Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Philip Morris lost its suit against Uruguay and was ordered to pay $7 million and other court costs.

The day we passed the Plain-Packaging laws in Australia I was so proud. It was a big middle finger to the tobacco companies. 

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.

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

The Google image thing actually worked...

"some people would prefer having smaller babies" reminds me of "global warming is good because warm weather is nice"

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!

It’s always good when a joke actually improves with age, especially a joke about Ye

Tobbaco companies literally kill their best customers

John deserves a Nobel Prize

I quit smoking 10 years ago. Best choice I ever made.

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.

Australia just won its international lawsuit : )

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.

I think we need a Part 2. So much has changed since, but the industry has only grown.

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.

Update: the smoking baby ended up quitting cigarettes at the age of 5!

Hearing people talking about quitting or being motivated to quit from this video is heart-warming.

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. :/

Holy shit the “that’s not Uruguay” bit made me remember where it was 6 years later.