I was that Kid and I'm glad my Father quit "Pipe" smoking but the Tobacco he used was a pleasant smell :) AND . . . my Father had a Red 65 Fastback Mustang 3 speed, then in 1967 traded it for a 1967 Fastback and painted it "Bullit" Green, I loved that car :').
I Hope in the next season Madmen will do a spoof of this commercial because don draper in the 4th season said he vowed never to take on any big tobbaco accounts so maybe sterling cooper draper pryce might go into public service advertising.
Damn liberals. They rained on the American parade. Smoking, littering, making fun of foreigners, whoring and boozing it . Heck, you can't even beat your wife or kids any more. what's happening to this country?
First of all, Dad should have sprayed the little jerk in the face with the real water hose when the kid pretended to spray him...that would have broke him of THAT! habit! Second of all...where ELSE?!?! is a kid supposed to learn how to smoke if they don't learn it from a parent or some other adult??? I mean, for crying out loud!!! Kids have to be taught these things SOMEHOW!!! - This post brought to you by the American Tobacco Companies
Toby Radloff I remember that commercial vividly. When I first saw this as a child, I imagined somebody making a commercial for candy cigarettes (remember those?) using the same storyline. As Daddy lights up from a pack of Pall Mall's, Junior takes a "Pell Mell" candy cigarette out of the pack and pretends he's smoking just like Daddy. Like father, like son. Think about it.
Damn liberals. They rained on the American parade. Smoking, littering, making fun of foreigners, whoring and boozing it . Heck, you can't even beat your wife or kids any more. what's happening to this country?
I was born in 1957, watched a lot of TV. I remember that ad, Johnny Smoke & several others. I remember lots of cigarette ads. Lots of things have changed since then.
Wow! This commercial has always stuck in my mind. Some years after it aired, I discovered Dave Brubeck, and thinking back on this ad, I always assumed that the music in it was "Take Five". Now I see that it isn't. But the interesting thing is that the music, like "Take Five", is in quintuple time. Which probably says something about the human mind and memory and cognition and all that, but, not being a psychologist of any sort, don't ask me!
I saw this commercial so many times when i was a kid that I still remember it like it was yesterday. They ran this commercial for years on tv from the late 60s to mid 70s.
OMG! I haven't seen this ad since I was a kid in the mid/late 60s. Love how the kid is in the front seat of a convertible with no car seat or seat belt. Times have changed since I was in grade school!
The voice here was Lloyd Bridges. This and the Johnny Smoke spots were quite effective for their day: This one still gives me the chills as does Johnny Smoke
@NickDrake101 ....oh wow,,I'm not alone...I was 6-8 yrs old and Johnny Smoke always cracked us up...it is kinda eerie,this and Johnny Smoke were always on!
There was another anti-smoking PSA on the airwaves during the same period(late 60s). It used Frank Sinatra singing "How Little We Know" as the soundtrack. Anyone else remember it--or have it?
@Kirke182 Very true! My Aunt used to smoke like a chimney back in the day. She hasn't smoked for years, but my cousin (her son) is 40, and still smokes 2 packs a day. YUCK!!
Oh my god, I was 11 when this came out and I remember it vividly!! Like the years melted away and I'm still there! BTW, doesn't the father look a little bit like Bobby Kennedy???
This commercial was on during my formative years and I remember it VERY VERY well. I love how the music changes when dad whips out the cigarette. I even remembered the music.
I remember watching this when I was like two years old. I think I missed the point at the time: I thought the pack of cigarettes was a remote control and if the kid pressed the button, the car they were washing together would start up and run them over. I knew there was something sinister about it. Just too subtle for my tastes I guess.
One of the most influential anti-smoking, public service announcements (PSAs) on television. The benign music at the beginning turns ominous and menacing when the kid picks up the package of cigarettes. Careless father, somebody might call child protective servcies.
The music is great! Very jazzy and upbeat in the beginning, then it gets sort of ominous at the end and you suspect subliminally that something bad is occurring. Great job by the Mad Men of the 1960's!
This one smoking PSA from the late 80s early 90s used to scare the crap out of me when I was little. It'd show a silloete of a man smoking. He'd cough and then at the end the silloette turns to ash. Used to freak me out when I was six. That used to give me nightmares.
Well to be fair I think this was before seat belt laws actually went into affect. And around this time they were just beginning to realize the dangers of smoking. Look up some from the 50s and 60s.
But all in all your right in pointing out these things. It was just a sign of the times. Look at the year this was done in.
@headley62 Oh brother... I agree about the smoking part, but not your other comments. As a kid, I rode up front without a car seat and in cars with metal dashboards. All of my generation did. We're all 50-somethings now which means we survived it. We had water pistols, cap pistols and toy machine guns, but we're not all killers. Oh yeah, and we rode and crashed our stingray bikes without helmets, too.
2. Does anyone remember or know where I can find this OTHER Canadian Anti-Smoking cartoon ad from the late 60s or early 70s? - In Part of the ad, you see a football player running with the ball under one arm, knocking everybodys' heads off with his other, and you hear something like "Great athlete, what a man!", but later, he lights a cigarette and you hear something like "smoker, what a slave!".
