Graphs show the increase in public smoking and the marked decrease in smoking among doctors. Diagrams show what happens when smoke enters the breathing tubes and the alarming process of uncontrolled cell division which leads to cancer. Shows how mice can suffer from cancer, by painting cigarette tar on their skin. Leading personalities tell why they have given up smoking. Shows what can be bought with the money saved by giving up cigarettes over a year.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322865
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette habit
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette smokers
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Drug addiction
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Passive smoking - Health aspects
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Public health - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco - Physiological effect
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco habit
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)