Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mcnc.mcnc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!akgua!mcnc!bch From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Lung Display in Waiting Room Message-ID: <981@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 00:28:59 EST Article-I.D.: mcnc.981 Posted: Sat Nov 9 00:28:59 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 03:58:44 EST References: <1997@aecom.UUCP> <517@ttidcb.UUCP> <447@cylixd.UUCP> Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) Distribution: na Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 19 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. -- Byron C. Howes ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch