Actor Burt Lancaster Tries To Get Americans To Stop Smoking Cigarettes in 1969
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- This government film hoping to convince Americans to stop cigarette smoking was made in 1969. Cigarette smoking was much more prevalent among Americans than it is today. It's estimated that around 40% of adults in the United States smoked cigarettes in the late 1960s. This high rate of smoking occurred despite the U.S. Surgeon General's landmark report in 1964 which confirmed that smoking was a direct cause of lung cancer, heart disease and had other detrimental health effects.
The Surgeon General's report was a watershed moment in public health, triggering a range of anti-smoking efforts, including warning labels on cigarette packs and a ban on television and radio advertisements for cigarettes, which went into effect in 1971. However, the impact of these actions on smoking rates took time to manifest.
Smoking rates have since declined significantly due to a wide range of efforts, including public awareness campaigns, increased taxes on tobacco products, and smoking bans in public places. By contrast, as of my last update in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that approximately 14% of U.S. adults were current cigarette smokers.
The decline in smoking rates over the years can be attributed to increased awareness about the health risks associated with tobacco use, as well as regulatory measures aimed at reducing smoking. Nonetheless, the high rates of smoking in 1969 reflect a time when the public was only beginning to understand the full extent of the health risks associated with this habit.
Te actor in this video is Burt Lancaster, a film actor renowned for his athleticism, charisma and versatility. He had a career spanning four decades, during which he starred in a variety of film genres from adventure and war films to drama and romantic comedies. Before becoming an actor, Lancaster was a circus acrobat and his physical prowess often informed his roles. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Elmer Gantry" (1960) and was nominated for several other Oscars during his career. Some of his films include:
"From Here to Eternity" (1953): This film about the lives of soldiers stationed in Hawaii just before the Pearl Harbor attack won eight Oscars.
"Elmer Gantry" (1960): Lancaster won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a charismatic, but morally flawed, traveling salesman-turned-revivalist preacher.
"Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962): In this biographical drama, Lancaster portrayed Robert Stroud, a real-life prisoner who became an expert on birds while serving a life sentence.
"The Sweet Smell of Success" (1957): In this dark drama about the cutthroat world of public relations and journalism, Lancaster played the ruthless columnist J.J. Hunsecker.
"Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961): In this courtroom drama focused on the Nuremberg Trials, Lancaster played Dr. Ernst Janning, a role that earned him critical acclaim.
"Atlantic City" (1980): In this crime drama, Lancaster played an aging gangster. His performance earned him an Academy Award nomination.
"The Professionals" (1966): In this action-packed western, Lancaster played the role of Bill Dolworth, an explosives expert.
"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957): Playing the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, Lancaster starred alongside Kirk Douglas, who played Doc Holliday.
"Seven Days in May" (1964): In this political thriller about a military coup in the United States, Lancaster played Gen. James Mattoon Scott, the antagonist plotting the overthrow of the U.S. government.
"The Crimson Pirate" (1952): In this swashbuckling adventure, Lancaster showed off his acrobatic skills, something he occasionally did in other roles as well.
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Die-hard smokers in the United States have continued to shrug off this ominous warning printed on cigarette packs. To such ones, lung cancer seems, at worst, a distant threat. Such ones reason, ‘it’s my body.’ Smokers endanger not only their own health but also the health of those around them.” Thank you, David, for this insightful Bert Lancaster presentation.
@dantzmusic... you are correct about smokers' dangering the health of those around them. In 1986, the U.S. surgeon general concluded that secondhand smoke was a major health risk to nonsmokers. In 2014, the surgeon general estimated that secondhand smoke causes the premature death of 41,000 adults and more than 400 infants each year.
@@bryancferguson-pt6bu *Wisdom discerns the truth that shields the mind from the missiles of propaganda.* "The proof is in the pudding."
