The gradual decline of cigarette smoking is one of the great public health stories of the second half of the twentieth century. Film and TV play a huge role in that story, starting right here with Smoking and You, the very first official screen contribution to decades of health education campaigning. The film, made on a tight budget by the innovative documentary maker Derrick Knight, lays out the facts with an impressive directness, confronting smokers and potential smokers with increasingly devastating information, while montages of hidden-camera footage make smoking look distinctly unattractive.