advance of the taliban, there is some resistance to these mist with african women among those fighting against the regime as they face the future. and the chaos to pull out by the western coalition is behind huge amounts them initially picked up by the insurgents . including advanced weaponry from aircraft to the coast. ah.
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