This film shows the increase in cigarette smoking in the United States since World War I and how this increase has led to a large jump in the incidence of lung cancer. It also shows other diseases directly attributed to cigarette smoking.
Suitable for upper secondary and tertiary levels.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
311114
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
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 - Causes and theories of causation
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Public health - United States
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco - Physiological effect
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)