Early 1970s Heart Association PSA "Man Can't Smoke Anywhere"

This funny anti-smoking public service announcement ran throughout the 1970s. This poor, hapless smoker can't smoke anywhere and is a major wreck, and watches his cigarettes get pushed into the gutter. From the Heart Association. This was shown on KBIM Channel 10 Roswell during a June 1978 CBS Late Movie broadcast of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

**This commercial is from my 1970s Commercials Volume 5. These ads range from 1977-79 and are from the Los Angeles, Roswell, and Albuquerque areas. These ads were taken from British movies.**

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Entertainment

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• 1970s
• 1977
• 1978
• 1979
• commercials
• television
• ads
• public service announcement
• Heart Association
• smoking
• cigarettes
• no smoking
• pamphlet
• quit
• gutter
• wreck
• transporation
• signs
• KBIM
• Channel 10
• Roswell
• CBS
• late movie

[lamccaugh]

I remember this ad when i was six years old. The music sounds like "Tales From The Crypt"...The culvert God finally fought the stink bomb chimney by taking his cigarettes through telekentic powers and burning them in the devil's advocate

[ElCartero]

Weirdly memorable music track here. The first :16 is begging to be sampled by some clever producer.

[TheIronSheikSociety]

This PSA had to be done in the early 1970s, because the AHA logo used in this clip was used during that time. In the late 1970s, they gave the logo a facelift, then another one in the early 2000s or so. What an amazing classic with humor.

[petey8887]

This is funny now. He's upset because he can't smoke- yet the only places where he can't smoke is on a train (which apparently sometimes allows it- hence the sliding sign), and on a bus. I was thinking 'He should just wait until the 2000s if he thinks it's bad then,' but then I remembered that he's been smoking since the '70s. He probably didn't make it this long.

[reymatt76]

Wow, that has to be the most ineffective ad to get people to quit smoking. If you don't ride in taxis or on buses, it basically doesn't affect you.

[ThePreviewsGuyReturn]

I'm Not Gonna Smoke No Way!