Research showed the ‘pinky finger’ anti-speeding ad was the government’s most successful ad in reducing speeding. Pretty effective and clever advertising 👍
My sister went through a windscreen in a car accident 20+ years ago. Metal plate in head, rehab, the whole deal. She still has bits of glass that are slowly being pushed to the surface of her skin.
Lol I know so many other smokers who collect them, they’re like trading cards, “what did you get” “I got Brian again” Sad thing was people stop taking it seriously when it was discovered one of those photos was of an AIDS patient or something and they lied about it
They aren't as graphic as they used to, but the new ones still get their point across, e.g. ruclips.net/video/XLm8hrZridg/видео.html&ab_channel=TransportForNSW
When I was a smoker, I was so addicted that these stop smoking ads actually made me want to light up a cigarette - it was them taking that first big draw on it that set off my evil little brain receptors that wanted that hit of nicotine. A few people I knew back then said the same thing. We could imagine the feeling and satisfaction of that big drag, rather than take in the nasty bits that followed. Of course, we thought it wouldn't happen to us. (wrong!)
You are so right. I'm still a smoker, sadly. Even though I was diagnosed several years ago with COPD in my early 40's. Struggling pretty hard to give up entirely. I can cut back to 1 or 2 a day even, but just can't seem to give up entirely. And there are certain times of the year (Christmas, anniversary of a tragic loss in my life, etc) seems to set me off and I'm back up to 6-8 a day or more. Being a regular daily marijuana smoker for just over a decade didn't help my lung situation either. Mixing it with tobacco and smoking it through a bong several times a day, every day, has done some heavy damage to my lungs. Seeing such ads about what smoking does to my body does nothing to deter me from wanting to have a cigarette, either. I'm not naive, I've long known how bad it is for everyone to be smoking that crap. But as I've been hooked on the things for well over 35 years now, it's truly not that easy to just quit and go cold turkey. Not for me, anyways. I've tried patches a few times, to no avail. They help me cut back to 1 or 2 a day, but once I'm finished on the 3 month course, I'm slowly increasing my daily habit again. I'm considering the tablets people can get from their GP. But the side effects scare me more so (crazy when compared to what the cigarettes are doing to me, I know). I've had a bad enough problem with my sensitive stomach for most of my life, so I cannot stand having any level of nausea anymore. Which is one of the side effects that come with that tablet. And I have random nightmares on a fairly regular basis. I seriously don't need something that's going to possibly make that situation worse. Same with the depression and anxiety, I have that in spades at times. I don't need anything that exacerbates it. I don't know. I'd like to think that ONE DAY I'll fully give them up altogether. But then, I start to think that by then, I won't be alive for much longer after that anyways. Heck, I've personally known several people who fought so hard to quit, only to be told just a few months later that they have cancer. And they start to wonder why they bothered to try so hard to give them up then. Since they may as well have just stayed smoking and enjoyed what little bit of time they had left anyways. Crazy logic to others. But it's not to someone like me.
I hear you! It's so difficult - people think it's just a bad habit but it's a powerful addiction. I tried all sorts - like you, I'd get terrible nightmares from withdrawals and nothing really helped until a tried the nicotine inhaler. That way, it wasn't cold turkey it was gradual, I still got to take that inhalation I felt like I needed and could use it anywhere, anytime in stressful situations and indoors at work, so no popping out for a ciggie. When I started, I did what was not recommended - I used patches as a continual low dose and overnight, but used the inhaler as well, in times when I really needed that little "hit" to get past stress or when I was driving everyone around me bonkers with my irritability. I eventually could stop the patches, then weaned down in strength of the inhalers. It took about eight weeks until I was totally free and using nothing. I still initially wanted a cigarette when I smelt one, but now I avoid the smell like the plague ... can smell it on someone a mile off. I know now I would never have another one - my last was in 2014. Yes, I did damage too and have COPD/emphysema, but this is being managed and my prognosis is much better than it would have been if I continued. I am alive to spend time with my grandbabies and enjoy semi-retirement. You need to be mentally ready to do it, and find the best way for you - but just keep trying. You will regret smoking but you will never regret giving up. Take care xx@@mebeme007
There was another anti smoking one that showed the tar from a pack a day smoker being squeezed out of a sponge (surrogate lung) into a glass container that was quite effective.
My mum n dad started smoking in the days when everyone thought it was fine. My dad used to get cigarettes in his army rations. Both of them smoked 20-50 a day my whole life. They lived through all these nasty ads, all the warnings, never phased them. Whenever it was brought up to them they always got angry and defensive. Two years ago my dad died at 68 from a stomach ulcer. A stomach ulcer that couldn't heal due to multiple organ failure, mainly liver failure, from 50 years of smoking. My mum, now 72, I know is keeping her emphysema diagnosis from me, and I saw they were looking at several other lung conditions as well. She smoked more than my dad did. Way more. aside from the obvious physical health implications, smoking has torn my family apart due to arguments arising from spokers' behavior at non-smokers' residences. My parents were not considerate smokers. Not even my dad dying could make them settle their differences. They chose smoking over meeting new-born grandchildren, over their own children, over food, over rent, over many things over the years. I have my own flaws, I'm a weed smoker. Although I dont consider myself an addict and haven't gone to anywhere near the lengths they used to go to when a smoke wasnt affordable. If I cant afford it, I dont buy it, that simple. I'm a grouch for a week or two while I deal with the real world. Big deal. I bring this up because once my mum tried to tell me a whiff of my pot smoke coming through her window was making her sick. Not 50 years of smoking, no. My 2nd hand whiff of pot smoke. Righto. That was their level of delusion when it comes to smoking.
Gosh, your story is almost a carbon copy of mine. Smoking killed my mother 2 years ago and now my father having serious lung issues (although he did give up completely soon after my mum passed). My mother was the most disrespectful smoker as well. You could not get through to her, she was very defensive as well. I'm glad younger generations are waking up.
@@nicolafilippi2053There was another driving PSA where the person ended up in a halo after an accident. That one always traumatised me, I can still remember it now; I would always not be able to look.
As a child hearing a bout a young boy who died when he hit his head on the gutter, when riding his skateboard. That still affects me still. When the helmets come out for all of us, I felt safer I wore them before they were compulsory.
I think a lot of these were from the 1980s and 90s, so it was kind of a nostalgia trip. Australia has some of the most heavily policed road laws in the world, and consequently our road toll has been one of the lowest in the world since the 1970s.
Unfortunately it's creeping up again. We did so well for so many years, but people seem angry, impatient and inconsiderate on the roads now. And so many seem to have a sense of entitlement, thinking they can do whatever they want on the roads. It breaks my heart thinking of all the damage done to so many lives (including all the police, Ambos and Firies who have to see the carnage.
