This Site... ...is primarily philatelic. It's about anti-(tobacco)-smoking postage stamps, rather than anti-smoking. For the most part, anti-smoking stamps are like posters - they are trying to convince us... that smoking is unhealthy, that we shouldn't smoke. The images tend to be striking and graphic. Can you name the countries? Click on the image... In most cases, a stamp is clearly an anti-smoking stamp, like any of the dozen or so issues of April, 1980, for the World Health Day Anti-Smoking campaign. But sometimes smoking is only one of the "antis", as in this semi-postal Red Cross issue of 1979, aginst the abuse of drugs, alcohol, and smoking. A similar case is this 1991 issue, where the printed theme is "War Against Drugs" (Lutte contre la drogue), but the image includes a lit cigtarette. Part of a Millenium sheet commemorating events of the '60s... in this case, the U.S. Surgeon General's Report on the health dangers of smoking.

Not really anti-smoking, so not in counts and indexes, but... A tribute to the cartoonist... with an anti-smoking symbol. Fire Prevention week... but it looks like anti-smoking. (And it was on the anti-smoking-stamps cover of Tobacco Control journal.)

Not included, seemingly not anti-tobacco smoking... Monaco 1972, Mozambique 1994, Macedonia 1996, anti-drug... smoking.

How many anti-smoking stamps are there? "Fifty-four nations of the world have issued anti-smoking stamps. The United States is not one of them." Tobacco Control, Winter 1994, p. 305 But without access to the article, those 54 aren't identified. This list currently shows 91 issues. Many are for more than a single stamp, (total stamps: 120) and include related material like first-day covers, mini-sheets, other (not smoking related) stamps in the set, etc. What was the first anti-smoking stamp? The first item in the chronological index is Czechoslovakia, September, 1976.

My other topical (thematic) stamp pages: Chess Saint-Exupery Detective Fiction Sherlock Holmes Robert Louis Stevenson e-mail