Smoking: A Report on the Nation's Habit

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Pelican Films

Complete Record: Points out in 1964 Surgeon General’s report on cigarettes that smoking greatly increases risk of lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, and a host of other ailments. Outlines recent information on smoking trends, tobacco industry, and newest dangers associated with smoking. Emphasizes why not to start, or if started, to quit, smoking. Stills of old Camel advertisements. Factory: machines producing and boxing cigarettes. Lots of statistics on smoking. Cigarette manufacturing. Graveyard. Man & woman playing tennis then having a cigarette. Teenage girls smoking. Men smoking at poker game. Poster of Marlboro Man. Poster of Camel ad; actual smoke coming out of the mouth of the man on the poster. Mother smoking near kid. Black woman smoking in a meeting. The two people sitting next to her make a face. No smoking signs in offices.