@@Mirrorgirl492 You are so spot on. Far too many people, especially after the global pandemic and having had the lockdowns, etc, have decided to live their lives far too selfishly. Which means they've decided if they want to be angry, selfish and so on, they're going to behave very badly and bugger what anyone else thinks or feels or how it impacts on others. Whether it's on our roads, towards public servants, shop assistants and so on, people are just selfishly taking out their bad and nasty moods on others and it's just going to end badly eventually, for them or for innocent people who just happen to get in their way. Seeing these ads, especially the road traffic ads, makes me wonder why we hardly ever (or never) see such hard-hitting commercials like that anymore. Even more so now that we have more foreigners coming to live in our country. They also need to understand the rules and what impacts their negative driving behaviours have upon not just themselves and those passengers in their own vehicles, but for other innocent people on our roads as well. As well as young people. Such ads may not have any effect on the arrogant selfish people, unfortunately. But I believe they would impact younger people, who have never grown up watching such strong ads, or those who come from overseas and bring with them some of their erratic, crazy ways of driving.
@@Mirrorgirl492I think you'll find across a 5-10 year period it's lower than ever but it has good and bad years. I'm in SA and we had like 70 odd all last year yet just lost our 101st life which I'm sure you heard about being the son of our police chief. I was a first responder and good friend to one of those 101 just last month.
The first one hit me hardest. As a responder i wish i could show that to every driver i see driving agressively or dangerously. However theres another TAC one which is FAR more confronting than this.
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) was created in Victoria when the state government took over the compulsory third-party insurance system from private insurers. The TAC is so profitable that they finance rehabilitation centres for road accident victims and hospital road trauma centres in Victoria. They also fund these high quality, award winning road trauma advertising campaigns. As well as of course five ending third-party insurance in the state. It goes to show how much money the private insurers in other states are pocketing as they take every cent as profits instead of funding the road trauma treatment and recovery system.
TAC = Transport Accident Commision from (I think) Victoria.. The pinky one was RTA which is Road Transport Authority (NSW??). SA and Vic have some great billboard ads that send similar messages.
The last one was a hypothetical guy whose body is "evolved" to survive car accidents. His body is evolved to be suited to be okay in an accident, so unless you look like or are structured like him, slow down, put on your seatbelt, etc.
As a juxtaposition of the first one, there's a famous British one that cuts back and forth between a man in a car on the road and a group of kindergarten children walking and later picnicking beside a river.... then the car takes a corner to fast and ploughs through all of them.... with the theme of pop goes the weasel playing.
My niece was in a car accident a few months ago (thank everything she was wearing her seatbelt). There where 3 people in the car when it rolled 4 times. 2 were wearing seatbelts and survived. The driver wasn't and she was ejected. She was only 17. I live 13 hours away when my sister called to tell me, it was awful. Seatbelt save lives. EDIT: My Niece was on the way with her friends to be moral support for a doctors appointment. My sister was at her home and had to drive 1 and 1/2 hours to get to her.
As a part of my Uni degree final yr in 2007 I assisted the Work Health and Safety Department of a hospital to go completely smoke-free, where it was breaking the law to not physically completely leave the site (including the carparks) if you wanted to smoke. Sadly, the hardcore smokers - including staff and cancer patients - just ignored it, and the rules aren't enforced by security staff because they're too busy/don't care/smoke too. Sadly whilst there is only about a 2% of hardcore smokers left, the number of vapers is rising, and the health outcomes are aweful for vapers - research shows they end up drowning themselves with the type of lung damage caused ☹️
The Grim Reaper one was the one which stuck in my mind after all these years. I believe it was only broadcast about a dozen times as people were complaining that it was scaring the tripe out of their kids. There was also some unintended consequences of it as well, being that afterwards there was a spike in gay bashings in and around Sydney anyway, don’t know about other cities, as gay people were blamed by some for creating/spreading it.
@@siryogiwan Yes, but the ferals did not see that aspect of the commercials, unfortunately. To many of them, they still chose to only believe it was just a "gay thing".
Belt op. I rolled my car on an outback road. Three rolls according to the Police and the Ambos. I walked away with two tiny glass cuts, and bruising from the seatbelt that took three weeks to fade.
The one that seems stuck in my head was another road safety one, "go to bed Jessica" Haven't seen it in many years, but, I can still remember it like I saw it yesterday. It wasn't as graphic as most, it was primarily focused on a driver arriving home to his family after an incident in which he was responsible for the death of a child, the man can't cope with the guilt and takes it out on his daughter. There's also a scene where he's being charged for the offence, but, it's the scene of the interaction once he gets home when the reality of the situation comes to the forefront.
Another one that was pretty memorable was another road safety PSA It focuses on two cars that are on a collision course, one driver pulls out from a side street onto a highway and into the path of a driver travelling at speed, "time stops" and both drivers exit their vehicles and approach each other to talk whilst analysing the situation about to unfold, the driver who pulled out in front attempts to plead with the other driver to stop as he's got his kids in the car, but, the other driver apologizes that he can't, he's going to fast, both drivers then return to their cars at which point "time unfreezes" and the expected collision occurs. It was quite well done, plenty of shock value.
@@hybridgoth it might be a NZ road safety ad, but there was a seat-belt related one where a passenger in the back seat gets thrown around the car after a collision and the emergency responders deadpan "looks like all the damage was done by the person not wearing a seatbelt" or something to that affect after the people who were just got completely f'd.
I remember the cigarette ads more than the TAC ones, for some reason. The AIDS ad didn't freak me out (although it should have!) but it did scare the crap out of my baby brother 😅
"Graham" in the final clip, is what a man would have to be built like to survive most car crashes. He includes things like a reinforced skull and upper body skeleton and musculature, air pockets around most of his internal organs, differently shaped legs to allow for the crumpling floor-pan and other such things.
The road safety one’s started in Victoria and they were tired of losing young drivers to speeding or drinking. There is a 14 minute video on here with all of the Ads as one story but each story in it broke up into one Ad. It is much harder to watch but it cut deaths of new drivers by almost 80% in the first year. They won world awards and they are still used in driving schools in many Countries. No matter what side of the road they drive on. It is the message that counts. All of my kids are really safe drivers still and so are their kids.
There's a lot more of the graphic road safety adds from the 80's, but I doubt they would be allowed on here at all. I was in the military in the early 80's and we had to attend mandatory road safety presentations before going on Christmas leave. They were changed to a less confronting format after a few years because almost an hour of the same type of PSAs was so disturbing for the hundreds of 16 and 17yo apprentices forced to attend that some were physically ill and others needed professional counselling. One of my friends had panic attacks for months every time he got in a car and still avoids driving more than 40 years later.
This one is a doozy. "20 years of TAC advertising, Everybody Hurts" This is a 20th anniversary ad made by the Transport Accident Commission for either christmas or Easter over a decade ago. It has been so effective that schools in the US have used it in Drivers Ed classes I've heard.
Interesting. I remember doing a Drivers Ed class at school (Warragul, Vic.) in the 1980s. Pretty much all the 16mm films and VHS cassettes we watched were old US Drivers Ed programs.
