Put out your smokes! For meat, prevent range fires
A large red flame rises across a grazing range where cattle stand and a car drives on a road, with 'Put out your smokes!' above and 'For meat - Prevent range fires' below. The flame fills the picture and the meat link ties fire prevention to wartime food supply, a fear-appeal with a war-needs frame.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of the Interior (artist Broder)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- 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. Department of the Interior. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1596 (NAID 515261).
Text on the object
Put out your Smokes! FOR MEAT-- PREVENT RANGE FIRES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR [signature:] BRODER [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943--O-915092
