SunSmart 1999 - Leave your hat on
A young couple dance to the catchy tune, You Can Leave Your Hat on. To get sunsmart and save your skin, slip on a shirt, slap on some sunscreen and leave your hat on.
Quit 1998 - Stroke
Smoking causes blod clots that can cause strokes. Some strokes kill or paralyse and others you don't know you're having. Even minor strokes leave bleeding in the brain.
Quit 1998 - Call for help
Every day thousands of Australians quit smoking. Some go it alone. Others get help. Quitting is never easy but you can do it. For support call Quitline on 131 848.
Quit 1997 - Artery
The aorta is the main artery to the heart. Smoking makes artery walls sticky with dangerous fatty deposits. This deposit was found stuck to the artery walls of a smoker aged 32.
Quit 1997 - Tumour
New research shows how cigarette smoke attacks a vital gene that protects lung cells from cancer. Once cancer cell is all it takes to start lung cancer growing.
Quit 1997 - Lung
Lungs are like sponges with tiny air sacks for absorbing oxygen. Every breath of tobacco smoke attacks them. No wonder smokers feel short of breath - their lungs are rotting.
SunSmart 1997 - Bum on nose
Watch a surgeon treating a skin cancer. This skin cancer is removed from the nose and replaced with skin from the bum. To avoid wearing your bum on your nose, get sunsmart.
