#retro posters
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WW2 poster, NARA ID 514034.
GOV’T ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGNS WW2
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
56 years ago this week, the Surgeon General announced a definitive link between smoking and cancer. As these World War II posters show, previous gov’t messaging linked smoking notto cancer but to sabotageandforestfires!
STEP ON IT!NARA ID 515487.
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FLICKED ASHES = SABOTAGE! NARA ID 535252.
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DON’T SMOKE IN BED!NARA IDs 514165and514164.
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CRUSH OUT YOUR CIGARETTE! NARA IDs 514319and7387427.
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NARA ID 535261.
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