An ashtray of cigarette ends on a newspaper article warning against the danger of smoking. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount and Eileen Evans.

  • Mount, Reginald.
Date:
[between 1960 and 1969]
Reference:
22664i
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Description

Mr Enoch Powell, named in the newspaper article as Minister of Health, held that office from July 1960 to October 1963

Publication/Creation

[London] : Prepared for the Ministry of Health by the Central Office of Information : Printed for H.M. Stationery Office, [between 1960 and 1969] (London) (Eastleigh : Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Ltd.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in red, brown, black and grey ; sheet 73.6 x 48.7 cm

Lettering

Lung cancer deaths up again. When the Minister of Health, Mr Enoch Powell, introduced an 11-minute film on the risks of smoking, he said that there were 26,383 deaths from lung cancer last year, 1,095 more than the year before. ... Bears Central Office of Information reference number: SM16 Bears number (after printer's name) : 51-8814

References note

W.F. Bynum et al., The western medical tradition: 1800 to 2000, Cambridge 2006, p. 429

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Copyright is currently (1995) administered by the Central Office of Information (COI). In a letter of 12 June 1995, the COI authorised the Wellcome Institute Library to supply one copy of this work to any one user of the Library for the purposes of research and/or private study and not for further reproduction

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Wellcome Collection 22664i

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