1968 yogi bear psa-full version

[hank29pc713trainman]

Yogi Bear is trying to send a very important message to the public in this commercial!

[KartoonKompany]

The ending is a bit creepy! lol

[1985OldSkool]

Two people were not listening to Yogi and Boo-Boo.

[simbamj1985]

this really makes me sad cause my grandfather was a heavy smoker he smoked from the time he was 13 he did quit in 1980 he didn't smoke for 25 years after that until the end of his life in 2006 but the damage was still done he suffered from cronic asthma and he had diabetus and heart problems and it was cause of smoking and thats what killed and makes me so angry when i see people smoke especially young people ur killing urself i miss my pop-pop so much and smoking i despise you

[huckhound2110]

My mom used to smoke, and she quit years ago. She only ended up with asthma, and is doing real well today. I never smoke. My grandma died smoking cigarettes about two years ago, and I truly learned my lesson. My mom almost died, but she's real lucky my sisters and I were there in time after she passed out. THat's when she quit, and has been gonig well. Thanks for the upload. I constantly watch it over and over again!

[MrShearz25]

What did he mean by 'oh you 'CH'?

[TehFurryWeasel]

@MrShearz25 he was spelling Ouch.

[SmashBrosPlatoon]

@tamerswan wtf to what? explain

[Faunatik]

@tamerswan Uh... your comments leave me rather perplex.

(You know, Yogi is against cigarettes in this ad, but I don't think he'd approve smoking other stuff either... Lol?)

[67nairb]

@tamerswan I don't know what you're comment is about.

[67nairb]

@tamerswan I don't know what you're comment is about.

[Faunatik]

@tamerswan ... Sorry, what?

[boru25]

Judging by that responce you'll be doing that to yourself in a few years!

[andersport]

No Iam not. I'm a concerned cicitzen.

[punchcar]

i remember this. the bouncing head at the end...still creepy!

[Johnny2071]

This has a lot more worth than the 2010 movie.

[SmashBrosPlatoon]

@ 0:12 notice yogi does not answer boo-boo's question directly.

[teletubetodd]

I remember this well. It was a great way to inspire the youngsters who watched Yogi Bear to take a tip from He Who Is Smarter Than the Average Bear, therefore wise enough to tell them not to smoke.

However, he did steal picnic baskets...

[Nicholasdude187]

Why does his son look like a stoner?

[boru25]

I'm lucky. I never smoke. Or drink. Or take drugs. I'm a straight edge You Tube user.

[remzlol1]

@boru25 same here, we've got willpower! lol jk its just that im not stupid enough to to drugs and i dont care what people thank about weed it still kills your brai cells.

[KevlarNinja]

Who else first saw this and thought it was going to be about forest fires?

[jadenramsey]

I like when that man lost his head

[fffnnnddd]

yogi bear movie bring you here???

[tinynicktune]

Heh, and Yogi knows about addictions; he's addicted to pic-a-nic baskets.

[JayDaddie]

@johnlovestohate rofl, natural selection in action!

[BlueCoolSc]

well kids listin to yogi -_- he acc has a good idea for once

[tinynicktune]

@BlueCoolSc

Yes, he's smarter than the average bear.

[67nairb]

0:01-0:12 Yogi, next time you wanna put out a cigarette butt use a shovel, dig up some dirt and dump it on the butt instead instead of stamping it out with your tenderfoot. That's what Smokey Bear would do.

[latex123456]

I've never seen this before and I watched yogi bear all the time. Its pretty cool. I love the straight forward honesty and I love the part where yogi smacks boo boo's hand.

[drinktheworm]

even in '68 the effects and risks of smoking were well known, and had been for nearly 25 years. the american cancer society was coerced into stating that the knowledge had only recently come to light. had they not, this PSA would have been very different. kudos to H-B for producing it, but a fail for bowing to the big money tobacco industry and understating and glossing over the truth.

smoking kills would have been more effective than smoking makes you cough. (hackhackhack) THANKS YOGI!!

[vitoduval]

Get your Yogi on!

[MrDudorino]

Tobacco can be enjoyable if it's good tobacco and you smoke it in a pipe, only like once in a while

[sillygrl23]

When you look at it its alot more frank and honest than anything the Cartoons All-Stars did.....a bit more subtle too.