@@bryancferguson-pt6bu Uh no, it's scientifically peer-reviewed and verified fact, just because it creates uncomfortable cognitive dissonance doesn't mean it's "propaganda"
It's hard to believe it's the year 2023 and people still smoke
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She is brilliant 👍👍
Harder to believe the government still allows the sale as long as they tax the crap out of it and make their cut. And you don’t hear any side of the talking about that. They represent us but first and foremost they represent whoever cuts the biggest check, whether that be the government itself or private interests.
@@teddiemack8071the power of denial isn't something you can dispel through knowledge.
@@ernestchadwell9069Some people have a death wish.
As my lovely daughter looks forward to a new baby, my addiction of 50 years has to end.
It's a bitch!😮
Thanks always, David!
I was a kid in the 60's and would have appreciated that promotional. I was easily annoyed by smoke and was generally anti-social whenever a smoker came to visit. Both my parents smoked but fortunately quit when I was very young. My mother was a secretary and when she came home from work she would complain about how she stank from all the smokers in her office. Even so she still lived to 93. Air travel in the 70's was an awful experience, being locked in that confined space with all the smokers. I tried to direct the ceiling air to blow their smoke away from me. Fortunately by the mid 90's smoking was banned from the workplace, so I was able to enjoy my time in an office job. Regardless, one smoker at work wore a jacket that reeked of stale tobacco smoke so badly that when he visited my cubicle my eyes and nose started running, and my throat was irritated.
Will never forget Yul Brenner commercial that he requested be aired after his death by lung cancer... encouraging to stop smoking. Admire those who can stop.
"I tell you now, don't smoke."
- Yul Brenner
I remember it well, very well done and effective
I live in an ex mining community and people are still being diagnosed with lung issues from working with coal dust. It's already killed their family members.
I was lucky that as I was growing up we already knew that cigarettes were injurious to our health. Unfortunately I worked in places where many people worked and it was extremely hard to breathe because of that and I needed daily medical intervention to deal with it. People can do it in privacy but please leave us free.
They can live without nicotine, but we can’t live without oxygen.
Thank you for sharing this gem!
I was posted for a time in a respiratory clinic. The number of young adults with lung cancer thru smoking was incredible. I got transferred. Couldn’t work there. 👎🏻
My mom was a forty-year smoker died from cigarettes related illnesses (heart failure and emphysema) she started smoking in 1949 the danger of smoking was not known or made public back then, she was a respectful smoker anytime she was around nonsmokers she would always ask if smoke or smell from cigarettes would bother them before lighting up. I know the both the danger and the pleasure that smoking gave my mom.
I met a lady in a laundromat who told me she started smoking when she was 8 years old; she used to sneak a cigarette out of her mom’s pack from time to time. Later, her mom would give her money and throw in an extra quarter, and tell her young daughter to go to the corner store and get a pack of cigarettes, and a pack for herself.
The laundromat lady was in her mid-sixties but she still smoked. She was afraid of getting cancer but couldn’t quit.
How wonderfull that he cared so much
Thanks for the video, David.
$14 a pack in so cal, that's slowing things down.
$10 + tax in Illinois right now
$28 for 20 in Australia😅.
Thank you for this David, hopefully it helps someone quit. I had personal losses due to smoking. It's a nasty habit, and people who smoke don't even know they smell terrible.
Burt was a good actor one of my favorite. He knows how to do gymnastics very active. 🚬 thanks for sharing this. Dont smoke its bad for your health and you will have throut cancer.😮
Hello, David. Thanx for sharing this video. My Dad died in 1982 from lung cancer. He was only 61, but I had the chance to look after him. It was heartbreaking to see him melt away like a candle. He was my hero💗
Thank you David. 💝
This government film was very well done it seem to have cover all the bases back then, your description writes up is very informative both on cigarettes and related issues and the actor Burt Lancaster I have seen most if not all the films you listed of Burt Lancaster. Thanks David Hoffman 😊👍
I'm glad I found this. Wouldn't it have been great to show this back to back with Yul Brynner's plea as he was dying of lung cancer? Guess I'm going to have to write that fictional biography of Burt and have them team up for that. The script is a beautiful example of Lancaster using action as well as the lines to talk to the audience. He had messages in a lot of his theatrical films, and only one of them states the message in the script.
