Doctors decided to use gas mask filters as disposable
handkerchiefs after the war. “Items created for the war often
had to be re-purposed following the war, and one of those items
is Kleenex, which was actually the crepe paper used in the
filters of gas masks.
During the influenza
epidemic following the war, paper goods company Kimberly-Clark
re-purposed the paper as a disposable product for people to
sneeze into and limit the spread of bodily fluids. Although it
is a brand name, Kleenex is used to refer to any facial tissue.
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