[guitarman122508]

@TheSpartan207 He actually spelled out the word "ouch" :p (I know, I thought is was weird he did it too, but Yogi is cool)

[Faunatik]

@guitarman122508 If Yogi can spell "OUCH" and give Boo Boo a fascinating lesson on the evil nature of cigarettes, then he truly is smarter than the average bear! 8)

[guitarman122508]

@Faunatik Indeed he is. :)

[MacDragard]

It wasn't too long before this that Fred Flintstone was lighting up a Winston and advertising it. 

[andersport]

@MacDragard I guess Hanna Barbera got the message about the dangers of smoking. Thjose ads might of gave them a bad concience and forced them to correct themselves with these ads.

[KevlarNinja]

@andersport What are you talking about?

[andersport]

@KevlarNinja They did comercials wof Winston cigarettes with Fred Flintstone and Barney as the pitchmen back in 1962.. It's posted on You Tube.

[KevlarNinja]

@andersport Oh, right. I forgot about the winstons.

[andersport]

@KevlarNinja They did comercials for Winston cigarettes with Fred Flintstone and Barney as the pitchmen back in 1962.. It's posted on You Tube.

[glowingdemon]

@MacDragard ironic yes?

[oblongfan1]

"see boo boo thats why you should smoke pot instead, mary jane is filled with benefits unlike that man made rat poision in cigarettes!"

[Chaseman1981]

lol watching this video makes me want to quit smoking.

[imaplate1]

see kids if you smoke your head will detach from your body and leave you

[TheIguanaman2]

@imaplate1 lol

[annaeharrispink]

YUCK!!!!!

[pizzafacer997]

do people quit smoking if they have a nicotine gum or patch?@muttley16

[jtkirkfan2002]

I remember this from Saturday morning those many years ago.

[antoniiathakur]

LOLL!

[librarybob1958]

I remember this one, and I agree with an earlier poster that it is a shame that we have to teach the same lesson to young people 42 years later.

I've often thought that where I live, New Jersey, is probably the smokingest state in the union. You can't stop into any convenience store, for inatsnce, without at least one person ahead of you (and always when your arms are full) buying a carton of cigs and a book of matches.

These people should take a lesson from Yogi and Boo-Boo.

[SW1Q1]

@librarybob1958

Dear Bob,

Who's ''we'' are you the surgeon general? or Yogi's Mother?

.

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[ultimatechakralives]

One person just wanted to see the Yogi Bear movie

[hackensac]

must've belonged to Fred or Barney. They always smoke Winston Cigarettes

[nigraw]

Why do people smoke Yogi, - because they ard Tards Boo Boo!

[MalescoM]

1 person is a smoker

[icet65]

I think this should be required in school

[ChiuahuaTubeALT]

Yogi Bear, You tought a better lesson than Sonic Sez's lesson.FTW YOGI!

[67nairb]

Smoking pipes and cigars are not as bad as smoking cigarettes. After all, Winston Churchill smked many cigars and was a heavy drinker as well-he lived to be 90 years old.

[BigTex541]

@67nairb NOT SO. President Grant started smoking cigars after the Unpleasentry between the States, and died of tounge cancer.

[67nairb]

@BigTex541 Well Groucho Marx and George Burns smoked cigars by the box load and the former lived to 87 while the latter lived to be 100. Comedy producer and director Hal Roach who gave us Laurel & Hardy and the Little Rascals, smoked cigaraettes and only gave it up when he was 98. Then he died two years later.

[67nairb]

@BigTex541 You mean lung cancer. Don't you?

[BigTex541]

@67nairb You are partly correct, according to Wikipedia, it was throat cancer. You can get other type of cancers from tobacco use. And Yogi is right, the best way is to avoid tobacco altogether. My dad died of lung cancer when I was almost 18. Yet he had stoped about the time I was born.

[67nairb]

@BigTex541 The late Peter Jennings was always a heavy smoker, but he gave up smoking cigarettes in the early 1980s when he was in his 40s and didn't smoke again for 20 years. However, after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Jennings went back to smoking cigarettes and four years later he died.

[jake38989]

Boo-Boo you are AWESOME

[143AC]

"Yogi"why didn't my parents listen to you?

[67nairb]

I'm glad that my comment about this psa commercial made the highest rated listed.

[smokeemonkee]

@67nairb It deserves it because it's funny AND painfully true!

