Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, Subject of the Blockbuster 'The Insider,' Visits Porter-Gaud — Transcript

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1. 0:11a bit once I was contacted by Dr wgan
2. 0:14last week and he let me know he was
3. 0:15going to be in Charleston he was here
4. 0:17for a meeting and wanted to come back to
5. 0:18somewhere that was near and dear to his
6. 0:21heart is that safe to say and and give
7. 0:24our middle school students the
8. 0:26opportunity to ask him questions about
9. 0:30what he's done why he's done it any of
10. 0:33those kinds of things it's
11. 0:36been almost 20 years since this whole
12. 0:40process
13. 0:41started you still feel the same way oh
14. 0:45yes absolutely couldn't you tell
15. 0:47probably more passionate than ever
16. 0:49because I don't do you all know that
17. 0:51Charleston is smoke free you know why
18. 0:55and how it got there you don't do you
19. 0:59well it happened as a result of portal
20. 1:02students who actually learned about the
21. 1:05issues of secondhand smoke in Mrs
22. 1:08settle's class and then actually got in
23. 1:11front of the city council and argued for
24. 1:14them to do the right thing save
25. 1:18lives so if anything you take away from
26. 1:21today is that you all have the capacity
27. 1:23to make a difference there is a power of
28. 1:26one you need to go home tonight and
29. 1:28teach three things that you've learn
30. 1:29learn so take three things out of what
31. 1:31we say which you've learned and if I
32. 1:33don't answer the question here's your e
33. 1:36resident expert you can go to anytime
34. 1:37you want she has all the answers she was
35. 1:40a very good student in secondhand
36. 1:44smoke are go directly into the Airways
37. 1:48and contain all the
38. 1:50toxins okay 80% of the mass of a
39. 1:54cigarette is become secondhand smoke you
40. 1:57ever watch somebody's cigarette burn and
41. 1:59the color of it that forms part it never
42. 2:02dissipates you know what I mean by
43. 2:04dissipate it never completely goes
44. 2:06around so I take a I I have a perfume on
45. 2:09ultimately the molecules will fill the
46. 2:12room it will stay in the room when you
47. 2:15reduce secondhand smoke in environments
48. 2:18you reduce the number of heart attacks
49. 2:21the little girl at worked Samantha who
50. 2:24was an African-American girl that had
51. 2:25severe asthma she couldn't hug a grandom
52. 2:29cuz a grandom did what smoke smoke and
53. 2:32every time she got near grandom who she
54. 2:34loved very she got
55. 2:36sick just and that's not what we call
56. 2:38third hand smoke a cigar is anywhere
57. 2:42between 10 to 50 g so the mass of the
58. 2:47cigar the mass weight mass weight
59. 2:51difference okay do I get more delivery
60. 2:53from a cigar or I get more delivery for
61. 2:55a
62. 2:56cigarette come onig why
63. 3:00it's bigger if it burns I burn a big log
64. 3:03or I burn a small log is the burning
65. 3:05fumes that come out the smoke the same
66. 3:08no you get more South Carolina has one
67. 3:11of the highest midity sicknesses and
68. 3:15mortality deaths associated with tobacco
69. 3:17use as thoughts of
70. 3:20children your age they need 3,000 of you
71. 3:24a day to pick up the first tobacco file
72. 3:28girls are lighting up using tobacco
73. 3:31products more than boys they have
74. 3:32finally got full
75. 3:35equality they died just as well women as
76. 3:38St as the
77. 3:41men so the settlement money that came
78. 3:43out of the tobacco industry that made
79. 3:46profits for years and years by addicting
80. 3:48children was supposed to be bad and
81. 3:50prevent that addiction your state
82. 3:53government as well as other state
83. 3:55government chose not to use that money
84. 3:58responsibly
85. 4:00roads Bridges mors libraries debt
86. 4:04Etc states that have used it such as
87. 4:09Florida before there was a change in
88. 4:11philosophy
89. 4:13Mississippi Maine when they use what was
90. 4:15recommended to help deviate the
91. 4:19morbidity and mortality associated with
92. 4:21back thoughts as a pediatric disease may
93. 4:25be used to ra smoking magnitudes among
94. 4:28middle school kids by
95. 4:302% life was going to be put in danger
96. 4:33why did what what caused okay this is a
97. 4:37philosophical yes do you understand what
98. 4:39a bystander
99. 4:41is that means that somebody who sits by
100. 4:44and watches a har are they just as
101. 4:47guilty as the person doing their
102. 4:49harm I didn't want to be fce there we
103. 4:53take the back out and it has inactive
104. 4:56bacteria in it okay because you take
105. 5:00moisture content water content down
106. 5:03bacteria goes into a dorant state called
107. 5:05the
108. 5:07[Music]
109. 5:10endospore okay those have biology know
110. 5:12it now if I take the moisture up
111. 5:1514% moisture content and then make it
112. 5:1820% what do you think happens to that
113. 5:21bacteria starts
114. 5:23growing okay so if you went out and dug
115. 5:25out well we did this year years ago when
116. 5:29actually swab toilet seats and fountains
117. 5:32and we filled with water
118. 5:35we that's what they were to look at in
119. 5:37class today we just didn't get to it
120. 5:39okay well you'll see it it grows it
121. 5:42grows
122. 5:43bacteria toxic bacteria it grows fungi
123. 5:48it grows B you know that children have
124. 5:52the happiness drug that's in the brain
125. 5:54400 times that level that's in the D so
126. 5:58your brain is is already already has
127. 6:01happiness drug called
128. 6:03dopamine okay so it's why it's easy toct
129. 6:06a child at a 21y old brain chemistry is
130. 6:09different and what nicotine does is it
131. 6:11disturbs the balance equilibrium that's
132. 6:14in the brain it screws it up does and it
133. 6:18creates what we call irreversible
134. 6:21morphological key holes so once you
135. 6:24start you etch onto the brain a neotenic
136. 6:29receptor
137. 6:30sight never goes away so if you stop and
138. 6:34you go you smell smoke what is the like
139. 6:37of people going back to smoking again so
140. 6:41the best thing best cure is
141. 6:44what have a scar