Even with a seatbelt, if you have a high powered crash, your organs alone, from the impact itself, can be left bleeding. However, if there was not a seatbelt worn, they'd be flung out of the car at such speed, if you don't knock out the peeps in the front seat first, you'd be dead on impact. Peeps need to take shit seriously. Seatbelts are important! Love your work! Did not realise until now that you were in Malaysia! Heck, you would have been keeling over at first until you acclimatised! Good on you son! 💞💞💞💞💞😊
The AIDS commercial was one of the best. That ad should still be played today. The generations after that had stopped thinking that AIDS has disappeared. It hasn't, the medication is a lot better.
TAC is/was the Victorian traffic authority, different from state to state, in NSW it was RTA, them briefly Roads & Maritime, Now it's Service NSW which is basically every NSW state level public service rolled into one.
Those are some effective ads. I remember the one where the guy gets hut by the car and the AIDS one, being the age me and my mates were at the time and being into heavy metal music and horror films we thought the AIDS one was hilarious.
I grew up with these ads. I'm 48 and have never tried a smoke in my life. Was also super careful driving when I got my license. Didn't have an accident in over 30 years.
I’m a mother of 4 women and I remember saying to them when they were of age I told them that if your date doesn’t have a condom then it’s not on because I can help you with pregnancy I can’t help you with AIDS thank goodness they listened
it wasn't in this video but the vw kombi one was the best or worst depending how you want to look at it. australia was the first western country to mandate wearing seatbelts.
TAC is the Transport Accident Commission, a Victorian Government Authority that pays for medical treatment for victims of road trauma. They are funded through car registration.
The last one was how a human needs to be constructed to better withstand road accident impacts. The model probably done by artist Patricia Piccinini who makes outlandish creatures like a human/beagle with a litter.
Wtf was that last one that's creepy as. The one i remember is a woman with a kid backing out of a driveway and not looking and getting T-boned. Nah the smoking adds dont really work when you smoke because it's an addiction so you just ignore them. I used to smoke when i was 18 to 26 and ya just keep doing it no matter what. Lucky i haven't smoked for year's now. The two with the kid and the bloke getting hit gave me chills. One stupid thing is you are not allowed to sleep in your car on the side of the road, and you can get a fine for doing so 🤦
In Australia it is not only allowed but, as you saw in the ad, encouraged. On long weekends etc where there is a lot of traffic on the roads and people may well have been partying on their trip away, there are driver reviver stations set up along major country routes, there is usually a stall set up with free coffee for the driver and inexpensive drinks and snacks for passengers and its always set up in locations where there is plenty of shade to pull over for a nap in....or at least, thats how it is in my state.......but then, of course, the distances travelled here in Oz can be absolutely vast.
My sister used to refuse to do up her seatbelt, so I sent her a video of a crash test where the person in the back killed the person in the front. I told her she could kill one of her loved ones by doing that, as an unrestrained body can kill restrained passengers in the car.
Scotty got me mainly because I have a Scotty and he was very likely to be playing on the road. Luckily we lived in a court so less likely to have speeding cars
The TAC is the Transport Accident Commission from the state of Victoria. They're a government owned agency that oversees everything to do with road accidents in the state, such as finding ways to make roads safer, funding treatment for people injured in accidents and creating advertising campaigns like these to convince people to drive more safely. The TAC is actually world famous for coming up with shocking, soul crushing road safety ad campaigns which have even been sold to other countries. There are some even worse ones than the ones shown here. One thing I've always hated about the road safety ads is how they always blame the driver for driving over pedestrians if they were speeding even when it's objectively the pedestrians' fault they got run over. Like how that woman will have eternal nightmares because that kid's parents were too shit to teach the kid not to run into traffic. Or the "brain pulp" guy not even looking before diving in front of a car. Sure he would have survived if the car had been going more slowly, but is it really the driver's responsibility to protect some dickhead who suddenly jumps out of nowhere and tries to hip-check your moving car? That last thing was Graham, designed by medical professionals and artists to show what a human would have to look like to naturally survive a car crash. He has extra muscles and reinforced bones that can resist the forces involved in crashes.
The TAC adds where it’s a ‘drive slower’ add, like the old ‘ wipe off 5 and save lives’ was designed because speeding was common ( before traffic cameras were plentiful). It was to show what would happen if you were speeding instead of going the speed limit
The doctors where I go to have a large jar full of franger's. They are right on the pathway for kids coming and going to school and when your sitting waiting for your doctor at after school time you get girls and boys coming in and just about clean the jar out nearly every day. The doctors hand them out for free and the kids make the most of it. Good on the doc's I reckon.
We [ my old mates and myself] don't use the new word's. We are still back in the dark ages. I don't like hearing the kids using all of these american terms and silly talk. It makes them look and sound like fuckin' idiots. @@rubytuesday5412
4:00 that aeorta obviously isnt being used anymore by the 32 YEAR OLD SMOKER.. TAC is Transport Accident Commision (I think New South Wales).. Each State has one, but most of these ads are Government issues and played in every State.. Some of these are older, but they still make traffic ads and such like this, its the only way people learn.. Years ago I met a couple. They had an accident in their big old American car.. Due to the age of it, it had no seatbelts.. It also didnt have a "safety glass windscreen".. They had an accident, she went through the galss window, and scarred her face on one side only, from glass, basically like someone drew a nline top to bottom of her face, thru the middle, down her nose.. One side was fine, the other side looked like she had been attacked with a fork.. Due to the distances here, we have volunteer rest stops on main roads between capitals. The local volunteers man a van where you can stop and grab a free coffee and a kit kat and have a bit of a break. Also handy to hear what the road is like, if they know of any detours for roadworks etc.. 8:00 Siimond Renyolds A.I.D.S. Campaiugn. This was the first ad like this on Australian TV.. It really distrrubed a LOT of people.. And won advertising awards all over the World. 10:20 www.meetgraham.com.au
I was in my mid teens when the aids ad came out, I loved it then and now, it was banned because it scared too many kids, but at the time, it was important, back then people thought it was a gay man's disease and the ad was making people realise it was impacting everyone, breaking the stereotype of the time, it was from things like this ad, that shaped gen x in Australia
I... can see where those ads would be effective. Some for the graphic nature, others for the education and/or insulting nature. I mean that pinky ad is designed to make you look bad, not "scare" or shock you. Fun watching you react to these, not as fun to watch them.
The point was to terrify you into not doing it. Its so affective and so many generation grew up with it, that it severely cut down and prevented a lot of issues. Made being a dumbass not something to be cool about. Risking getting badly hurt or dying for clout that only last a few minute sor hours before someone forgets wasn't cool. But also the rules got stricter too to go with the ads. Very few people actually smoke these days, many didn't start because of the ads, others because they jacked up the prices of cigarettes and vehicle/road fines. They can't afgord it so they don't risk it. Very effective. Until someone created vapes. Now they're trying to ban them.