I am looking for the Canadian anti-smoking ad from the early 90's. It shows a young female named "michelle" who looks into her bathroom mirror and starts smoking. The video shows her age rapidly and shows the long-term effects of smoking
1. Does anyone remember or know where I can find this old cartoon anti-smoking ad: - A worker lights a fuse for explosive and then wants to light his cigarette but has no matches, so he chases the fuse on all fours but can't get it lit in time, reaches the explosives and kaboom. Then you hear: "Some people will do anything for a cigarette".
The little boy in the commercial is actually 2 little boys. Twins in fact. David and Darrell Moller. David is is some scenes, Darrell in others. They were later adopted by their step father and their last name is now McCormick. They both live in Magnolia, TX with their wives and children.
Man oh man! Where can we find that Track of music? I remember it usually was followed by a seat belt PSA as well. Something about a wrinkled dress. Then Davey and Goliath would come on and it was time for Church
I love this music too! You probably know that it's called "Production Music." Unfortunately, though, most "production music", isn't available to the public, but I do know of a tape that has this piece on it. It's called "TV Tunes-commercials". Incidently while I was browsing on Youtube through different PIFs (Public Information Films-that's what they call PSAs in Europe) I came across from the UK about water main safety that uses the same production music!
does anybody remember the "keys left in car" psa from the early 70's? it showed a bunch of high school heads jumpin in a car and going on a joyride from hell where they run a red light and have a massive slo mo wreck fro hell and half of 'em died on the scene. i cant find it on here anywhere.
I remember that one!!!!!! I remember when they crashed the teen driver (thief) yelled for his mommy!!! The announcer said "lock your car take your keys!!"
@krakkinem The nice thing, well one of the nice things about being a mstie is you will never get all the references so you always have something to look forward to. Also I love watching them with my kids. It makes them smarter- to learn the references. Oh and there is the dying laughing part too. 22!
I clearely remember this ad from when I was a young boy. But I can also still sing the Salem jingle, so I don't know which was more effective advertising! The narrator's voice is creepy; he sounds like "HAL," the overbearing computer from 2001 a Space Odyssey.
Considering the cigarette commercials that aired then it would be funny if this ended as: "show him you're cool--smoke Chesterfield Lights! It's a family affair..."
The music is a riot. It's so typical of the public service commercials back in the 60's. The American Dental Association TV commercials had similar music also.
After watching smoking commercials in order from the 50's through the mid-60's (in high rotation then), this really made me realize that this was a BIG deal back then... times were changing, as the last cigarette commercial was aired in 1970.
Pardon me rainydaywoman1957, but was your message from 1/16/09 for me? If so, I was born July 5, 1965. But I'm not too young to remember some of my favorite commercials and psas from the 70's.
yes, it was for you, i was just curious because you said that you wished all your childhood memories were here. i was just wondering what years you were a child because im 51(1957) and every one of my childhood tv memories are here on you tube. so your the same age aprox as my brother who was born in 63. we are basically the same generation.
I remember thid ad too. I have an audio recording of the musical theme. Very catchy music, and very effective thought provoking
concept. I must also mention that my father
smoked for almost 70 years, but seeing how silly it made him look, plus his telling me that it was a bad habit effectively kept me from ever trying it, even to this day. Never tried smoking, never will.
This Ad resonated with me my whole life and I NEVER EVER smoked anything. I was probably the same age as that kid when this first was on TV. I pleaded with my Parents to stop smoking they never did till many years later in the meantime I developed lung problems which still persist to this day related to their smoking. I've never forgiven them for it or big tobacco!
That is a cute little kid. The way he throws that rock cracks me up! I remember well, those little car seats with the steering wheel. Too funny when the little kid puts his hand out to "signal" a turn! LOL!
One of the best all time commercials. I still remembered the music even though I have not seen this great commercial since 1970. And of course the anti-smoking message really hit home when the son picks up the cigarette box.
I used to be fascinated by this PSA, partly because of the resemblance- but mostly because of the relationship of the father & son. My folks were divorced and I rarely saw my Dad; always wondered what it would be like to do anything with your dad.
My inner child has to go to bed and cry his little heart out now. Thanks Dad! Thanks Youtube! I am digging the tune however....
Speaking of disturbing commercials from the '60s... there was one from the "Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?" series, maybe 0:15, that showed a wind-up monkey playing a drum, and a voiceover saying something like, "I've heard that people who are hooked on heroin have a monkey on their back... isn't that cute?" Then the camera does a sudden close-up on the monkey's face as it turns vicious and makes an evil sound. Don't know if it kept me from trying heroin, but it never made me wanna start.
Another of my earliest TV memories. What a headrush seeing it again. It disturbed me in several ways. Always thought it looked like the kid hurled a rock @ his dad after father launched his. Re-watch & see what I mean w/ screen direction & all. Plus the kid springs up & pops his dad in the face w/ a water pistol! What a devil child; must've grown up to be Damien in The Omen. If the old man didn't die from lung cancer, that little toe-headed demon from Hell was sure to get him in a sneak attack.
