"Twlight Zone" creator Rod Serling was known for smoking up to four packs of cigarettes a day. Here is a compilation of commercials of Mr. Serling selling Oasis and Chesterfield cigarettes.
This is Rod Serling age 45 . Mr Serling has been smoking since he was 2 years old . It’s another day in Scranton Pennsylvania and Mr Serling is buying himself a new pack of cigarettes like always , but little does he know that these are not cigarettes just like the others . These cigarettes once lighten they are permanently stuck on your finger . Rod Serling age 45 is about to take a trip into a dimension in which mans fears and all his imagination can come true , this dimension is of course The Twilight Zone
@@steveb7144 Yeah, but goddamn, he can sell a cigarette. And yeah, he died at 50. Several heart attacks, I think, and one on the operating table during OPEN HEART SURGERY in the '70s. How brutal is that? Dude was born on Christmas. Crazy life, one of my favorite people in history every.
@@prototek100 Rod Serling was known to smoke up to 3 packs of cigarettes a day... So it was most likely completely due to smoking. One of these commercials shows Rod Serling at 45. Just five years before his death. No one saw his death coming but it was no doubt because of cigarettes. I'm sorry. I don't need to go into a huge in-depth explanation but I'll tell you that he was a huge smoker.
@@prototek100 ciggarettes directly don’t kill, they increase the chances of a lot of nasty preventable diseases. Just like fast food increases your chances of diabetes and atherosclerosis.
Yeah but in those 50 years he lived more than most will in 100. It's not the years you live but what you do, ask any writer cigs help you write and be creative in general, there is a reason most writers chain smoke lol
Rod Serling had a heart attack while running on a treadmill. Two weeks later he had another heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. He died during open-heart surgery, age 50.
Rod was a war hero and accomplished so much. And you guys are trashing him because he smoked. It was a product of the times. People weren’t taught the dangers and we didn’t have all the medical statistics that we have today. Yes, smoking killed him, but it’s kinda pointless to trash a guy who’s been dead for 45 years.
What does being a war hero have to do with anything? Jimmy Stewart was a war hero as well but he didn't turn into an addict. And Newsflash: People DID know the dangers after a study came out in 1952 showing the lung cancer connection. Warning labels were finally put on cigarettes in '64, but Serling ignored that and continued to smoke for ELEVEN MORE YEARS. It's not pointless to point this out, it's EDUCATIONAL.
@@DDumbrille He was obviously quite intelligent. Which proves that smoking is an addiction unrelated to intelligence, and may be the dumbest of human activities.
Rod was a chain smoker who died from a heart attack at age 50. Rod sure loved his cigs. He sure must have smoked a lot. My buddy Hezekiah was a smoker since age 15 and he made it to 70, but the last 10 years of his life were poor quality with his bad emphysema and high blood pressure. He crept around like a wheezing, toothless old zombie.The stroke finished him off.
Quite an experience to hear such an eloquent and well-spoken man endorse anything, let alone cancer sticks. You kinda wish, for at least him if not for anyone else, that cigarettes weren't such deadly things.
I watched him as the host and creator of The Twilight Zone, so I know I had seen these commercials. What puzzles me is, this was the early 60s, and I was often sent across the street to buy cigs for my parents. I was a minor, not older than 12. There was no problem, no ID required. Nada! However, what I also remember is reading the Surgeon Generals warning about the birth defects caused by cigs. In my family alone, cigarettes played a significant role; ie, deaths, suffering and money - even till this day!
amen, my mother is dying from COPD; smoked since she was 14, now 81. i used to go buy cigs for my parents in a small arkansas town with just a note from my dad. i was 7 years old. not surprisingly, my two brothers, one sister and i don't smoke.
George Burns lived to the age of 100 smoking several cigars a day. Quote from him: "If I'd taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral."
@James Henderson : Really? I didn't know that. I'm glad you're here to tell us these things. "Chewie, take the professor downstairs and plug him into the hyper drive."
It’s just really not all his fault. In the 1960s, people weren’t concerned or even educated about the dangers of smoking like they were even into the 1980s. Rod was a product of his generation, and a brilliant man. It’s just unfortunate cigarettes did that to him.
Bullshit. People DID know the dangers after a study came out in 1952 showing the lung cancer connection. The health effects of smoking even turned up in movies and television in the '50's. Warning labels were finally put on cigarettes in '64, but Serling ignored that and continued to smoke for ELEVEN MORE YEARS. It is unfortunate, but it's all his fault.
@@DDumbrille am I now, now do I smoke yes, but I smoke because I enjoy the smell & I love the flavor, but I can go days & even weeks without a cigarette. My Grandfather whose in his late 80s is a chainsmoker & an alcoholic but is overall in good shape for an 88 year old. It's all about genetics & your diet, as well as your stress level, as well as if you have any other illnesses/diseases. Now if you look at the world's oldest people what did most of them have in common, they drank & they still smoke well after a 100 years old. The biggest thing is and always will be genetics.
@@jasonparsons7653 Thanks. That was funny. But seriously, if you can go weeks without smoking, you're in the VAST minority, so the rest of your comment is too. Nicotine addiction INCREASES one's stress level...that's why it's addictive for 99% (well, maybe 95%) of the population.
Rod was somewhat uncomfortable doing these "plugs" for Liggett & Myers' Oasis and Chesterfield King during his "next week's preview" segments.. But it was part of their agreement to sponsor the series from April 1961 through the summer of 1962. *"Next year, I'm going to do the commercials........'In the Twilight Zone, nine out of ten doctors recommend you smoke......' They'll say I've REALLY sold out."*
What can you say about a man who spent years blindly promoting what would eventually kill him? He achieved fame and fortunate only to lose his life through a pointless addiction, and become just another statistic from the Twilight Zone...
No one is perfect...everyone struggles with one thing or another...Sadly...Rod Serling, a genius...was hooked on cigarettes...and died too young because of them...RIP...
I lkke his works so it's very sad :(.. I am lifelong non smoker(born 1973) and vegan for 4 years.. WHY do they smoke?;( it's polluting environment, too... Really he was good writer I got Twilight Zone t.v series..
Nowhere did anyone pretend it wasn't a sponsor (think of it as an early version of an influencer ad, which it was), and it was one cigarette company (liggett and Myers, now known as liggett vector group) with two brands they owned
If he smoked 4 packs a day, then he would have had a bad cough with lots of dark tar-infested mucous coming out. I think all smokers know it is killing them, but they can't stop. That is how bad nicotine is.
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