A Flu Mask Modified for a Smoke, 1919

March 17, 2020 Vintage Everyday 1910s, inventions, medical, newspaper & magazine, strange & WTF, tobacco & smoking 0

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A photo of a flu mask touted by Popular Science magazine during the 1918 pandemic. It has a hole for smoking – but not for exhaling the smoke. Popular Science was satirizing the use of masks, which they said were scientifically ineffective.

(From Popular Science, May 1919)

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