Dang, these Australian PSA's may be more disturbing than even the UK ones. I'm blind, so I only get the audio. Some of these PSA's are mainly visual, but the audio doesn't tell you that much. With most of these the audio is freaking disturbing. Actually, as I was typing this, they played one with no speaking and just music.
No one else got freaked out by the "Drug Offensive" ads? Of the mid to late 80s? Although the grim reaper ones were pretty awful as referenced already.
It is automatic for everyone to put on their seatbelts here in Australia. I am a great grand mother now and it is instilled into our kids. The only ones that don't are irresponsible or young car thieves which there are a lot of !
Sadly, it's not so automatic for too many Aussies out there to buckle up before taking off in a car. Just ask any police officer, paramedic or fire fighter who has to constantly attend to the hundreds and hundreds of road traffic accidents all over the country every single year. As much as I know some coppers can be a-holes. The other good ones, I truly feel so sorry for, having to put up with doing that type of work. And the nightmares they must live with, when they struggle to even try and switch off after each shift, and try to live some assemblance of a "normal" life. That is something that the selfish people on our roads just couldn't give a stuff about, unfortunately.
This is pretty scary stuff. You might want to check out something much much lighter for another video if so check out the meaning of " Doing a Bradbury" I will not spoil it for you by telling you any more, I think with your sence of houmer you will enjoy it.
I was entiring my sex life in the late 80's and that ad scared the crap out of me . I never had sex once in my life without a condom. If it is not on, it's not on was the other ad. ;
This is the one that drives it home for me, it's gut wrenching, so Trigger Warning! This five minute retrospective of road safety campaigns is a compilation of 20 year of TAC ads. The montage features iconic scenes and images from commercials that have helped change the way we drive, to the song Everybody Hurts by REM. ruclips.net/video/Z2mf8DtWWd8/видео.html
I made my son sit and watch that video before he got his driver's licence. He has since taught many of his friends to drive, and in doing so he makes a point of showing them the same video.
The Grim Reaper commercial was absolutely appalling. I was a teenage closeted gay at the time it came out. I have never experienced anything as damaging as that, and I’ve been treated pretty poorly as a gay man in the past. I went onto work in HIV prevention in a government health department in the 90s, and they were still talking about how disgusting that ad was.
The latest smoking add Is a lady dying from cancer She speaks with a machine as now had no voical box or teeth othe stuff She died not long after doing add on how her gfand kids never herd her real voice Wished she'd recorded her voice for them and how never see them grow up have families This is the most current one The one before that was a family at the table having a meal shows husband and kids eating She was pouring a liquid down a tube into her stomach as cancer taken her option to swollow We had another one where fatigue a combie van drifted across the road straight into side of semi trailer The original one bodies flew out over the road But it was to graphic with the bodies being throw onto the road So it got cut out and stopped after it hits the the damaged vechile after Our current ones are the people dead in the accident on road thinking how much theyll be leaving behind Because they dont realise their dead until a sheet is layed over them and the penny drops no a dream
in answer to ur question about smoking ads... no i dont care about them at all.... i KNOW thats wot imma die from but id sooner die from smoking from lung cancer etc than living the rest of my life craving... and yes i do know wot im talking about... my mother quit pregnant with me and still craves now 51 years later. my father quit at the same time as her and was so miserable so he started again.... ive had several friends die of lung cancer etc..... but while im enjoying myself why nnot? i would like to point out im not suicidal.... i just believe in reincarnation xxx
@@queeng5925 ~ True and we don't know the long term effects either. Vaping not being around long enough to know. Who wants to smoke fruit flavoured sh*t anyway...
If there's one thing that the Australian government is great at, it's keeping it's citizens in fear. Particularly if it's financially favourable to them....
The TAC is a state-based agency, not federal. And why would the federal govt do ads to discourage smoking when they bring into much tax revenue? Oh right ... because smoking is really bloody bad for you and everyone who has to breathe in your stench 🙄
@@FionaEm That was a broad statement aimed at the Australian government in general, not the TAC. And as far as tobacco, don't even get me started. What they're doing to the Australian public with that is borderline fucking criminal. Not to mention they've created a massive black market which is only going to get worse. I don't smoke, but this life is pretty shitty for a lot of people and if they want to make the smaller moments a little more palatable by smoking, that's entirely up to them. I make no judgements about it, it's their life and they should be free to do whatever they wish with it, including potentially ending it early.
Research showed the ‘pinky finger’ anti-speeding ad was the government’s most successful ad in reducing speeding. Pretty effective and clever advertising 👍
Agreed!
I know a friend that was a speeding hoon and has 12 inches.
I think the most painful thing for guys in this situation is the acknowledgement that they are being judged@@jozefeter4078
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He couldn't help it beeing so small, it was a cold day!@@jozefeter4078
The cigarette ads didn't tend to do a huge amount for those already smoking, but it seems to have prevented a lot of people from starting.
My sister went through a windscreen in a car accident 20+ years ago. Metal plate in head, rehab, the whole deal. She still has bits of glass that are slowly being pushed to the surface of her skin.
In Australia we put graphic adds on cigarettes packaging as well, some of them are pretty gross!
Lol I know so many other smokers who collect them, they’re like trading cards, “what did you get” “I got Brian again”
Sad thing was people stop taking it seriously when it was discovered one of those photos was of an AIDS patient or something and they lied about it
TAC is the Victorian traffic accident commission
Man, Australia don't do ads like these anymore.
The ads were the last bastion to support Australian movies and cinemas.
They aren't as graphic as they used to, but the new ones still get their point across, e.g.
ruclips.net/video/XLm8hrZridg/видео.html&ab_channel=TransportForNSW
When I was a smoker, I was so addicted that these stop smoking ads actually made me want to light up a cigarette - it was them taking that first big draw on it that set off my evil little brain receptors that wanted that hit of nicotine. A few people I knew back then said the same thing. We could imagine the feeling and satisfaction of that big drag, rather than take in the nasty bits that followed. Of course, we thought it wouldn't happen to us. (wrong!)
You are so right.
I'm still a smoker, sadly. Even though I was diagnosed several years ago with COPD in my early 40's. Struggling pretty hard to give up entirely.
I can cut back to 1 or 2 a day even, but just can't seem to give up entirely. And there are certain times of the year (Christmas, anniversary of a tragic loss in my life, etc) seems to set me off and I'm back up to 6-8 a day or more.
Being a regular daily marijuana smoker for just over a decade didn't help my lung situation either. Mixing it with tobacco and smoking it through a bong several times a day, every day, has done some heavy damage to my lungs.
Seeing such ads about what smoking does to my body does nothing to deter me from wanting to have a cigarette, either.
I'm not naive, I've long known how bad it is for everyone to be smoking that crap. But as I've been hooked on the things for well over 35 years now, it's truly not that easy to just quit and go cold turkey. Not for me, anyways.
