@@cailtegreen7764 you are lucky, young people still taking it up, with dire consequences down the track, my older brother was dead at 62, unable to breath , a terrible death, his friends told him smoking won't hurt, you, the doctors are wrong, and the cycle continues, he was robbed of 30 years of his life
Other than the “Bye Bye Baby” PSA of the 1960s-1990s, this is the most powerful PSA ever created for television. Yul Brynner designed this ad (derived from one of his final interviews) to run after he died. Well, you lost the battle but you didn’t lose the war, either. Even in death, this ad still warns millions of people, both smokers and non-smokers, that what happened to him can happen to you too if you’re not careful. Worth watching again and again.
William Talman (Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason episodes) had a strong message too. "I didn't mind losing all those cases on the Perry Mason program but this is one fight I don't want to lose..." (Shows pictures of wife and children.)
Not only was Yul Brynner a fine actor, but he was also a remarkable human being.. He saved millions of lives with his heartfelt commercial.. As an American actor, I salute him... A million best wishes, Yul..
RESPECT!My mother have sister,today is funeral,cancer.She smoked about 120 cigarets for just one day!!!Please,don't smoke,i'm from Serbia-just stoped!!!
Watching ten commandments on TV and reading up on him my mum once said whoooo he's all man lol. Even my dad liked him must of been the bald proud thing r.i.p Yul also my mum and dad and brother ❤️
Yul Brynner was born in 1920, not 1915. He died of Lung Cancer in 1985 (smoked, on-average, five packs of cigarettes per day) at the age of 65, not 70. This commercial was aired posthumously, incidentally, today (Feb. 19th) when I type this, in not 1985 but in 1987, not quite two years after his death on Oct. 10th, '85.
How HORRIBLE❗.. 😳😵😭... Not even 'Twilight Zone' GENIUS writer Legend Mr. Rod Serling❤️😔😭🙏 🕯️🌻🌷💐smoked THAT many... One must be joking ... . How could anyone be that addicted ?!? ..One must be absolutely lighting up non - stop .. .🚬 during showering 🚿, eating 🍝🍛🥣🍿🥘exercising ( !!?! ) 🎿🎣🛷🏈🥊....smoking in their sleep too ?!? 😴🤢🤮... And to know that all the manufacturers actually ADD toxic , known poisons ☠️💩 🚧 to the tobacco leaf 🤨😵😠💀that grows naturally from the earth - without all those added poisons .🤔😱..how is that even legal🤨 😠?!?? ... just my humble opinion ... evil Washington , D.C. lobbyists🗣️💩🤑🤑🤑 .. caring more about money ... than life......Why is that allowed at all??? 🤔. 😱😭
If everyone who smoked when I was going growing up died then three quarters of the population would have died. He died because he smoked alot of packs in one day.
He died because he smoked cigarettes, which have been proven to cause lung cancer. Smoking several packs and starting at the age of 12 certainly worsened his life chances (he had officially quit years before he died), but people have died while smoking far less.
@@matthewnikitas8905 I am so sorry for your loss. What smoking does to families is too awful to contemplate. The tobacco industry has to be one of the most evil industries of all time.
It wasn't 60 Minutes. Yul Brynner did an interview with ABC's Good Morning America where he says that if he can change anything in his life, it would be to have never started smoking. Knowing that he was dying, he added that he wanted to make an anti-smoking commercial. He then looked directly at the camera and pretended that he was in such a commercial. It was never meant to be the actual commercial. Afterwards, he and the American Cancer Society decided to make an PSA, and with his permission and input, they decided that the original interview would make a powerful PSA -- to be aired after his death. See this video, where the original interview is shown. ua-cam.com/video/ers66SQcO8o/v-deo.html
The French Wikipedia page (he had lots of ties with the French after all) states a lot of sourced documents saying he was probably born before that, and that he lied when entering the US to get a better chance of finding a job. According to celebrated French actor Fernandel, born in 1903, they were the same age. That would make more sense to me because according to Wikipedia he was a drug addict in his teens (?) and he was friends with Jean Cocteau who was much older than him, and knew Picasso & co. when he was 14. I very much doubt any adults would seriously entertain being friends with a kid. I'm not saying his birth year is wrong, but it's something to think of. I'd say 1915 is very much likely.
I think his birth year has always been a matter of conjecture. Not sure if a birth certificate has ever been found, so maybe at the time of his death, 1915 was the generally accepted year.
