1989 PSA - Drug Free America

[xe989]

Well that wasent verry nice

[mattwarren85]

This PSA pretty much traumatized me throughout the early 90s. Now, it's on my favorites! :P

[CelesteK]

Keep smoking crack and eventually you'll end up being singed.  LOL!

[AresCassell]

This add worked so well! I mean, no one smokes crack anymore!

[lurch321]

This guy apparently was blown away by the tornado................JUST SAY NO to ignoring the "tornado watch" on your TV screen, or you'll wind up like him.

[IcePrincess619]

It lowers the numbers!

[katakisLives]

prohibition does not work, the war on drugs is an expensive pointless failure that cannot ever be won!

[ungougedeyes552]

i onl wish i had as much skills as that guy....they'll never find me in tiny pieces travelling in the wind

[Reverseflush]

Wow, I forgot about this.

After this reruns of Different Strokes came on

[tvnutboy]

That guy looks like a total Ash Hole

[yourmumsfatass]

@tvnutboy oh my god, thats sooo lame, fail kid 0/10 not funny

[blahdob]

In mother russia, crack smokes you!

[eightbitgnosis]

Just before you die you hear the voice of Kevin Arnold narrating your life

[TheDwaynep2010]

Keep Smoking Crack, eventually you'll be left with NOTHING!!!!

[dansamazingquickies9]

to bad it doesnt kill brain cells u fuck

[MichaelBradfordPoet]

Dude! Wanna hit of this Canadian? He's some good shit!!

[abelvillanueva1]

FATALITY!

[firebird890]

hhahahahahahahaa!!! the 80s!!! crack/cocaine era lol!!!

[Glopdemon]

When I was a kid, during tornado watches my whole family would go down into the basement where it was safe and smoke a bunch of crack. It ruled.

[stevostevie]

I'm more worried about the tornado watch.

[bloodybloodshed]

holy fuck

crack, thats a bit harsh lol

[Duvmasta]

OH NOES! TORNADER WATCH!!

[SuperSrsly]

what? crack? so weeds ok then?

[PaulSyp]

yes, cannabis is safe to use, ask carl segan

[angryhobo212]

I would, but he's dead.

CANNABIS. HARMLESS?

(Oh wait, yes, it is. I <3 weed)

[vfreeck]

Now a days stationsusually have the highlighted county maps and cut it off when they go to commercial.

[GrungeRock1991]

Holy shit!  A tornado!

[BillHicksPsilocybin]

Holy shit! Great observation!

[GrungeRock1991]

Holy shit! Great username! But seriously though Bill Hicks is my favorite comedian. Well played sir.

[whatchamabiscut]

This ad is right, make sure your stash is always at a reasonable level, don't use it all at once.

[CommonSence2008]

Most common PSAs about drugs they have had throughout the years have been either Pot or Crack. I think they should talk about Meth and Heroin just as much as either Ad Council or Drug Free America or any other anti-drug organizations do talk about Pot and Crack.

[CannibalCorpseOwns98]

legalise pot, pot's fine, and it has so much to ad to the economy

[sockembopers12]

@CannibalCorpseOwns98: Not according to Obama. That motherfucker thinks that legalizing weed is just a big joke.

[thepersona100]

@sockembopers12 wait, do you think crack and weed are the same things because they are not.

[PlowThrough8]

@thepersona100 yeah crack is better and weed is less addicting alot less

[PlowThrough8]

@CannibalCorpseOwns98 legalize crack too. thats why theres murder and terrorist funds. cuz addicts shoot dealers dealers shoot addicts dealers shoot other dealers and tons of random fukers get killed in tha middle, and non addicts loose there job because of a stupid crack pipe they forgot in there car on there way home from work. legalize all drugs and crime and murder will evaporate its so fukin obvious

[regyme]

Yeah the earlier PSA's were much more scarier and a better deterrant

[Christinada5]

The thing that got me, was how they use to show these psas late at night when kids would be asleep. Your parents would be up late watching friday night videos or something and then this would come on, repeatedly.

[vfreeck]

Well part of the reason (and probably the main one) is because that was the cheapest airtime on TV.

Of course, you would also scare kids even more since they're in the pitch dark alone hearing thsoe scary synthesizers and seeing those graphic images.

[Ianprower]

A kid is scared during a Tornado Watch.

And this comes on.

[jjtiojohn12]

showing a scary ass drug commercial, during a tornado watch!

perfect combination of scaring the shit out of somebody!

[baltimoreblitz16]

i know.

wtf is up with people back in the day ?

[jjtiojohn12]

im surprised that commercials like theses don't even come on tv anymore.

[baltimoreblitz16]

because it would scared kids.

i mean im 16 so right now im like what ever, i get the message...but show me this ad at 8 years old and i would not be able to sleep. lol

[jjtiojohn12]

trust me, there were drug commercials more scarier than this, it's was this one I saw when I was 7 about sniffing harmful chemicals to get high, and the girl's body literally turned into sand, and then it was another one when a girl was in her room and it filled up with warter that she could not get out and she drowned. now those scared the living hell out of me, not to mention television networks show these messages back to back repeatedly in order to scare people.