The Train, Local Hero, Seven Days in May
Burt was the Best
I would like to go back in time, please. does anybody have directions? I want to dress how they did and comb my hair how they did and not have a cell phone anymore lol
....and drive a car as big as an aircraft carrier
Very Cool of Burt !
Never Worked around Coal Mines... But Being A Union Painter.. I Was Around A LOT of Asbestos...
I Get Checked Ever Year tho ...
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Burt Lancaster, favorite actor of mine since seeing him as a kid portraying Jim Thorpe.
I quit smoking 35 years ago cold turkey, & it was the best thing I did. It was $1.25 a pack back then. I really hope more ppl quit this habit. Kids today should see photos of healthy vs smoker lungs. That'll make anyone cringe. Thank you David for posting this.
New report out proving that air pollution, which poisons us all regardless of our habits, is even more dangerous to our health than cigarettes.
@eemoogee160 Hi... That is difficult to believe although air pollution is very bad in many places. Would you provide a documented reference as to the source of this particular report? Thank you...
@super1media Here is an exert. I don't think I can post a link here. "Breathing in polluted air is so harmful, it can actually have a greater impact on humans lifespan than smoking, according to just-released data.
The latest report by Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), published on Aug. 29, analysed how fine particulate matter (PM2.5) lingering in the air, such as smoke and dust, has a profound impact on human life expectancy and health when there’s consistent exposure."
@super1media We are continually coating our insides and outsides in toxins that accumulate in our bodies. We just aren't viscerally aware of it unless the effects are immediate.
@@eemoogee160 Hi.. Thank you for sharing your references. It does appear that there are still some mixed reviews/opinions on this particular subject. In your excerpt there are a couple of items that are possibly significant.
It spoke of things *lingering in the air, such as smoke and dust, has a *profound impact on human life expectancy and health when there’s* *consistent exposure."*
I am convinced that these increasing brush fires and other natural disaster area residue could fall into this *"lingering" and "consistent"* category.
I had two wake-up calls. Smoking is a Health Hazard and Smoking is a WEALTH hazard. I ignored the Health aspect, but what did it for me was the Wealth Hazard aspect. I got into building computers in the early 90s, but I couldn't smoke and buy computer parts. It was an easy decision for me. Money always wins out.
Yep Patrick. I know what you mean.
Davidoff and filmmaker
Thank you.
What a great video so ahead of its time! Cigarette/tobacco science equals death, I hope you can find some of the bogus news stories promoting smoking so people can learn about propaganda that kills
If only more folks had listened including myself
This made me want a cigarette......so i had 3.
We spent years campaigning against cigarettes only to completely ignore the obesity crises. A crisis which contributes 260 billion in extra costs every year in the US. It is estimated that the obesity crisis will cost the US a staggering $4 Trillion by 2035, then there's the untold deaths. We need campaigns like this to come back to fight obesity.
I was surprised to see in Europe barely anyone who could be considered fat. What it is is the food here, and lack of exercise. I remember a study that claimed that Americans actually tended to eat more in the '70s, but since then most food you get here has been turned to chemical-laden crap.
@@ulfskinn1458 This blaming obesity on chemicals is nonsense. Proper weight, exercise and diet was campaigned just like anti-smoking and anti-drugs were campaigned.
But sometime in the 1990s speaking out against obesity became a target for political correctness. I hate to say it but two recent developments may actually reduce obesity. Inflation and Covid-19.
I give up , David. Lol
I just deleted it all.
Great documentary on the propaganda of smoking. ❤️
Burt Lancaster was a great actor, and so was Anna Magnani ( Italian actress) in Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tatoo," in 1955, and she won best actress.
Anna Magnani was my favorite actress.
Good job.Thanks!
Notice how he drove off without a seat belt at the end. 😁 But seriously, I had no idea that so many teenagers smoked back then. My dad died at age 60 due to smoking...heart failure and emphysema. My mom quit smoking when she had to have bypass surgery 16 years ago. I quit 2 years ago on my 52nd birthday. My mom is 78 now and I hope she & I will both be around for a long, long time.
