Do you know about Yul Brenner, the actor?
Yul Brenner died of lung cancer.
No surprise there, it was fully expected.
He was more than a pack a day smoker from when he was a kid. Maybe from age 9.
The result?
Doctors told him he could count his days on one hand.
What was a surprise was a 1986 film he made to convince young people to quit smoking.
It opens with Yul Brenner to camera saying if you’re seeing this I’m dead from lung cancer.
It’s a message from the grave about the dangers of smoking.
Will you find a more effective anti-smoking message? It’s unlikely.
The strength of this approach is being used again.
By Phil Gaimon, a professional bike racer.
He isn’t dead, but he could have been many times as careless drivers put him in peril while he was on his bike training.
He did a video to tell the story, https://bit.ly/2Hj13aF
It comes with a stopper of a headline: “Please share this when I’m killed by someone driving a car.”
Have a look at the video and … yeah, have a care when you see cyclists on the road.