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Poster with the anti-smoking message 'You can't scrub your lungs clean', illustrated with a photographic image of dirty
Health Education Authority|Enquiries to Science Museum, London
Health Education Authority|Enquiries to Science Museum, London
Poster, with the anti-smoking message 'You can't scrub your lungs clean', illustrated with a photographic image of dirty hands being washed, produced by the Health Education Council, London, England, c.1975-1981.
Dirty hands being washed illustrate the anti-smoking message: 'You can't scrub your lungs clean'. Clear evidence by the mid-1970s said smoking caused health problems. These include chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, strokes, and cancers of the tongue, jaw, stomach, lung and oesophagus. The Health Education Council, who issued this poster in the late 1970s, claimed that lung cancer killed ten times more smokers than non-smokers.
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- Category:
- Public Health & Hygiene
- Object Number:
- 1999-241/48
- type:
- poster
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- credit:
- Donated by the Health Education Authority
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