Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes (1997)

Watch Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes: Clearly a message piece, in the vein of the After-School Specials, this is still worth a watch.A very good line-up of voice talents, some excellent stop-motion animation, effective music and some over-the-top melodrama liven up the production and make it entertaining for the full half hour.Interviews with actual teen smokers and a mouth-cancer survivor humanize the statistics, which are clearly presented and scattered throughout the film, some presented in a game show format. I'd say the folks who made this had as a goal making it unlikely that anyone watching would tune out. The variety is impressive and mostly fun, in spite of the subject.As an example of their attention to every...