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After decades going on about the joys of smoking, it was oh-so predictable he’d leap on it as a potential cure
“Pictorial warnings work,” says the World Health Organization, of the tumours, coffins and rotting teeth that decorate cigarette packets. “Pictorial warnings significantly increase people’s awareness of the harms from tobacco use.”
Pictorial warnings, meet David Hockney. Recent, widely acclaimed work by the dedicated smoker has depicted blossom, nature, the consolations of spring. In France, where the artist currently lives, the pictures inspired a competition for young artists, designed, its organiser Ruth Mackenzie explained, to cheer people suffering Covid-enforced lockdown: “It just seemed a lovely idea to share his fantastic spirit of optimism and hope and colour.” Continue reading...