A woman smoking a cigarette, showing the route through which the smoke passes to the heart and lungs, as a warning against smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 1940.

James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1878.

Air raid wardens and civilian volunteer despatch-rider / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Rubber clothing / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Smoking: ways to stop. Colour lithograph by L. Kalish, 1971.

A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.

Darwin : "the descent of man".

Smoking: a man smoking in the countryside, his head represented as a cigarette which turns into a smoking chimney; representing the polluting effects of smoking. Colour lithograph after M. Glaser, 1973.

A man smoking a cigarette, confined in a narrow space, referring to the constraints of dependence on the habit of smoking. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.

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18th in a series of 50 colour cigarette cards issued in 1939 by British American Tobacco promoting physical fitness through exercise (in the months preceding the second World War). Cards 1-25 showed exercises for women (by the coach to the British Women's Olympic Team, 1936) and cards 26-50 showed exercises for men.

Keep fit (British American Tobacco)

Keep fit / British American Tobacco

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 4 x 7 cm.

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

20 cigarettes weigh 19 grammes : 20 stubs weigh only 12 grammes : so where's the difference? Your health : crush out cigarettes now!.

50th in a series of 50 colour cigarette cards issued in 1939 by British American Tobacco promoting physical fitness through exercise (in the months preceding the second World War). Cards 1-25 showed exercises for women (by the coach to the British Women's Olympic Team, 1936) and cards 26-50 showed exercises for men.

Knee lifting and trunk bending / [British American Tobacco].

American-born administrator of charitable funds supplied by Angela, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, whom he married on 12 February 1881 (one month before publication of this print) and whose surname he took. Member of Parliament for Westminster. Portrayed standing holding a lighted cigarette

Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 33.7 x 18.4 cm

William Lehmann Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1881.

Pamphlet advertising Pfizer's Nicorette aids to stopping smoking. They include nicotine replacement patches, microtabs, nasal spray, inhalator and chewing gum. The cover shows a slim, dark-haired, young man in a collar and tie sitting at a desk. Behind him another young man is trying to light a cigarette under an umbrella in a high wind. The product packaging is shown.

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Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

20 cigarettes weigh 19 grammes : 20 stubs weigh only 12 grammes : so where's the difference? Your health : crush out cigarettes now!.

Knee lifting and trunk bending / [British American Tobacco].

William Lehmann Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1881.

As seen on TV : cut down with Nicorette then stop ... / Pfizer.

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Cigarettes

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Works

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

20 cigarettes weigh 19 grammes : 20 stubs weigh only 12 grammes : so where's the difference? Your health : crush out cigarettes now!.

Knee lifting and trunk bending / [British American Tobacco].

William Lehmann Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1881.

As seen on TV : cut down with Nicorette then stop ... / Pfizer.

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