I've tried patches a few times, to no avail. They help me cut back to 1 or 2 a day, but once I'm finished on the 3 month course, I'm slowly increasing my daily habit again.
I'm considering the tablets people can get from their GP. But the side effects scare me more so (crazy when compared to what the cigarettes are doing to me, I know).
I've had a bad enough problem with my sensitive stomach for most of my life, so I cannot stand having any level of nausea anymore. Which is one of the side effects that come with that tablet.
And I have random nightmares on a fairly regular basis. I seriously don't need something that's going to possibly make that situation worse.
Same with the depression and anxiety, I have that in spades at times. I don't need anything that exacerbates it.
I don't know. I'd like to think that ONE DAY I'll fully give them up altogether.
But then, I start to think that by then, I won't be alive for much longer after that anyways.
Heck, I've personally known several people who fought so hard to quit, only to be told just a few months later that they have cancer. And they start to wonder why they bothered to try so hard to give them up then. Since they may as well have just stayed smoking and enjoyed what little bit of time they had left anyways.
Crazy logic to others. But it's not to someone like me.
I hear you! It's so difficult - people think it's just a bad habit but it's a powerful addiction. I tried all sorts - like you, I'd get terrible nightmares from withdrawals and nothing really helped until a tried the nicotine inhaler. That way, it wasn't cold turkey it was gradual, I still got to take that inhalation I felt like I needed and could use it anywhere, anytime in stressful situations and indoors at work, so no popping out for a ciggie. When I started, I did what was not recommended - I used patches as a continual low dose and overnight, but used the inhaler as well, in times when I really needed that little "hit" to get past stress or when I was driving everyone around me bonkers with my irritability. I eventually could stop the patches, then weaned down in strength of the inhalers. It took about eight weeks until I was totally free and using nothing. I still initially wanted a cigarette when I smelt one, but now I avoid the smell like the plague ... can smell it on someone a mile off. I know now I would never have another one - my last was in 2014. Yes, I did damage too and have COPD/emphysema, but this is being managed and my prognosis is much better than it would have been if I continued. I am alive to spend time with my grandbabies and enjoy semi-retirement. You need to be mentally ready to do it, and find the best way for you - but just keep trying. You will regret smoking but you will never regret giving up. Take care xx@@mebeme007
There was another anti smoking one that showed the tar from a pack a day smoker being squeezed out of a sponge (surrogate lung) into a glass container that was quite effective.
My mum n dad started smoking in the days when everyone thought it was fine. My dad used to get cigarettes in his army rations. Both of them smoked 20-50 a day my whole life. They lived through all these nasty ads, all the warnings, never phased them. Whenever it was brought up to them they always got angry and defensive.
Two years ago my dad died at 68 from a stomach ulcer. A stomach ulcer that couldn't heal due to multiple organ failure, mainly liver failure, from 50 years of smoking. My mum, now 72, I know is keeping her emphysema diagnosis from me, and I saw they were looking at several other lung conditions as well. She smoked more than my dad did. Way more.
aside from the obvious physical health implications, smoking has torn my family apart due to arguments arising from spokers' behavior at non-smokers' residences. My parents were not considerate smokers. Not even my dad dying could make them settle their differences. They chose smoking over meeting new-born grandchildren, over their own children, over food, over rent, over many things over the years.
I have my own flaws, I'm a weed smoker. Although I dont consider myself an addict and haven't gone to anywhere near the lengths they used to go to when a smoke wasnt affordable. If I cant afford it, I dont buy it, that simple. I'm a grouch for a week or two while I deal with the real world. Big deal. I bring this up because once my mum tried to tell me a whiff of my pot smoke coming through her window was making her sick. Not 50 years of smoking, no. My 2nd hand whiff of pot smoke. Righto. That was their level of delusion when it comes to smoking.
I still have nightmares about that Grim Reaper Ad & I couldn't go 10 pin bowling for a long time after....
Gosh, your story is almost a carbon copy of mine. Smoking killed my mother 2 years ago and now my father having serious lung issues (although he did give up completely soon after my mum passed). My mother was the most disrespectful smoker as well. You could not get through to her, she was very defensive as well. I'm glad younger generations are waking up.
@@nicolafilippi2053There was another driving PSA where the person ended up in a halo after an accident. That one always traumatised me, I can still remember it now; I would always not be able to look.
One that has always stuck with me is a PSA about wearing a bike helmet where a kid gets hit by a car and an egg cracks on the pavement.
As a child hearing a bout a young boy who died when he hit his head on the gutter, when riding his skateboard. That still affects me still.
When the helmets come out for all of us, I felt safer I wore them before they were compulsory.
Every cigarette is doing you damage. That ad made me flash back
I think a lot of these were from the 1980s and 90s, so it was kind of a nostalgia trip. Australia has some of the most heavily policed road laws in the world, and consequently our road toll has been one of the lowest in the world since the 1970s.
Unfortunately it's creeping up again. We did so well for so many years, but people seem angry, impatient and inconsiderate on the roads now. And so many seem to have a sense of entitlement, thinking they can do whatever they want on the roads. It breaks my heart thinking of all the damage done to so many lives (including all the police, Ambos and Firies who have to see the carnage.
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You are so spot on.
Far too many people, especially after the global pandemic and having had the lockdowns, etc, have decided to live their lives far too selfishly. Which means they've decided if they want to be angry, selfish and so on, they're going to behave very badly and bugger what anyone else thinks or feels or how it impacts on others.
Whether it's on our roads, towards public servants, shop assistants and so on, people are just selfishly taking out their bad and nasty moods on others and it's just going to end badly eventually, for them or for innocent people who just happen to get in their way.
Seeing these ads, especially the road traffic ads, makes me wonder why we hardly ever (or never) see such hard-hitting commercials like that anymore.
Even more so now that we have more foreigners coming to live in our country. They also need to understand the rules and what impacts their negative driving behaviours have upon not just themselves and those passengers in their own vehicles, but for other innocent people on our roads as well. As well as young people.
Such ads may not have any effect on the arrogant selfish people, unfortunately. But I believe they would impact younger people, who have never grown up watching such strong ads, or those who come from overseas and bring with them some of their erratic, crazy ways of driving.
@@Mirrorgirl492Along with the increase in violence against our Police, Ambulance, Firies & Hospital staff.
@@Mirrorgirl492I think you'll find across a 5-10 year period it's lower than ever but it has good and bad years. I'm in SA and we had like 70 odd all last year yet just lost our 101st life which I'm sure you heard about being the son of our police chief. I was a first responder and good friend to one of those 101 just last month.
The drink and drive psa s were quite powerful as well.
The first one hit me hardest. As a responder i wish i could show that to every driver i see driving agressively or dangerously. However theres another TAC one which is FAR more confronting than this.
