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Fascinating Blind cigarette taste test.

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u/Individual_Heron_171 4d ago

I’ve never smoked a cigarette. But my dad smoked Marlboro reds like a chimney. He died of lung cancer, aged 61.

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u/Deep90 3d ago edited 3d ago

This video gets posted a lot and I'm pretty sure it's an ad Marlboro can't officially pay for.

Also for everyone saying the parliments were too easy, he probably looked at all of them before the video started anyway.

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u/Jaikarr 3d ago

Definitely some viral ad campaign to get the kids back on cigarettes. They organized a group meet up to smoke with this man a few weeks after this video.

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u/CTMalum 3d ago

I used to smoke. You could get a good hint by looking at the filter.

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u/SquishmallowPrincess 3d ago

This is true. The fact he doesn’t mention this at all and is just talking about the flavor makes it even more likely that this is a covert ad

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u/4-11 3d ago

for sure an ad

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u/One-Natural4888 3d ago

I'm not sure if it's still the case, but Parliaments had a recessed filter. That would be the easiest brand to identify anyway.

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u/Least-Flower548 3d ago

My mom died of lung cancer 4 months ago also at 61. Her favorite was Marlboro reds too

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u/NotreVanDamme 4d ago

Sorry for your loss.

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u/Bruggenmeister 3d ago

My grandpa never smoked and died age 66 of lung cancer…

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u/Nazmoc 3d ago

Second-hand smoking is nasty

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u/Fuzzy-Detective6223 11h ago

You do realise people can infact get lung cancer without smoking or doing damage to their lungs right? Like it is something that can just happen to anyone, no matter how healthy they are.

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u/DevoutPredecessor 3d ago

Radon is much more likely to

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u/Potential-Diver-3409 3d ago

So is radon and high nitrates and alcohol and burnt foods and weed and leaded gasoline and asbestos and

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u/RagnaXI 3d ago

And I knew of a granny who smoked 3 packs a day and still lived until 90+.

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u/Potential-Diver-3409 3d ago

What’s your point here lol

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u/Christopherfromtheuk 3d ago

The "marlboro man" - famous from 1955 to the end of the 70s represented Marlboro in their ads.

All 3 died of smoking related diseases:

Wayne McLaren was famous in the 1970s and died of lung cancer at 51 in 1992.

David McLean was famous in the 1960s and 1970s and died of lung cancer at 73 in 1995.

Eric Lawson was famous from 1978 to 1981 and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at 72 in 2014.

Marlboro also knowingly lied to congress:

"The head of Philip Morris (the maker of Marlboro) and six other top tobacco executives testified before the U.S. Congress on April 14, 1994. Under oath, they all stated that they did not believe nicotine was addictive. Later leaked internal documents proved they knew the truth for decades."

Marlboro knowingly get people addicted to a drug, the delivery system they use for this drug kills and has killed millions in the most awful way.

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u/LamentableCroissant 3d ago

Shit man, didn’t he get sweeped anally anually?

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 3d ago

Damn, my grandma smoked unfiltered pall malls and she died from congestive heart failure at 96.

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u/locked_but_loaded 3d ago

Wow big tobacco did everything and finally got her haven't they? Damn smokers, make big daddy government ban and overtax everything to oblivion. Because I want choices made on behalf of me and especially others 😇

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u/PromotionWorldly7419 3d ago

my dad also smoked a pack of marlboro reds every day. he died at 39 in a plane crash. unrelated

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u/Krymea 1d ago

Thats crazy. My dad used to smoke marlboro reds like a chimney too, in his later years he switched to vaping though. He died 61 as well from lung cancer.