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The film opens with a man buying cigarettes in a shop (the commentary describes tobacco as a universal aid to relaxation). We then see an illustration of an early John Player Ltd factory in Nottingham (on Player Street) followed by a surviving early building and then the current Radford factories (there were four at the time of this film). We then see boxes of cigarettes in the warehouse followed by views of the large bonded warehouses. We then see casks of tobacco arriving at the bonded warehouse for storage. The various stages in the production of cigarettes and pipe tobacco are shown from the arrival of casks at the factory to the final boxing and labelling of the finished product. We see Players Navy Cut cigarettes being packaged. Three men are seen smoking pipes in a pub followed by a reconstruction of how the sailors used to roll their own leaf to fill pipes. This is followed by factory shots showing the way Navy Cut leaf tobacco is packed for pipe smokers as well as the flake tobacco variety (branded Digger). Blended shag and mixture tobacco is then described. Finally we see the firm's training centre, canteen, buses leaving the works and sports facilities.
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