Visual Culture and Health Posters
- Title:
- Mind If I Smoke?
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- Description:
- The National Smoking Control Programme, a comprehensive long-term plan for smoking control spearheaded by the Ministry of Health in Singapore in 1986, created this poster in response to pro-tobacco forces that emphasized the First Amendment personal freedom of smokers to smoke and tobacco companies to advertise their products. The "Towards a Nation of Non-Smokers" campaign emphasized nonsmokers' rights by using the image of the cigarette to their advantage. In this poster, the reply to the question, "Mind if I smoke?" is made more emphatic by the larger font and red color. Set against the black background, the image of a smashed cigarette symbolizes the ultimate goal of the program: the complete elimination of cigarette smoking in order to promote public health.
- NOTE: Slide of original poster image is blurry.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (561,081 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1986
- Creator:
- Singapore National Smoking Control Programme
- 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: A024934
- Publisher:
- Singapore National Smoking Control Programme
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Singapore Ministry of Health, Health Promotion Board.
- Subject:
-
- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- Smoking Cessation
- Smoking
- Public Health
- Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:
- The Cigarette
- Exhibit Category:
- Anti-Smoking Campaigns
- Unique Identifier:
- VCBBDR
- Document Type:
- Posters
- Slides (photographs)
- Language:
- English
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- image/tif
- Physical Condition:
- Poor
- Metadata Last Modified Date:
- 2004-08-13
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