Er ist 1920 geboren sorry aber wenn von ihm geredet wird möchte ich das da sein korrektes Geburtsjahr steht bitte nicht Böse sein es ist halt wichtig für mich ❤❤❤❤❤
+youlikethisusername ...no. No he wasn't. more like "slowly, self-inflicted death." Or, as Bill Hicks once said, "alcoholism is the only disease which you can be yelled at for having." Translate/change that for cigarettes & smoking...
@youlikethisusername: That's a thoughtful question, that deserves a thoughtful answer. But the question, if cigarette-smokers are "victims" or not, doesn't seem to have a simple straightforward answer. Having said that, I say: _No_ , but also _Yes_ OR maybe: You decide, given available facts. Here's some (presuming accuracy on the behalf of PBS's _Nova Online_ ): www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/nicotine_nfp.html
Absolutely he was a victim. He started smoking as a young man in the 1930's. Back then there was very little public awareness about smoking health hazards like there is today. In fact, if you look at cigarette advertisements of the time (and much later), you'll actually see doctors paid by the tobacco industry suggesting cigarette smoking is *good* for you. The tobacco industry did everything it could to induce people to start smoking, like putting free cigarettes into the C-rations of our soldiers during WWI and WWII (and beyond). This was to get the young men started early and hooked during their time at war. Big tobacco knew they'd be addicted for life after that. Meanwhile, big tobacco paid off Hollywood to glamorize cigarettes and smoking in their movies. And this was done in a way to make male smokers appear rugged and tough while also sophisticated. Meanwhile, women were portrayed as glamorous, intelligent and sophisticated while smoking. This false image even survives today, take a look at modern magazine pictorials of Madonna and others with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths. I'm old enough to remember the 70's and 80's before everything changed. I'm telling you back then it was an entirely different mindset when it came to smoking before all the awareness that exists today. You were weird if you *didn't* smoke back then.
@@drott150 true. You weren't a man if you didn't smoke back then. Times have changed though and with all the health warnings, anyone who suffers health problems due to smoking these days are victims if their own stupidity!
I saw this as a teenage and it made me quit. Thank you Yule where ever you may be.
I never did because of Grandpa and him.
Same here. Wherever he is - I’d like to end up there and thank him for adding years to my life.
I was 11 when this commercial came out, I'll never forget it.
Neither will I.
truest words ever said,, what ever you do just don't smoke.
lance jurd agreed I smoked for 25 years and quit 2 years ago.
Followed by even truer words. “If I could take back that smoking we wouldn’t be talking about any cancer, I’m convinced of that.”
@@cailtegreen7764 you are lucky, young people still taking it up, with dire consequences down the track, my older brother was dead at 62, unable to breath , a terrible death, his friends told him smoking won't hurt, you, the doctors are wrong, and the cycle continues, he was robbed of 30 years of his life
He was born in 1920, not 1915. He was 65 when he passed away.
Other than the “Bye Bye Baby” PSA of the 1960s-1990s, this is the most powerful PSA ever created for television. Yul Brynner designed this ad (derived from one of his final interviews) to run after he died. Well, you lost the battle but you didn’t lose the war, either. Even in death, this ad still warns millions of people, both smokers and non-smokers, that what happened to him can happen to you too if you’re not careful. Worth watching again and again.
William Talman (Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason episodes) had a strong message too.
"I didn't mind losing all those cases on the Perry Mason program but this is one fight I don't want to lose..." (Shows pictures of wife and children.)
A haunting ad. this ad is more powerful than the "just say no to drugs" ads that were around during this time.
Not only was Yul Brynner a fine actor, but he was also a remarkable human being.. He saved millions of lives with his heartfelt commercial.. As an American actor, I salute him... A million best wishes, Yul..
Hollywood could take a lesson from him..
I remember seeing this when I was a kid. This & Healthy Harold kept me from smoking.
I finished 12th grade in the spring of 1985 and remember the shock I felt the first time I saw this commercial.
Even in death the man was still gorgeous
Yes.I thought I was the only one checking out a dead man
I vaguely remember this, I was 17... I use to love watching his movies though. Continue resting in peace 🙏🏾
Wish I had listened nearly died and have stage 4 copd, smoking really does kill.
I hope you're still with us.
Yes I'm still here, and doing okay. Thanks
@@lorrainejenkinson6826 Glad to hear it!
The Official Record Says He Was Born in 1920.
Yeah, you are right...they had made a mistake on the year he was born...they corrected it after the fact
Good work Yul
He was born in 1920.
