Smoking and you

United Kingdom, 1963

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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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Credits

producer/director

Derrick Knight

production company

Derrick Knight and Partners

Great Britain. Ministry of Health

Duration

00:10:40:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1963

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

009935

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain

Educational & Instructional

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

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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