Using personal testimonies, students are introduced to the impact of smoking on people's health and lifestyle as smokers and non-smokers alike discuss how addiction to cigarettes has influenced their lives or those of their families.
Programme 1 - A Hole in My Neck
Nigel and Chris are two middle-aged men who have smoked since their teens. In this programme, they discuss how they felt about being diagnosed as suffering from smoking-related cancers, and share their thoughts about smoking and hopes for the future.
Meret and her mother talk about their respective smoking habits and the impact it has on other family members. The programme follows their attempts to stop smoking using a variety of techniques, including professional help.<
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.
Interviews with representatives from the tobacco industry reveal the marketing techniques used to sell cigarettes, highlighting the aggressive marketing of tobacco to teenagers in the hope of recruiting the next generation of smokers.
