With the non smoking ban going into effect on campus(in 2012) I made this piece to get people thinking about the smoking ban and the largest philosophical issue being "Who Owns The Air?". You could further this question to who owns the air and what does it cost?
This Giant Cigarette box is built from over 50 
empty cigarette boxes. Screen printed on the small boxes are lungs and the molecular structure of benzopyrene. Benzopyrene is a carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbon that given off in second hand smoke, it's molecular structure simulates sugars that occur naturally in the body and as a result of this impersonation is able to bond directly to human DNA. The other imagery on the smaller sets of boxes are dollar signs spray painted in the shape of ? and !
empty cigarette boxes. Screen printed on the small boxes are lungs and the molecular structure of benzopyrene. Benzopyrene is a carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbon that given off in second hand smoke, it's molecular structure simulates sugars that occur naturally in the body and as a result of this impersonation is able to bond directly to human DNA. The other imagery on the smaller sets of boxes are dollar signs spray painted in the shape of ? and ! Spilling out
of the box to attack onlookers giant burning cigarettes litter the floor.
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