1974 Air Pollution PSA from the American Lung Association

[iamv99]

After seeing Janice Nolan representing the American Lung Assn's stand against farmers, it's plain to see the they have become just another Democrat shill. It's just part of the money game. Shame on you for going over-the-top. ABO!

[staytunedfor]

That end graphic always scared me to death.

[mrceleb2006]

@staytunedfor Not me.

[dcat918]

I've been lookin for this psa very few people may remember. It was an american heart association psa from around 1975-76 it would show a heart monitor and a mechanical heartbeat and the voice overs would say beat the big beat big beat...or something of that sort. Probably one of the scariest psa's of all time. If anybody remembers it or has a it to upload it would be greatly appreciated.

[spy4863]

Sorry, when I said ALS I meant ALA.

[spy4863]

To stitrudy ad rkdvideo-Are you sure about the bongo thing with ALS psas? The American Cancer Society used to use a heavy bongo theme over their emblem, which is a stylized sword. The commercial that you described sounds more like an American Cancer Society ad, rather than American Lung Association ad. The American Cancer Society deals with

things like skin cancer, and other forms of cancer, while The American Lung Association sticks with lung problems.

[rkdvideo]

It was INDEED the ALA or Am. Resporatory Disease Assoc. The other guy and myself are 100% sure on this one. The bongo music ones ran from about 1968 to around 71'. I'm 47 now and would like for someone to post one to see if I'd have the b***s to watch it without running out of the room or having nightmares!

[spy4863]

Know what? I'm sure you're roght! While I know that The American Cancer Society also used the bongo theme, (I know because I have an audio transcript of one of their PSAs from around 1968), I remembered that The Peace Corps also had a bongo theme, so obviously The American Cancer Society wasn't the only group who was using bongos in their PSAs. So, why not The American Lung Association?, I said to myself? Everyone seemed to like bongos at that time! I'm 44, and have some memory of those ads.

[spy4863]

That metalic noise noise over the Cross of Lorraine emblem scares me too sometimes. But the song in this commercial is very lovely and touching. Does anyone know who sings it?

[jjayjilla]

Wookie Cookie, Do you have any more of these commercials from the 70's? Please post them if you can!

[ericbriangray]

I hope you will consider sharing this video with others by posting to the American Lung Association's new website at thelungchallenge . com

Thank you

[01tnql]

that noise and that double cross thing used to scare me

[IQ136]

I think it looks like a telephone pole and the sound is like running your fingers on a steel air conditioning grating??? I have found things that make that sound. I must take 15 asthma medicines daily to breathe.

[sammyreed]

No one I know of has stood up to ask these questions, so I'm finally going to:

What the heck is that red-crossed thing supposed to be? What's that weird Cancer Society thing supposed to be?

[MarkMMattus]

The American Lung Association's double cross logo is called the "Cross of Lorraine". Physicians in Europe decided over a century ago that they would use that logo as a crusade to fight against TB and other lung diseases.

[MarkMMattus]

The American Cancer Society's logo is a sword. The ACS decided to adopt the sword as their logo as the "sword that fights cancer" decades back. The ALA logo, the "Cross of Lorraine" was adopted as the international way to crusade and fight against TB and all lung diseases.

[MarkMMattus]

I remember one of the Respiratory Disease Association PSAs where the logo would spin around to a white or creme background prior to the American Lung Association name change. I must have been in Pre-Kindergarten at the time. Just seeing these PSAs led me to collecting literature and brochures on what these PSAs talked about. Cool!!!!

[stifrudy]

Yeah, those are the PSAs I remember... where the logo would roll over the Respiratory Disease Association motto, "a matter of life and breath", with the bongo music in the background.

[rkdvideo]

Those promos with the bongo music scared the living **** out of me back then. I remember the one they had circa 1970 that started with the profile of an attractive dark haired woman, then 3 secs later, it turns to a scary negative!! It was to promote skin cancer. They slid that one in one evening after an ABC Friday night airing of The Brady Bunch and caught me completely off guard. I used to run and hide wehen one of those commercials would come on, and my father thought I was nuts!!

[MarkMMattus]

Thanks a million for posting this on YouTube!! Thank God that these 1970s PSAs are still around. I still remember how the American Lung Association's logo would form and make that loud chime sound both on TV and the radio. WOW!!!! I still remember my younger brother as a kid saying, "That noise really blasted on the radio!". Where are the other American Lung Association and Respiratory Disease Association PSAs from the 1960s and 1970s? If they exist, please post them on YouTube!

[stifrudy]

I second the motion... especially the earlier NTRDA psas.

[Progrocker70]

The one PSA I really remember scaring the hell out of me was the one with the two wineglasses, and they poured tar into each one, toasted and said "here's to your health". All during the commercial this creepy music was playing in the backround!

[volfire2]

As a kid those PSAs from the American Lung Association used to spook me, especially at the end when you heard the clanging of the bells or whatever instrument that was while the ALA logo was being formed and the announcer said, "It's a matter of life and breath." Thanks for the memories, though.

[jjayjilla]

Man! I thought I was the only one "spooked" by those PSA's!

[stifrudy]

I remember the PSAs from much earlier, back when it was know as the Respiratory Disease Association... when the announcer said "It's a matter of life and breath", and the double cross logo would roll in to that eerie bongo drum music... that scared the hell out of me as a little kid.

[ChaosprimeXWE]

What that PSA needed was someone to yell " GOOOOOOOO PLANET ! " at the end .

[Civanfan]

No, no, I'm not to blame. Gee, that was an easy one.

[heine71]

Can anyone upload on YouTube the 1970's American Lung Association PSA that was animated with kids singing about clean air and a green creature who sang "None of us will ever smoke, no more hack and no more choke, the whole things up to you and me."?