[67nairb]

@smokeemonkee Not like that crappy Yogi PSA announcement from 1981. Could you imgaine Yogi going to bed early or eating healthy food? It wasn't very convincing a Public Service Announcement.

[67nairb]

@smokeemonkee Wouldn't be great if there was a PSA with Dick Dastardly and Muttley encouraging kids to smoke so they'd look cool and then Yogi and Boo-Boo would step in to tell the kids not to do what what DD and M do?

[Pspimp]

@67nairb Rashafrasha shmoking Rick Dhashtardly!

[67nairb]

@Pspimp LOL! Very funny.

[BadNews88]

Note to dutchkollman:

It's called artistic licence. After all, it IS a cartoon.

Note to Psycho9623:

Agreed.

[eleman97]

maybe if i start smoking my head will fall off and start bouncing

[andyjay729]

This ad seems to have been aimed at teenagers. Were teens in 1968 really watching Yogi Bear? This was about 40 years before yaoi fangirls would develop an audience for the obvious homoerotic subtext.

[67nairb]

@andyjay729 what does yaoi mean?

[elouiseiscool]

but yogi steals...thats illeagle smoking is just bad for you

[elc1960]

This PSA mentions one very important point about smoking: most smokers start as teens (largely due to peer pressure, or because it's seen as "cool"). When I was in Jr. High, almost half of the kids in school (Kosciuszko Jr. High, Enfield CT) were smokers. There was a higher ratio of non-smoking TEACHERS there than of non-smoking students! And people wonder why non-smokers got all bent out of shape over Joe Camel.

[Psycho9263]

They should still have that commercial today.

[oblongfan1]

BACK WHEN CARTOON WERE ALLOWED TO SMOKE. SHIT NOw cant even show any of that stuff. too much of pussy kids gtowing up these times

[BadNews88]

Crikey! *DO* I remember this from Saturday Morning telly!

"According to stethetistics..." LOL! To this very day!

Ah, memories..This rates up there with the grim, foreboding "Johnny Smoke"...*also* a film masterpiece..

Thanx fer this, m8...

[EddyMcK]

WHY DIDNT I SEE THIS AS A CHILD :(

[Yoshithedino123]

Smoking kills but not because of health problems, it decapitates you as Yogi so cheerfully points out.

[fromthesidelines]

After R.J. Reynolds [Winston] discontinued their sponsorship of "THE FLINTSTONES" in 1962, Hanna-Barbera never produced another cigarette commercial, or allowed future sponsorship of their programs by tobacco companies; that's how much they were concerned with kids smoking. When the American Cancer Society asked them to produce an anti-smoking PSA featuring "The Flintstones" ["Seven Warning Signs"] in 1966, they agreed- and produced more over the next few years, including this Yogi/Boo Boo spot.

[gamermik76]

i never smoke that's why bathe in will power

[liberalsmustdie]

I saw this commercial (The short version) when I was 4 years old. After watching my parents always trying to quit, it just made too much sense to me: "Never start!" This PSA probably kept me from smoking. Well done!

[lordvader914]

like chips and video games but worse

[mavivirgie]

VERY GOOD YOGI

[TheLostRepublic]

i wish the PSA's were like this today.

[CrankdReport]

Yogi's against smoking, but was proud to have his face on a box of sugary cereal.

[elc1960]

@CrankdReport If you mean OKs, those weren't that sweet - they were little more than Kellogg's version of Cheerios.

[edybeast]

Oh, man, I haven't seen this for decades. Thanks for posting this memory.

[SaberKenji]

you know...if you still smoke, your head pops out your body in a cough

[GoldenGiratina]

ok, hanna-barbera makes this psa on how smoking is bad for you, but yet they have smoking in their cartoons.

seems weird to me.

[JayDaddie]

Nice, but I find it appalling that this was made in 1968 and we still need the same thing to teach people that smoking is bad over 40 years later.

Kids do it because it's "cool", most of the time because their parents don't want them to. Hey kids, know what else is cool? Drinking bleach. Why don't you do that?...

[txinjun]

@JayDaddie LOL YEAH

[67nairb]

@JayDaddie I'm glad I never got addicted to smoking. I got enough trouble with being addicted to fattening foods and drinking beer. I'm not anlocholic though.

[gabman6]

@JayDaddie Don't be giving them ideas now.