I remember another PSA that first aired about the same time as this one. I think it was by the American Cancer Society. It showed a series of warning signs and labels creeping out of the shadows-"FLAMMABLE","POISON","RR CROSSING" etc. It ended by showing the surgeon general's warning on a pack of smokes with the implication that it should be taken as seriously as the others. Does anyone remember this one? I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
Brad Pitt was born 18 Dec 1963 (per Wikipedia). This ad was released around 1967 .Brad Pitt would have been 3-4, which is consistent with the apparent age of the child in this ad.
I remember this psa appearing when I started kindergarten in 1968. Yes it ran into the 70's and possibly even into the 80's (very much like the musical masterpieces ad - see here on U-tube)but it definitely was from the 60's. Thanks!
I think the music for this piece reappeared recently on a "Simpsons" episode. The scene involved had a similar "father and son" theme involving Homer and Grandpa.
It was the Halloween episode where Bart turns Homer into a jack-in-the-box (a spoof of the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life"). I thought I was the only person who noticed it!
This one ran a lot during the 70's ... CBS would always run a PSA during the first commercial break of whatever weekday daytime show they were running and this one was in heavy rotation. There was another one for fire safety that showed a woman trapped in a burning home ("No way out...") ... a bit disturbing. Thanks for posting this PSA classic!
Does anybody remember the "Johnny Smoke" PSA? It was regularly seen on network TV about the same time as "Like Father, Like Son". It was an animated western-themed anti-smoking ad that featured Johnny Smoke as a cigarette-shaped killer on horseback. The music had a chorus singing "Johny Smooooke, Johny Smooooke". I haven't been able to find this one anywhere.
I think the Johnny Smoke PSA is on a commercial compilation called "Classic Commercials," which I found at Best Buy. Of course, it may show up here, too.
this is outstanding. cigarettes can kill, but having your toddler ride in the front seat of a convertible with absolutely no restraints is nothing to be concerned about!!
I can remember watching this Heart Association PSA on WNEW-TV 5 in New York City, as well as WPIX-TV 11 in New York City, when I was a very young boy. My mother had Cable television at the time, since antenna-based TV would not pick up any channels where we lived. 35 years ago, TV was in a very large way my electronic babysitter. Thank you for posting this.
They ran this forever! I like the Bud Shank sounding "I-Want-to-Live" type flute at the end to signal a twinge of conscience. Having been a smoker for five years & haven't picked up a cigarette in 12 years (both my parents smoked) I'm not convinced that the ad was as effective as it should have been.
This is real interesting for an anti-smoking commercial. Can't believe it aired on TV for 15 years, too(and that it was made all the way back in '67, before I was born). Even more interesting to think this commercial was done, before the national TV advertising ban on tobacco ads took effect in '71.
Was this the very, very first anti-smoking commercial made for TV, or not?
This may have been the first anti-smoking TV spot. All the father-son-activity motifs seem to be there: Junior helping Dad paint the house, the two on a Sunday drive (the kid with his toy steering wheel), father and son washing the car and later skipping stones...great father/son activities - until Dad lights one up and Junior looks with wonder at the cigarette package. "Like father, like son? Think about it."
I was that Kid and I'm glad my Father quit "Pipe" smoking but the Tobacco he used was a pleasant smell :) AND . . . my Father had a Red 65 Fastback Mustang 3 speed, then in 1967 traded it for a 1967 Fastback and painted it "Bullit" Green, I loved that car :').
. . . a very pleasant memory this commercial.
mvunit3 2 weeks ago
I Hope in the next season Madmen will do a spoof of this commercial because don draper in the 4th season said he vowed never to take on any big tobbaco accounts so maybe sterling cooper draper pryce might go into public service advertising.
jjtiojohn12 2 months ago
That kid was like, "this ain't my brand, I only smoke Kools."
TomasTigre 3 months ago 3
I guess I am old I remember this one.
mickeysanker 6 months ago
well at least its not nearly as annoying as those "truth" ads they have now!! MY god do those people suck!!!
jay94271 6 months ago
@jay94271 TRUTH hurts!
sesabio 5 months ago
Unless that dad droped his lighter to then its all good.
coolsomeXD 8 months ago 5
whats the name of that song? I heard it played on the Simpsons now and then.
arielterr 8 months ago
If that was a real dad from the 1960s, the kid would have been screamed at or beaten a few times that day.
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Damn liberals. They rained on the American parade. Smoking, littering, making fun of foreigners, whoring and boozing it . Heck, you can't even beat your wife or kids any more. what's happening to this country?
HA HA HA HA HA.
katie8753 9 months ago
1967?????????????anti smoking?????????????
