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.

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[approximately 1940]
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642527i
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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. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Exemplifies the "Rauchstrasse" (street smoking) idea developed by Fritz Lickint (1898-1960) in the 1930s and discussed in his 1939 monograph Tabak und Organismus

Publication/Creation

[Germany] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1940]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 60.3 x 42 cm

Lettering

Schonen Sie Ihren Organismus ... Lettering in an angular Fraktur font seldom used before ca 1940. Further lettering includes the parts of the body affected, in German

Reference

Wellcome Collection 642527i

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