The relationship between cigarette-smoking and lung cancer. Leading US surgeons and health authorities emphasise the parallel between increased smoking in recent decades and higher incidence of lung cancer. Also stressed is the shorter life of cigarette-smokers. The film dramatizes the story of a (fictitious) editor, who is trying to persuade the Board of a US magazine to publish the facts on cancer. Includes scenes of an actual lung operation, and of the diseased lung after removal.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
001678
Language
English
Subject categories
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
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 → 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; Access Print (Section 1)