Nobody knows
Yeah, you are right @Angela B...they had made a mistake on the year he was born...they corrected it after the fact
You stole my line.
I never smoked.If Yul Brynner could take back that smoking ,he won't be talking about cancer and probably still be alive today!
What's probably most shocking is that he had quit at least 14 years prior to his death. But it was too late.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 He should've never smoked from the very beginning of his career.
It sure does kill. I stopped on my own.
Because of him I stopped
RESPECT!My mother have sister,today is funeral,cancer.She smoked about 120 cigarets for just one day!!!Please,don't smoke,i'm from Serbia-just stoped!!!
He saved one life, Barry, thank goodness it was yours. Even if he saved one life, it's one life more than it would be from smoking.
Born 1915, I’ll believe it let’s give him another 5 years alive. Let’s believe he made another great great cowboy movie.
I still wish he had been cast as a Bond villain opposite Sean Connery.
It is now many decades later and people still smoke
Watching ten commandments on TV and reading up on him my mum once said whoooo he's all man lol. Even my dad liked him must of been the bald proud thing r.i.p Yul also my mum and dad and brother ❤️
I think they confused Orson Wells's birth year 1915, with Yul's as both died on Oct 10, 1985.
Yul was born on the 11th July 1920 not 1915.
Yeah, you are right...he was born in 1920...they had made a mistake on the year he was born...they corrected it after the fact
He play guitar,and frend is aliosa dimitrevitz,
Yul Brynner was born in 1920, not 1915. He died of Lung Cancer in 1985 (smoked, on-average, five packs of cigarettes per day) at the age of 65, not 70. This commercial was aired posthumously, incidentally, today (Feb. 19th) when I type this, in not 1985 but in 1987, not quite two years after his death on Oct. 10th, '85.
Jesus,5 packs for one day?!! 😱😱😱😱
According to wiki he quit in 1971 ..so thats 14 years from stopping to dying ..🤔😔😔
How HORRIBLE❗.. 😳😵😭... Not even 'Twilight Zone' GENIUS writer Legend Mr. Rod Serling❤️😔😭🙏 🕯️🌻🌷💐smoked THAT many... One must be joking ... . How could anyone be that addicted ?!? ..One must be absolutely lighting up non - stop .. .🚬 during showering 🚿, eating 🍝🍛🥣🍿🥘exercising ( !!?! ) 🎿🎣🛷🏈🥊....smoking in their sleep too ?!? 😴🤢🤮... And to know that all the manufacturers actually ADD toxic , known poisons ☠️💩 🚧 to the tobacco leaf 🤨😵😠💀that grows naturally from the earth - without all those added poisons .🤔😱..how is that even legal🤨 😠?!?? ... just my humble opinion ... evil Washington , D.C. lobbyists🗣️💩🤑🤑🤑 .. caring more about money ... than life......Why is that allowed at all??? 🤔. 😱😭
Mr. Yul Brenner. ...🗿.... 🤴👑🏆... 🙏🙁☁️🦋💨🕯️❤️🌻🏵️🌺🌸🌹💮🌻💐
If everyone who smoked when I was going growing up died then three quarters of the population would have died. He died because he smoked alot of packs in one day.
He died because he smoked cigarettes, which have been proven to cause lung cancer. Smoking several packs and starting at the age of 12 certainly worsened his life chances (he had officially quit years before he died), but people have died while smoking far less.
I remember this. It had quite an impact.
Immediately after seeing this commercial I quit smoking. Still taking the crystal meth daily but...quit smoking.
Yul😃👍
What an actor 👏🙌❤
Don't smoke and ban cigarettes makers from cinema!
Imagine how many people died of lung cancer because they had been encouraged by films that smoking was socially acceptable and even attractive.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995Millions and millions over the last 100 years. My aunt being one of them unfortunately
@@matthewnikitas8905 I am so sorry for your loss. What smoking does to families is too awful to contemplate. The tobacco industry has to be one of the most evil industries of all time.
I don’t know one person who quit smoking as a result of this add. Including me. And I’m still kicking and cancer free.🤷🏼♀️
You must smell really nice and fresh and have golden skin being a Nicotine addict. I cant wait to kiss you.
Cancer sticks
so did this air on 60 minutes or is this the actual ad?
Actual ad.
It was a public service announcement.
