Synopsis
Portrays a doctor's concern for the high mortality rate among smokers. Shows the relationship between smoking and the incidence of lung cancer, heart disease and other related causes of death. Contains five-minute animation sequence.
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- Running time
- 24 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Tobacco is a Loaded Pistol · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-12-20
A military funeral at a cemetery opens this half-hour film. You may assume a soldier was killed in the line of duty. Far from it. in January 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General linked smoking with lung cancer and heart disease. But his report was not the first to do it. That is the plot of this 1960 film, as a rather strident and puffy-faced doctor tells the widow of a dead soldier (after about 4 1/2 minutes of footage) that his smoking killed him. He takes his anti-smoking message to an assembly of military men, helped by about five minutes of animation. One of the animators is Chic Otterstrom…
★★★ · The Euphemeral snuff film · Spuzz · 2020-03-29
Anti-Smoking film narrated by an alarmingly big faced doctor who we meet as a widow thanks him for taking care of him during his final days. The doctor blurts, "If only I can go out on the street and grab every cigarette out of people's mouth and say "Stop smoking you fool! You're killing yourselves!" The Chaplain hears this, and says "That was the strongest anti-smoking speech I've ever heard!" and summons the doctor to speak at the Veteran's hospital assembly. At the assembly, the doctor says, "I know you're expecting some sort of variety show, apparently they couldn't make it, I'm here to…