Smoker Of The Future (Public Information Film)

[cameronwho]

he say you brade runner!!!

[010101110100]

Come on people. I have a pregnant girlfriend and a several months supply of skoal. Lets make this happen.

[afuzzyduck]

Ridley Scott should do all PIFs

[MrPhileemac]

Did he die ?

[Duvmasta]

0:41 (OmO)

[girlgarde]

This guy is creepy as hell...... He's a deviant offshoot of humanity known as Homo Sapiens Nicotinous better known as the Nicotines, a race of natural born smokers......

[annamarie1983]

scared me when i was young...

[MrCpugh05]

What is that music called?

The creepy tune it rockz!!!

[skamp25]

The Smoker of The Future: Also known as one of the early versions of the monsters out of I Am Legend.

[Duvmasta]

Scare Factor: 11/10!

[guthywoodry]

Smoking is a truly poisonous activity, but so is pernicious, intrusive British Government.

[cheechthekattotoke]

bare jokes.

[WLLRNNN]

"smaller ears because they don't listen" - it's supposed to be a serious PIF but I can't help taking a laugh

The studio set look like something that I've seen in Aliens - they were filmed at the same year - therefore this is one clue

[Misanthrope1969]

I remember seeing this on John Craven's Newsround as a mid 80's schoolkid and being a little freaked out and grimly fascinated by it. Told all my schoolmates about it but never saw it after that so they probably all thought I was bullshitting them. Visually it still packs a bit of a punch.

[23093034]

@Misanthrope1969 Re: natural born smoker. I remember it on newsround as well. I think maybe around 1983. I was told they banned it because they felt it was too scarey, I'm glad I found it now.

[Duvmasta]

He also has no penis (because smoking makes him impotent)

[achimendez]

Wow, the bit about the tiny ears was spectacularly patronizing. I know smugness sure motives me to listen to someone.

[thegirl44]

My husband and I were both raised in households where the cigarette smoke was so thick you could have scooped it up in a bucket and poured it out the window and neither of us are mutants....yet.

[TashkentFox]

The 'natural born smoker' looks like Tom Riddle (AKA: Lord Voldemort)

[BungleMoogly]

Tom Riddley-Scott?

[TashkentFox]

No, Voldemort in Harry Potter.

[fbebeats]

The point of the ad is to show what a person looks like when they're born from a mother who smoked while pregnant. The guy has birth defects

[mbeat28]

i disagree its to show what we would evolve into if we were meant to smoke. there is a fair amount of scaremongering involved but whatever works

[hggfhdgdf]

that song is fucking crepy!!!

[Cannabisvorous]

so... is this a good thing? he wouldn't die.

[zee339]

evolution... yay

[sunshineroxx]

i had to watch this in my media class and i hate it :@ ive seen it like 20 times grrr

[lukebentley123]

some here

[xxrobfalconxx]

This advert scared the shit out of me and my sister as kids

[WMEC38]

What would the first natural born fast food eater look like?

[breeeegs]

Grotesquely fat, with hot dogs for hands and hamburgers for a nutsack. He will be eaten by the tribe ;)

[XXACEOFSPADESXX]

An American

[Trumble237]

Wonder what the first natural born pompous asshole will be?

Probably a Brit.

[d4aft]

Probably a fat obnoxious yank

[Duvmasta]

Are you Anti-American?

[achimendez]

Traits that have surely been bred completely out of the fine and noble Anglo-Saxon people!

Except the royals!

And the Youtube commenters!

[AlanBang77]

This was the source of many nightmares but I smoke now so it didn't do any good apart from depriving me of sleep.

[n136ha]

he is cool

[Steveoqotsa]

*watches this smoking a fag*

[Sawrocks1]

This is scary O.O

[tombrum68]

I found this really creepy and disturbing when I saw it on tv in 1985. I was 17. Didn t stop me smoking though. I wonder who the director was, its very Blade Runner esque.

[greenphantom]

According to this film, the first natural born smoker is Lord Voldemort.

[lcw123]

except voldemort dosen't have a nose

[greenphantom]

Perhaps he fixed his nose with magic?

[lcw123]

good point

[lolgirly100]

@greenphantom I thought that too! the big nose is Snape like too don't u think??

[ChucktheBeast91]

@greenphantom It could be Voldemort, exept for a LARGE NOSE

[WhiskeyStoutAndRum]

Lol. "Smaller ears because they don't listen". The idea that your outer ears would disappear through evolution due to not wanting to hear harsh facts about smoking.

These films are priceless.

[wdj1988]

Sorry everyone just the shock lol. Sadly, if this were to be shown today the 'shock value' would probably be lost on most people - we know far more know about the effects of smoking than we did then in 1985.

[wdj1988]

ugh

[wdj1988]

Check out how no-one cares about what you masturbate over in your squalid bedsit...

[radiofan6872]

I don't smoke, but this pisses me off.

I really wish people would stop ragging on smokers. If they choose to, knowing all the dangers, then let them go ahead and smoke.

[patbean]

and lets face it, they pay more tax and spend less time drawing a pension. Because they are dead!

So why should I conplain!

[Applemask]

Well, we would if it weren't for the fact that inhaling their smoke gives us cancer as well.

Oh, also they're supporting an industry built on uncountable corpses.

[Duvmasta]

That's gonna give me nightmares fo' shizzle my nizzle!

[afuzzyduck]

is that Dr Phil "Unacceptable" Hammond on voiceover there?

[SkaScout666]

suvival of the fittest i guess

[jfw657]

So, what it's saying is that the smokers will be more highly evolved & superior to non-smokers. I can see that.

[stenwald]

Very Ridley Scott...strange indeed.

[TheLateBobTodd]

HOLY CRAP! I hate dystopian nightmares!

[ruud692]

scary stuff, really freeky

[breeeegs]

This would make one kick-ass sci-fi horror movie!

[fayzabeam]

Thanks for posting this - this has haunted me for years, wondering if I'd imagined it as a very young child! It's good to know it DID actually exist - and see, once again, how terrifying it is.

[breeeegs]

Is it just me, or does the so-called "smoker of the future" kind of look like an orc from "LOTR"? Also, hasn't this already become a reality in most European countries?