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

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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 - if she dies from smoking that she would like the cigarette pack in her casket. History of smoking. 1890. Smoking became popular with Americans in late 1800s. The first cigarettes were made with Turkish - not American tobacco. In 1913 R.J. Reynolds launched an American cigarette brand using American tobacco; Camel cigarettes. These revolutionized the industry. Camel cigarettes were the first cigarettes designed exclusively for advertising purposes. One famous ad is “I’d walk a mile for a Camel”. By the end of World War I, Camel cigarettes were America’s number one brand garnering 40% of the nation’s cigarette business. In October 1920 Dr. Moses Barron, from University of Minnesota, did an autopsy on a patient and discovered that the patient had died of lung cancer 2:30. In 1920 lung cancer was an extremely rare disease. Americans now smoke more than 600 billion cigarettes a year. 2:51. The industry makes more than $14 billion a year in sales 3:04. Each year over $17 billion is lost due to medical costs and illness/employee absenteeism directly related to smoking 3:16. Hospital corridors are shown 3:25. Each year 77 million workdays are lost and 88 million days are spent sick in bed 3:35. 306 million annual days of restricted activity all due to smoking. A cemetery is shown 3:55. A couple is playing tennis and they have a smoke after the match. 4:30. The materials that go into tobacco and cigarettes are shown 4:40. An animation shows carbon monoxide going through the blood. Smoker has 4 to 30 times more carbon monoxide in their blood than a non-smoker 5:00. Tar contains the cancer-causing agents of cigarette smoke 5:16. Nicotine is the addictive element in tobacco 5:22. A pregnant woman smokes a cigarette 5:45. A baby nurses from a mom 5:55. Parents smoking around the table while kids eat breakfast 6:22. Two very young girls try smoking 6:37. Two teens peek in on a table full of adult smoking cigarettes 7:00. Teenagers in a schoolyard, smoking 7:15. Men playing cards shows a man showing nervousness from quitting smoking 7:52. Side stream smoking is shown where a cigarette smolders in an ashtray. This smoke is much more dangerous 8:44. A stop smoking group is shown, 9:15. Man seen riding a bicycle after quitting smoking, 9:44. Cigarette ads are shown. $260 million dollars a year are spent on smoking 10:00. Different cigarette brands are shown 10:15. Camel smoking billboard, 10:50. Man in hospital bed 11:12. Lung Association Cartoon showing parents smoking in front of children 11:30. Woman smokes at the table in front of her daughter 12:00. Woman smokes at boardroom table and coworkers are annoyed 12:20. No smoking signs are shown 12:30. A smoking a non-smoking office is shown, 12:48. Different businesses are shown that do not allow smoking 13:05. Older images of glamorous people smoking cigarettes are shown 13:25. The Marlboro man is shown 13:53. TV program of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare is shown 1:15. The woman who opened the movie discusses her doctors prognosis of her short life expectancy due to smoking 15:00. Based on the Smoking Digest Published by the National Cancer Institute, Office of Cancer Communications 16:03. Special thanks to the National Institute of Health, the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the UCLA Medical Center Respiratory Care Unit, and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Special Thanks to Dr. Jess Barron.
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[@tom7601]

I quit smoking about 50 years ago. Cigarettes were around $0.30/pack. A buddy, who was in the Navy, could get them for $0.17/pack. That was $1.70/carton. Cancer was cheaper back then.

[@sailorgabbie]

Bought a lot of cartons in the Navy too. Quit now for 25 yrs

[@milesplayzcitiesskylines3743]

cancer in Australia is like $45 a pack now

[@TheRancher03]

i remember having watery eyes due to smog in LA in 1971 and ash trays full of cigarette butts on every desk. No wonder so many people got lung cancer or Emphysema.

[@robertkroberjr.157]

They even made a commercial with The Flintstones smoking! My high school had a smoking area in back of the building. (1981) I think they stopped it the next year. 1981 Graduate!😎✌❤

[@andyZ3500s]

My high school had a smoking section also. Graduated in 84.

[@scratchdog2216]

Got out in '83. Our school's 'smoking room' was a roofed walkway between buildings.

[@jank6864]

Schools still having smoking rooms to this day. I know mine did and still does Lol.

[@Dsdcain]

This film illustrates why I smoke today. Growing up in the 70s everybody smoked. You could smoke in the doctor's office waiting room, the hospital, McDonalds (waiting in line) and every restaurant you could think of. At least when I started it was still *"Cool"* to smoke. I do wish I never started honestly. I'm over 50 and actually quit for a few years until I "relapsed" because I said what the hell just let me bum one. Still, smoking cigarettes beats the hell outta smoking meth, so...🤔

[@marybianca2722]

All the commercials where cigarettes or alcohol and electronics. It was very popular to smoke, all the talk shows had people on and they smoked, movie stars etc. The tobacco companies should have to pay all those people who's families members died from cancer that tried to sue back then. Tobacco companies should be closed down for good! But there are many things that should be shut down. I'm a smoker too but they all should be closed forever,

[@teijaflink2226]

Yeah such a scam, they made so much money and people got sick and died.