ChrisVaughn85 10 months ago
First of all, Dad should have sprayed the little jerk in the face with the real water hose when the kid pretended to spray him...that would have broke him of THAT! habit! Second of all...where ELSE?!?! is a kid supposed to learn how to smoke if they don't learn it from a parent or some other adult??? I mean, for crying out loud!!! Kids have to be taught these things SOMEHOW!!! - This post brought to you by the American Tobacco Companies
turbogorilla1 10 months ago
This also has to be one of the longest running TV commercials of all time...the Life Cereal "Mikey" commercial ran for almost as long.
tobyradloff 1 year ago
Toby Radloff I remember that commercial vividly. When I first saw this as a child, I imagined somebody making a commercial for candy cigarettes (remember those?) using the same storyline. As Daddy lights up from a pack of Pall Mall's, Junior takes a "Pell Mell" candy cigarette out of the pack and pretends he's smoking just like Daddy. Like father, like son. Think about it.
tobyradloff 1 year ago
Damn liberals. They rained on the American parade. Smoking, littering, making fun of foreigners, whoring and boozing it . Heck, you can't even beat your wife or kids any more. what's happening to this country?
csuabo 1 year ago 15
@csuabo Yeah, Obama just quit smokin' himself.
EmpressOfWyoming58 1 year ago
@csuabo Good one! Next thing you know we'll turn into the responsible people we actually pretend to be.
ezreader111 11 months ago
I feel SO OLD...I remember seeing this!
johnalang 1 year ago
I feel SO OLD...I remember seeing this!
johnalang 1 year ago
I was born in 1957, watched a lot of TV. I remember that ad, Johnny Smoke & several others. I remember lots of cigarette ads. Lots of things have changed since then.
usaruss 1 year ago
Wow! This commercial has always stuck in my mind. Some years after it aired, I discovered Dave Brubeck, and thinking back on this ad, I always assumed that the music in it was "Take Five". Now I see that it isn't. But the interesting thing is that the music, like "Take Five", is in quintuple time. Which probably says something about the human mind and memory and cognition and all that, but, not being a psychologist of any sort, don't ask me!
TroyOi 1 year ago
@TroyOi When I remembered this over the years, I thought it was Dave Brubeck Take 5, too. Isn't that something?
EmpressOfWyoming58 1 year ago
@EmpressOfWyoming58 Interesting. Great minds think alike... or at least make the same mistakes! ;-)
TroyOi 1 year ago
I saw this commercial so many times when i was a kid that I still remember it like it was yesterday. They ran this commercial for years on tv from the late 60s to mid 70s.
gatorcarter 1 year ago
And I was never tempted to smoke. I still don't understand how the kids today insist on smoking. all the psa's from my childhood did their work
jobeLewOOH 1 year ago 2
OMG - do I remember this psa. the catchy jingle and the tag line.
Like father, like son - - - - - - - think about it.
I was born in 1963. so glad I found this psa on youtube. it's a blast from
the past
jobeLewOOH 1 year ago
I was 5 when I saw this on TV all the time, in 1968.
YouWastesTube 1 year ago
Everything was so bland until right around this time when LSD came on the scene big time
pucksterz12 1 year ago
I was born in 1964, the little kid must be about the same age as I am.
mthivier 1 year ago
I think this is pretty much what Don Draper was talking about to the folks at the Cancer Society!
sallyrover 1 year ago
Wonder if that actor quit smokin' after he made the ad? God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
I remember this ad so vividly from my childhood. Just now I knew the kid was going to spray his dad with the watergun, before he did it.
God, I'm old.
senoramariposa 1 year ago
People had such long attention spans back then.
These long, quiet scenes would never be in a commercial or PSA now.
SubmarinerAndroid 1 year ago
I remember this in the '70's.They need to run these ads again.
vince065us 1 year ago
Hey, I remember seeing this one on TV! Memories. What happy music.
NoirFan01 1 year ago
OMG! I haven't seen this ad since I was a kid in the mid/late 60s. Love how the kid is in the front seat of a convertible with no car seat or seat belt. Times have changed since I was in grade school!
szqsk8 1 year ago
I was 7 in 1967,,,and I remember this like it was yesterday.
Clemburke1111 1 year ago
I remember how disturbing those anti-smoking commercials were, thanks.
castingtherunes 1 year ago
Noting the Bobby Kennedy look-alike casting. Such was the way of the times...
jkers10 1 year ago
The voice here was Lloyd Bridges. This and the Johnny Smoke spots were quite effective for their day: This one still gives me the chills as does Johnny Smoke
NickDrake101 1 year ago
@NickDrake101 ....oh wow,,I'm not alone...I was 6-8 yrs old and Johnny Smoke always cracked us up...it is kinda eerie,this and Johnny Smoke were always on!
Chazticus09 1 year ago
@NickDrake101
Wow! Lloyd Bridges, huh?!:)
SteveCarras 1 year ago
Nothing like sharing a joint with your son.
robphilll22 1 year ago
There was another anti-smoking PSA on the airwaves during the same period(late 60s). It used Frank Sinatra singing "How Little We Know" as the soundtrack. Anyone else remember it--or have it?
swami1 1 year ago
anybody who thinks that smoking causes lung cancer is ignorant
airsoftking12111 1 year ago
I remember this ad too very well when I was a kid in the 60's.
Bluesjanet 1 year ago
That ad ran for years.
TheZepmeister 1 year ago
Why on earth would anybody take up smokin' now? God bless! Smokin' cigarettes is just committin' slow suicide, right, gang?
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
Remember this quite well. And it's true--if you smoke, your kids will probably smoke too.
