Photographer, Chris Jordan used 200,000 packs of cigarettes to make his latest work, “Skull with Cigarette.”
It’s also equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every 6 months.
This piece is part of Jordan’s photographic series entitled Running the Numbers: an American Self-Portrait visually examines the vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
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