The story they tell is surely revolting, but not very well reasoned.

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But none of them ever made anything half as revolting as Mr. Hirst's 1996 "Crematorium, " a 2.4-meter-diameter giant ashtray, filled with smouldering cigarette butts.

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But for those affected, the suffering is real -- and revolting.

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