20 ans c'est l'âge idéal pour éviter d'avoir un cancer à 40 ans

20 ans c'est l'âge idéal pour éviter d'avoir un cancer à 40 ans

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Dumoulin, F., photographer
Contributor(s):
Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
BDDP Corporate, publisher.
Ligue nationale contre le cancer (France), issuing body.
Publication:
[Paris, France?] : BDDP Corporate, [1999?]
Language(s):
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Neoplasms -- prevention & control
Cigarette Smoking -- adverse effects
Health Behavior
France
Genre(s):
Postcard
Abstract:
A photograph of a person's head is divided into a color positive and a colorless negative image. On the color side, the person has dark, curly hair with red and black feathers woven into it. The person is wearing a red sweater or jacket. On the color side, the writing says in translation: "You go out a lot. Your friends are nice. You dance, you have fun. Normal. You smoke a lot, you drink a bit. You're twenty and have your whole life in front of you." The negative side says in translation: "You go out. This week the nurses were nice. Chemotherapy went well. You are forty and are alive. You never imagined it would be like this." The text on the postcard verso translates to: "20 years is the ideal age to have cancer at 40. Because the development of cancer cells is most often over 15 to 20 years, during which no warning sign appears. If smoking remains at the current level for 18- to 30-year-olds, in France, smoking will be responsible for nearly 300,000 deaths in 2020 and 2025. 20 years is the ideal age to have cancer at 40. But if we think about it, it is also the ideal age to avoid having it."
Copyright:
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Extent:
1 postcard : 10 x 16 cm
Provenance:
Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:
color
NLM Unique ID:
101751094 (See catalog record)
OCLC no.:
1282339775
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101751094