#retro posters

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.

FLICKED ASHES = SABOTAGE! NARA ID 535252.

DON’T SMOKE IN BED!NARA IDs 514165and514164.

CRUSH OUT YOUR CIGARETTE! NARA IDs 514319and7387427.

NARA ID 535261.