Funny clip from the 1970s anti-smoking ephemeral health film SMOKING: IT'S YOUR CHOICE. The short is actually quite good and effective as far as these "school health scare films" tend to go. It doesn't try to force the viewer's hand, it simply shows you the negative effects of smoking for what they are and allows the viewer to make up their own damn mind.
The presentation is pretty strange by today's standards, though. This scene shows us, with the help of a creepy mannequin who looks like a relative of the Fuccon family of OH! MIKEY fame with cotton filled glass bottles inside meant to stand in as lungs, just how filthy cigarette smoke really is. Some animated diagrams also come in handy.
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