1970s ANTI-SMOKING FILM “A REPORT ON THE NATION’S HABIT“ TOBACCO INDUSTRY CIGARETTES 13504

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This 1970’s era, color public service movie dates to the period before smoking was widely recognized as harmful, and smoking was permitted in public, including in restaurants and in airplanes. The film examines the American nation’s habit and studies cigarette smoking, its history, marketing of cigarettes, its corporate benefits and its societal and financial costs. Pelican Films presents, Smoking: A Report on the Nation’s Habit, created by Arthur Hoyle and Max Reid. The movie opens with a woman in a nightgown showing us a near-empty soft-pack of Salem cigarettes that she smoked the day before she went to see the chiropractor. The chiropractor shows the lady an x-ray, and shows that she has a spot on her lung from cigarette smoking. The lady speaks of using the empty pack of cigarettes as a symbol of how she will never smoke again -