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. The report's unequivocal conclusion that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer and other diseases was supposed to end the debate about the dangers of tobacco that had raged for decades, if not centuries. 4 Item No. Item Type & Description Visual “200th Anniversary Of The Tobacco Industry” ,.,,.., ....., . , M,- .--. .,-.. ..... ... .. .. .., '-• •.,) ·'.I - . - - :i Jr,<.:'-' :: {-, ,,~ i! .' ' -'~~ Copy of prototype of postage stamp commemorating the (, - . -~-( :,.,.....__ ,, ••• , -f, [i 200th anniversary of the founding of the oldest tobacco ~ --'-'-'~=-=-~~""' ' company in the United States; such a stamp was never issued ........•. • .·7:7 ·,; ' Circa 1959 “Smoking and Health: The U.S. Decision” Newsweek News article about the research efforts of the Surgeon SMOKING -' General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, ANO HEALTH, which produced the landmark Report on Smoking and Health y in 1964 ,I' . Newsweek, front cover and pages 61-66 November 18, 1963 Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service Book, front cover Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare January 11, 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health Video clip of press conference given by U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry, MD, to announce the findings of the Report on Smoking and Health, which concluded that cigarette smoking was the main cause of lung cancer January 11, 1964 5 1 – Publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking (cont.) Item No. Item Type & Description Visual “Tie Cancer to Cigarets” Front page story by Michael Pakenham about the publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health Chicago Tribune, pages 1, 3-9 January 12, 1964 “The Cigaret Report Links Cancer, Other Diseases” THE CIGARETREPORT Front page coverage of the Surgeon General’s Report on l.inlu Cancer~ Ofh<i,-Diseases Smoking and Health New York Journal American January 12, 1964 “U.S. Report Indicts Cigarets” Front page coverage of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health The Detroit Free Press, pages 1A and 6A January 12, 1964 “I am pleased to send you the enclosed report of my Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health.” ... .. - -· · ,. _., _ - ¥• Letter from U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry, MD, to ·~."!. =~ ;: ':.' ·'-~ physicians across the U.S. Sent with copies of Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health to U.S. doctors January 15, 1964 6 1 – Publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking (cont.) Item No. Item Type & Description Visual “Smoking: The Government Report” News article about the publication of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health TIME, page 50 January 17, 1964 “‘Cigarette Smoking Is a Health Hazard…’” News article about the publication of the U.S. Surgeon \~■■.~-~ -~-~":' :.~~ -.:, □ -N .. ' General’s Report on Smoking and Health Newsweek, pages 48-50 January 20, 1964 lllt~~ krdk;f: 011 Cl9Bret!II: “Verdict on Cigarets: Guilty as Charged” Gailty as Chargetl News article about the impact of the publication of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health and Winston cigarette advertisement on back cover of magazine Life, pages 56A-62, 64, and back cover January 24, 1964 “No medical evidence or scientific endorsement has proved…” ~-i'., 1nr:1li1~:Uf'\•i<l(:11,:'l: rn-~l'ir:11lillf:md1_tnr.ruem J,:cs phWi,\ Kent advertisement that appeared in a major American J nyrJd: 1(:rei~;u r-11.i:' publication two months after the release of the Surgeon IJ1h1~ ~UJl1~ri 111· 1.0 General’s report KENT Newsweek, page 15 March 16, 1964 7 1 – Publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking (cont.) Item No. Item Type & Description Visual “The Surgeon General’s first report on smoking and health” i[;, l\E\V YORK STATE Journal article by Luther L. Terry, MD, who served as Surgeon JO\, lC~AL _?~ ~:1 Ffl1(NE General of the United States Public Health Service from 1961 to 1965 and chaired the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, which produced the landmark Report on Smoking and Health in 1964 New York State Journal of Medicine, vol. 83, no. 13, front cover and pages 1254-55 December 1983 “Why Uncle Sam is still smoking” Journal article by James H. Lutschg, MD, about the ties between the tobacco industry and the U.S. government New York State Journal of Medicine, vol. 83, no. 13, front cover and pages 1278-79 December 1983 - ••- • ,U OA•••,-.: !"•;;...,, 8 2 – Campaign for a Postage Stamp Commemorating the Surgeon General’s Report o observe the 1980 World Health Day theme of “Smoking or Health—The Choice is Yours,” 24 countries issued an anti-tobacco postage stamp. Forty-one other countries T have since introduced such stamps, but the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are not among these countries. In 1986, James Lutschg, MD, wrote to the U.S. Postal Service to propose that an anti-smoking stamp be issued in 1989 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. He was informed that the Postal Service only issued stamps to commemorate 50th anniversaries. Backed by 22 medical societies, a resolution was approved by the American Medical Association in 2010 that called upon physicians to urge the U.S. Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee to issue a stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report in 2014. However, the Advisory Committee decided not to issue such a stamp. 9 Item No. Item Type & Description Visual “I want to suggest for your consideration commemorating a health care problem” Letter to Howard Paine, member of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, from James H. Lutschg, MD, advocating for the Committee to recommend the issuance of a stamp commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health August 14, 1986 “The 1989 and 1990 stamp programs have already been finalized” 11) Letter to James H. Lutschg, MD, from Dickey B. Rustin, IS~~~t• manager of the U.S. Postal Service Stamp Information Branch, explaining that Lutschg’s request for a stamp commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health arrived too late for the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee to consider and that such commemorative stamps were only considered at 50-year anniversary intervals October 12, 1988 “Anti-tobacco postage stamps” Cover essay by James H. Lutschg, MD Tobacco Control, vol. 1, no. 1, front cover and pages 5-6 March 1992 Alan Blum, MD, and James Lutschg, MD Photograph May 19, 2009 10 2 – Campaign for a Postage Stamp Commemorating the Surgeon General’s Report (cont.) Item No. Item Type & Description Visual “Issuing a Postage Stamp to Commemorate the First Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health (1964)” Resolution submitted by William Jeff Terry, MD, president of , ....,. , .......................·•·· '.,.. , ·:">··:.:,. .... - ··••>, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and cousin ~. •, } 7- ..:•-::.. •; ,,,,••••••.::•••"•••·" • A of U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry; Alan Blum, MD; ~~~~•: i ~ A•:•~:•::.::•V ••.:•: •:; ;;~•:.::~.~• and Ronald M. Davis, MD, to the Medical Association of the ·:~'. '~.;' -=~;!,..;,·:: ~:-.<. .'·..:.: . .:: .,·.-;· •..­ State of Alabama advocating for the Association to urge the ··... : ·•: ·.~ •• : ·":.'·.. ::--•-=" .,....,':··· · Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee to issue a stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health Circa 2010 “It’s Time for Recognition” Letter to the editor by Alan Blum, MD, advocating for physicians to urge the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health Family Practice News, vol. 40, no. 2, page 8 February 1, 2010 “Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee” ,.. · :.. ...,. ,_ _ Information about the committee and the stamp selection ·~.:?~~::·:.·~::.~.:~:~· process originally posted on the U.S. Postal Service website ~::,'\"'I,,..:..• ·-: : -~· ~ ...~ February 14, 2010 -~:It~ ·;.· :: ....... :: ...; .::!!;"~t:..;.,;;.:.,;; · 11 2 – Campaign for a Postage Stamp Commemorating the Surgeon General’s Report (cont.) 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