Wacked Out Anti-Smoking PSA Edition!

This blog shouldn't always be about my life and my brief ephemeral bursts of rote script. Who's to say we can't have fun too? I mean besides Hitler.

I present to you below the five weirdest anti-smoking PSAs I found on You Tube within the span of the amount of time I was comfortable with dedicating to this post.

5) Droids are Prideful Creatures



Weird, right? Cigarette smoke doesn't harm droids but instead of smoking like robot chimneys they've decided to lay off for our benefit? I understand the need for realism, but why was it necessary to flaunt that?

"Shit, we could smoke every day if we wanted to and because we're heartless cold machines it wouldn't mean shit. But you dumb meat sacks need to be taught a lesson."

Fuck you George Lucas, you and your aggressive pro-droidist agenda.

4) The Ultimate Warrior is Just Fine with the Ultimate Warrior



"The Ultimate Warrior has a lot of bad habits, but only ones that help me survive!"

Sanctimonious, much? Coincidentally, when asked what his number one bad habit was, the Ultimate Warrior responded with: "I care too much. About steroids."

3) Ladies and Gentlemen: Silda and the Smoke Frees!



What?! Not once did our middle school assemblies feature pyrotechnics and a freakishly dead-eyed polar bear.

Unfortunately, Silda the bear, suffering from nicotine withdrawal, overcame his handlers and massacred the young non-smokers in the audience. The ones who survived soon perished after the smoke machine from the concert gave them lung cancer.

This post is a tribute to their memory.
Never forget.

2) Stop Staring at My Mouth



There is nothing funny about this Australian PSA. Unless if you, like me, are kinda' thinking that the woman in the ad might be really hot if she didn't have... you know... that whole terrifying mouth thing.


1) Pure Distilled 1980s: Now from Concentrate!



Wow. The pop-art style animation, the bright neon colors, the weird cut-outs, the smoking ducks (which I can only assume is a reference to Howard the Duck, the highest grossing movie of Parallel Earth-703) - this is clearly the work of some some Ogilvy ad-exec who railed a few too many lines in the bathroom of Spago's while A-Ha's "Take on Me" played repeatedly over the speakers in some kind of drug induced 1980s specific freak out. Well played sir, well played indeed.

*) SUPER BONUS VIDEO



I found this when I discovered the Ultimate Warrior PSA. Watch how Booker T realizes what he's about to say, tries to say something else on the first syllable but eventually just goes with it, only to cover his head in shame immediately after it comes out. Schadenfreude at its finest.

I'm in the third week now. Keep going strong.