[Pspimp]

@JayDaddie OKAY! YES SIR!

[Nexarla]

@JayDaddie that's not cool

[AustinKingMusic]

@JayDaddie

I don't smoke myself, but I can tell you that kids smoke for the same reason adults do. It relieves anxiety and depression. I don't like smoking, I don't condone it, I don't like being around people who do it but I also hate that lame ass argument that kids do it because it's cool. They don't. And the reason people are smoking more is because, since it is a profitable market, cigarette companies enhance the plants to produce more nicotine so more customers last longer. Very sad...

[JayDaddie]

@AustinKingMusic I disagree. As far as I know, they don't know it "relieves anxiety and depression" before they try it. Also this anxiety and depression is caused by the nicotine addiction itself to begin with. I don't know what kids you hang around with, but every time I ask how a smoker started the nasty habit, I always get the same answer; they saw their older friends and/or family smoke and so wanted to mimic them.

[SYTHE5]

I hate it when people minus comments that are actually true and make sense, and plus those that are illiterate and ignorant.

[Rhademanthus]

That's the general rule of YouTube.

[gwizz77]

This tells that smoking is bad.

[luvpump1]

Ironic, but i think it was the nazi's who were the first to frown & even banned smoking in certain public places upon health grounds ..

[AlanKenny101]

everything nazi's did, they were just following orders...there the same as the us marines and every other army. there leader was the problem

[ellomynameisjohnny]

Nazis actually had lots of great ideas.

And one really bad one,

[fbebeats]

Don't those two boys smoking look like the Venture Brothers? :)

[Arsenal252]

kinda

[Geenieateme]

hey they kinda do!

[zeebra901]

i think this episode was banned because what if kids start smoking

[tomakalinus]

Wow, great to see this rare piece of animation. Shows you how quickly times change - the Flintstones were SPONSORING cigarette companies in the early '60s!

[sexymama1966]

u said it!

[67nairb]

If Yogi Bear is smart enough to teach people not to smoke cigarettes then he definitely is smarter than the average bear.

[Faunatik]

@67nairb Indeed, this is proof that Yogi IS pretty smart, after all.

[67nairb]

@Faunatik Did you by any chance see the YOGI BEAR movie?

[Faunatik]

@67nairb Yes, I admit I went to see the movie with my sister and a friend (after the viral parody somehow convinced me that Yogi Bear COULD rhyme with "epic", lol)... I expected it to be pretty bad because of the critics I had read, but personally, I actually kinda liked it (even though there was no anti-cigarette message). Gotta say the bear's got personality! You saw it too, I suppose? What did you think of it?

[67nairb]

@Faunatik I liked it. I saw it with my niece, two nephews and my father, their grandfather. We didn't see it in 3D though which is just as well because it would be much too expensive. The kids enjoyed it very much and like I was expected to be disappointed. Happily I wasn't.

[Faunatik]

@67nairb I usually try to save a couple of dollars on the glasses too, unless I’m going to see something that’s visually spectacular, but the theater I went to only had Yogi in 3-D. It was fun, though. Some people say this live-action adaptation ruined their childhood memories, but I don't see what's so awful about it. Since the show hasn’t aired on TV for years and kids didn't really know what Yogi Bear was anymore, I think the movie can only give it a second life...

[67nairb]

@Faunatik YOGI BEAR can still be seen on BOOMERANG. I remember when it was on alot on CARTOON NETWORK during the 1990s early 2000s before that network dramatically changed it's format for the worse.

[Faunatik]

@67nairb Ah, I don't know BOOMERANG, but it's nice to know that some of those classic cartoons can still be seen. Regrettably, many of the newest kids' shows are plain dumb, compared to the series from the 80's and 90's...

[67nairb]

@Faunatik Unfortunately I don't get BOOMERANG on my digital cable system.

[Faunatik]

@67nairb Actually, I don't get the BOOMERANG channel either. I don't know if we have it in Canada, as I don't even have cable (too expensive for now)...

[67nairb]

@Faunatik And they just get dumber and dumber. To make matters BOOMERANG is starting to air the newer cartoons from CARTOON NETWORK like BEN 10 & PIKACHOO.

[67nairb]

A great public service announcement with a great cartoon character as spokesperson or spokesbear in this case.

