Synopsis:

The Quit series of five programmes has been designed to raise awareness of a range of issues surrounding cigarette smoking and legal controls on the use of tobacco. Using personal testimonies, the audience is introduced to the impact smoking has on people’s health and lifestyle. Smokers and non-smokers alike discuss how addiction to cigarettes has influenced their lives or those of their families. The series also focuses on how tobacco companies use marketing and advertising techniques to influence people’s smoking behaviour.

Programme 3: Greg’s Story
Greg, a non-smoking teenager in remission from cancer, talks about the dangers of cigarette smoking and discusses why, having experienced cancer himself, he would never start smoking.

00.00 – 04.30
Greg wants to be a professional tennis player. A non-smoker, he was diagnosed as having cancer of the neck aged eleven and a half. He had chemotherapy, which he found traumatic, but the cancer came back and he had to have further treatment. He has been in remission for a year now but to be in the clear this has to extend to five years. As he gets on with his life he wonders if, and when, the cancer might return. Although his cancer is not smoking-related he would never smoke because smoking causes a range of cancers and he thinks it’s just too dangerous.