Kirke182 1 year ago
@Kirke182 Very true! My Aunt used to smoke like a chimney back in the day. She hasn't smoked for years, but my cousin (her son) is 40, and still smokes 2 packs a day. YUCK!!
TracyBeth87 7 months ago
Oh my god, I was 11 when this came out and I remember it vividly!! Like the years melted away and I'm still there! BTW, doesn't the father look a little bit like Bobby Kennedy???
Barbarella921 1 year ago
MY FATHER NEVER PAID ANY ATTENTION TO ME LIKE THAT KID IN THE COMMERCIAL. NOW I MUST CLIMB A TALL BUILDING AND START SHOOTING AT RANDOM PEOPLE.
funkadelphiarecords 1 year ago
@funkadelphiarecords YAY!
MrTodd198126 1 year ago
Is he smoking Oasis cigarettes? People who know all smoke the big O.
RRaquello 1 year ago
This commercial was on during my formative years and I remember it VERY VERY well. I love how the music changes when dad whips out the cigarette. I even remembered the music.
cofycats 1 year ago
I have a heart association?! Why wasn't I told?
Moxie1342 1 year ago
I remember this one well from when I was just 7 years old
DetroitLives313 1 year ago
I remember watching this when I was like two years old. I think I missed the point at the time: I thought the pack of cigarettes was a remote control and if the kid pressed the button, the car they were washing together would start up and run them over. I knew there was something sinister about it. Just too subtle for my tastes I guess.
pappynj 1 year ago
that child is so cute! his face just says to me "smoke marlboro.'
quidnick 1 year ago
what is the name of that song playing in the backgground?
mikejtds 1 year ago
I remember this like it was yesterday.
ottlakerambler 1 year ago
One of the most influential anti-smoking, public service announcements (PSAs) on television. The benign music at the beginning turns ominous and menacing when the kid picks up the package of cigarettes. Careless father, somebody might call child protective servcies.
RupeVoid 1 year ago
I remember fthat PSA. I didn't know it ran for 15 years even after the cigarette commercials ended.
Soulthinker2007 1 year ago
The music is great! Very jazzy and upbeat in the beginning, then it gets sort of ominous at the end and you suspect subliminally that something bad is occurring. Great job by the Mad Men of the 1960's!
spanishlake 2 years ago 3
@spanishlake I prefer the printed ads that they made. A lot of the art work from the 60's is really great.
apictureoffunction 1 year ago
This one smoking PSA from the late 80s early 90s used to scare the crap out of me when I was little. It'd show a silloete of a man smoking. He'd cough and then at the end the silloette turns to ash. Used to freak me out when I was six. That used to give me nightmares.
UltimateDragon709 2 years ago 3
Poor Dad. He's doing everything wrong. He smokes,
has his son in a cheap car seat siting up front.
Last, but not least, he allows his son to have a water pistol. From the first scene, the neighborhood they reside in appears to be semi affluent.
headley62 2 years ago
Well to be fair I think this was before seat belt laws actually went into affect. And around this time they were just beginning to realize the dangers of smoking. Look up some from the 50s and 60s.
But all in all your right in pointing out these things. It was just a sign of the times. Look at the year this was done in.
UltimateDragon709 2 years ago
@headley62 Oh brother... I agree about the smoking part, but not your other comments. As a kid, I rode up front without a car seat and in cars with metal dashboards. All of my generation did. We're all 50-somethings now which means we survived it. We had water pistols, cap pistols and toy machine guns, but we're not all killers. Oh yeah, and we rode and crashed our stingray bikes without helmets, too.
kurtb8474 1 year ago
Both my parents smoked, but I never had any desire whatsoever to smoke. Their 2nd hand smoke would make me sick in the car!
tamspeci 2 years ago
Did you throw up all over them?
headley62 2 years ago
I was from good old Rogers park and my daddy never showed me how to smoke.
bdunlevy22 2 years ago
this commercial reminded me that my dad didn't just hang out with me when i was young and saw it, so who really cares if dad smokes otherwise.
193and 2 years ago
2. Does anyone remember or know where I can find this OTHER Canadian Anti-Smoking cartoon ad from the late 60s or early 70s? - In Part of the ad, you see a football player running with the ball under one arm, knocking everybodys' heads off with his other, and you hear something like "Great athlete, what a man!", but later, he lights a cigarette and you hear something like "smoker, what a slave!".
gljsd 2 years ago
I am looking for the Canadian anti-smoking ad from the early 90's. It shows a young female named "michelle" who looks into her bathroom mirror and starts smoking. The video shows her age rapidly and shows the long-term effects of smoking
arifali01 2 years ago
1. Does anyone remember or know where I can find this old cartoon anti-smoking ad: - A worker lights a fuse for explosive and then wants to light his cigarette but has no matches, so he chases the fuse on all fours but can't get it lit in time, reaches the explosives and kaboom. Then you hear: "Some people will do anything for a cigarette".
