1960's American Cancer Society PSAs

This video shows how back in the 1960's, the American Cancer Society launched a groundbreaking campaign to reduce smoking and save lives. For great tips on how to quit smoking, please visit cancer.org

[@sumame47]

My husband quit 11 years ago after his dad was diagnosed with COPD and there was nothing more the doctor could do for him when he could barely breathe. It took him several months, but he is so much happier. Got his sense of smell and taste back.

[@michellecalling]

I quit smoking in 2007 after 34 years. I'm so grateful for the ones who cared enough help me quit.

[@hunterluxton5976]

I hope you good health, but the damage yo your body and lungs has already been done.

[@weskitten]

Did you enjoy them? I used to smoke too. I began in 1983. Liked menthols.

[@zenjon7892]

My last cigarette was New Year's Eve, 2022. Having a beautiful little daughter in 2021 and catching Covid in 2022 really helped motivate me to quit and I don't miss it at all.... But I do hope they have them in the afterlife and they are good for you there

[@m42037]

I got Corona twice but what made me quit in 2022 was a discession corotid artery, if it was smoking. Doctors said it's a big risk and I could die so I quit

[@johnsewell6593]

It took me forever but I quit cigarettes after 48 years. Last December 22 2023.....it took me 6 years of cutting down and trying this and that- until last December I quit "Cold Turkey". Its been 6 months and I still have cravings....Man quitting cigarettes is DIFFICULT --- but worth it !!

[@alcd6333]

Interesting that Tony Curtis was a spokesman for ACS. So many of his movies and public appearances showed him smoking. He died of heart and respiratory failure - which he and his wife both said were likely caused by his smoking (even though he quit many years earlier).

[@Mani_Matter]

👍

[@user-iu9ww5hu2j]

That's Jamie Lee's father 😊

[@KaleunMaender77]

I am very glad that before Big Tobacco ads were pulled off the air, there was sensibility about the dangers of smoking. It shows just how revolutionising the 1960s ended up being...

[@m42037]

Funny the government banned marijuana for 80 years but not tobacco 🤔

[@joemamaluc312]

William Talman died in 1968 at 53 years old. Everything he said in that commercial came true. He lost. RIP

[@zenjon7892]

That PSA makes me cry inside

[@patrickflohe7427]

It breaks my heart too. He knew he was dying and losing his family. My dad smoked a lot too, and my 2nd oldest sister begged him to stop….we all did. My oldest sister was a nurse, and she tried to tell him what that was doing to his lungs. Karen was the second oldest, and she would make or try to make him stop smoking on those Great American Smokeout days….they had them each year. After she was killed in ‘76, my dad saved a note she left for him on the fridge. It read “No smoking today! -Or forever”. Years later, I found that note in his wardrobe, taped inside the door on the left side. Yes, he did eventually quit. However, years later at age 82 when he died, he was battling emphysema.

[@frankdenardo8684]

Around 1971. The slogan was. "We want to wipe out cancer in our lifetime".

[@anonymousalpha2507]

Every time I see someone smoking, I thank God for helping me to quit smoking!

[@harpoon_bakery162]

Good for Tony Curtis.

[@user-iu9ww5hu2j]

I wish that my brother will quit smoking 😊

[@jenvargas]

Good on you, Mad Men!

[@williampremo3096]

Get rid of that incinerator out in the flats. Still remember that line nearly 50 yrs later from that great psa.

[@patrickflohe7427]

I don’t remember that line.

[@tonybressieplus7803]

''Get rid of that incinerator out in the flats.'' And yet here he is causing more carbon monoxide by chain-smoking in a room full of secondhand smoke! He's caused more damage to his lungs than that incinerator did!

[@Ms3queen]

Yes, please, don't smoke, people.

[@emt5330]

You forgot the grandaddy of them all, the William Talman ad

[@lisanealy1703]

Right. You can see it on youtube. tears.

[@rhondacairns-ft7ws]

I have seen it. Powerful!

[@patrickflohe7427]

I think his was the best, & very powerful.

[@emt5330]

@@patrickflohe7427 direct and to the point.

[@jakejackson6730]

Anti smoking commercial western saloon scene

[@billsav57]

That party pretty much visualizes my childhood ... with the second-hand smoke.

[@Noodlesx4]

fred....did you eat the can opener? -and wheres our garbage disposal..... (check the bbq pit wilma!)

[@juliaschmidt6511]

Tony Curtis ❤

[@hmpod6541]

Funny the Cancer Association’s emblem is one of those cocktail skewers.

[@cheesemccheesy3850]

Never smoked never will smoke

[@jimmydeanpatterson1422]

Me neither.

[@m42037]

I did for 30 years but wasn't a heavy smoker, I quit at 56

[@Capcoor]

@@jimmydeanpatterson1422 Me three.

[@tonybressieplus7803]

@@m42037 Also was light smoker. I quit at 30, been smoke free for 8 years now, and I want to keep it that way permanently.

[@willampatmon5885]

The American Cancer Society has a poster not about smoking but it’s about protecting yourself from the sun . It has a lady and she has her sunglasses on and a bikini, and it says fry now pay later.

[@Mani_Matter]

smoke now. pay later🤣👍

[@m42037]

So then why don't governments ban tobacco use??🤔

[@malcolmsoh5648]

money in your pocket!

[@grupopuntabanda]

Smoke is bad

[@hunterluxton5976]

It's neither bad nor good. But take it in tonyour lungs and it will kill you.

[@unitedstatesirie7431]

uh, it is common sense that people's lungs are not meant for breathing in smoke 🚬

[@christopherhughes3381]

The fight isn't over till they ban it altogether. It's the worst drug. Alcohol is a fight for another day!! Smoking kills.

[@patrickflohe7427]

Banning it isn’t the answer, and will have the opposite effect.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@@patrickflohe7427Exactly, banning it will not take away the fact tobacco is a billion dollar industry that has been around for hundreds of years. People will be able to get them anyway even if they are illegal.

[@user-qt4fs4xz8u]

This commercial is a stupid BS. More people smoke today than the 50s. There are many more teenagers today. So ...

[@patrickflohe7427]

I disagree. Practically everyone smoked up through the ‘70s and early ‘80s. Not nearly as many people smoke now. It was even worse when I was in England, in the mid ‘80s.