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:

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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