“ NO SMOKING ” 1960s SID DAVIS CAUTIONARY ANTI-TOBACCO / ANTI-CIGARETTE SHORT XD46854

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Made by Sid Davis, a prolific director of social guidance films, this anti-smoking film takes a blunt, no-nonsense approach to smoking cessation, arguing against the deceit of the tobacco industry with staged reenactments, stark narration, and bold title cards promising smokers a shorter life expectancy due to lung cancer (TRT: 10:21). It was apparently released in 1960.
Opening titles: “Sid Davis Productions Presents” (0:08). A man and woman walk through an open field. The man reaches for a pack of cigarettes in his front breast pocket (0:17). As he is about to light a cigarette for his female companion, the narrator interrupts them. “Wait a minute! Don’t light that cigarette!” (0:36). Title cards: “No Smoking. We acknowledge the technical contribution of Dr. Jeremiah R. Lacoe, M.D., whose convictions concerning the dangers and ill effects of the smoking habit led him to act as medical adviser for this film” (0:45). A woman’s hand holds a cigarette. A young man picks out a pipe at a tobacconist. A title overlay: “400,000,000,000 Cigarettes” (1:06). An elderly man falls asleep while smoking a cigar and starts a fire (1:42). A 1950s automobile driver throws away a cigarette butt in a fire area. Fire trucks pull out of a Southern California fire station while a young boy watches from a nearby intersection (2:00). The pipe shopper smokes a cigarette. A title card lists reasons for quitting: “Less Enjoyment, Lower Vitality, Shorter Life” (2:38). Track and field runners. One young man outpaces another. A man is offered bread at dinner, but he clutches his side and lights a cigarette (3:11). He smokes while lying in bed awake (3:51). Cigarette ingredients are listed: “Aldehydes, Arsenic, Carbolic Acid, Formic Acid, Methyl Alcohol, Hydrocyanic Acid, Nicotine” (4:10). Two men smoke cigarettes in an urban street. A panoramic skyline clouded with smog pollution (4:59). A doctor takes a cigarette away from a man during an examination (5:26). A woman polishes mugs by a fireside, then warms her hands while smoking (5:52). School aged boys smoke first cigarettes and cough while smiling (6:11). An illustration of a smoker’s lungs in profile. Tar clogs the nose, throat, and lungs (6:33). A graph of deaths from cancer 1930-1950 shows a correlation with a graph of cigarette consumption (6:59). A pipe smoker waters a plant in his yard. A dentist (7:33). A title card: “You Aren’t Going to Live as Long!” (7:55). Middle-aged smokers. A man reading a magazine lights up a cigarette in frustration (8:05). Title: “Don’t Start!” Urban pedestrians (9:09). The young couple reappears. Deterred by the threatening narration, they discard the cigarettes they were about to smoke. “Now you’re making sense!” (9:42).
According to the CDC, Cigarette smoking is responsible for over 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is approximately 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
“King of Calamity” Sid Davis moved to Hollywood in 1920 and found early work as a child actor in a Harold Lloyd comedy. In 1949, with funding from John Wayne, Davis pioneered the social guidance film genre with his debut short, “The Dangerous Stranger.” The short was sold to schools and police departments, funding a scare film empire that turned out over 150 films, including the notoriously homophobic 1961 short, “Boys Beware.” Davis parlayed his success into real estate investments and became a multi-millionaire before dying of lung cancer in 2006.
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[@tiger7199]

In 1964 the Surgeon General issued a report on the health effects of cigarette smoking. In 1966 the first health warnings started to appear on cigarette packs.

[@ontarioguy4707]

Ever since i lost my left lung ive cut my smoking in half!

[@littleshopofelectrons4014]

I was born in 1953 and at no time have I ever had even the slightest desire to smoke. It has always been the most disgusting habit that I could imagine having. I can't even stand to be around smokers because of the awful smell. Even when they are not smoking their hair, breath, and clothes just wreak of the stench. Their cars stink. Their houses stink. If you stay around a smoker for very long, your clothes will also stink. I never dated any woman that smoked no matter how attractive. Since both of my parents smoked this made me hate it even more. Both died from smoking-related disease.

[@parrotmom56]

Ditto. It freaked me out as a kid, in college, the army and other workplaces. I am so glad it became unfashionable which is what it took to reduce smoking.

[@tmoonjumpr]

I was prepared to laugh, but that was the most effective vid to promote nicotine abstinence I’ve seen in 50 years!

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[@iummo]

So there's a lesson - dont laugh.

[@NotaVampyre111]

I was the only nonsmoker in my family. I never thought it looked a ything except stupid. Over the years several women got mad at me because I wouldn't date a smoker. The more peer pressure they used on me, the more I resisted it. The same goes for drugs and alcohol. Never wanted to do any of that either. The cringiest part of this video was when he mentioned pregnant women smoking. This is a video that should still be shown in schools today. It just needs a little updating and color.

[@scratchdog2216]

Neat show, straight to the point. Glad I quit but still miss my Camels.

[@Keithbarber]

Get the hump do you?

[@RolIinStoner420]

"might as well get started on that 12.5mile long chain of cigarettes youll smoke in your shortened life time...."

[@pslm23]

In elementary school, they brought in 2 sets of real lungs in see-through glass cases. Smoker's lung = black. Non-smoker's lung = pink/white. That was enough to convince me to never take up smoking!

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

I wonder how many people on set were smoking while this was filmed

[@GiovanniTVTUBE548]

Wow. I love that video.

[@squimmysquam]

I like how they threw up in a, "if you smoke, you won't get able to get it up". They should've made that their main point haha.

[@whiskeysixindigo7371]

When i was a kid the only adut i knew that didnt smoke was my grandmother and I thought it odd that she didnt. I remember family gatherings like thanksgiving or christmas with all my adult relatives smoking constantly and therebeing a blue haze filling the room

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

Wow, society still had a LONNNG way to go. Maybe the film saved SOME lives. :/

[@davewilson3897]

Smoking is not a habit! It is an addiction , nicotine is a drug quitting was the hardest thing i ever did but if not for the GRACE OF GOD I would have continued and died from lung disease 20 years in sep I haven't smoked

[@gravityissues5210]

So where's the video filmed right after this one where the announcer yells a them for ten minutes about the ill effects of littering?

[@kc4cvh]

Sixty years later, some still haven't gotten the message, or more accurately, they refused delivery.

[@markdraper3469]

I'm not going to defend smoking but I've already outlived 2 of my Grandparents who died in their 60's and it wasn't the smoking that killed them. It was the alcohol. Beyond that, my mom didn't smoke but her mom did they both made it to 88. And finally, I can appreciate my doctors' proactive approach to checking for smoking damage but they have never gotten back to me about the x-rays or scans with even a guilt tripping caution. So, simply, my experience is influencing my actions and those have been mixed. My problem with "vaping" not only include the ones recently discovered but I don't know when to quit. That is, over the years, a "smoke break" is exactly that. Used coffee out new coffee in and a smoke. Never late back to work. I tried vaping but I felt much better going back to tobacco.

[@s.willey6536]

More like 1951 or so.

[@s.willey6536]

@Mighty Mouse Girlfriend True. It turns out that smoking is actually very healthy, just like the endorsements from doctors and athletes testified.

[@saxongreen78]

True - though the release date is probably correct as it refers to the _print_ rather than the production...it would have been needlessly expensive to produce a whole new version when the basic info was still accurate.

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

Yeah judging from the cars and clothing.

[@celestialroad]

1:51 fire

[@Angellady11]

It’s filmed in Los Angeles