AHA Vintage Anti-Smoking PSAs

Step into the past with these anti-smoking public service announcements from American Heart Association.

[@aileenblas7669]

The "Like Father Like Son" ad appeared until the early 80s. It was even parodied on a Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror."

[@kotk05]

I like the Simpson version too

[@mattskustomkreations]

I never saw that one on TV, must not have played in my market. What’s crazy was they sold candy cigarettes to kids!

[@chazzeroo1967]

Kudos to the American Heart Association for posting some of it's classic PSA's on it's KZbin Channel, particularly the "Like Father, Like Son" that's a much cleaner print than the one posted elsewhere on KZbin. I hope they post some more in the future, especially the full minute version featuring the Tin Woodsman, and the comparison between a generator in a power plant and the human heart (and what happens when things go awry). Oh, and one I've been trying to figure out that feature two watches and that eerie psychedelic music in the background. That one I've haven't seen in years.

[@TheIronSheikSociety]

These are all great classic AHA PSAs!! Thank you for posting them!!

[@teletubetodd]

I vividly remember the "smoking machine" and "Like Father, Like Son" ads from my childhood. They were the kind of anti-smoking PSAs that you couldn't get out of your head, as a constant reminder from your conscience to quit, or don't start. I also remember a companion ad from the American Lung Association featuring a doctored-up Rudy the Robot toy marching around, demonstrating how a machine can be repaired, but a smoker's lungs can't. If someone could post that, it would be great to see it again. Thanks!

[@erikreichmann3963]

+Todd Larson You and I must be about the same age, Todd. I'm glad the ads kept you from taking up smoking. They did the same for me.

[@georgelee43211]

i've helped my good friend to stop smoking those cigars when i was in high school back in the 1980s and he lived to be eighty-five,i,m glad i helped him streached his lifeline.

[@c.caveman1743]

your good friend was some old man?

[@georgelee43211]

@@c.caveman1743 yeah,he was in his early fifties when i was in high school i was about 13yrs-old,he use to run the movie reels and teach social studies,i said smoking cause cancer then he stopped then switched to chewing tabbaco,later gave it altogether when i visit him years later he gave me a hug and said thank you george and cried he died a year later.

[@c.caveman1743]

@@georgelee43211 that's inspirational. I'm trying to quit smoking, too. I'm sorry about your friend.

[@georgelee43211]

@@c.caveman1743 thank you

[@owencole5774]

Dad: Mysteriously goes missing after getting the milk. "Like father like son" Me: "Chuckles* I'm in danger!"

[@davidbarts6144]

I remember the “smoking machine” ad from my childhood. Learning about how cigarettes caused cancer and other diseases at an early age convinced me never to so much as try one.

[@AnotherGenericVideo]

these ads are way better than modern day anti smoking ads lol

[@EngPheniks]

😂😂😂😂

[@Doug-ip4up]

Of course I remember the "Like father like son" ad, but I had completely forgotten the "Smoking Machine". I haven't seen or thought about it for over 50 years!

[@rikiishitoru8885]

I like these better than the ones we see on TV now

[@MKIVWWI]

Heart Fund... remember that name very well! I recall especially the last 3 commercials very well, too. (And the great background music!)

[@LisaLisaCJ]

I remember an anti smoking commercial called kick the habit and they would jump in the air and click their heels together and no one remembers this

[@MichaelValHietter]

I remember that phrase and some action being done in a PSA, but I don’t remember any other details.

[@LisaLisaCJ]

@@MichaelValHietter yes it was a PSA early 70s

[@eblackadder3]

I remember that ad very well. "Kick the habit and join the unhooked generation."

[@beabeabeabeabeabeabeabea]

boutta put sum of these in a song

[@Thegeniuskidsuperb]

If tobacco companies were honest, then there wouldn’t be so many smokers in the world

[@sophiavita6018]

you held me very much with my power point presentation on heart disease thank you very much

[@borist7278]

These ads helped people kick their smoking habits. Now we need similar adds to help us kick our daily car driving habits.

[@paulppchristman5827]

Then move to a communist country, Boris. A much smaller percentage of the populace own motor vehicles in those countries. Take your anti capitalism, socialist "green" self and walk live into an incinerator.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Wow, hang on, getting behind the wheel is such a sense of freedom. Specially driving on open country roads. :D

[@borist7278]

@@DrumToTheBassWoop Here's my cynical answer - do you still get that sense of freedom when you are the 6th car at a red light and not moving even when it turns green because the driver at the front is still texting? But more seriously, most trips are local and withing 5~10 miles - that's easily bikeable. I wish the government would put up billboards and ads that say "ride your bike to work today & reduce air pollution..." or something more creative than that.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

@@borist7278 you haven't felt the rumble of an ICE engine on open roads, pear bliss.