It wasn't 60 Minutes. Yul Brynner did an interview with ABC's Good Morning America where he says that if he can change anything in his life, it would be to have never started smoking. Knowing that he was dying, he added that he wanted to make an anti-smoking commercial. He then looked directly at the camera and pretended that he was in such a commercial. It was never meant to be the actual commercial. Afterwards, he and the American Cancer Society decided to make an PSA, and with his permission and input, they decided that the original interview would make a powerful PSA -- to be aired after his death. See this video, where the original interview is shown. ua-cam.com/video/ers66SQcO8o/v-deo.html
They got his date of birth wrong 😑
Thought he was born in 1920 ...
He was. His year of birth in this version of the commercial was incorrectly given as 1915 (source: Wikipedia).
The French Wikipedia page (he had lots of ties with the French after all) states a lot of sourced documents saying he was probably born before that, and that he lied when entering the US to get a better chance of finding a job. According to celebrated French actor Fernandel, born in 1903, they were the same age. That would make more sense to me because according to Wikipedia he was a drug addict in his teens (?) and he was friends with Jean Cocteau who was much older than him, and knew Picasso & co. when he was 14. I very much doubt any adults would seriously entertain being friends with a kid. I'm not saying his birth year is wrong, but it's something to think of. I'd say 1915 is very much likely.
He liked to keep his life as a mystery .@@renobutters
Is that the ticking sound from 60 Minutes?!
he was NOT born in 1915 fix it.
You'll have to contact Dr Emmet Brown and ask to borrow his DeLorean to do that.
In order to do that, you would have to track down whoever created this commerical in 1985, as that's when this is from. HAHA
How do you purpose the uploader fix it??
I think his birth year has always been a matter of conjecture. Not sure if a birth certificate has ever been found, so maybe at the time of his death, 1915 was the generally accepted year.
He was born 1920.
He was born 1920
Is this the ad that aired on Australian TV?
don't smoke 😤 😒
Er ist 1920 geboren sorry aber wenn von ihm geredet wird möchte ich das da sein korrektes Geburtsjahr steht bitte nicht Böse sein es ist halt wichtig für mich ❤❤❤❤❤
Mike Pence states that it's fine to smoke: after getting over $100,000.00 from the tobacco industry. Disgusting
@redcherbonne:
www.dropbox.com/s/p9o1jwfr0kfnsyu/Settled%20%28Junk%29%20%27Science%27.jpg?dl=0
redcherbonne still better than Hillary
+redcherbone Where did you hear that?
You're a fucking liar! Pence never said that.
Source?
he was born in 1920
Correct. Died at 65
Was he really a "victim"?
+youlikethisusername ...no. No he wasn't. more like "slowly, self-inflicted death." Or, as Bill Hicks once said, "alcoholism is the only disease which you can be yelled at for having." Translate/change that for cigarettes & smoking...
@youlikethisusername:
That's a thoughtful question, that deserves a thoughtful answer. But the question, if cigarette-smokers are "victims" or not, doesn't seem to have a simple straightforward answer.
Having said that, I say: _No_ , but also _Yes_ OR maybe: You decide, given available facts. Here's some (presuming accuracy on the behalf of PBS's _Nova Online_ ):
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/nicotine_nfp.html
Absolutely he was a victim. He started smoking as a young man in the 1930's. Back then there was very little public awareness about smoking health hazards like there is today. In fact, if you look at cigarette advertisements of the time (and much later), you'll actually see doctors paid by the tobacco industry suggesting cigarette smoking is *good* for you. The tobacco industry did everything it could to induce people to start smoking, like putting free cigarettes into the C-rations of our soldiers during WWI and WWII (and beyond). This was to get the young men started early and hooked during their time at war. Big tobacco knew they'd be addicted for life after that. Meanwhile, big tobacco paid off Hollywood to glamorize cigarettes and smoking in their movies. And this was done in a way to make male smokers appear rugged and tough while also sophisticated. Meanwhile, women were portrayed as glamorous, intelligent and sophisticated while smoking. This false image even survives today, take a look at modern magazine pictorials of Madonna and others with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths.
I'm old enough to remember the 70's and 80's before everything changed. I'm telling you back then it was an entirely different mindset when it came to smoking before all the awareness that exists today. You were weird if you *didn't* smoke back then.
@@drott150 true. You weren't a man if you didn't smoke back then. Times have changed though and with all the health warnings, anyone who suffers health problems due to smoking these days are victims if their own stupidity!
Yes, a victim of his own bad choices. Of course, back then few people knew how dangerous smoking was, so he was a victim of that too.