The function of normal lungs is shown and the processes due to cigarette smoking which affect the lung and cause emphysema. Normal lungs are shown and compared with lungs from an emphysema patient. Treatments, which can only alleviate the symptoms, are shown
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
003252
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Emphysema, Pulmonary
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Smoking
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco - Physiological effect
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)