2010.54.20653

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Come to Where the Cancer Is
Come to Where the Cancer Is
circa 1989
22.125 in HIGH x 19.5 in WIDE
(56.2 cm HIGH x 49.53 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.20653

Printed at the bottom: "''come to where the cancer is'' was created in 1989 by Melissa Antonow, a 5th grader, and won best poster in the New York City Smokefree Ad Contenst." and sponsorship information.





Poster printed on white paper with a red printed border. At the top is a stylized black, white, greena nd blue image of a skeleton riding a horse through a graveyard at the foot of the mountains. The gravestones are labeled "heart disease," "emphysema" and "lung cancer". Below the image is "smoking kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, / homicide, suicide, car accidents, fires, and AIDS combined."
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