Cancer: A Profitable Operation Poster

USA, 1979

24 x 15 in (61 x 38 cm)

ID #FF19D-PK10-S

"Cancer: A Profitable Operation / A second Industrial Revolution, the Petrochemical Revolution following World War II, has generated a massive cancer epidemic. The industrialized countries are predictably the hardest hit. The cancer rate in the United States is 50% higher than the world average. In 1900, one out of 25 people died of cancer; in 1975, one out of five; by 1990, one out of 3. Just as we fear, cancer is all around us. [text continues]"

A poster about the conspiracies around cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment.

Photograph: Arthur Tress

Printer: Red Pepper Posters

Condition: Good; please note creasing and small tears along top border.

Material: Paper

100-250 black and white cancer cemetary conspiracy death disease graveyard medicine new york skyline political politics poster propaganda protest size-24-x-15 vintage poster