[@sailorgabbie]

I had a 20 year pack a day habit. Quit in the 90's. Thank God. When I went into health care I saw firsthand what it does to the human body.

[@karlastafford9623]

I started smoking at 16 in 1985 i didn't know how addictive they where at the time starting with just one a day by the time i was 17 i was smoking a pack a day. Now at 52 in 2021 I Quit smoking.

[@dariowiter3078]

This is a 1978 public service film; MCMLXXVIII translates to "1978."

[@virtualcowgirl3922]

Dude just watching them smoke, makes my eyes burn and my throat hurt. I can't be around cigarette smoke it makes me sick!

[@AirplaneMart]

50 years later and people still smoke 😳

[@FASTPISTOLDRAW]

I have known people that have died of lung and throat cancer they never smoked a day in there life nor were they around anybody who smokes ,Yes cigarettes are harmful, But explain why those people died of throat and lung cancer without smoking . I also have known people at 80 that smoked all there life with only minor health problems .

[@jimmartin7881]

Exactly, it's a genetic crap shoot. My granddad smoked Pall Mall no filters until the night before he died at 96 years old, he also washed his hands in lacquer thinner at the end of each day to get the grease off his hands from working on trucks. Aside from a broken leg, he'd never been in a hospital, never went to a doctor for anything either. Same with me, never been in a hospital, couldn't drag me into a doctor's office with a tow truck and I outwork kids half my age while smoking a cigarette as they huff and puff trying to move I beams.

[@Dsdcain]

True man. My great grandmother died in 1976 at just a bit over 76 (Almost 77) years old. Never smoked or drank a day in her life but dies of throat cancer. Friend of mine smoked a lot and drank like a WW2 era Russian soldier and lived to almost 90. It's gotta be genetics, not just the smokes.

[@sailorgabbie]

Who knows why they got oral throat and lung cancers. Perhaps they worked in an environment with a lot of second hand smoke. Bars come to mind at least until recent years. Also, cancer is not the only disease smoking can cause. It causes heart disease and other pulmonary diseases plus complicates many common illnesses like diabetes. Even someone with robust genetics will rarely get away unscathed so honestly why not quit?

[@Keithbarber]

All the age old excuses rearing their ugly heads again

[@cjturner370]

@@jimmartin7881 Exactly 💯

[@Mr._Johns_Productions]

I really feel for these people. I'm also empathetic. I'm quiting today any positive encouragement is greatly accepted. I've been quiting for 4-5 yrs. Today is the day 👊🚭

[@Keithbarber]

I smoked 15-30 a day for 13 years on/off, but quit more than double that now, 29 years as of 29.04.2024 Never chain-smoked, i couldn't get the metal to light

[@erics7712]

I love tobacco.

[@scratchdog2216]

Smoked Camels for way too many years. Glad I quit but still miss the taste. Just a good cigar on a holiday now.

[@SammyReed-cd4cu]

They're not covering the brand names or showing packs with fictional names like most of these films.

[@jimmyhuesandthehouserocker1069]

It's actually these well-intentioned anti-smoking films that MAKE people smoke. People smoke because they know it's wrong. People love to be rebels. They love it. They love to do a thing they know is wrong. It's fun to be that way. If you really wanted to make people quit smoking, then make cigarettes cost a penny a carton and tell everybody how smoking is completely harmless

[@cromtuiseagain]

That's what started this mess in the first place

[@sandgrownun66]

What do you suggest. That films like this should never have been made?

[@218philip]

It’s interesting that this type of film is not produced any longer. There are billions to be made, tax revenue is a powerful driver of politicians decisions.

[@sandgrownun66]

People in the west got the message. The tobacco companies have now focused on Africa and Asia.

[@TheTechCguy]

The one and only good thing about this whole issue, that we are now plainly seeing, is the fact that every testament, piece of data, and research that came out of the old days like that about the dangers of smoking should be adequate to educate us more and future generations about how bad it is to your health. Never start smoking! And, if you did, quit as soon as possible before you croak from it! Before it's too late! If the world never started smoking, all of those years ago in its history, then much of what we now know about how bad it is would be lost until a later time. And it would have taken a lot longer to find out the real cost of it. Show more smokers this film, man! Show the entire world the truth about it! Smoking. Is. Bad!!

[@FASTPISTOLDRAW]

yes yes lets blame everything on cigarettes.

[@sailorgabbie]

Well, that's what this video is about. Duh

[@cjturner370]

Right!!!. What about What We Inhale From Cars,Trucks,Boats And Way Much More

[@donnierussellii4659]

No that would be alcohol.

[@sandgrownun66]

No. just respiratory diseases.

[@carterdailey5253]

Smoke bad