Visual Culture and Health Posters
- Title:
- Tobacco or Health: Choose Health
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- Description:
- In 1988, the World Health Organization celebrated its 40th anniversary and the first World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), a global event where smokers around the world united to break free from their dependence on tobacco. Established to raise international awareness and support tobacco-free initiatives, the first WNTD honored 11 organizations and 29 individuals for their work in promoting the concept of tobacco-free societies. Artist Biman Mullick was one of the recipients, chosen for establishing CLEANAIR, a non-profit organization engaged in drawing public attention to the effects of smoking on health and the environment, and for creating a series of posters that politely, strongly, and humorously deliver the message that non-smoking is the norm. The image in the poster signifies an opposition between smoking and health (or smoker and nonsmoker), suggesting a choice for one is a choice against the other. The headline presents the viewer with a choice between tobacco and health, while an abstraction of a human head chooses flowers over a cigarette (environment over smoking).
- NOTE: Original is slightly blurry.
- NOTE: Words at the bottom of the original slide's image were cut off.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (706,974 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1988
- Creator:
- Mullick, Biman
- Source:
- Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.
- This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).
- URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
- IHM Order Number: A025006
- Publisher:
- World Health Organization
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Norway Ministry of Health.
- Subject:
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- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- Smoking Cessation
- Smoking
- Public Health
- Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:
- The Non-Smoker and Smoke-free Environments
- Exhibit Category:
- Anti-Smoking Campaigns
- Unique Identifier:
- VCBBFH
- Document Type:
- Posters
- Slides (photographs)
- Language:
- English
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- image/tif
- Physical Condition:
- Good
- Metadata Last Modified Date:
- 2004-08-13
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