[C-U Smokefree] My own clever idea for display table

[George R. Carlisle, Jr.]

Dear Scott:

That sounds clever.  I suggest not using food coloring but actual infusion
of old cigarette and cigar stubs, or even water from a water pipe if anybody
has one, as the polluted water, so that it stinks like tobacco. Phew-ee!!!

I read where someone did that in a jar and would take a whiff of the noxious
potion when trying to quit and he had the urge to light up.

Where would CU Smokefree get the money to imprint on water bottles?   Would
there be time to get that imprinted?

One suggestion would be to get old spray cleaner bottles, remove the labels,
rinse them out well, and fill with water, and make a label with pressure
sensitive adhesive, saying "Magic Air Purifier"  One squirts out the
cigarette, cigar or pipe when someone else smokes.  I almost gave my sister
one when she had to endure her in-laws' smoking when she visited them. Then
her mother-in-law came down with pneumonia and quit cold-turkey, and her
father-in-law quit also. He had developed some emphysema from working in
steel mills in past, as well as smoking. He had switched to a pipe before,
but was smoking cheap, harsh tobacco, as Half and Half. That tastes like it
came from Stock Pavilion floor tan bark!  Hack! Cough! Phew!

She said the air is much better at their home now.  They were later
repainting inside and discovered how much soot and tobacco tar had
accumulated on the walls and ceilings of their home.

We need to get some "Smoking Stinks" buttons from local chapter of American
Cancer Society, if they are available. Maybe those could be handed out.
People could wear them in smoky eating and drinking establishments!

George R. Carlisle




----- Original Message -----
From: Scott P Hays <sphays at ad.uiuc.edu>
To: <cu-smokefree at chambana.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:49 AM
Subject: [C-U Smokefree] My own clever idea for display table


Hi gang,

Here's my crazy suggestion I came up with for our display table at Taste
of Champaign.

Have a display consisting of two sets of a half dozen Dasani water
bottles.  The one on the right would stay iced, cool, and clear
(replenished by a cooler).  The one on the left would be dirty and
polluted (by us, of course, maybe using food coloring or water colors).

Then we have a sign that says something like: "Free water - and you get
the choice of which one you prefer!"

Then, of course something like, "why would you choose the air in your
restaurants or bars any differently??"

Get it?

Then we give out free sport water bottles with our (new and improved)
logo as a premium (and as a way to remember this message).

Think about it - maybe we'll discuss more tonight....

Prez Scott




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