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samsam2021 2 years ago
I guess they are both dead now....
basicboi23 2 years ago
yo dat was deep
aarisdastuff 2 years ago
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divdif 2 years ago
Another superb commercial of the past. Never touched those damn cancer sticks and this commercial was one of many reasons why.
soylentteal 2 years ago 2
that mustang convertible looks like the one Darren mcGavin drove on the short lived TV show Kolchak:The Night Stalker
frankd1965 2 years ago
The little boy in the commercial is actually 2 little boys. Twins in fact. David and Darrell Moller. David is is some scenes, Darrell in others. They were later adopted by their step father and their last name is now McCormick. They both live in Magnolia, TX with their wives and children.
Visable1 2 years ago
what a useless piece of information
minasgekos 2 years ago
Man oh man! Where can we find that Track of music? I remember it usually was followed by a seat belt PSA as well. Something about a wrinkled dress. Then Davey and Goliath would come on and it was time for Church
citymousie 2 years ago
I love this music too! You probably know that it's called "Production Music." Unfortunately, though, most "production music", isn't available to the public, but I do know of a tape that has this piece on it. It's called "TV Tunes-commercials". Incidently while I was browsing on Youtube through different PIFs (Public Information Films-that's what they call PSAs in Europe) I came across from the UK about water main safety that uses the same production music!
spy4863 2 years ago
Adam thought of Raphael... He showed me this video... 1967 whoa!! some things will never change.
nhesnard 2 years ago
Johnny Smoke strikes again!
Chameleonardodavinci 2 years ago
does anybody remember the "keys left in car" psa from the early 70's? it showed a bunch of high school heads jumpin in a car and going on a joyride from hell where they run a red light and have a massive slo mo wreck fro hell and half of 'em died on the scene. i cant find it on here anywhere.
matty8371 2 years ago
If you ever do find that commercial, PLEASE let me know...I've tried looking for it myself. Good commercial.
02chevyguy 2 years ago
I remember that one!!!!!! I remember when they crashed the teen driver (thief) yelled for his mommy!!! The announcer said "lock your car take your keys!!"
jlomax 2 years ago
Well, I finally get that "MST3k" reference now.
mdumas43073 2 years ago 19
Don't you love how, as a maturing MSTie, you have these revelations every couple of months where you suddenly finally get an old joke they made?
krakkinem 2 years ago
@krakkinem The nice thing, well one of the nice things about being a mstie is you will never get all the references so you always have something to look forward to. Also I love watching them with my kids. It makes them smarter- to learn the references. Oh and there is the dying laughing part too. 22!
dejahthoris 1 year ago
I clearely remember this ad from when I was a young boy. But I can also still sing the Salem jingle, so I don't know which was more effective advertising! The narrator's voice is creepy; he sounds like "HAL," the overbearing computer from 2001 a Space Odyssey.
atlmuscleman 2 years ago
Considering the cigarette commercials that aired then it would be funny if this ended as: "show him you're cool--smoke Chesterfield Lights! It's a family affair..."
welchm8 2 years ago
This PSA made me wish that my father smoked when i was a kid, then we could hang out and drive around in a cool convertible! :)
GrippoMarx 2 years ago
Is this the voice of William Talman
sto59 2 years ago
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lame
BreakingGlass77 2 years ago
This one I remember well. They aired this for a long time because of the message.
driveinmovienights 2 years ago
I remember this one well.
The music is a riot. It's so typical of the public service commercials back in the 60's. The American Dental Association TV commercials had similar music also.
hootinouts 2 years ago
I slept with Elvis !!!
CELTIQUEFROST 2 years ago
After watching smoking commercials in order from the 50's through the mid-60's (in high rotation then), this really made me realize that this was a BIG deal back then... times were changing, as the last cigarette commercial was aired in 1970.
pannoni1 2 years ago
thats my uncle the little kid
burtonbillabong4444 3 years ago
Who is he? He's likely 47 by now.
modspell 2 years ago
Who did This Music? Anyone?
theotherfakemarc 3 years ago
I saw this Anti-Smoking PSA on TV so many times that I was wondering when they were going to retire it. They finally did in 1982.
spectrum10 3 years ago
Pardon me rainydaywoman1957, but was your message from 1/16/09 for me? If so, I was born July 5, 1965. But I'm not too young to remember some of my favorite commercials and psas from the 70's.
spy4863 3 years ago
yes, it was for you, i was just curious because you said that you wished all your childhood memories were here. i was just wondering what years you were a child because im 51(1957) and every one of my childhood tv memories are here on you tube. so your the same age aprox as my brother who was born in 63. we are basically the same generation.
rainydaywoman1957 3 years ago
all MY childhood commercials are here! when were you a child?
rainydaywoman1957 3 years ago
I was born in 1965 so was a child of the 70's/80's
tallboyyyy 3 years ago 2
@tallboyyyy Me, too! Wonderful time!
999manman 1 year ago
@rainydaywoman1957 I was born in 63 and I remember this commercial like it just came out.
