Alcohol & Tobacco Posters - part 6

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 6 of an 8-part series on alcohol and tobacco posters:

1932 Modiano Cigarettes
by Aladár Richter (Hungary)

1929 cigarettes maryland, J. castos
by unknown (Algeria)

1929 Sappho, Leningrad State Tobacco Trust
 by Alexander Zelensky (Russia)

1930 Cigarettes Belga
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens (Belgium)

1930 Mirjam cigarettes
original artwork for poster design
by Vilmos Dernesch (Hungary)

1930 Wills 'Gold Flake' Satisfy
by unknown (UK)

c1930 Cigarettes Brunette, fines et délicieuses
by unknown (Switzerland)

c1930 Cigarettes Laurens, Genève
by unknown (Switzerland)

c1930 Opal Cigars
by unknown (Germany)

c1930 Pony Burger, Habana Extra Mild
by unknown (Switzerland)

c1930 Primerose cigarettes
by Yann (France)

c1930 Smoking, El Papel de Fumar
by Ricardo Fabraga (Spain)

c1930 Tufuma Cigarettes Orientales
by Eugène Perrenoud (Switzerland)

1930s Ramses Rund und gut!
by unknown (Germany)

1930s Salem Gold Jubilaums Mischung
by unknown (Germany)

1930s Yuen Kiang cigarettes
by unknown (China)

1931 Gitanes, Régie Française
by Dransy (Jules Isnard) (Switerland)

1932 Cigarettes Naja Tabac d'Orient
by Dransy (Jules Isnard) (France)

1932 Lucky Strike Cigarettes
advertisement by Saul Tepper (USA)

Note: A series on the works of Saul Tepper can be found in the index of this blog.

1931 Visitez le Pavillon des Tabacs
 by P. Bosse (France)

1932 Cornetto
 by Hugo Laubi (Switzerland)

c1934 Cornetto
 by Hugo Laubi (Switzerland)

1938 Weber Menziken
by Hugo Laubi (Switzerland)

1940 Capitol cigarettes
by Hugo Laubi (Switzerland)

1941 Capitol cigarettes
by Hugo Laubi (Switzerland)

c1950 Cornetto tobacco
by Hugo Laubi (Switzerland)

c1932 Northstate Cigarettes
by Création Publivox, Genève (Switzerland)

1933 Cigarettes Sato
by unknown (Japan)

1933 Cigaretts Weekend Goût Anglais
by Paul Colin (France)

1933 Modiano Cigaretts
 by Franz Lenhart (Italy)

1934 Cigarettes Celtiques
by Leon Dupin (France)

1934 Cigarettes Swissair en pur tabac d'Orient
by agence Trio SA

1935 Indiana Stumpen
by Johannes Handschin (Switzerland)

c1935 Abadie, Cigaretové dutinky a papirky
by Abel (Czechoslovakia)

c1935 Grenzer Stumpen
by Sper (Germany)

c1935 Makedon Cigarettes Orientales
by unknown (Switzerland)

c1935 National 30 et 60, Le Nouveau Tabac à Fumer
by Création Publivox, Genève (Switzerland)

c1935 Turmac Bleu cigarettes
by unknown (France)

1936 Opal cigars
by unknown (Switzerland)

1937 Cigaretten Turkish
by Noël Fontanet (Switzerland)

1937 Fumez Les Cigarettes Toutes Faites de la Régie Française
by Dabo (France)

1938 Goûtez le Charm Cigarettes Reegie Française
by Robert Falcucci (France)

1939 Toute la gamme Cigarettes
by Robert Falcucci (France)