"Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund": "Come on with the Tobacco and We'll Smoke the Kaiser Out"
A smiling soldier in campaign hat is drawn in charcoal-style lines, with the soldier's own words as the slogan, a pun on smoking the Kaiser out. The tell is the donor-to-soldier exchange: the soldier is made approachable and personal, and a return message by mail is promised in exchange for a gift of tobacco.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund (New York City)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-253.
Text on the object
"Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund" Headquarters: 25 West 44th Street, New York City "Come on with the Tobacco And we'll Smoke the Kaiser out" Each Soldier Who Receives a Package Promises to send a Message to the Person Who Bought it for Him. You Get Your Thanks by Mail from the Men in the Trenches. Every Dollar you give buys $1.80 worth of Tobacco for Our Fighting Men Abroad.