Airsoftcleaner 1 year ago
@Airsoftcleaner Ditto for me. Born in 1963 and I remember the commercial vividly.
rlmelco 1 year ago
I remember thid ad too. I have an audio recording of the musical theme. Very catchy music, and very effective thought provoking
concept. I must also mention that my father
smoked for almost 70 years, but seeing how silly it made him look, plus his telling me that it was a bad habit effectively kept me from ever trying it, even to this day. Never tried smoking, never will.
spy4863 3 years ago 3
THINK ABOUT IT
MarlonOwnsYourCake 3 years ago
I remember this being played right after STAR TREK.
xoxmagoo55 3 years ago
They played this PSA on T.V. for years and years!! O_O
MelanieLouM 3 years ago
This Ad resonated with me my whole life and I NEVER EVER smoked anything. I was probably the same age as that kid when this first was on TV. I pleaded with my Parents to stop smoking they never did till many years later in the meantime I developed lung problems which still persist to this day related to their smoking. I've never forgiven them for it or big tobacco!
SpaceIntruderDetecto 3 years ago 2
That is a cute little kid. The way he throws that rock cracks me up! I remember well, those little car seats with the steering wheel. Too funny when the little kid puts his hand out to "signal" a turn! LOL!
audiophile55 3 years ago 8
Awesum! I wish all the commercials from my childhood were on youtube! :)
trylonperisphere 3 years ago
thats a niiiice mustang that dads got.
explodingpirate 3 years ago
I remember that commercial. I actually remember when cigarette commercials were on TV.
DPO263 3 years ago
One of the best all time commercials. I still remembered the music even though I have not seen this great commercial since 1970. And of course the anti-smoking message really hit home when the son picks up the cigarette box.
fairnorth 3 years ago
I loved this commecial and haven't seen it since the 60s. Thanks for posting it.
mrsgstd 3 years ago
im surprised they even had anti smoking ads back then
sassysmarts123 3 years ago
Oh, yeah. The Surgeon General's warning about smoking was already appearing by the early 1960's.
LeanaJo76 3 years ago
Hey, I looked exactly like that kid in 1967!
I used to be fascinated by this PSA, partly because of the resemblance- but mostly because of the relationship of the father & son. My folks were divorced and I rarely saw my Dad; always wondered what it would be like to do anything with your dad.
My inner child has to go to bed and cry his little heart out now. Thanks Dad! Thanks Youtube! I am digging the tune however....
mndandy 3 years ago 3
Thanks. I think I was a toddler when this one came out!
JusticeLivesNot 3 years ago
I've talked about this TV ad in my college classes for nearly two decades and lo and behold, here it is. Thanks tallboyyyy!
alartandy 3 years ago
I remember this so well from when I was a little kid. NO one smoked in my family so I learned from this commercial that it was bad to do so.
LastTree 3 years ago
Speaking of disturbing commercials from the '60s... there was one from the "Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?" series, maybe 0:15, that showed a wind-up monkey playing a drum, and a voiceover saying something like, "I've heard that people who are hooked on heroin have a monkey on their back... isn't that cute?" Then the camera does a sudden close-up on the monkey's face as it turns vicious and makes an evil sound. Don't know if it kept me from trying heroin, but it never made me wanna start.
rmderrick 3 years ago
Er, why is heroin like having a monkey on your back?
I've wanted to find a copy of that for ages, but never could ...
piflover 3 years ago
Another of my earliest TV memories. What a headrush seeing it again. It disturbed me in several ways. Always thought it looked like the kid hurled a rock @ his dad after father launched his. Re-watch & see what I mean w/ screen direction & all. Plus the kid springs up & pops his dad in the face w/ a water pistol! What a devil child; must've grown up to be Damien in The Omen. If the old man didn't die from lung cancer, that little toe-headed demon from Hell was sure to get him in a sneak attack.
clockworktim 3 years ago
I remember this ad
Djeff70 3 years ago
I used to love picking up my dad's cigs and sticking my nose in the packet. They smelled all fresh and yummy
sundaeg1rl 3 years ago
yeah, I think the tobacco smells better when it's not lit
spectrum10 3 years ago 2
Sounds like Tom Bosley ( Howard Cunningham ) doing the "Like father like son" narration.
vitaphreak 3 years ago
Looks like deleted scenes from MANOS-THE HANDS OF FATE.
deadpool2099 4 years ago 2
Ha ha...didn't think of that! I actually have the MST3K version on DVD.
montage03 3 years ago
I remember another PSA that first aired about the same time as this one. I think it was by the American Cancer Society. It showed a series of warning signs and labels creeping out of the shadows-"FLAMMABLE","POISON","RR CROSSING" etc. It ended by showing the surgeon general's warning on a pack of smokes with the implication that it should be taken as seriously as the others. Does anyone remember this one? I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
ignoblius 4 years ago
That little kid grew up to be very famous.
Give up?
