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:
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| 1889 Job cigarette papers by unknown |
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| 1889 Job cigarette papers by Georges Meubier (France) |
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| 1889 Job cigarette papers by Jane Atché (France) |
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| 1889 Papier a Cigarettes "Job" Hors Concours by Georges Maurice (France) |
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| 1890s Ogden's "Guinea-Gold" Cigarettes by unknown |
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| 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.
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| c1897 Job cigarette papers by Alphonse Mucha |
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| 1898 Job cigarette papers by Alphonse Mucha |
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| c1899 Smoke Ogden's Midnight Flake by unknown |
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| 1900 Job cigarette papers by Edgard Maxence |
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| 1900 Murad The Turkish Cigarette (USA) by unknown |
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| 1900 The tobacco factory of A.N. Shaposhnikov recommends cigarettes “Smyrna”, “European”, “Cabinet”, “Aldona” (Russia) by unknown |
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| c1900 C. Müller & Co Manufacture de Cigares by Henry Van Muyden |
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| c1900 Job cigarette papers by unknown |
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| 1901 Los Cigarrillos Paris by Aleardo Villa (Spain) |
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| 1904 Cigarettes Vautier by Edmond Bille (Switzerland) |
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| 1906 Papier à cigarette Job by Ramon Casaro (Spain) |
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| 1908 Cigarettes Saphir by Stephano (France) |
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| 1908 Ramses Zigarette by unknown (Germany) |
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| 1910 Manoli Limit cigarettes by 21. 1910 Manoli Limit cigarettes by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany) |
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| c1910 Dubec Cigarettes by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany) |
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| 1911 Manoli cigarettes by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany) |
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| 1912 Problem Cigarettes by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany) |
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| 1915 Engelhardt Deutscher Lloyd Cigarette by Hans Rudi Erdt (Germany) |
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| 1910 Voila cigarette rolling paper by Mihály Biró (Hungary) |
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| c1910 Cigares, Cigarettes et Tabacs Marque QRL by unknown |
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| 1911 Hadjetian Cigarettes (Egypt) by unknown |
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| 1912 Cigarettes JOB by Leonetto Cappiello |
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| c1912 Je ne fume que Le Nil - Cigarette Papers by Leonetto Cappiello |
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| 1912 Egyptienn Luxury Cigarettes by unknown |
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| c1912 Hanson Cigarette by Erich H. Müller |
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| c1912 Pour moi, Cigarettes Constantin by unknown |
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| before 1913 Doyen Cigarette by Paul Scheurich |
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| 1914 Cigarettes Orientales Salomé by Emil Cardinaux |
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| 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. |
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| 1914-18 Bulgarian Held Cigarette Factory by Ludwig Hohlwein |
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| 1923 Granger Rough Cut by Ludwig Hohlwein |
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| 1926 Casanova cigarettes Sigrid by Ludwig Hohlwein |
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