Time Pulls the Trigger (Part I)

★★★ · Surgeon Generals Warning: Don't smoke! It's bad for you! · uniQ · 2011-04-20

This 2 parter is about some military dude who dies of smoking and inspires his operating doctor to make a speech at the VA hospital. Has a film within a film. I wonder if the film was a real film, or just made for this film. Either way, it's an interesting (if slightly lazy) way of doing it. That business with the mouse would NEVER be allowed these days. Nice foreign anti-tobacco poster!

★★★ · The Euphemeral snuff film · Spuzz · 2005-07-27

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…