The presenters shared their experiences and opinions on the anti-smoking movement. KAL explained the power of cartoons to change opinion and gave the audience an opportunity to learn how to “cartoon.” The flight attendants talked openly about their experiences as non-smokers working in smoke-filled airplanes- “On a 10 hour flight from LA to Tokyo, my white hair turned yellow from the amount of smoke in the cabin. I could only imagine what my lungs looked like.” Anthony Brown presented a montage of smoking scenes in movies and television when it was a widely popular practice.
The evening was attended by nearly 200 conference goers along with two reporters from National Public Radio who interviewed KAL about his cartoons and the exhibit, and also a writer from the Washington Post, who covered the event for their Sunday Source section.
"Cartoonists Take Up Smoking," is an exhibition of original newspaper editorial cartoons, presented by Dr. Blum, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the history of the tobacco industry and the battle over smoking.
The exhibit retraces the 40-year battle over the use and promotion of cigarettes since the publication of the landmark Surgeon General's report on smoking and health in 1964. It also addresses complacency on the part of organized medicine, politicians, and the mass media in ending the tobacco pandemic.
The exhibit features 55 original cartoons by more than 50 nationally known American editorial cartoonists and is supplemented by smoking-related items, from the original newspaper headlines that inspired the cartoons to advertisements promoting t ...More...
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