Product Description

More than 3,000 young people become regular smokers every day, totaling more than one million new smokers a year. Many of them continue to smoke regularly as adults, increasing their risk of dying prematurely from smoking-related diseases.

The results are a staggering 440,000 people dying from tobacco use annually, killing nearly 1 in 5 Americans, more than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.

Addi’s Album is our way to stem the tide of abuse at an early age; appealing to your child’s sense of right and wrong before peer pressure begins to take hold.

Addi, an 11-year-old girl with a penchant for taking pictures, is put to the task of putting her talent to good use creating a collage of photos that speak to the issue of tobacco abuse and its impression on her. Unbeknownst to Addi, her friend Mrs. "B", delighted to help Addi with her project, is dying of cancer due to her own addiction.

Through Addi’s photo-essay encounters, children from ages 9 through 13 can relate to some of their own experiences with their parents, loved ones or others whose tobacco addiction is evident, yet frustrating knowing that sometimes there is very little that can be done to make them quit.

The content of this film, while never heavy, does a tremendous job of imputing the message of tobacco’s effect/impact on our society, in hopes that these examples will one day give our viewers pause before deciding to "light-up" on their own.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #191128 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-10-17
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 25 minutes

From the Actor
Addi’s Album is my first foray into the matter of anti-tobacco/anti-smoking filming.

While most of my work has focused on child abuse, bullying, and other societal harms, a personal family experience has prompted me to seek perspective from children on how smoking related disease has affected those around them, especially those family members or others very close to them.

I probably have dedicated more time and personal reflection to this film than I have to the others before it. Not that they weren’t heartfelt or effective. To the contrary, students have been known to reflect on their message days after their viewing. Simply put, whenever a subject matter relates to one personally, they become more sensitive to its delivery and performance.

So it is with Addi’s Album.

I hope that it provides you and your child(ren) a perspective that helps to prevent the devastating and debilitating effects that smoking has introduced to my family. ---A. P. Taylor