Stamping out Smoking
STAMPING OUT SMOKING -- . oking Stamps fr around SMOKh'-JGOR Hf Al Tl -' Curators: Alan Blum, MD Kevin Bailey, MA Mary Clare Johnson, MLIS University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society Key to items in the exhibition THE:CE:NTE:R l="OR Tl-I~ STUDY OJ: TOBACCO AND SOCIE:TV 1 Outline 1. Publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking 2. Campaign for a Postage Stamp Commemorating the Surgeon General’s Report 3. Europe 4. Africa 5. Middle East 6. Asia 7. Australia and Oceania 8. North, Central, and South America 9. Airbrushed Stamps 10. Stamps That might Have Been 2 Introduction his exhibit features highlights of the prominent television, newspaper and magazine coverage of the release of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health on T January 11, 1964, and includes more than 130 anti-smoking postage stamps and philatelic covers issued by 65 countries. Originally a traveling exhibit, it was created as part of a campaign to issue a special postage stamp in 2014 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report and to honor Luther Terry, MD, the ninth Surgeon General of the United States (1961-1965), best known for his warnings against the dangers of and the impact of tobacco use on health. The stamps were collected by James Lutschg, MD, a pulmonary disease physician in Baton Rouge, LA, and donated to the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society. 3 1 – Publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking n January 11, 1964, at a crowded press conference in Washington, D.C., United States Surgeon General Luther Terry released Smoking and Health, a report of an advisory O committee that had been charged to review all of the published scientific research on the health effects of smoking.
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