"Designer unknown, 'Peace Cigarettes,' 1950."

"This Nihon Senbai Kosha (a government agency) poster advertising 'Peace Cigarettes' carries it wishful request in both Japanese and English in what was surely a vain attempt at controlling this ubiquitous black market currency." Under prior occupation censorship use of American brand names was banned.

From: Mark Sandler (Ed.). The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952. Hong Kong: the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1997; 81.