Four Corners

Smoking: The 5 Day Cure (1972x1)

Air date: Mar 04, 1972

Jim Downes presents this report about a five-day course run by the medical department of the 7th Day Adventist Church which aims to 'cure' smokers. Downes, a self-confessed nicotine addict, undertakes the course and is amazed to discover that after five days he is 'cured'. In 2008, Jim Downes died from emphysema.