TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING IN GLASGOW, COAL STRIKE
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Title: TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING IN GLASGOW, COAL STRIKE
Reference number: 9861
Date: 1984c
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.13 mins
Description:
Brief segments of television news interviews about the Glasgow 2000 smoking project and the miners' strike.
This may be STV news footage - the first interviewer sounds like Jim White (?)
Shotlist: [no title] - talking head Valerie about smoking attitudes and behaviour study carried out in Glasgow before launch of Glasgow 2000 project in 1983 - result of survey, 2/3 of smokers wanted to give up and had already tried, but couldn't succeed - unlikely to have a non-smoking population by year 2000, but hoping to rear a non-smoking generation - numbers should come down significantly (1.12) talking head National Union of Mineworkers official wearing 'Coal not Dole' badge, on town street, about possible dangers to workers returning to pit work after strike - interviewer asks question (2.13)