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M.T.S.

JAMA. 1970;213(8):1328-1329.

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It all started with Kleenex, of course. It wasn't the industrial revolution at all that caused it. Nor even Charles Dickens' coal-fogged London, nor the automobile, nor airplanes, nor pesticides, nor in fact anything as complicated as that. Rather, it's as simple and as obvious as Kleenex.

We speak of pollution.

Consider: An entire generation of Americans is alive today who may well have never seen a handkerchief, nor been diapered with a washable diaper, for that matter. And, with the widespread acceptance of the disposable tissue as an essential of life came the philosophy which made our pollution crisis inevitable. When we embraced the concept that it was more economical and aesthetically aseptic to dispose of something as ubiquitous and common as a handkerchief rather than to reuse it, we entered upon the life style of pollution. Where once linen handkerchiefs were carefully (and sometimes even lovingly) laundered, ironed, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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