SMOKE! 8 Detachable Posters

Instantly recognisable and associated with pleasure, these collectable posters are just as addictive as the smoking habit itself. Out of fashion now, but in the golden age of tobacco, cigarette brands like Job, Players, Wings and Patron created superb poster art to advertise their 'sweet and cool' or 'American king size' cigarettes. 'To smoke a cigarette was to enter a harem, to nail a contract, to cruise around the world. With a cigarette between the lips, one was beautiful, wealthy, famous, mysterious, seductive, exotic, and above all, happy.' Gentlemen and ladies lounge contentedly puffing away, a Winston Churchill bulldog in silk top hat smokes a cigar, an elephant gambols happily, a black couple dance the jive, a Spanish lady relaxes and a 1920s lady in tennis whites dives across the court. Detachable and ready for framing, 29.9 x 39.9cm. Softback.