Tobacco And The Human Body

Main title missing. Native American Indians inhaling smoke from fire thru pipe to nostrils. Tobacco farming, cured leaves - CU display of tobacco products on turntable - VO “today more stores sell tobacco than bread”. 12:53:32 CU cigarette lit w/ match. Scientist carrying out laboratory chemical test to analyse tobacco smoke collected in flasks, nicotine & tar levels measured. Flasks labeled w/ ingredients of tar, ‘Ammonia’; ‘Quinoline; ‘Volatile Oils’ etc. Carbon monoxide & dioxide cannisters. Diagram of human body & effect of carbon monoxide. 12:56:37 CU profile of smoking cigarette w/ statistics re nicotine gases superimposed - passage of nicotine thru body & effect of drug. 12:58:52 Rabbit trapped in vice for laboratory experiment. Rabbit’s ear w/ blood vessels, chemist injects nicotine into ear. ECU blood vessels disappearing from ear. Man strapped to bed in observation chamber while smoking, CU graph recording skin temperature. CU rabbit’s heart beating in chest cavity showing difference in rhythm after nicotine injected; diagram explains stimulation & paralysing effects. VO explaining cause of high blood pressure. 13:01:53 CU leg w/ severe sores - Berger’s disease. Experiment w/ rabbit’s intestine showing reaction to nicotine. Diagram of central nervous system; rabbit having convulsions after injection w/ nicotine. Diagram nicotine excretion from human body. VO “after several days, all nicotine leaves the body, but the urge to smoke remains”. CU man smoking cigar. VO “contrary to other habit-forming drugs, no bad after effects are known to result from giving up smoking - why then do people smoke?” CU smoking cigar. 13:03:36 Montage people explaining why they smoke - “It’s sociable” - “My parents smoke, so do I” - VO re people thinking it makes them look important or imitating a hero. Table covered in ash trays & coffee cups. 13:04:12 Teenage boy smoking first cigarette & coughing; man having throat checked; man w/ “smoker’s cough”. Industrial landscape w/ houses near factory - air pollution. 13:05:10 Mice in cage rubbed w/ tar, VO re respiratory cancer, mouse w/ cancerous growth on back. CU man w/ lip cancer. Man having medical check-up, doctor points to x-ray w/ large white area. 13:06:10 Film becomes more overtly anti-smoking: “a habit easily acquired but very hard to break...helped by advertising and glamorizing it makes new converts easily, especially among the young”. montage girls drinking sodas & teenage boys w/ flashing neon sign ‘Tobacco’ superimposed - fade to laboratory scene VO concludes it is up to individuals whether they take the risk. Public Health’ Lung Cancer; Addiction; Animal Testing; Vivisection; Medical Research; Science; Chemistry; Biology; Peer Pressure; NOTE: One continuous minute sold for per reel price.