Talk of banning smoking completely in West Lancashire council offices -- no more fag breaks etc. -- prompted memories of anti-smoking campaigns in 1960s comics,

and the image here from
TV21 #21 coincidentally arrived in my mailbox this morning. (
Click here for the full strip)
Of course it would be difficult to run such a campaign now. I don't think you can even feature smoking in comics in the UK unless it's an "adult" comic -- although that doesn't explain how
Simpsons Comics get away with it...
2 comments:
I remember that. An anti-smoking message portrayed as a Mod vs Rocker fight. Brilliant! (Artist was Tom Kerr, who drew lots of stuff for Lion etc. He also did a weekly advert strip for Wayfinders shoes which appeared in the comics, if anyone remembers that.)
Lew Stringer
Were the Wayfinder shoes the ones with a compass in the sole?
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