The risks of cigarette smoking, factually presented with the object of discouraging young smokers. Effects of smoking on the throat and lungs are explained in diagrams and illustrated by the cases of two heavy smokers; research with a smoking machine shows the amount of chemicals inhaled; and animated sequence shows the rise in smoking and the number of deaths from lung cancer since 1910.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
009935
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Chronic diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette habit
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette smokers
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Prevention
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Public health
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco - Physiological effect
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco habit
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Youth - Tobacco use
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)