[wolfen150]

I love old toons. ^^

[earthacademy]

this was 1968! (does that need repeating??) ...all this says is : human race = DUH.  I can mentioned at least 20 other subjects where we had all the answers decades ago, and yet the dumb humans STILL DONT GET IT :-P when will the human race advance from medieval monkey land?

[OeditpusRex]

"Duh" is only part of the answer. As Yogi said, "The best way is not to ever start smokin'." That's a given, but no one lights up the first few times in the belief they'll become addicted, particularly when they're young and "invincible." So, chalk up part of that "Duh" to human nature.

[comradeash]

Sounds like Yogi needs a camel.

[levarni]

do all cartoons need to have some sort of anti-bad stuff kind of response? i mean i dont know one old cartoon that didn't have an episode about smoking or drugs? i mean imagin if that man who just had is had fly off is shoulders was bob marley and he would have talked about the rasta religion. woulden't that be okey for this cartoon.

[spy4863]

Sorry about my bad spelling: My fingers are kind of clumsy on this keyboard. I meant to say that the AHA is the American Heart Association, the ALA is The American Lung Association, and the ACS is The American Cancer Society, and that all three groups sponsored the ad mentioned by Fangarious.

[ScrewAttackChina]

thanks for commenting with that info

[spy4863]

The AHA is The American Feart Association, The ALA is The Ameriacn Lung Asociation and The ACS is The American Cancer Society. All three of them sponsored the ad I mentioned before.

[spy4863]

I have this Yogi and Boo Boo PSA, and the the one mentioned by Fangarious on an Anti Smoking DVD that I made from a video cassette that The American Cancer Society gave me a while back that has a compilation of their PSAs from the 60s, 70s and 80s, including a bunch with Larry Hagman (acting as JR), Mary Martin (Larry Hagman's mother), Judy Collins, Buddy Hackett, Tony Curtis, Tony Randall, and several animated ones. The one Fagarious mentions was sponsored by the AHA, the ALA, and the ACA.

[MADDOG6400]

A while back, Flintstones encouraged smoking with an ad for Winstons cigarettes.

[robertdennis58]

bizarre kinky coughing his head off.

[trainboyrob]

Odd to see and hear Yogi and Boo under Ted Nichols background music from 1965 and '66 H-B cartoons.

[Dunes]

Wow,I never knew Yoga did a PSA on that. And hell yeah smoking is bad for you!

[JamesBond531]

Its ironic too in this video that Don Messick was a smoker. And thats where he got the raspy voice to do so many of the talking dogs and characters he was famous for.

[67nairb]

@JamesBond531 He died on October 24, 1997 at the age of 71 on my half birthday. 71 is too young to die, perhaps it was the smoking that did Hanna-Barbera's main voice man in.

[JamesBond531]

@67nairb Yes smoking I think contributed to his stroke In 1997. I want to be a voice artist like him {I do a pretty close imitation of his Scooby}

[67nairb]

@JamesBond531 Don Messick did more voicework than any of the other Hanna-Barbera voice talents. I believe Don's voice was heard in almost every HB cartoon series ever. Maybe that's what contributed to why Don Messick's died, he voiced himself to death-lol.

[JohnshiBRPG]

It's very ironic to see a flinstone dangerous ad and a Yogi the Bear safety ad!!!!

[mikeysaur65]

"The Flintstones! Brought to you by Winston cigarettes! Winston tastes good like a *click* *click* cigarette should!" Yeah, that sin has truly been atoned for.

[JokeComics4001]

Yeah, they contradict eachother; lol.

[lyris1]

Amazing that a PSA from the late 1960s has better animation than almost any animated show today.

[videocrash]

I think i remember that one

[Fangarius]

Actually I remember another Yogi and Boo-Boo Anti-Smoking ad sponsored by the American Lung Association, where Boo-Boo tells Yogi about him eating breakfast, then spying on park attendants who are smoking. Ah, loved those PSAs.

[FroggoFan64]

Looks like Hanna-Barbera was trying to make up for their earlier sins (having The Flintstones advertise Winston cigarettes) with this commercial.

[67nairb]

@FroggoFan64 Ironically, in every episode of the FLINTSTONES I saw none of the characters smoke cigarettes at all.

[foxvermont]

And Boo Boo, pretend you DIDN'T see the ad

Fred and Barney did for Winston in the Flintstones!