With visions of smokers "crouching" in the doorways of public buildings across Scotland, designer Paul Monteath decided to create a piece of street furniture which would "welcome" smokers, while at the same time encourage them to kick their habit.
The 21-year-old, one of the first graduates of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design's new innovative product design degree course, is displaying his unusual street furniture at this year's degree show which ends this week.
A plan to examine how design can address air pollution problems coincided with the announcement of a ban on smoking in public places, so Monteath constructed a cube designed to show the dangers of smoking.
From the centre of the cube, he has removed a smaller cube-shape representing the number of cigarettes the average smoker has in a year and, at a quarter of the size of the larger cube, it also highlights the fact that smoking causes the death of one in every four smokers.
Monteath also used specific materials and text to reinforce the quit smoking message.
He believes street furniture could be used across Scotland as part of the Scottish Executive's initiatives to try and cut smoking-related deaths.
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