Designed to discourage cigarette smoking. Uses a smoking machine to show a variety of foreign matter in cigarette smoke, including a cancer-causing tar. Deals with a patient who has a smoker’s cough, but is ultimately found to be suffering from lung cancer.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
010856
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cancer - Prevention
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette habit
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette smokers
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health
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 → Smoking
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco - Physiological effect
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)