Name: Woman's Heartfelt Story As A Cigarette Smoker Got Girls To Quit
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T20:00:17.000Z
Duration: 22 min 20 s
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Back at a time with a very special time in the evolution of smoking cigarettes in America, girls were smoking.

Women had always smoked cigarettes, but high school girls were adopting cigarettes at an alarming rate.

So the American Cancer Society gave me the chance to talk to women, to try to influence girls, not to smoke.

Now this is interesting what they were showing in schools at that time you may have seen this is lungs that were all black and people with holes in their throats talking through gadgets.

Girls were taking them cigarettes in spite of that.

Because part of the reason for the cigarette was rebellion, and part of the reason for the cigarette was cool.

So what I tried to do is do something that was somewhat different.

If you're a smoker, I'd like to know what you think.

If you're not a smoker, would this have worked on you with this?

The film you're about to see is not a drama.

It's simply ordinary women talking about a personal problem, a problem that on a worldwide basis is killing more of us now than ever before.

The problem is cigarette smoking, and the people are really It was 1967.

In fact, I started smoking April 17th of 1967.

Okay, that's going to have my first real cigarette that I inhaled.

Okay, Before that, I had smoked out behind the barn and just blow it out.

But that was the 1st 1 And I remember it because we're standing on Main Street.

Um, a friend of mine and I and this guy went around the rotary and he was with his parents, and it was someone from school, you know, when he was the big jock, it's school.

And so it was, You know, we thought we were cool because when they came back around, we had a cigarette.

I took my first drag of a cigarette when I waas eight.

After you make love one of the nicest things about making love is if you're both smokers, is to sit back and both of you share a cigarette together.

I got a job on a major newspaper in Houston eventually, and very quickly got to the point that I never turned to a top writer without lighting a cigarette.

It was just something to do with your hands.

It gave me something to do with my hands.

It's more acceptable to smoke a cigarette than it is to, like, take out my pen and paper and, you know, drug little creatures or something on school mornings when I get up, I have a cigarette before I get out of it before you can go to the bathroom.

I have a cigarette and then I have them on the island on the way to school.

And I probably that's where I probably have the most from after school until dinner.

Just Constant spoke, and I smoke doing my homework after dinner and on the weekends I took from the moment I get up all through the day.

I spoke most of the day that whenever I'm doing anything driving, I spoke everything I do, I smoke Well, guys, you know, they go.

You know, that's that's how they they hold it like this, you know?

Movie person, girls just, you know, hold it like that.

Really long cigarettes, like, very something sort of sexy about it.

And to blow the smoke through your nose or the French inhale those sign of class.

I just couldn't direct my energy through the cigarette as opposed to allowing it to go through my body and be seen that way.

So, you know, I can do little things like that and display with cigarette.

And the first thing I have to do is have a cigarette.

Um, I didn't It didn't help anything at all.

A month ago, I told her star, but she she stopped and well, and it was Larry was still live.

My mother stopped smoking, but Larry didn't.

Then we went upstairs me of my brother to consider at some random underwater.

When I quit, I the first day, I feel like I'm in control.

And the second day, it's like, Don't come near me, kids, because I don't know what I'm gonna do to you, okay?

The eighth day is always the worst for me.

Um, for some reason, I could just I could you know, I eat myself sick.

I locked the doors, I locked myself away.

Hopefully not seeing anyone with cigarette, because if I do, I know I'm gonna grab it and smoke it.

You don't know you're becoming physically hooked on cigarettes.

You don't know because it happens slowly.

Gradually, you're enjoying the cigarette.

So you have no idea that your becoming addicted to it And you think you can quit whenever you want.

But you just don't want to right now, because you enjoy it.

I used to be able to sing and I took lessons singing and I was developing a fairly good high soprano and I hope to develop, maybe even in tow, a cholera chur.

But I would I decided to smoke rather than to be able to sing.

I didn't really decide to, but it was just easier.

And so now I'm 33 years old and I'm not gonna be able to sing like that ever.

I am too old to learn net, but I've quit.

You know, I smoke when I get home from work.

I wake up every couple hours and have a cigarette fell asleep with a cigarette, I guess.

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Woman's Heartfelt Story As A Cigarette Smoker Got Girls To Quit

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