Why do we buy a product that we are asked not to buy? The episode examines cigarettes and the history of smoking from a non-advertising or promotional perspective, but rather contemplates the historical justifications that accompanied a deadly habit like smoking and gave it its appeal in different cultures, starting from the New World, the origin of the tobacco plant, all the way to European, Asian and Eastern cultures that embraced tobacco and made it part of the customs of their inhabitants. In a narrative in which the story of the cigarette varies between being a symbol of the upper classes, being a relaxation remedy during wars, being a national or cinematic symbol, or a symbol of women’s liberation. Each cigarette story in a particular era has earned the tobacco industry loyal consumers who meet urgent psychological needs by having the habit of smoking. Today, smoking is still a common habit, although cigarettes have become the only commodity whose manufacturers are forced to accompany their sale with a direct message explaining its harms, which can be fatal, in a written warning and medically illustrated in a repulsive manner. Sources Articles and Related Links 1- warning label on cigarette-globalhealthnow.org https://globalhealthnow.org/object/wa... 2-The evolution of health warning labels on cigarette packs: the role of precedents, and tobacco industry strategies to block diffusion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... 3-Tobacco package health warnings: a global success story https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/conten... WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control https://fctc.who.int/who-fctc/overview 4-/CDC/Tobacco-Related Mortality https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_stat...) TOBACCO-WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh... 5-Tobacco: Its historical, cultural, oral, and periodontal health association https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti.... Tobacco in New World culture-BRITANNI CA https://www.britannica.com/topic/smok... 6-Tobacco in Old World culture-BRITANNICA https://www.britannica.com/topic/smok... 'This vile costume': a history of tobacco's medical interpretations https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/vile-... 7- 12- The age of the cigarette-BRITANNICA https://www.britannica.com/topic/smok... 8- 9- “Everywhere the Soldier Will Be”: Wartime Tobacco Promotion in the US Military https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... The age of the cigarette-BRITANNICA https://www.britannica.com/topic/smok... HISTORY OF TOBACCO-TOBACCO FREE LIFE https://tobaccofreelife.org/to bacco/t... 10-From social taboo to “torch of freedom”: the marketing of cigarettes to women https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/conten... Once upon a time it was Mild as May in Marlboro Country/SM STUDY https://www.smstudy.com/article/once-... Mild as May – When Marlboro Cigarettes were for Women https://flashbak.com/marlboro-cigaret... Torches of Freedom: How the world's first PR campaign came to be https://yourstory.com/2014/08/torches... The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations https://theconversation.com/the-manip... 11-ON PLAYING THE NAZI CARD - ROBERT N PROCTOR https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/conten... URBAN DICTIONARY-reductio ad Hitlerum https://www.urbandictionary. com/defin... 13-Tracing the Cigarette's Path From Sexy to Deadly/NEW YORK TIMES https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/he... When Cigarette Companies Used Doctors to Push Smoking https://www.history.com/news/cigarett.... 14- “Everywhere the Soldier Will Be”: Wartime Tobacco Promotion in the US Military https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... 15-American cigarettes have become a status symbol in smoke-saturated China. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... 16-Timeline of tobacco industry Hollywood involvement https://smokefreemedia.ucsf.edu/histo... 17-Streaming services such as Netflix have more sex, violence — and, it turns out, smoking/washington post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...