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) was created in Victoria when the state government took over the compulsory third-party insurance system from private insurers. The TAC is so profitable that they finance rehabilitation centres for road accident victims and hospital road trauma centres in Victoria. They also fund these high quality, award winning road trauma advertising campaigns. As well as of course five ending third-party insurance in the state. It goes to show how much money the private insurers in other states are pocketing as they take every cent as profits instead of funding the road trauma treatment and recovery system.
2:08 was filmed down the road from me, when i was a kid in Altona, Victoria, Dragon Temple, some of the best Chinese food ive ever had
TAC = Transport Accident Commision from (I think) Victoria.. The pinky one was RTA which is Road Transport Authority (NSW??). SA and Vic have some great billboard ads that send similar messages.
The last one was a hypothetical guy whose body is "evolved" to survive car accidents. His body is evolved to be suited to be okay in an accident, so unless you look like or are structured like him, slow down, put on your seatbelt, etc.
I grew up with all these ads and remembered most of them, but I still stupidly smoke durries
As a juxtaposition of the first one, there's a famous British one that cuts back and forth between a man in a car on the road and a group of kindergarten children walking and later picnicking beside a river.... then the car takes a corner to fast and ploughs through all of them.... with the theme of pop goes the weasel playing.
lol mate that was the craziest most insane AD ever
Have you seen Russell Howard’s reaction?
My niece was in a car accident a few months ago (thank everything she was wearing her seatbelt). There where 3 people in the car when it rolled 4 times. 2 were wearing seatbelts and survived. The driver wasn't and she was ejected. She was only 17. I live 13 hours away when my sister called to tell me, it was awful. Seatbelt save lives. EDIT: My Niece was on the way with her friends to be moral support for a doctors appointment. My sister was at her home and had to drive 1 and 1/2 hours to get to her.
PSA's can tell you so much about the psyche of a nation.
As a part of my Uni degree final yr in 2007 I assisted the Work Health and Safety Department of a hospital to go completely smoke-free, where it was breaking the law to not physically completely leave the site (including the carparks) if you wanted to smoke.
Sadly, the hardcore smokers - including staff and cancer patients - just ignored it, and the rules aren't enforced by security staff because they're too busy/don't care/smoke too.
Sadly whilst there is only about a 2% of hardcore smokers left, the number of vapers is rising, and the health outcomes are aweful for vapers - research shows they end up drowning themselves with the type of lung damage caused ☹️
The Grim Reaper one was the one which stuck in my mind after all these years.
I believe it was only broadcast about a dozen times as people were complaining that it was scaring the tripe out of their kids.
There was also some unintended consequences of it as well, being that afterwards there was a spike in gay bashings in and around Sydney anyway, don’t know about other cities, as gay people were blamed by some for creating/spreading it.
this ad was after that started, it was put out to educate people it wasn't just the gay men that got it
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Yes, but the ferals did not see that aspect of the commercials, unfortunately.
To many of them, they still chose to only believe it was just a "gay thing".
Belt op. I rolled my car on an outback road. Three rolls according to the Police and the Ambos. I walked away with two tiny glass cuts, and bruising from the seatbelt that took three weeks to fade.
The one that seems stuck in my head was another road safety one, "go to bed Jessica"
Haven't seen it in many years, but, I can still remember it like I saw it yesterday.
It wasn't as graphic as most, it was primarily focused on a driver arriving home to his family after an incident in which he was responsible for the death of a child, the man can't cope with the guilt and takes it out on his daughter.
There's also a scene where he's being charged for the offence, but, it's the scene of the interaction once he gets home when the reality of the situation comes to the forefront.
Another one that was pretty memorable was another road safety PSA
It focuses on two cars that are on a collision course, one driver pulls out from a side street onto a highway and into the path of a driver travelling at speed, "time stops" and both drivers exit their vehicles and approach each other to talk whilst analysing the situation about to unfold, the driver who pulled out in front attempts to plead with the other driver to stop as he's got his kids in the car, but, the other driver apologizes that he can't, he's going to fast, both drivers then return to their cars at which point "time unfreezes" and the expected collision occurs.
It was quite well done, plenty of shock value.
@@hybridgoth it might be a NZ road safety ad, but there was a seat-belt related one where a passenger in the back seat gets thrown around the car after a collision and the emergency responders deadpan "looks like all the damage was done by the person not wearing a seatbelt" or something to that affect after the people who were just got completely f'd.
I remember the cigarette ads more than the TAC ones, for some reason. The AIDS ad didn't freak me out (although it should have!) but it did scare the crap out of my baby brother 😅
"Graham" in the final clip, is what a man would have to be built like to survive most car crashes. He includes things like a reinforced skull and upper body skeleton and musculature, air pockets around most of his internal organs, differently shaped legs to allow for the crumpling floor-pan and other such things.
fun fact the guy who voiced the Aids Ad also voiced the first Ad for the 1st Holden Commodore, he did lots more too
John Stanton 😊
1:45 that is unfortunately a very grim and true fact. Something that always crosses my mind when there is accidents on roads I travel on everyday
The road safety one’s started in Victoria and they were tired of losing young drivers to speeding or drinking. There is a 14 minute video on here with all of the Ads as one story but each story in it broke up into one Ad. It is much harder to watch but it cut deaths of new drivers by almost 80% in the first year. They won world awards and they are still used in driving schools in many Countries. No matter what side of the road they drive on. It is the message that counts. All of my kids are really safe drivers still and so are their kids.
TAC Transport Accident Commission
Ahh. Memories, I do road crash rescues and a fire fighter mainly growing up because of these ads
My dad talks about the Aids PSA all the time and about how he got so scared by it as a kid.
better acting than Home and Away in these ads
that's not really saying much.
There's a lot more of the graphic road safety adds from the 80's, but I doubt they would be allowed on here at all. I was in the military in the early 80's and we had to attend mandatory road safety presentations before going on Christmas leave. They were changed to a less confronting format after a few years because almost an hour of the same type of PSAs was so disturbing for the hundreds of 16 and 17yo apprentices forced to attend that some were physically ill and others needed professional counselling. One of my friends had panic attacks for months every time he got in a car and still avoids driving more than 40 years later.
This one is a doozy.
"20 years of TAC advertising, Everybody Hurts"
This is a 20th anniversary ad made by the Transport Accident Commission for either christmas or Easter over a decade ago.
It has been so effective that schools in the US have used it in Drivers Ed classes I've heard.
Yes remember those, though there were a few in it I don't recall seeing the full original ad for.
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It was only played for a short while just before and during either Easter or Christmas holidays on the 20th anniversary of TAC ads
Interesting. I remember doing a Drivers Ed class at school (Warragul, Vic.) in the 1980s. Pretty much all the 16mm films and VHS cassettes we watched were old US Drivers Ed programs.
3:28 God damn, need a smoko after that one, 4:18 So what'd I miss....
This is how these should be still shown. They've become tame over the years.
Even with a seatbelt, if you have a high powered crash, your organs alone, from the impact itself, can be left bleeding. However, if there was not a seatbelt worn, they'd be flung out of the car at such speed, if you don't knock out the peeps in the front seat first, you'd be dead on impact.
