“Here’s A Pack Of Get-Well Wishes”

20th Century Greeting Cards with Smoking Themes

This collection comprises a variety of birthday, Christmas, get-well, and Valentine’s Day cards with images of cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.

“Here’s a Pack of Get-Well Wishes”

Get Well Soon Card
(Cover)
1950sb

“Birthday Wishes, Dear Nephew”

Birthday Card
Dreyfuss Art Co. Inc.
1950s

“On My Husband’s Birthday”

Birthday Card
1950s

“A Happy New Year! Help Yourself…”

New Year’s Card
1909

“A Valentine for my Dizzy Brother!”

Valentine’s Card
1930s

“Happy Birthday to my Dad!”

Father’s Birthday Card
1950s

“To My Husband on Father’s Day”

Father’s Day Card
Crystal Card
Circa 1950

“A New Year Greeting for You”

New Year’s Card

Birthday Cards Valentine’s Day Father’s Day Christmas & New Years

Birthday Cards

“King Size Wishes”

Birthday Card
Circa 1950s

“Light my cigarette and blow out the flame, and with each puff my wish is the same!”

Birthday Card
Circa 1950s

“A happy birthday to my brother…”

Birthday Card
Circa 1950s

“Just Plain Happy Birthday”

Birthday Card
Circa 1950s

“I just had to get you this birthday card…”

Birthday Card
Benson & Hedges
Hallmark
Circa 1960s

“We interrupt this program for a very special annoncement”

Birthday Card
Philip Morris
Crica 1950s

“We all go together”

Birthday Card
Philip Morris
Circa 1960s

“Reach fo both Luckies an Sweets on yo Birthday”

Birthday Card
Lucky Strike
Circa 1940s

“Birthday Greetings”

Birthday Card
Philip Morris
Circa 1950s

Valentines

“I’ll strike it Lucky if you’ll be my Valentine!”

Valentine’s Card
Luck Strike

“What a Lucky Strike you made when you got me”

Valentine’s Card
Luck Strike
Circa 1920s

“O Cigaretta I love you better than any other girl.”

Greeting Card
Circa 1920s

Light of Life, Do I Satisfy?

Valentine’s Card
Circa 1940s

Valentine Chesterfield You Certainly Satisfy wm

“You ain’t so mild little girl but you certainly satisfy!”

Valentine’s Card
Chesterfield
Liggett & Meyer Tobacco Co.
Circa 1950s

Father’s Day

“To my Dad…”

Father’s Day Card
Circa 1950

Christmas & New Years

Merry Christmas To You

Christmas Card
Circa 1950

“The Season’s Greetings … ‘Passing Show’ cigarettes”

Christmas Cards
Circa 1950

“Merry Christmas”

Christmas Card
Circa 1950

“A New Year Greeting for You”

New Year’s Card
Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co.

Like Father, Like Son

Looking for a great Father’s Day gift? How about giving Dad a carton of cigarettes? That may sound like a sick joke, but before the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health was published in 1964, tobacco companies made just such advertising appeals. This exhibition features several over-the-top examples.

Like Father, Like Son

Merry X-Ray and a Happy New Lung

Throughout the 20th century, the season of giving was not immune to the pervasive reach of tobacco companies. Even Santa Claus was recruited as a cigarette salesman. This exhibition highlights a small fraction of the magazine advertisements, mailings, and point-of-purchase promotions in which Christmas became synonymous with smoking.

Merry X-Ray and a Happy New Lung

“Here’s A Pack of Get-Well Wishes”

20th Century Greeting Cards with Smoking Themes

Curated by Alan Blum, MD

Professor,
Department of Family Medicine
Gerald Leon Wallace, MD, Endowed Chair in Family Medicine
College of Community Health Sciences
Director, Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
The University of Alabama

Designed by Kevin Bailey, MA

Collections Manager and Digital Archivist
Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
The University of Alabama