Yet he was still a heavy smoker at the time he made this film. Sad. Of course many of us grew up in a “do as I say not as I do “ type of society when it came to bad habits. I quit 6 years ago thankfully so maybe I have given myself a few more good years as I get closer to 60.
Good message, but not insistent enough. Unfortunately I became a smoker as a teen, but was able to quit. Now kids are vaping which is just as bad. 13:23 This little notice was put on packs, but was in small print and ignored. They banned ads from TV and radio in 1971, but kept them in magazines. 15:20 Burt drives away in a car spewing leaded exhaust and here we are in 2023 feeling the effects of Climate Change.
Burt was an amazing athlete and acrobat. Although he was a fine thespian..
25 cents a pack in KY & NC in the 60s...!
2 packs a day free for combat zone GIs...!
It's why they called them "Luckys"
With the legalization of Marijuana in states and now possibly on a federal level I can easily see the health risks of smoking Marijuana paralleling tobacco smoking. To me it's sad that folks don't realize that anything you smoke brings toxins into your body. I tried smoking while in the service, thankfully never became a habit. I'd like to give some unsolicited advice. Don't smoke anything, eat simple unprocessed food, get regular exercise, laugh a little and have faith in a higher being. Do those things and you will be happier and healthier.
The 2 sides - the “glamorous, fun side of habits such as smoking , alcohol , gambling etc and the dark , ugly side of addiction 😢
Yet Mr Lancaster himself continued to smoke cigarettes up to the end of his life.
Apparently, you are correct, and that is sad.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Whether that's him being a hypocrite or an indication of just how addictive Nicotine is, I don't know.
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I see … 😂😂
You need a ring job. No I didn’t say anything about your wheels😇
I wonder whatever happened to Charlie Johnson?
They should of legalized all drugs back in the 1960’s. None of the violence and deaths from narco terrorists, police, etc. would have ever taken place. 80% of all incarcerations are due to non violent drugs users.
Not sure if they should have legalized all drugs but your right something has to be done to change people going to prison for addiction.
Amen!
All drugs *_were_* legal prior to the early 20th century... It started with opiates being controlled. Opium was a big problem for the pharmaceutical industry. Existed since pre-history and (the morphine in it) treats a huge swathe of illnesses. Without drug control there would be a massively reduced market for new patent medicines, taking a huge chunk out of profits because you can't patent poppy sap.
Eh, that 80% figure is misleading. It does not factor in previous convictions, gang affiliation, or criminal activity whilst under the influence of narcotics. Now, I'm not a prude and have nothing against weed, LSD, psilocybin, etc. But poison like heroin and fentanyl have no place in civilized society. Making something legal basically tells people that it is OK. If you think bums, prostitution, and overdoses are bad now, you'd better strap in for what society would be like with legalized hard drugs.
gee i guess i dont like smoking cos of the bloody loogies i hoark up every morning ,noon and night !
Good on him.
It’s not the tobacco plant ; it’s the dangerous, addictive chemicals tobacco companies put in the tobacco. How is it they are still able to do this today with all the information we have ?!?
0:55 I served in a Point class cutter...based at Kauai. You're welcome.
Thanks!
Thank you Cyndi.
David Hoffman Filmmaker
FIRST!😂❤
Smoking a cig feeling like a jackass
I WILL NEVER STOP SMOKING AND NO ONE'S GONNA STOP ME
They all drinking coffee tho
If you're drinking coffee in a room with me you're not injuring me.
@@jwsuicides8095 yeah I’d be blessing you with my presence
Are you saying coffee is bad for you?
Coffee contains no carcinogens. Coffee grounds do not collect in your lungs and throat. People generally do not sit around jonesing for a Coffee break every hour.
@@ulfskinn1458 I do
Look kids this is what we used to call an "actor"back when you had to use your talents or GOD given gifts to have a career,unlike today's CGI garbage where the actor doesn't really act at all, they are positioned in a artificial picture.
Anna Magnani was not in this video at all 😢