Title:

Nonsmoking Is the Best Policy: Let's Work Together To Be Smoke-Free

Creator:

American Lung Association

Date:

September 1985

Description:

With his seminal report on the health consequences of involuntary smoking, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop gave scientific credibility and political impetus to state and local efforts to ban smoking in public offices and in the workplace.. NOTE: Original slide is slightly blurry.

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 visit the following web site: and http://www.lungusa.org/

Genre:

Slides (photographs)
Posters

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Free Text. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. A024943

Legacy ID:

QQBBSC

NLM ID:

101584930X290

Profiles Collection:

The C. Everett Koop Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X290

Story Section:

Tobacco, Second-Hand Smoke, and the Campaign for a Smoke-Free America