Vintage Public Health Posters Were Creepier Than What They Warned About

To be fair, public health ads have always been extreme. Even nowadays they aren’t completely normal. In these commercials, people melt into couch cushions, breathe out of holes in their neck and generally face doom after doing drugs. But a few decades ago? The warnings were even weirder.


The artist realizes gonorrhea doesn’t effect the face right?


I can’t tell if that one sailor is hitting on that lady, or if the sailors are hitting on each other.


This Soviet is refusing the shot because he only drinks vodka out of bear bladders.


Safety first, always be horsing around. Got it!


Ok, now I REALLY hate mosquitos.


Maybe lay off the beer-steins too, huh Tex?


I don’t know who this tick is supposed to be but this is prolly racist.


Or maybe just at the very least don’t drink the water from Skull-face canyon.


Again, there are no human beings that look like this, but I’m gonna go ahead and say this is racist.


If only the French could harness such weapons. P.U amiright?

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Yup, Little Foot had syphilis.

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I wonder if there’s a guy that specialized in drawing busty women riddled with syphilis. The world looked like a weird adult-swim cartoon before photography made it into advertising.

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