Tobacco or Health: Choose Health
- Title:
- Tobacco or Health: Choose Health
- Creator:
- Mullick, Biman
- Date:
- 1988
- 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.
- Publisher:
- The World Health Organization
- Original Repository:
- The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Norwegian Ministry of Health.
- Genre:
- Posters
Slides (photographs) - Subject:
- Smoking Cessation, Smoking, and Public Health
- Format:
- Still Image
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. 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. A025006
- Legacy ID:
- VCBBFH
- NLM ID:
- 101584655X64
- Profiles Collection:
- Visual Culture and Health Posters
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X64
- Story Section:
- Anti-Smoking Campaigns