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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Lung Display in Waiting Room
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Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 00:28:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  9 00:28:59 1985
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In article <447@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes:
>
>Spencer Gifts and other similar specialty shops offer a "lung ashtray,"
>which is a plain ashtray with a clear hollow plastic model of a lung
>suspended over it to catch the smoke and cloud up. A very graphic
>deterrent to smokers (at least, to those who think). These should be
>required in any doctor's or hospital's waiting room.

No.  These only make people who are already non-smokers feel smug.
When I was a smoker they actually served to remeind me of how much
I wanted a cigarette.   Perhaps, as dave suggests, I was a non-thinking
smoker.   Still, the objective is to make all smokers quit, isn't it,
whether they are non-thinking or thinking.

Then, again, maybe it isn't.
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						Byron C. Howes
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