# 1980s anti-smoking PSA **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279 "2013-07-12T02:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/1 "2013-07-12T02:38:45Z")
[Link.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3dLZoz27yw) I don’t know that their message got across, but the PSA was memorable for “Money for Nuthin’” type animation. Well, almost as good as “Money for Nuthin’” animation. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/2 "2013-07-12T03:23:06Z")
Strangely this morning for no reason whatsoever I found myself remembering the early '80s anti-smoking PSA’s with Brooke Shields. She would just talk to the camera and talk about “how totally gross” smoking is; and how smokers were losers. I think those spots did more to kill her career than anything else she did. She just came across as a bitchy prima donna, and I almost wanted to smoke a cigarette just to spite her. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/3 "2013-07-12T04:04:25Z")
Reminds me a bit of the [Mark Twain Claymation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaRouocBes) that freaked out so many 80s kids. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/4 "2013-07-12T14:44:28Z")
I think that if you distilled the 1980s down to a single, grainy, minute long video, that is what you would get. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/5 "2013-07-12T15:42:40Z")
Does anyone remember the one with Yul Brynner that came out after he died? IIRC he says something like “Now that I’m gone, I tell you this: do not smoke!” ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/6 "2013-07-12T15:49:23Z")
I don’t remember that PSA but I was a smoker in the 80s so if I saw it, I ignored it. It is freaky! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/7 "2013-07-12T15:52:29Z")
Did your dad ignore [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1QxJatWng) in the 60’s? 🙂 Everybody back then remembered [Johnny Smoke](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWm6PUGpfVU) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/8 "2013-07-12T15:54:47Z")
Anybody remember Nick, a teen? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/9 "2013-07-12T18:21:33Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Reminds me a bit of the [Mark Twain Claymation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaRouocBes) that freaked out so many 80s kids. I’m 43, and that’s creeping me out right now. Jesus. It looks like something made for an animated film festival - not necessarily targeted toward kids. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/10 "2013-07-12T18:41:47Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Did your dad ignore [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1QxJatWng) in the 60’s? 🙂 The two I most remember from the '70s are [the Three Little Pigs ad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yI87wNolpY) and the “They Mind Very Much If You Smoke” [ad with the dolphin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgdyPH_P58). (Watching that again for the first time in 800 years makes me wonder if that’s William Daniels doing the voiceover on the latter- sounds like him.) ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1980s-anti-smoking-psa/663279/11 "2013-07-12T18:54:18Z")
Artoo, Do you really think I don’t have a heart?