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Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

SeaMaiden — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:32:11 GMT

There is a commercial running on TV now with a lady who had jaw cancer surgery.. She was a smoker for years. They show the picture of her before surgery smiling ...and after with no jaw and most of her throat and shoulder cut out. Not a pretty sight.....

here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yMCdzjAH8Y

I think the Yul Brenner commercial filmed prior to his death...where he talked to you from the grave was the most moving anti smoke commercial ever filmed. That commercial that came out in 1989 really was the catalyst that made me quit smoking cold turkey in 1990. I know it saved my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI

I think these commercials, though hard to watch.....are very poignant and relevant to a wake up call that might save one life.....or thousands.

I am so very grateful 🙏🏻

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

Nightowlz — Mon, 21 May 2018 16:48:26 GMT

It should be against the law for Tobacco companies to put ingredients in cigarettes to make them so addicting like some drugs that you cannot get off them. They also should not be allowed to put what they put in them to make them keep burning instead of going out like a cigar when you set it down.

I don't think people are smoking like they used too. Not sure if kids are picking up the bad habit or not like they did when I was younger.

My neighbor smoked herself to death.

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DrakesMomma — Mon, 21 May 2018 16:54:02 GMT

@SeaMaiden - Yay!! I am SO happy you stopped!

When I was 12 I watched my dad die with lung cancer that metastasized to his brain. He was just 51. The true irony of this is, my dad and mom had nine children. We all watched him die. I am the only one to never have smoked.

My father-in-law had COPD from smoking. He had a heartattck and his lungs weren't strong enough to pull him through it. He was just 60.

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

SeaMaiden — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:03:51 GMT

@DrakesMomma wrote:
@SeaMaiden - Yay!! I am SO happy you stopped!

When I was 12 I watched my dad die with lung cancer that metastasized to his brain. He was just 51. The true irony of this is, my dad and mom had nine children. We all watched him die. I am the only one to never have smoked.

My father-in-law had COPD from smoking. He had a heartattck and his lungs weren't strong enough to pull him through it. He was just 60.

@DrakesMomma That must have been so hard for you at age 12 to see and deal with your Father's death. So so sorry.

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

Vivian — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:04:50 GMT

There’s a woman who comes to several of the classes I attend at the Y and she looks like the woman in the anti-smoking ads. I have also seen people at my ENT surgeon’s office who have had to undergo this drastic surgery. If that doesn’t get people to stop smoking, nothing will. My husband lost his father and his brother to heart attacks caused by smoking. My son-in-law lost both his parents to lung cancer caused by smoking. My sister in-law died of lung cancer caused by smoking despite the fact that her husband, my husband’s brother, dropped dead of a heart attack at 51 because of his smoking. I don’t know what more to say.

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DrakesMomma — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:05:49 GMT

Thank you, my sweet friend @SeaMaiden. It really was.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:06:00 GMT

They really pack a punch! I think I remember that Yul Brenner one from years ago.

The only one that gets me kind of angry (just a little because I think it does good to make people who might have just arrived on the planet learn something) is the lady with her baby in the NICU because she smoked all during her pregnancy.

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

sidsmom — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:08:26 GMT

@SeaMaiden

Is her name Terrie Hall?

If so, those commercials have been put for several years.

She died in 2013...so the Public saw the slow death of smoking.

The old pro-smoking ads have been compared to our current

Standard American Diet food ads...even the prescription ads.

The product makes it socially acceptable to be unhealthy

because everyone does it. And unfortunately, the lobbies

are just as powerful.

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

Spurt — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:10:53 GMT

@SeaMaiden

That's TERRIFIC that you stopped smoking!

I hope people take these commercials to heart and quit!!

My beloved aunt died of lung cancer, she tried different methods to stop, but she just wouldn't give up her cigarettes!!!

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

SeaMaiden — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:15:48 GMT

@sidsmom wrote:
@SeaMaiden
Is her name Terrie Hall?
If so, those commercials have been put for several years.
She died in 2013...so the Public saw the slow death of smoking.

The old pro-smoking ads have been compared to our current
Standard American Diet food ads...even the prescription ads.
The product makes it socially acceptable to be unhealthy
because everyone does it. And unfortunately, the lobbies
are just as powerful.

