Episode of Series “Single Concept Drug Films”.
This film shows the increase in cigarette smoking in the United States of America since World War I and how this increase has led to a large jump in the incidence of lung cancer. It also shows other diseases directly attributed to cigarette smoking.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
320345
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette habit
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette smokers
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Smoking
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco - Physiological effect
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco habit
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)