Lubbers Don't Live! A nicotine hound from the farm
Navy training sheet in verse: a sailor smokes after taps, sparks from his cigarette fall on a sleeper's bunk, and in the last panel the smoker is shown in a hammock above a fire as the alarm sounds. A yellow 'Lubbers Don't Live!' banner runs across the middle. The fear-appeal is comic: smoking in bed starts a shipboard fire.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Training Aids
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1309M (NAID 514934).
Text on the object
A NICOTINE HOUND FROM THE FARM THOUGHT "A SMOKE AFTER TAPS WILL NOT HARM" HE DID NOT PAY HEED TO THE SPARKS FROM HIS WEED... LUBBERS DON'T LIVE! ZZZZZ ( THAT LOUD NOISE IS THE FIRE ALARM! ) [imprint:] U.S. NAVY, BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL, TRAINING AIDS · · · NAV. PERS. 900,008 A-13 [imprint:] ☆U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-561903
