World No Tobacco Day: the rise and fall of tobacco advertising - in pictures
A 19th century advert for Buckeye Girls vuelta abaja cigars Photograph: AlamyAn advert for Ogden's Otto de Rose cigarettes in the London Illustrated News from 1892, which makes the claim that cigarettes can treat Cholera Photograph: AlamyA 1938 advert for Craven 'A' Cigarettes, with the tag line: Made specially to prevent sore throatsPhotograph: Alamy
A neon billboard for Camel cigarettes in Times Square, New York, 1940Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesAn advert on the cover of Look magazine from June 1947 Photograph: Apic/Getty ImagesAn advert published in a British magazine c 1952 for Bar One cigarettesPhotograph: AlamySilk Cut King Size advert in a men's magazine c. 1978. Government health warnings first started to appear on cigarette packets in 1971Photograph: AlamyA Marlboro Cigarettes billboard featuring the iconic cowboy, in Los Angeles, 1976Photograph: AlamyA UK anti-smoking campaign from 1999Photograph: PAA Ferrari racecar at a pit stop during the 2004 Malaysian Grand Prix. Tobacco sponsorship of global sports such as Formula One was banned in 2005Photograph: Ian F. Gibb/CorbisThe average British smoker is 'hooked' on more than 5,000 cigarettes a year, says the Government campaign from 2007, UKPhotograph: PRThe Australia government made it compulsory in December 2012 for all cigarette packets to be logo free and to have the same dark green packaging with health warnings and graphic photographs of smoking related diseasesPhotograph: Action on Smoking and Health/PA
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