Peeps need to take shit seriously. Seatbelts are important!
Love your work! Did not realise until now that you were in Malaysia! Heck, you would have been keeling over at first until you acclimatised!
Good on you son! 💞💞💞💞💞😊
The old worksafe ads from the early 2010s stuck with me. The hand in the bread slicer and boiling water on the face stuck with me the most
The Quitline anti-smoking commercials give me chills
The AIDS commercial was one of the best. That ad should still be played today. The generations after that had stopped thinking that AIDS has disappeared. It hasn't, the medication is a lot better.
TAC is/was the Victorian traffic authority, different from state to state, in NSW it was RTA, them briefly Roads & Maritime, Now it's Service NSW which is basically every NSW state level public service rolled into one.
Man I miss these ads lol
Those are some effective ads. I remember the one where the guy gets hut by the car and the AIDS one, being the age me and my mates were at the time and being into heavy metal music and horror films we thought the AIDS one was hilarious.
I grew up with these ads. I'm 48 and have never tried a smoke in my life. Was also super careful driving when I got my license. Didn't have an accident in over 30 years.
The Grim Reaper ad was broadcast in the late '80's, and it nearly kyboshed our tenpin bowling industry.
I’m a mother of 4 women and I remember saying to them when they were of age I told them that if your date doesn’t have a condom then it’s not on because I can help you with pregnancy I can’t help you with AIDS thank goodness they listened
I always told my daughter the same, if it’s not on it’s not on😂 I don’t know if she ever listened but I told her & she never came home pregnant😀
it wasn't in this video but the vw kombi one was the best or worst depending how you want to look at it.
australia was the first western country to mandate wearing seatbelts.
I remember that one. It was horrendous. Traumatised me, that was one I couldn't look at. I don't remember how old I was at the time.
TAC is the Transport Accident Commission, a Victorian Government Authority that pays for medical treatment for victims of road trauma. They are funded through car registration.
I use to laugh my ass off every time that guy with the pizza flipped over the car
TAC is the Transport Accident Commission in Australia. They do all our safety adds
The last one was how a human needs to be constructed to better withstand road accident impacts. The model probably done by artist Patricia Piccinini who makes outlandish creatures like a human/beagle with a litter.
Wtf was that last one that's creepy as.
The one i remember is a woman with a kid backing out of a driveway and not looking and getting T-boned.
Nah the smoking adds dont really work when you smoke because it's an addiction so you just ignore them. I used to smoke when i was 18 to 26 and ya just keep doing it no matter what. Lucky i haven't smoked for year's now.
The two with the kid and the bloke getting hit gave me chills.
One stupid thing is you are not allowed to sleep in your car on the side of the road, and you can get a fine for doing so 🤦
In Australia it is not only allowed but, as you saw in the ad, encouraged. On long weekends etc where there is a lot of traffic on the roads and people may well have been partying on their trip away, there are driver reviver stations set up along major country routes, there is usually a stall set up with free coffee for the driver and inexpensive drinks and snacks for passengers and its always set up in locations where there is plenty of shade to pull over for a nap in....or at least, thats how it is in my state.......but then, of course, the distances travelled here in Oz can be absolutely vast.
My sister used to refuse to do up her seatbelt, so I sent her a video of a crash test where the person in the back killed the person in the front. I told her she could kill one of her loved ones by doing that, as an unrestrained body can kill restrained passengers in the car.
Scotty got me mainly because I have a Scotty and he was very likely to be playing on the road. Luckily we lived in a court so less likely to have speeding cars
I remember them all. Traumatised all over again. 🇦🇺
The TAC is the Transport Accident Commission from the state of Victoria. They're a government owned agency that oversees everything to do with road accidents in the state, such as finding ways to make roads safer, funding treatment for people injured in accidents and creating advertising campaigns like these to convince people to drive more safely. The TAC is actually world famous for coming up with shocking, soul crushing road safety ad campaigns which have even been sold to other countries. There are some even worse ones than the ones shown here.
One thing I've always hated about the road safety ads is how they always blame the driver for driving over pedestrians if they were speeding even when it's objectively the pedestrians' fault they got run over. Like how that woman will have eternal nightmares because that kid's parents were too shit to teach the kid not to run into traffic. Or the "brain pulp" guy not even looking before diving in front of a car. Sure he would have survived if the car had been going more slowly, but is it really the driver's responsibility to protect some dickhead who suddenly jumps out of nowhere and tries to hip-check your moving car?
That last thing was Graham, designed by medical professionals and artists to show what a human would have to look like to naturally survive a car crash. He has extra muscles and reinforced bones that can resist the forces involved in crashes.
The TAC adds where it’s a ‘drive slower’ add, like the old ‘ wipe off 5 and save lives’ was designed because speeding was common ( before traffic cameras were plentiful). It was to show what would happen if you were speeding instead of going the speed limit
And some ads were from the NSW authority, the RTA
I've never seen that last one. Kind of odd and I imagine it wasn't as successful as the more graphic ones.
7:10 TAC is the commission responsable for accident compensation in the state of Victoria
The doctors where I go to have a large jar full of franger's. They are right on the pathway for kids coming and going to school and when your sitting waiting for your doctor at after school time you get girls and boys coming in and just about clean the jar out nearly every day. The doctors hand them out for free and the kids make the most of it. Good on the doc's I reckon.
Ahaha! I havn't heard that word for years! *FRANGA!*
We [ my old mates and myself] don't use the new word's. We are still back in the dark ages. I don't like hearing the kids using all of these american terms and silly talk. It makes them look and sound like fuckin' idiots. @@rubytuesday5412
TAC has a whole bunch of old ones on their channel, including competition winners
I’ve seen all of those there brilliant.
Nice collection.
4:00 that aeorta obviously isnt being used anymore by the 32 YEAR OLD SMOKER..
TAC is Transport Accident Commision (I think New South Wales).. Each State has one, but most of these ads are Government issues and played in every State..
Some of these are older, but they still make traffic ads and such like this, its the only way people learn..
Years ago I met a couple. They had an accident in their big old American car.. Due to the age of it, it had no seatbelts.. It also didnt have a "safety glass windscreen".. They had an accident, she went through the galss window, and scarred her face on one side only, from glass, basically like someone drew a nline top to bottom of her face, thru the middle, down her nose..
One side was fine, the other side looked like she had been attacked with a fork..
Due to the distances here, we have volunteer rest stops on main roads between capitals. The local volunteers man a van where you can stop and grab a free coffee and a kit kat and have a bit of a break. Also handy to hear what the road is like, if they know of any detours for roadworks etc..
8:00 Siimond Renyolds A.I.D.S. Campaiugn. This was the first ad like this on Australian TV.. It really distrrubed a LOT of people.. And won advertising awards all over the World.
10:20 www.meetgraham.com.au
I remember these when I was younger and I remember this one as a child!
