Photo by Lester Smith
Rachel Tautic compresses the bellows to demonstrate the flexibility of the healthy lung replica hanging on the nearby frame. A frightfully black, smoke-damaged lung model dangles from the other frame. From the left, Alissa Ferrari, Rachel, and Olivia Hart. They are members of the SMS 7th and 8th grade Promise Club, teaching the benefit of not smoking at the Connecticut Girl Scouts’ Mall Madness in Enfield on March 11.