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Chuck,

Thanks for adding your comments. Yes, I meant to add that I eventually 
went to the University of Arizona Medical Center and was able to get a 
good deal of help - They did provide a number of chest x-rays and other 
images of both smokers and non smokers. They also had a department of 
respiratory sciences which help a lot on the developement of out lung 
capacity tester.

Joe R

chuck howarth wrote:

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> Hi, Gwen.  Of course, you could get around Joe's objection by using 
> real human lungs.  You can't buy them, but might be able to get them 
> from the UC Medical School.  The lungs at the Museum of Science in 
> Boston are real, and several other museums as well.
>
> Here's another idea stimulated by Joe's lung capacity exhibit:  on 
> average, smokers have lower peripheral skin temperature than 
> non-smokers.  You might be able to generate skin temperature data by 
> having each visitor measure the temp of their fingers and adding the 
> results to a database, either on a computer or on paper.  Probably 
> need to track by age and sex as well as smoking history since those 
> things affect skin temp too, but you should be able to see a 
> significant difference.
>
> Chuck Howarth
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