<TITLE>08. Par 45-52</TITLE>L-45 Then the thought come up, "Why does doctors say that cigarettes are not harmful?"
He said, "Any man that would sell his birthrights... A doctor make a statement like that can retire, 'cause them cigarette companies will give him enough to retire on." He actually sells his birthrights, 'cause he swore not to do a thing like that. But they do it anyhow.
And he said, "Here is the machinery now. We will prove it to you by scientific achievement." And they had Yul Brynner in, you know, the movie star in there, that... And when that little teeny parcel of nicotine, he said, "Now, they say 'filter tips.'" He said, "A man that does that, just shows his mental condition. For if you haven't got any smoke, you haven't got any tar, and tar makes smoke. And if you're smoking a filter tip cigarette," said, "it'll take about three or four to satisfy what one of the other, 'cause they just takes that much more tar to satisfy." If you don't get no smoke, there ain't no tar. Have to have tar to have smoke. So that's it. Said, "Smoke, if you're going to smoke it, smoke one that hasn't got no tip on it. Just one cigarette will satisfy where it takes three of the others, 'cause you're just pulling that much less tar."
It's a sales gimmick. That's all the nation's full of is sales gimmicks, and filth, and everything else.

L-49 And there then he took that and showed how that one little parcel caught into the throat or into the lungs, and first it's white, then it turns pink, and then from pink it turns purple. The articles--particles of the little cell looked that big through the glass, but, 'course you'd--it'd take a powerful glass to even see the cell. Then he said, "When it turns purple, you have cancer." He said, "A man that'll smoke one pack of cigarettes a day has seventy percent more chance of dying with cancer than the man that doesn't smoke it." And it--it seems silly to take such a chance.

L-50 Now, and then he took another thing and proved it; he brought out a white rat. And he took a cigarette and put it in a machine, and pulled it across some kind of a something like white marble, and took a--a swab, and took the nicotine that was out of one cigarette and painted it on the rat's back. Every seven days they had another rat coming out. And they had to have each one for the lesson of that day. And put that rat in for seven days and brought it out, cancer stood that high on the rat's back. Some of them that don't even live the seven days out. The rat couldn't move. I couldn't eat for two or three days to looking at that nasty-looking thing, standing there with the cancer, and it running down over his legs and things like that, a great big high cancer swelled up nearly a half inch on the rat's back, of nicotine out of one cigarette. And you think that stops them? A big fellow setting by me there, and the sweat run off his face, said, "Kind of striking, isn't it?"
I said, "Do you smoke?"
He said, "Yes, sir, I do."
I said, "Well, then you ought to stop." That--but that's it, achievements, what they can prove that it does it.

L-52 Now, I predicted that the world stands and if civilization exists, back in the time of prohibition when there was such a fine to sell a bottle of whiskey, it'll be ten times that fine to sell a pack of cigarettes in a few years from now, if civilization exists. It's ten times worse than whiskey. It sure is. It's--it's a killer, that... And you can tell the people about it; they don't pay a bit more attention to it. "He's a holy-roller preacher," and let it go. You see? That's it, they don't notice.


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