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Smoking - Health aspects

Images

  • A doctor with a stethoscope rejecting the offer of a cigarette. Colour silk screen print by Olaleye, 195-.
  • Tobacco: chemicals contained in its smoke and their effects on human health, especially the heart. Colour lithograph, 197- (?).
  • A hand holding a burning cigarette by an ashtray; representing smoking as a cause of heart disease. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2001.
  • A man looks regretfully at a woman smoking a cigarette. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2001.
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Catalogue

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    Toos Tobacco, choking on cigarette smoke which forms skulls; representing the effects of smoking on health. Colour lithograph after W. de Vink for Stichting Voorkom!, ca. 200-.

    Vink, Willem de, 1957- | Date: [between 2000 and 2009?] | Reference: 2065991i
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    A message from Mister Cool: smoking is lethal. Colour lithograph for Stichting Voorkom!, ca. 199-.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999?] | Reference: 2065154i
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    The divided face of a smoker: as a boy (right, in colour) and as a man smoking a cigarette (left, in black and white); advising against enabling children to imitate adult smokers. Colour lithograph for Stivoro, 2004.

    | Date: [2004?] | Reference: 2066579i
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    A hand holding a burning cigarette by an ashtray; representing smoking as a cause of heart disease. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2001.

    | Date: [2001?] | Reference: 2066192i
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    A pair of lungs, one of which is also a piece of paper with a burn-hole caused by a cigarette; representing the bad effect of smoking on the lungs. Colour lithograph after M. Urbaniec, 196-.

    Urbaniec, Maciej, 1925-2004. | Date: [between 1960 and 1969?] | Reference: 540974i
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