@sidsmom No, it is a more current commercial than that one I believe. I could not seem to locate it on U Tube. But they both are very moving.....

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

Spurt — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:21:56 GMT

@sidsmom wrote:
@SeaMaiden
Is her name Terrie Hall?
If so, those commercials have been put for several years.
She died in 2013...so the Public saw the slow death of smoking.

The old pro-smoking ads have been compared to our current
Standard American Diet food ads...even the prescription ads.
The product makes it socially acceptable to be unhealthy
because everyone does it. And unfortunately, the lobbies
are just as powerful.

@sidsmom

Cigarettes are dangerous yet they were first peddled as a "cure" for indigestion and other ailments....the tobacco industry knew what it was doing....

I dont understand cigarettes were banned from TV because they are hazardous to health, yet these pharmacuetical companies are allowed to peddle their drugs with side effects as worse as cigarettes and in some cases even worse!! All you have to do is "follow the money" to see how these things work...

But in the end each individual has to claim responsibility for the decsions they make be it cigarettes etc etc.......

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

chrystaltree — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:23:49 GMT

Smoking is an addiction, I don't think those commercials stop many people from smoking. If there is any value to them, they might prevent some kids and young people from beginning to smoke.

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kaydee50 — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:28:25 GMT

I have never been a smoker but I remember that Yul Brynner commercial vividly. Aside from the devastating health issues, how can anyone afford to smoke? I think it's like $12 a pack now????!!!!!

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SeaMaiden — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:33:45 GMT

@sidsmom The commercial was just on so I was able to find it....put out by the CDC. Here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yMCdzjAH8Y

Re: Anti Smoking Commercials on TV

chickenbutt — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:34:07 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
Smoking is an addiction, I don't think those commercials stop many people from smoking. If there is any value to them, they might prevent some kids and young people from beginning to smoke.

THAT is a valuable point!

I haven't seen any numbers lately, but I was thinking that there are a lot less cigarette smokers than there used to be, over the decades. I'm sure that is for a number of reasons.

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sidsmom — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:36:51 GMT

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chickenbutt — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:36:56 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
I have never been a smoker but I remember that Yul Brynner commercial vividly. Aside from the devastating health issues, how can anyone afford to smoke? I think it's like $12 a pack now????!!!!!

I haven't smoked in some 27 years. I remember a time, quite a few years ago, in line at the checkstand at the grocery store, and the customer before me asked for a pack of ciggies. It was $10 - for ONE pack!

I about fell out over that. When I smoked $10 bought a whole carton of Virginia Slim Light Menthols.

I really don't know how a lot of people can afford to smoke these days. That's some serious level of inflation!

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Group 5 minus 1 — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:49:56 GMT

William Talman (Hamilton Burger) did the first anti-smoking campaign. I think he died in 1968 from lung cancer. Paul Drake (can't remember his first name) died from throat cancer. Remember, the Perry Mason show had a cigarette sponser.

Now I remember it was William Hopper.

Raymond Burr,altho a heavy smoker, objected to the product placement of the cigarettes.

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SahmIam — Mon, 21 May 2018 18:04:37 GMT

@SeaMaiden Congrats to you!! Many try, few succeed. Be very proud of what you've done. : )

I often wonder how much these ads do to actually stop the behavior. We've had anti-drug use ads on for decades.....hows that worked for us?

Driving drunk ads and their aftermath.....yep, hasn't stopped and the numbers keep going UP.

Anti-obesity ads.....oh that's right. Not allowed.

An ex-smoker told me that her reason for stopping wasn't due to health but the cost. She'd rather spend it on something else.

Another friend smokes but only around her birthday and Christmas. Why then? She gets them as GIFTS for her birthday and Christmas from family members.

I just...can't. My parents both smoked (my mom while she was pregnant with me). To this day, I wonder if my respiratory issues are due to their disgusting habit. I'll never know.

Again, congratulation to you, @SeaMaiden. Take a bow for what you've been able to do. : )

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LyndaGee — Mon, 21 May 2018 18:11:30 GMT

I see the one with the woman who smoked while pregnant - They show the baby hospitalized and attached to tubes. Heartbreaking.

I tried smoking when I was a teen, but (thank goodness) it made me feel nauseous.