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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.

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

Face and hand of a woman holding a rose like a cigarette, in a smoking pose, as a warning against the dangers of smoking.

Mullick, Biman. Cleanair posters to create a smoke-free environment

1 print : colour lithograph in red, green, and black ; sheet 29.6 cm x 21.0 cm

Elle est classe, elle ne fume pas / Biman Mullick.

24th in a series of 25 colour cigarette cards issued in 1912 by John Player & Sons showing a very fat Mrs. Sairey Gamp from Dickens' novel, 'Martin Chuzzlewit' ("an old-time nurse, with an equal relish for "a lying-in or a laying-out"), in voluminous grey coat, dress and bonnet, carrying a green and blue umbrella and a red and yellow bag.

Characters from Dickens (John Player & Sons)

Characters from Dickens / John Player & Sons

Nursing ephemera. Box 1.

Sairey Gamp : Martin Chuzzlewit : Player's cigarettes / John Player & Sons.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 55.7 x 43 cm

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.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes a set of 25 Player's cigarette cards from 1926 showing the production of tobacco "From plantation to smoker", 3 packets of Marlborough cigarettes (October 2008) with the messages: 'Smoking kills', 'Smoking can cause a slow and painful death', 'Smoking when pregnant harms your baby', 'Smoking seriously harms you and others round you' and 'Your doctor or your pharmacist can help you stop smoking', 3 pouches of Drum tobacco and a pack of Mayfair cigarettes with new (as of 2008) images as well as messages: 'Smoking causes fatal lung cancer', 'Smokers die younger', 'Smoking may reduce the blood flow and causes impotence', Tobacco Advisory Council leaflets about EEC legislation banning tobacco advertising (1991), Richmond Superkings (new tactile pack leaflet, 2011 with health warning), 'Tobacco legislation is changing' (Sainsbury's, 2012).

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Smoking ephemera : advertising and packaging. Box 2.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 56.6 x 43 cm

Smoking in the Soviet Union: the smoke of a cigarette contains a rocket blasting off from its launchpad; advertising non-smoking by cosmonauts. Colour lithograph after A.V. Koroteev and A.G. Rudkovich, 1988.

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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.

Elle est classe, elle ne fume pas / Biman Mullick.

Sairey Gamp : Martin Chuzzlewit : Player's cigarettes / John Player & Sons.

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.

Smoking ephemera : advertising and packaging. Box 2.

Smoking in the Soviet Union: the smoke of a cigarette contains a rocket blasting off from its launchpad; advertising non-smoking by cosmonauts. Colour lithograph after A.V. Koroteev and A.G. Rudkovich, 1988.

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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.

Elle est classe, elle ne fume pas / Biman Mullick.

Sairey Gamp : Martin Chuzzlewit : Player's cigarettes / John Player & Sons.

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.

Smoking ephemera : advertising and packaging. Box 2.

Smoking in the Soviet Union: the smoke of a cigarette contains a rocket blasting off from its launchpad; advertising non-smoking by cosmonauts. Colour lithograph after A.V. Koroteev and A.G. Rudkovich, 1988.

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