Tobacco or Health: Choose Health Tobacco or Health: Choose Health

Contributor(s): Mullick, Biman The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection Publication: The World Health Organization, 1988 Language(s): English Format: Still image Subject(s): Smoking Cessation Smoking Public Health Genre(s): Archival Materials Posters Slides (photographs) Abstract: 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. Copyright: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101584655X64 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: VCBBFH Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X64 Archival Collection: Visual Culture and Health Posters (Profiles in Science)