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Letter - A Mother’s Love, a Message on Smoking 

In "Aiming Wide in City War on Smoking" (NYC column, June 30), Clyde Haberman reports that the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wants to post photos of diseased lungs next to cash registers where cigarettes are purchased.

My mother had a better idea. When the surgeon general issued his report "Smoking and Health" in 1964, she got hold of a copy, wrote on the cover, "To my children and their friends, because I love them," and left it on the pillow each time we had an overnight guest.

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