Environmental Button
notes: label: Description
content: Smoking tobacco was linked to lung cancer early in the 20th century, but it was not until 1964 that the United States Surgeon General declared smoking to be a major cause of lung cancer and recommended that smokers kick the habit. In the years following the Surgeon General’s recommendation, organizations such as the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society waged campaigns to educate people about the dangers of smoking.
label: Description
content: When the dangers of second-hand smoke became evident, the anti-smoking campaigns expanded to include linking human health to the environment. This was part of a growing trend among activists in the 1970s and 80s to deal with air pollution, noise pollution, and other issues relating to life in our towns and cities.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Smoking
label: Subject
content: Cancer
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Cancer
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content: Cancer: Advocacy
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.0128
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.0128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .33 cm x 3.7 cm; x 1/8 in x 1 7/16 in