Alcohol & Tobacco Posters - part 3

A series on advertising posters for two “vices,” alcohol and tobacco. Advertising is now strictly regulated in the USA and UK for both products.

It has been 59 years (at 2023) since the U.S. Surgeon General’s first reports detailing the health hazards of smoking. The tobacco industry had great reliance on advertising - the posters shown here begin in 1889 and end in the 1970s. In January 1964, newspapers across America ran stories under headlines such as Cigarettes Health Hazard, Panel Says (Buffalo Evening News) and Cigarettes Health Hazard (Lowell Sun).

Sensing the need to counter growing concern raised about the risks of smoking, tobacco companies actually increased their reliance on advertising during the mid-20th century. The peddling of tobacco products during this period often  involved deliberately masking the hazards of smoking - indeed, the advertising frequently claimed or implied that smoking was healthy.

In 1962 the first Royal College of Physicians report: "Smoking and Health", was published. It received massive publicity. The main recommendations were: restriction of tobacco advertising; increased taxation on cigarettes; more restrictions on the sales of cigarettes to children, and smoking in public places; and more information on the tar/nicotine content of cigarettes. For the first time in a decade, cigarette sales fell. The Tobacco Advisory Committee (subsequently Council, and now known as the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association) - which represents the interests of the tobacco industry - agreed to implement a code of advertising practice for cigarettes which was intended to take some of the glamour out of cigarette advertisements.

This is part 3 of an 8-part series on alcohol and tobacco posters:

1889 Job cigarette papers
by unknown 

1889 Job cigarette papers
by Georges Meubier (France)

1889 Job cigarette papers
by Jane Atché (France)

1889 Papier a Cigarettes "Job" Hors Concours
by Georges Maurice (France)

1890s Ogden's "Guinea-Gold" Cigarettes
by unknown

1897 Los Cigarrillos Paris
by Alphonse Mucha

Note: A series on the works of Alphonse Mucha can be found in the insex of this blog.

c1897 Job cigarette papers
by Alphonse Mucha

1898 Job cigarette papers
by Alphonse Mucha

c1899 Smoke Ogden's Midnight Flake
 by unknown

1900 Job cigarette papers
by Edgard Maxence

1900 Murad The Turkish Cigarette (USA)
by unknown

1900 The tobacco factory of A.N. Shaposhnikov recommends cigarettes “Smyrna”, “European”, “Cabinet”, “Aldona” (Russia)
by unknown

c1900 C. Müller & Co Manufacture de Cigares
by Henry Van Muyden

c1900 Job cigarette papers
by unknown

1901 Los Cigarrillos Paris
by Aleardo Villa (Spain)

1904 Cigarettes Vautier
by Edmond Bille (Switzerland)

1906 Papier à cigarette Job
by Ramon Casaro (Spain)

1908 Cigarettes Saphir
by Stephano (France)

1908 Ramses Zigarette
by unknown (Germany)

1910 Manoli Limit cigarettes
by 21. 1910 Manoli Limit cigarettes
by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany)

c1910 Dubec Cigarettes
by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany)

1911 Manoli cigarettes
by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany)

1912 Problem Cigarettes
by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany)

1915 Engelhardt Deutscher Lloyd Cigarette
by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany)

1910 Voila cigarette rolling paper
by Mihály Biró (Hungary)

c1910 Cigares, Cigarettes et Tabacs Marque QRL
by unknown

1911 Hadjetian Cigarettes (Egypt)
by unknown

1912 Cigarettes JOB
by Leonetto Cappiello

c1912 Je ne fume que Le Nil - Cigarette Papers
by Leonetto Cappiello

1912 Egyptienn Luxury Cigarettes
by unknown

c1912 Hanson Cigarette
by Erich H. Müller

c1912 Pour moi, Cigarettes Constantin
by unknown

before 1913 Doyen Cigarette
by Paul Scheurich

1914 Cigarettes Orientales Salomé
by Emil Cardinaux

1914 Jutschi Casanova Cigaretten
 by Ludwig Hohlwein

Note: A series on the works of Ludwig Hohlwein can be found in the insex of this blog.

1914-18 Bulgarian Held Cigarette Factory
by Ludwig Hohlwein

1923 Granger Rough Cut
by Ludwig Hohlwein

1926 Casanova cigarettes Sigrid
by Ludwig Hohlwein