[@borist7278]

@@DrumToTheBassWoop Oh, I've felt it. 8:00 am, Sunday morning on the race track. Everybody lined up in the pits, reving up and warming up their engines. Mine was a 4.6L SOHC V8, it turned heads when I started it up. It felt great redlining it out of the corners... But that's the race track. Racing ruined daily driving for me :( it's too boring.

[@jaxrules2892]

Never start!

[@thisisrob8750]

1:04 Kids slaps some toxic (pre 78) lead paint on face

[@degenerate651]

these are way more effective than the truth ads

[@doloreshuntoon7698]

Terrific!!!

[@codycigar9590]

Sounds like Dr. House

[@MsNationaltreasure]

I looked this up because of mad men

[@annasherosky]

The ad like father like son my story is like father like daughter but lucky for me I was able to quit

[@Okun240]

I remember this first one from when I was young, just before I started smoking. Yeah yeah I was barely 11, and I knew I was going to do it sooner or later, as many in my family smoked including my mom and older sibs... By 13 I was just another smoker in the household, firing up my morning cigarette like family.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Best way to quit, is some meditation. Try to meditate for 5 minutes, every time you want a cigarette. It helped me.

[@michaelbobzien]

does anyone remember when the like father like son PSA first started airing?

[@MichaelValHietter]

I saw that it was produced in 1967-I was born in 1965 and I remember it running in my earliest memories.

[@philiprichards2010]

I remember those American heart association commercials.

[@andrewguerra9343]

The first psa: Not only he’s smoking but he eats crap and doesn’t exercise! He’s just asking for a heart attack!

[@minorcharacter542]

I got here from a wattpad comment

[@moneylongthraxgone4865]

Its much more than just morals once u smoke for a while u wont stop. As a smoker as long as u feel alright u don't care about cancer

[@Beth_Alice_Kaplan]

And no seatbelts either…

[@gabrielleosickey2571]

I'm trying to track down an anti smoking video we always watched in pe in like 2008-all I can remember is a lyric along the lines of "it's a Monday day and hoo ditty hoo, we know that smoking is bad for you" anyone else remember this?

[@neuronoc.7343]

Fun fact: The NatSocs actually created the 1st anti smoking compaigns.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@PLSecSSI wouldn’t doubt it, considering the Nazis were in charge in 30s/40s. And at that point there was no established relationship between cancer and cigarette smoking.

[@paulchristman2456]

I remember all of these PSAs from TV when I was a kid. The "like father, like son" one is the most poignant, but today right wingers would call it "anti male" and belligerent smokers would call it Draconian. But they worked for me. Even though the majority of my friends smoked when I was a teen, I avoided tobacco altogether and took up long distance running.

[@steve3131]

A Mustang doesn't have a turn signal?

[@oogaleeboogalee6522]

Why is that the torch from the Zaïrian flag

[@allegedpancake2344]

Why did they stop airing these

[@saminaneen]

@AllEgEd PAncAkE2,,,that horrible conspiracy theory, that cigarettes cause cancer was invented, by the liquor industry to get people to buy booze, rather than cigarettes. My doctor told me that to smoke a pack a day, keeps the doctor away. I've been smoking 2 packs a day for more than 50 years, and I guarantee., that I am in 100% better health, than you ever be. Reply

[@dylankeen3618]

Cerebro Brother uhm... thats not how it works

[@scottylewis8124]

@@saminaneen how stupid are you?

[@blueberry-babe1840]

@@saminaneen uh you finna get cancer

[@saminaneen]

@@blueberry-babe1840, what the hell does "finna" mean? Ebonics much, go back to school, and learn to spell, moron.

[@dylanpower1438]

If u have a child why would u smoke. That’s dumb.

[@brent-z3l]

skokng me th with a flame like that

[@jashmodi]

That’s good

[@animeneweablet]

Is putting down cig sticks a good idea? Well, if the challenge master did not observe you, well, you begin to smoke some cigs.

[@bradleywilliambusch5198]

The cigarettes say: I understand that humanity has committed to raising the ambient frequency on the planet to that of nuclear fission, and that I smoke this stimulant in order to survive the navigation of the giant fireball roaring on tar that is the internal combustion engine, so that I may not be severely maimed by a slow moving automobile within a city, as stimulants raise heart rate and thus cpu time.

[@vrikey]

Mmmm, I think it's time for a cigarette.

[@jimmydeanpatterson1422]

Don't smoke, don't smoke, don't smoke

[@RR_DM]

chronic

[@terra_firme]

smoking weed is cool, man... Why do children of baby boomers hate baby boomers?

[@mog882]

That kid would be 10 times cooler if he started smoking.

[@mmilenkovic5359]

NPC #7125366 thought the same thing tbh

[@Thegeniuskidsuperb]

No he would be 10 times unhealthier if he started.

[@ranielpangilinan727]

Actually smoking is bad for your health but it's good to reduce overpopulation in any country of the world.

[@jimmydeanpatterson1422]

Cigarettes killed my Aunt Hazel who lived in Hot Springs Arkansas.

[@bachakgaonk8403]

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