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How to Stop Smoking (1964-01-20)
About this film
The various methods and devices used by cigarette smokers to break the habit are examined on At Issue. During this fascinating half-hour program of the weekly National Educational Television series, At Issue follows the progress of smokers participating in the National Health Foundations crash program designed to help persons five up cigarettes. How to Stop Smoking visits with students from an east side New York City vocational school, where former teenage smokers have started a non-smokers club for students. Eminent medical authorities also comment about the success of the different methods for breaking the cigarette habit. The guests are Elman J. Folkenberg, Seventh Day Adventist lay leader, whose church conducts the foundations program; Dr. M. Powell Lawton, Philadelphia psychologist; William Capitman of the Center for Research in Marketing, New York City; Dr. Martin L. Levin, chief of the Department of Epidemiology at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York; Dr. Clifton Read, Vice President of Public Education-Information, American Cancer Society; Dr. Borje Ejup, Research Associate, Cornell University Medical Project, Neurovascular Clinic on Stopping of Smoking. At I…
Directors & creators
Perlmutter, Alvin H.
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Smoking cessation, Tobacco, Cigarettes, Surgeon General's Report, Public health, Health hazards, Cancer prevention, Addiction, Nicotine, Psychology of smoking, Adolescent smoking, National Educational Television, American Cancer Society, 1960s history, Habit breaking, Behavioral science, Lung cancer, Medical research, Social behavior, Willpower, Health education, Television news, Philadelphia Home for the Jewish Aged, Unidentified Flying Objects, Tobacco industry
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