Its Brad Pitt.
uscrules81 4 years ago
I doubt it's Brad. This guy would have to be around 46 by now.
rdangelo 4 years ago
Brad Pitt was born 18 Dec 1963 (per Wikipedia). This ad was released around 1967 .Brad Pitt would have been 3-4, which is consistent with the apparent age of the child in this ad.
ignoblius 4 years ago
I remember this psa appearing when I started kindergarten in 1968. Yes it ran into the 70's and possibly even into the 80's (very much like the musical masterpieces ad - see here on U-tube)but it definitely was from the 60's. Thanks!
bertskoi 4 years ago
I think the music for this piece reappeared recently on a "Simpsons" episode. The scene involved had a similar "father and son" theme involving Homer and Grandpa.
ignoblius 4 years ago
YES! That blew me away, although it must be ten years ago. I'm sure only a few of us got the joke.
rdangelo 4 years ago
Ha! I would have picked it up. Too bad I missed that one. D'oh!
tomsidea 4 years ago
It was the Halloween episode where Bart turns Homer into a jack-in-the-box (a spoof of the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life"). I thought I was the only person who noticed it!
porfle 3 years ago
This one ran a lot during the 70's ... CBS would always run a PSA during the first commercial break of whatever weekday daytime show they were running and this one was in heavy rotation. There was another one for fire safety that showed a woman trapped in a burning home ("No way out...") ... a bit disturbing. Thanks for posting this PSA classic!
staytunedfor 4 years ago
I was 11 when this first ran on tv.....loved the music so much I recorded it to play back over, over and over.....
MRAm33t 4 years ago
Just uploaded "Johnny Smoke" psa
Spiritgumm 4 years ago
This PSA was played well into the 1970's, I remember seeing it then and the music.
sammy98999 4 years ago
I remeber this ad. I was a little older than the kid in this ad.
I always thought that the background music was Dave Brubeck.
visor109 4 years ago
Kid riding in the front seat unbuckle in a convertible- Smoking is the least of this kids worries
imanerd36 4 years ago
Does anybody remember the "Johnny Smoke" PSA? It was regularly seen on network TV about the same time as "Like Father, Like Son". It was an animated western-themed anti-smoking ad that featured Johnny Smoke as a cigarette-shaped killer on horseback. The music had a chorus singing "Johny Smooooke, Johny Smooooke". I haven't been able to find this one anywhere.
ignoblius 4 years ago
I think the Johnny Smoke PSA is on a commercial compilation called "Classic Commercials," which I found at Best Buy. Of course, it may show up here, too.
staytunedfor 4 years ago
Johnny Smoke is on here if you have a look
sundaeg1rl 3 years ago
Go ahead, light up little man. It will give you strong teeth and bones.
adelgado75 4 years ago
I remember this commercial vividly. I can also say it single-handedly stopped me from ever smoking. It made that much of an impact on me as a child.
jmayon 4 years ago
this is outstanding. cigarettes can kill, but having your toddler ride in the front seat of a convertible with absolutely no restraints is nothing to be concerned about!!
nagsme 4 years ago
He's in a car seat. Take another look.
jmayon 4 years ago
Right -- but that fake steering wheel gizmo on his lap might cause some damage should the old man hit a fire hydrant.
ottlakerambler 4 years ago
wow- memories
KBEARINDY 4 years ago
Man, I remembered the MUSIC to this one before I saw it just now.
GREAT commercial!!!
Good Luck, Goodbyejoe!
meridethtohayes 4 years ago
I happen to know the guy that produced this ad. In fact I've got a gig with him in a couple of weeks.
Goodbyejoeproduction 4 years ago
I can remember watching this Heart Association PSA on WNEW-TV 5 in New York City, as well as WPIX-TV 11 in New York City, when I was a very young boy. My mother had Cable television at the time, since antenna-based TV would not pick up any channels where we lived. 35 years ago, TV was in a very large way my electronic babysitter. Thank you for posting this.
Augbo 4 years ago
Actually the instruments playing was a Flute, Vibraphone and a Bass Saxophone and Drums.
Psycho9263 4 years ago
I remember this PSA when I was a kid. I even said; "watch there will be a zero on the cigarette pack". Thank You for posting
Psycho9263 4 years ago
One of my favorite commercials from my childhood.
Amphib96 4 years ago
They ran this forever! I like the Bud Shank sounding "I-Want-to-Live" type flute at the end to signal a twinge of conscience. Having been a smoker for five years & haven't picked up a cigarette in 12 years (both my parents smoked) I'm not convinced that the ad was as effective as it should have been.
Herbert7J 4 years ago
Great background,elevator,flute w/xylophone music...for this 60's spot?? I was this kids age!!! Yikes!!!
sticksrossi 4 years ago
I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!
MissPMS 4 years ago
This is real interesting for an anti-smoking commercial. Can't believe it aired on TV for 15 years, too(and that it was made all the way back in '67, before I was born). Even more interesting to think this commercial was done, before the national TV advertising ban on tobacco ads took effect in '71.
Was this the very, very first anti-smoking commercial made for TV, or not?
prfsnlwannabe 4 years ago
I remember this commercial word for word! Wow!
bishop42962 4 years ago
I remeber this PSA. It was very effective.
bigbear1963 4 years ago
Little bastard's probably smoking 40 a day by now!
vellocets 4 years ago
This may have been the first anti-smoking TV spot. All the father-son-activity motifs seem to be there: Junior helping Dad paint the house, the two on a Sunday drive (the kid with his toy steering wheel), father and son washing the car and later skipping stones...great father/son activities - until Dad lights one up and Junior looks with wonder at the cigarette package. "Like father, like son? Think about it."
dnm728 4 years ago
I think he borrowed his wifes hurricane hold Aquanet hairspray!! :)
tallboyyyy 4 years ago