Art of Social Messages

Normal and Emphysema
The imaging difference between healthy  lungs (thumbs up) and emphysematous lungs (thumbs down)
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Kick the Habit in the Butt
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Advertisment for Craven ‘A’ cigarettes featuring Stanley Mat
Science Museum, London
1940-1950’s?
Three actors, one in drag, pose lighting cigarettes.
Gardiner, James
Date:
1910
Wellcome London Licence: In copyright
What You Promised What I Got
Collage of cigarette advertisements of the early 20th century revealing a portrayal of elegance, feminism, and manhood. The advertising campaigns worked well for the cigarette companies but had a dismal result on health. The third image from the left in the top row shows a physician who states that “Luckies are less irritating”. 20-30 years later – some of the people who were influenced by the subconcious promise of elegance ended with the dismal inescapable existence of misery and pain as the consequences of emphysema and cancer wreaked havoc on their bodies. The habit persists and the problem continues to exist.
Keywords lung advertisement cigarettes subconcious effect fashions consequence lung carcinoma cancer emaciation COPD emphysema collage created from historic cigarette adverts and CTscan of a patient with lung cancer
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The world war brought free cigarettes to the soldiers from the tobacco companies. The effect on the soldiers and the culture was a devastating rise in carcinoma 20 years after the event, with peaks in the incidence of carcinoma in the 1940’s and then in the 1960’s.
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An Advert in Toronto Newspaper 1977
Cigars are not as carcinogenic as cigarettes probably due to the fact that cigar smoke is not usually inhaled.  In the early 1900’s cigar smoking  was associated with elegance and currently portrays a sense of  bravado as demonstrated in this image.
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