[baltimoreblitz16]

well back then things were "it is, what it is" do drugs and die.

now everything is watered down..from music we listen to, to the tv shows on now days.

[HeraldMB]

You're right, we're so worried about sheltering kids nowadays and we're not doing them any favors.

[motherlove202]

yeah they were scarier in the 80's. The one about the dealer turning into a snake still gives me chills to this day.

[corrupt200]

the nobody ever says "i wanna be a junkie when I grow up" psa's were the worst

[jjtiojohn12]

i swear, i shit myself when I saw the end of that commercial, if you think about it things are alot more worse than what happened 20 years ago, first it was herion, then cocaine, then crack, then extacy, then meth, then herion made a comeback in the 90's, then inhalents, then steriods, and now over the counter medcine, it seems like a pattern when one drug disappears another comes into existence. whats next, speedballing!

[JadoreLulu]

LOL!

So true.

[foxxyloxx]

Dude, that's totally Kevin Arnold's [adult] voice. This scared me when I was little, now it's pretty lame. I'm disapointed.

"Smoke crack and you'll be left with nothing. And by 'nothing' we mean no teeth." lol.

Oh shit, a storm's a commin'! Better get my trusty tornado kit. lol.

[Djmoyd1055]

keep smoking crack and you'll be left with nothing"

Damn right cause you smoked all the fucking crack!

[Tornado1994]

I remeber that one! From May 1989. It used to crack me up as a kid.

"Tornado Watch"? Where did you live at the time?

[VHSarchive]

Peoria, Illinois. Lots of Tornado Watches around here!

[Tornado1994]

Scary.

We have Hurricanes out here in Texas.

[sasukeluver345]

@VHSarchive lol tornado watch+ ur name is tornado...lol the irony!!!

[JoyGrenade]

That's a pretty badass special effect.

[evrithnguneed]

I remember this from when I was a really little kid, along with the other "classics." I could have sworn that they were talking about grass, not base, but I guess my memory is a little off from using both jk jk

[blacksultan85]

smoke crack it's important you'll be left everything you dreamed of LoL!

[WuzzPoppinFam]

same people that advertise for a drug free america are the same people smuggling the drugs into this country MONEY TALKS

[evrithnguneed]

Damn straight.

[Longhornzmatt]

Hey that sounds like old Kevin Arnold

aka Daniel Stern.

Oh Wonder Years how I miss thee.

[dougcl79]

I remember this ad

[vaughnbogert]

ok ill be above the influence.  because i dont want to be under the influence of a government that things im an idiot, i wont let the government peer pressure me into doing anything i dont want to do. anyone got some crack

[mikeysaur65]

I think the BBC did a remake of this ad. Except the ashes were gently brushed into a shiny gold urn.

[TheLadyYuki]

"This is the LAST TIME we try to make a commercial during a TORNADO watch! Damnit, now we'll never find that guy."

[sabre926]

LOL! Now that's funny! I like that!

[mattshane]

What a stupid commercial. I hate the PSA so much or any anti-drug campaign for that matter. These commercials serve no purpose at all. Instead of "drug free" how about drug informed. See this commercial does not inform anyone about anything it only pushes someone elses view of reality on to people.

[nascarandamdrag]

nice special effects!just look at commercials today,lame computer generated effects!!

[mikeysaur65]

This ad became burnt (pardon the pun) into my memory for the rest of my life. For one thing, this crept into the commercials during ABC's "The Wonder Years" lineup . . . That, and those Energizer [bunny] "commercials."

[ElectricPid]

TORNADO

WATCH

[homerekker]

Nothing ...but a good time!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!

[peacebwilly]

LOL

keep smoking crack

[1985Nebraska]

When I was very young I use to laugh at this commercial. But now that I am old enough to know what these PSAs are about, it really goes to show what can happen.

[SpamNapkin]

Those are actually some impressive visual effects....for the 80s at least

[moongirlply]

This use to scare me as a kind.

[fossefan]

Was that Daniel Stern on voice over?

[sweetvegan74]

This use to freak my sister and me out!

[corrupt200]

how is this scarier than the "Nobody ever says I wanna be a junky when I grow up" psas?

[sweetvegan74]

I didn't say it was scarier then the junkie psa's. The ballerina made my sister run out of the room! But this one still gave us the creeps.

[outlaw2747]

Possibly because you don't expect the guy to burn and blow away. However the junkie PSAs were mostly scary because of the weird music/noise in the end.

[Chazz00]

But there ARE some who simply think it's scarier. Not all of the PSAs affect everyone the same.

[moongirlply]

Me too.

[corrupt200]

this psa is a classic

[MorenoMelissa1]

Yes it is.