Verbatim Video Script - Part 2 (with links to the graphics)

"Patient Histories and Medical Explanations of How Smoking
Caused Their Diseases"

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VIDEO SEGMENT 12
In Video 2 we review the case histories of each patient seen briefly in Video 1, their disease and how smoking caused it.

VIDEO SEGMENT 13
Surgeon General's warning smoking causes mouth cancer, throat cancer, lung cancer. "Throw them away, throw them cigarettes away". That was Mr. Willy Thornton trying to speak after his tongue was removed (slide 1). After years of smoking he noticed an enlarging growth on the back of his tongue which interfered with swallowing and breathing. A biopsy of the growth proved that it was cancer. To remove the cancer which was blocking his airway, most of his tongue had to be removed and a surgical hole placed in his neck to allow him to breath. The surgical hole in his neck is called a tracheostomy and is seen here (slide 1). Despite surgical treatment, the cancer spread to Mr. Thornton's neck as seen here (slide 2).

He received radiation treatment for these cancerous lumps in his neck but died anyway shortly thereafter. "Look what happened to me! It could happen to you".

This anonymous patient had a cancer of the mouth which spread up into his nose, sinuses and eye. In order to remove this cancer, half of his face had to be removed surgically (slide 3). His wife pointed to his face and said "Up there, that's where the cancer is coming back and that's caused from cigarettes". Amazingly, the patient could still speak and when asked; "Did you think you could quit any time you want?", he answered, "Yeah, I thought I could, but you can't!".

This is a patient with cancer of the lip from smoking. You can see the cancer progressively invading his lip and face (slide 4).