00:01if cigarettes are so bad why does everyone smoke them because for 30 years someone was paid to say
00:08the opposite paid by who the doctors watch this 1946 America almost everyone smoked
00:23but an unniece was spreading a cough that wouldn't quit a throat always raw for the
00:28tobacco giants a frightened customer meant one thing sales in free flow so they made the guardians
00:33of health speak for them more doctors smoke our brand the ads promised than any other that number
00:38was built from nothing at medical conventions they gave free packs to every doctor who passed
00:42the answer the pack in their pocket sold to the public as a survey of a hundred thousand
00:46no one ever explained how those numbers were found but the number swept the country magazines radio
00:53even the medical journals for years the white coat was tobacco's finest salesman people saw
00:59authority and lit another one then in 1950 science sent the bill two studies one American one British
01:06the same verdict smoking causes lung cancer the industry didn't deny it it did worse in a private
01:13memo it wrote its whole strategy in one line doubt is our product
01:20so people get manipulated every single day and almost no one notices the story you're told belongs to
01:29whoever profits from it you're free to think what they decide or go quiet watch learn like subscribe
01:36and evolve quietly until you're the wolf
01:38you