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Images

  • 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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Works

    • Ephemera

    Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

    | Date: [1939]
    • Ephemera

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

    | Date: 1972
    • Ephemera

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

    | Date: [1939]
    • Pictures

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

    Ward, Leslie, Sir, 1851-1922 | Date: March 12 1881 | Reference: 820639i
    Part of: Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)
    • Books

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

    | Date: [2006?]
All works (164)

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