If you drink and drive, you’re a bloody idiot !
I was in my mid teens when the aids ad came out, I loved it then and now, it was banned because it scared too many kids, but at the time, it was important, back then people thought it was a gay man's disease and the ad was making people realise it was impacting everyone, breaking the stereotype of the time, it was from things like this ad, that shaped gen x in Australia
These commercials should be back.
I remember all of these 😬
I... can see where those ads would be effective. Some for the graphic nature, others for the education and/or insulting nature. I mean that pinky ad is designed to make you look bad, not "scare" or shock you.
Fun watching you react to these, not as fun to watch them.
10:45 that's big ed from 90-day fiancé
Stoner sloth was the funniest never made it off the ground
The point was to terrify you into not doing it. Its so affective and so many generation grew up with it, that it severely cut down and prevented a lot of issues. Made being a dumbass not something to be cool about. Risking getting badly hurt or dying for clout that only last a few minute sor hours before someone forgets wasn't cool.
But also the rules got stricter too to go with the ads. Very few people actually smoke these days, many didn't start because of the ads, others because they jacked up the prices of cigarettes and vehicle/road fines. They can't afgord it so they don't risk it. Very effective. Until someone created vapes. Now they're trying to ban them.
Dang, these Australian PSA's may be more disturbing than even the UK ones. I'm blind, so I only get the audio. Some of these PSA's are mainly visual, but the audio doesn't tell you that much. With most of these the audio is freaking disturbing. Actually, as I was typing this, they played one with no speaking and just music.
Eye canna b-leev there was an advert-o-doom aka -AIDS, which referenced WWII. Didyemiss thart?
No one else got freaked out by the "Drug Offensive" ads? Of the mid to late 80s?
Although the grim reaper ones were pretty awful as referenced already.
It is automatic for everyone to put on their seatbelts here in Australia. I am a great grand mother now and it is instilled into our kids. The only ones that don't are irresponsible or young car thieves which there are a lot of !
Sadly, it's not so automatic for too many Aussies out there to buckle up before taking off in a car.
Just ask any police officer, paramedic or fire fighter who has to constantly attend to the hundreds and hundreds of road traffic accidents all over the country every single year.
As much as I know some coppers can be a-holes. The other good ones, I truly feel so sorry for, having to put up with doing that type of work. And the nightmares they must live with, when they struggle to even try and switch off after each shift, and try to live some assemblance of a "normal" life.
That is something that the selfish people on our roads just couldn't give a stuff about, unfortunately.
TAC = Transport Accident Commission
This is pretty scary stuff. You might want to check out something much much lighter for another video if so check out the meaning of " Doing a Bradbury" I will not spoil it for you by telling you any more, I think with your sence of houmer you will enjoy it.
I remember these ads except the last one. What is PSA
Public Service Announcements
Fun fact: Graham was actually life modelled on Elon Musk.
i dont smoke because the pictures on the pack creep me out
Well...that's put paid to my plan to drive to the shops to pick up some smokes.
GOLD
I was entiring my sex life in the late 80's and that ad scared the crap out of me . I never had sex once in my life without a condom. If it is not on, it's not on was the other ad. ;
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Remember every one of them. For some reason none of them stopped me.
Dunno if that is something to be proud of...
If smoking is so bad then why is it even legal to make them, the company that makes them should be put in jail for intentionally killing people
This is the one that drives it home for me, it's gut wrenching, so Trigger Warning! This five minute retrospective of road safety campaigns is a compilation of 20 year of TAC ads. The montage features iconic scenes and images from commercials that have helped change the way we drive, to the song Everybody Hurts by REM. ruclips.net/video/Z2mf8DtWWd8/видео.html
I made my son sit and watch that video before he got his driver's licence. He has since taught many of his friends to drive, and in doing so he makes a point of showing them the same video.
I used to know a woman who went through a windscreen. Not nice.
The Grim Reaper commercial was absolutely appalling. I was a teenage closeted gay at the time it came out. I have never experienced anything as damaging as that, and I’ve been treated pretty poorly as a gay man in the past. I went onto work in HIV prevention in a government health department in the 90s, and they were still talking about how disgusting that ad was.
Every Country should do PSAs for guns.
The latest smoking add
Is a lady dying from cancer
She speaks with a machine as now had no voical box or teeth othe stuff
She died not long after doing add on how her gfand kids never herd her real voice
Wished she'd recorded her voice for them and how never see them grow up have families
This is the most current one
The one before that was a family at the table having a meal shows husband and kids eating
She was pouring a liquid down a tube into her stomach as cancer taken her option to swollow
We had another one where fatigue a combie van drifted across the road straight into side of semi trailer
The original one bodies flew out over the road
But it was to graphic with the bodies being throw onto the road
So it got cut out and stopped after it hits the the damaged vechile after
Our current ones are the people dead in the accident on road thinking how much theyll be leaving behind
Because they dont realise their dead until a sheet is layed over them and the penny drops no a dream
in answer to ur question about smoking ads... no i dont care about them at all.... i KNOW thats wot imma die from but id sooner die from smoking from lung cancer etc than living the rest of my life craving... and yes i do know wot im talking about... my mother quit pregnant with me and still craves now 51 years later. my father quit at the same time as her and was so miserable so he started again.... ive had several friends die of lung cancer etc..... but while im enjoying myself why nnot? i would like to point out im not suicidal.... i just believe in reincarnation xxx
Same, here I am puffing away while watching, I do look away..... I know, what bloody idiot. But I do enjoy a smoke... Vaping is worse so they say.
@@rubytuesday5412 yeah.... kids... and i do mean teens n young twenties are dying from vaping.... ive never heard that young from cigarettes xxx
@@queeng5925 ~ True and we don't know the long term effects either.
Vaping not being around long enough to know. Who wants to smoke fruit flavoured sh*t anyway...
wot tis PSA???
Public Service Announcement✌🏼
Evil kenieval eat your lungs out. Nice...not.
Sorry but I can’t watch. I was run over by a 4WD in a shopping centre car park in April.
If there's one thing that the Australian government is great at, it's keeping it's citizens in fear. Particularly if it's financially favourable to them....
The TAC is a state-based agency, not federal. And why would the federal govt do ads to discourage smoking when they bring into much tax revenue? Oh right ... because smoking is really bloody bad for you and everyone who has to breathe in your stench 🙄
@@FionaEm That was a broad statement aimed at the Australian government in general, not the TAC. And as far as tobacco, don't even get me started. What they're doing to the Australian public with that is borderline fucking criminal. Not to mention they've created a massive black market which is only going to get worse. I don't smoke, but this life is pretty shitty for a lot of people and if they want to make the smaller moments a little more palatable by smoking, that's entirely up to them. I make no judgements about it, it's their life and they should be free to do whatever they wish with it, including potentially ending it early.
i keep tellin u to watch Garn ... ill unsub if u dont
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