Tobacco: Addicted to Pleasure (50 min. DVD)

Tobacco: Addicted to Pleasure DVD is a great Tobacco Prevention program for Great American Smoke-Out or Red Ribbon Week

• Growing up in the streets of Dundee, actor Brian Cox was surrounded by tobacco • His entire family either smoked it or chewed it and yet Brian reveals, he never took up the habit • To find out why not, Brian travels to Virginia in the US to discover how the habit of smoking kickstarted the British Empire and created a global market of addicts • Brian discovers how manufacturers conspired to make cigarettes the optimal nicotine delivery system and that the Nazis were the first to make the link between smoking and lung cancer • Brian also takes a gene test which reveals just why he never took up the habit • 50 min. DVD • Grades 7-Adult • © 2012