Đừng khạc nhổ, 1965 US poster: A colour poster headed 'Do not spit to stop the spread of tuberculosis' shows a crowd waiting

Đừng khạc nhổ (Do Not Spit)

A colour poster headed 'Do not spit to stop the spread of tuberculosis' shows a crowd waiting beside a Saigon bus while a passenger at a window spits and a man in the queue spits on the ground, with droplets drawn in the air. The imprint reads 'Health Education Service, Ministry of Health'. The message is a public-health instruction that relies on a depicted threat to the people standing nearby.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appeal

Date: 1965
Period: Cold War
Made by: Health Education Service, Ministry of Health (Republic of Vietnam); printed in the JUSPAO series per NARA
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Johnson Administration
Leader: Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Warn or inform
Theme: Health
Event: Vietnam War
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Health Education Service, Ministry of Health (Republic of Vietnam). National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-8-11.

Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

ĐỪNG KHẠC NHỔ

ĐỂ CHẤM DỨT SỰ LAN TRUYỀN CỦA BỆNH LAO

SỞ GIÁO DỤC Y TẾ - BỘ Y TẾ

8-847(16)  2558

[bus destination sign:] 1 SAIGON

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

DO NOT SPIT

TO PUT AN END TO THE SPREAD OF TUBERCULOSIS

HEALTH EDUCATION OFFICE - MINISTRY OF HEALTH

8-847(16)  2558

[bus destination sign:] 1 SAIGON

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.