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    Anyone remember this scary PIF?

    When I was a kid there was a scary bloke who lived down the road who looked EXACTLY like this thing.





  • #2
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    Mentioned on here..https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/s...ghlight=smoker

    Scary S.O.B

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    • #3
      Re: Natural Born Smoker

      Happy 2000 Daz
      Heather

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      • #4
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        Damn..forgot


        2001!

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        • #5
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          Heather

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          • #6
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            That Natural Born Smoker advert used to make me proper plop my pants!...
            "My Dad's taller than your Dad."

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            • #7
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              cannot remember ever seeing it

              - judging by the amount of people who still smoke - I guess they can't !!

              - looked back at the thread daz referred to and noticed the Holsten Pils ones

              try this
              http://youtube.com/watch?v=SIDPuZQOvZc

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              • #8
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                I remember the old Superman ads with Nick O'Tine.
                "Ah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be..."

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                • #9
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                  Nothing has ever scared the living daylights out of me quite like the natural born smoker. I remember the fateful day well. It was a Saturday and I was watching the Wide Awake Club on my own. Tommy Boyd told me about a new advert that was going to be shown to put children off smoking. He said they were going to show it but some people might find it a bit scary so they might want to look away. Pah I thought. How bad can it be? Then it started - the creepy music, the gloomy atmosphere, the black, bony silhouette of the NBS looming into view. I stayed with it until the full facial shot and then I completely freaked out and ran away screaming. From then on it seemed to appear in EVERY advert break. I lived in a state of terror for however many weeks or months it ran. BBC 1 and 2 became my channels of choice but my parents always seemed to want ITV. My heart would thump in anticipation when the adverts arrived and 9 times out of 10, on it would come. I was so scared that I could not fulfill my duties as channel switcher (a physical exercise back then) and my parents, seemingly oblivious to the sheer terror I was experiencing, were always too slow off the blocks to prevent him appearing. Luckily I always managed to run out before the killer full facial shot and to this day I do not have the courage to watch it all the way through on youtube. I get about 10 seconds in and I'm back to being 8 and freaking out!
                  1976 Vintage

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                  • #10
                    Re: Natural Born Smoker

                    I only remember seeing some clips of it on the news, but didn't find it too freaky. It was around the time AIDS PIFs with a tombstone falling over seemed to be shown a lot.
                    The Trickster On The Roof

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                    • #11
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                      Yeah the PIFs at that time were all about shocking you into behaving, and they were really pushed on TV. I remember the one with the tombstone, though I was too young to understand what it was all about. It holds a funny memory for me though, as I remember asking my dad what a condom was when it had been on. "You'll find out when you're older" he mumbled all embarrassed, ha ha.
                      1976 Vintage

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