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Living On Smoke

Date released

1966

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

363

NoS ID

350532

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Although one million pounds a year is being spent by the tobacco companies in medical research to determine the effect of smoking on health, the Chancellor budgets on getting from smokers the...

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Goodbye to Tobacco (1982 Film)

Producer

Helge Sten-Knudsen

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Demonstrates alternative methods of giving up smoking. Shows use of muscle tension, and an active method of rejecting smoking in addition to relaxation. Filmed in an anti-smoking clinic.

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Hamlet Cigar Advertisements (Film, Radio, Television)

A series of television, radio and cinema advertisements for Benson and Hedges Hamlet cigars. The campaign was created in 1960 by the Collett Dickenson Pearce agency and launched in the UK in 1964 running...

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India Inhales (2000)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

Every day in India, another 55,000 children start smoking - compared to the 3,000 children who take up the habit in the USA, where numbers are falling. Tobacco is one of India’s favourite pastimes: Indians...

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Smokers’ Luck (1980 Video)

Producer

Alec Nisbett

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at illnesses resulted from smoking tobacco. Asks whether lung deterioration can be detected at an early stage and how much of the recent increase in heart disease is due to cgarette smoking. Looks at...

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Concerning Cancer: The Fragrant Smoke (1987 Video)

Producer

Gill Barnes

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Charts the rise of the incidence of lung cancer and other diseases associated with smoking in China, as the Chinese try to find ways to reduce number of smoking-related deaths. At the same time British and...

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Suckers (1990)

Subject

Health Education

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £12.00 (+VAT +p&p) hire £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) sale

David Bellamy describes how and why tobacco came to Europe, and explains the biochemical secrets behind its addictive appeal. H epresents some remarkable facts and figures about just how lethal it can be,...

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Eve Helps a Strange British Harvest

Date released

20 Apr 1922

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

46

NoS ID

334597

Story no

2 / 6

Pathe Intertitles - "Watch the pictures and guess what it is --" Seven shots "One more guess -" One shot "Those who said "Tobacco" win the Smoking Stakes. And here’s a queer thing. They "bonnet" the flower...

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Bard, The (1963 Television)

Series

Twilight Zone, The

Director

David Butler

American television science fiction/fantasy series. An inept and hack screenwriter, Julius Bloomer, is in urgent need of first class scripts so he conjures up the spirit of Shakespeare by use of black magic....

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History of Advertising, The - Animation 1940 - 1950 (2005)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 62 minutes), £14.99

While today even cigarette billboards generate controversy, in the 1940s it was common to see ads for tobacco on television and in the movies. This DVD contains some of the best cigarette advertising ever...

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