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Tobacco or health
Tobacco or health
Contributor(s):
Pan American Health Organization, issuing body. World Health Organization, issuing body. Pan American Health Organization, donor.
Publication:
[Bethesda, Md.] : [National Library of Medicine], [2019] Originally published as part of the videocassette: Washington, DC : World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization, 1988
Video focuses on the serious hazards of smoking, including how second-hand smoke affects those exposed to it. The move to ban smoking in public places is mentioned, as is regulation of cigarette advertisting and the trend towards banning smoking on airplanes. A series of short vignettes with people miming the grinding-out of a cigarette is shown. Yul Brynner's televised "Don't Smoke" plea recorded shortly before his death from lung cancer is shown.
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Copyright Information:
Pan American Health Organization; Source: Original videocassette; Research date: 03/21/2013
Related Title(s):
Health for all--all for health ; Tobacco or health