User: sonicbondage |
Thanks, Tobacco: You Killed My Mom This video was created over a one-year period. At first, it was just random use of a video camera, plus a few pictures taken during a visit in September of 2006. Of course, this was before we knew that Mom had a collapsed lung. She went in for tests, and it was discovered that she had Stage IV Lung Cancer. As we learned of the cancer diagnosis in October of 2006, we tried to get Mom down to California (from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada). It was a race against logistics and paperwork (i.e. obtaining documentation in order to cross a border and travel), which we unfortunately lost. Mom suffered a stroke, ironically on the same day as she received her birth certificate, which would have allowed her to travel to Southern California. The stroke left her left side completely paralyzed, and she was stuck in the hospital, no longer the independent woman she once was. We were summoned to fly up immediately, as we were told by her doctors that her death would not be far behind. Mom proved them all wrong, and lived for four more months. Of course, the quality of life was minimal at best. There was no treatment, since the cancer was discovered so late, and due to the stroke. We have since learned that often times, a biopsy can knock loose cancerous material within a tumor, which can cause a stroke. It was extremely difficult to watch her suffering in a hospital bed, and wondering why her last months had to be made that much worse due to the stroke. So, Mom never did get to come see where we live in California. We continued to videotape the entire ordeal, so that family (who couldn't be with us at that time) could see everything. We ended up with approximately 90 minutes of raw footage, which has been edited down to the 10 minutes allowed here. First, we have done this to honor Mom's last wishes: tell people not to smoke. Second, we have completed this very emotional project to honor her memory, and to help us as we continue through the grieving process. Finally, we are aware that much of the anti-smoking media is not so real to life--it doesn't show the suffering, what the families go through, and the pain that cigarettes actually cause. This documentary is "non-Hollywood". We have omitted certain things that one might find offensive, including her IV, vomiting, bodily functions, and her actual death itself, which was obviously painful. Instead, we have brought many different segments together, which still conveys our overall message: DON'T SMOKE! In a letter dated September 24, 2006, from Mom: "Try not to worry about my health. I go for a CAT-SCAN on October 4th. I should have the results about a week later. The appointments are taking a long time, so I must not be in such dire shape, or they would rush them. I'm glad you never really had the desire to smoke. What do your lungs look like after all of those years of second-hand smoke? I can't wait to see you and Patti more often. Gotta go for now. Love Forever, Mom" To conclude, one can compare smoking cigarettes to a slow-motion car accident. At any time, you can get out of the car before it crashes. It is your choice. Furthermore, you may be driving your own car, but please remember that you take passengers along for the ride. Tags: Cigarettes Lung Cancer Stroke Government Sponsored Drug Death illness hospital educational last wish family parent son |
User: harry182 |
You don't always die from tobacco. You just lost the game. inb4 billions of views Tags: tabacco tobacco cigar cigerrettes cowboy song commercial dont smoke knowledge is contagious thetruth the truth |
User: Gatorrock786 |
Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road a bold interpretation of John D. Loudermilk's classic "Tobacco Road", which reached number 6 in the UK singles chart and made it to number 14 in the U.S. Tags: Nashville Teens Tobacco Road pop gear |
User: SteppinLoud |
Tobacco Juice - Triangle PV for Tobacco Juice's song Triangle Tags: tobaccojuice tobacco juice triangle fuckyes |
User: anthonywbrown |
Tobacco Industry Statements Tobacco Executives statement - decades of casting doubt about smoking and disease - again and again. Tags: tobacco smoking lies philip morris rj reynolds lorrillard |
User: radioactive1111 |
Tabacco Road - Eric Burdon and the Animals Tabacco Road - Eric Burdon and the Animals Tags: Eric Burdon animals tabacco road |
User: fukusui |
THE NASHVILLE TEENS - Tobacco Road I like this song. But I don't know so much about the NASHVILLE TEENS. Tags: THE NASHVILLE TEENS Tobacco Road 60s 1960s 60's British beat rock |
User: tobaccofreeflorida |
Video Game Florida Anti-Tobacco Ad tobaccofreeflorida.com Tags: Smoking Video Game Cigarette Kill Halo Spanish |
User: rudyrahadian |
Virginia Tobacco My activities in Harvesting Virginia Tobaccos. Placed in Lurtigen, Canton Fribourg, Switzerland. in Mr. Fritz Herren Farm Brightleaf is commonly known as "Virginia tobacco", often regardless of which state they are planted. Prior to the American Civil War, most tobacco grown in the US was fire-cured dark-leaf. This type of tobacco was planted in fertile lowlands, used a robust variety of leaf, and was either fire cured or air cured. Sometime after the War of 1812, demand for a milder, lighter, more aromatic tobacco arose. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland all innovated quite a bit with milder varieties of the tobacco plant. Farmers around the country experimented with different curing processes. But the breakthrough didn't come until around 1839. Brightleaf tobacco leaf ready for harvest. When it turns yellow-green the sugar content is at its peak, and it will cure to a deep golden color with mild taste. The leaves are harvested progressively up the stem from the base, as they ripen. Brightleaf tobacco leaf ready for harvest. When it turns yellow-green the sugar content is at its peak, and it will cure to a deep golden color with mild taste. The leaves are harvested progressively up the stem from the base, as they ripen. It had been noticed for centuries that sandy, highland soil produced thinner, weaker plants. Captain Abisha Slade, of Caswell County, North Carolina had a good deal of infertile, sandy soil, and planted the new "gold-leaf" varieties on it. Slade owned a slave, Stephen, who around 1839 accidentally produced the first real bright tobacco. He used charcoal to restart a fire used to cure the crop. The surge of heat turned the leaves yellow. Using that discovery, Slade developed a system for producing bright tobacco, cultivating on poorer soils and using charcoal for heat-curing. Slade made many public appearances to share the bright-leaf process with other farmers. Prosperous and outgoing, he built a brick house in Yanceyville, North Carolina, and at one time had many servants. News spread through the area pretty quickly. The infertile sandy soil of the Appalachian piedmont was suddenly profitable, and people rapidly developed flue-curing techniques, a more efficient way of smoke-free curing. Farmers discovered that Bright leaf tobacco needs thin, starved soil, and those who could not grow other crops found that they could grow tobacco. Formerly unproductive farms reached 20--35 times their previous worth. By 1855, six Piedmont counties adjoining Virginia ruled the tobacco market. By the outbreak of the Civil War, the town of Danville, Virginia actually had developed a bright-leaf market for the surrounding area in Caswell County, North Carolina and Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Danville was also the main railway head for Confederate soldiers going to the front. These brought bright tobacco with them from Danville to the lines, traded it with each other and Union soldiers, and developed quite a taste for it. At the end of the war, the soldiers went home and suddenly there was a national market for the local crop. Caswell and Pittsylvania counties were the only two counties in the South that experienced an increase in total wealth after the war. [songs copyright is Wham! and it recording company properties] Tags: tobacco tabak virginia lurtigen switzerlan phillip morris agriculture |
User: alarmclock19 |
The Blues Magoos - Tobacco Road (complete) "Kraft Music Hall" appearance, 11-01-1967 complete version incl. interview at the end ("what we're trying to do is create the electrical sounds of the universe!") Tags: blues magoos psychedelic garage |