Visual Culture and Health Posters

Title:: Everyone Loves a Quitter

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Description:

Responding to the 1985 Surgeon General's report on smoking and occupational exposure, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services established a smoke-free environment in its facilities in 1987, affecting 120,000 employees nationwide. One year later, the American Lung Association established a multi-component program called TUFFS (Team Up for Freedom from Smoking) in order to help businesses create and implement smoking policies in the workplace. As part of the TUFFS program, this poster was part of a series of workplace advertisements designed to promote cooperative anti-smoking measures in a lighthearted and good-natured manner. By using animation, these posters use humor and exaggerated depictions of workplace encounters to promote behavioral change. This image encourages smoking cessation with its clever headline --"Everyone loves a quitter"-- and the embellished celebration of an ex-smoker, hailed by his co-workers.

NOTE: Slide of original poster image is slightly blurry.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (734,405 Bytes)

Date:

1987

Creator:

American Lung Association

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: A024944

Publisher:

American Lung Association

Rights:

Reprinted with permission c2003 American Lung Association. For more information on how you can support to fight lung disease, the third leading cause of death in the U.S., please contact the American Lung Association at 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-586-4872) or logon to the Web site at:

URL: http://www.lungusa.org/

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:

VCBBFD

Document Type:

Posters

Slides (photographs)

Language:

English

Format:

image/jpeg

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2007-03-23

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