An air sickness bag (also known as a barf bag, airsick bag, sick bag, or motion sickness bag) is a bag made of paper and usually lined with plastic to make it water-proof, alhough all-plastic bags are now in common use. These bags are commonly distributed to passengers on airplanes and boats to collect and contain vomit in the case of motion sickness. Hovercraft-ferry operators and even train companies have also been known to supply bags. Pregnant women with morning sickness and travelers who know they are prone to motion sickness will sometimes bring their own bags. For other uses, see Bag (disambiguation). ... Piece of paper Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers (or fibres). ... Plastic covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ... Water (from the Old English waeter; c. ... Plastic covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ... This article refers to the tool of travel. ... A boat, like a ship, is a buoyant vessel designed for the purpose of transporting people and possibly goods across water. ... Vomiting (or emesis) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of ones stomach through the mouth. ... Motion Sickness is a live album by Bright Eyes. ... A U.S. Navy hovercraft attached to the Amphibious assault ship Kearsarge (LHD-3) A Russian Project 1232. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ... Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ... Morning sickness, also called nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP), or pregnancy sickness, affects between 50 and 95 percent of all pregnant women. ...

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The development of larger aircraft and advances in design have reduced the occurrence of air sickness. This has led to bags being given a secondary use as general purpose waterproof waste containers which is often reflected in the labelling of the bag and instructional diagrams. Another common use is that of photographic mailing envelope (especially Australia). Airlines have also printed bags to serve as card game scoresheets and Continental Airlines once suggested that they be used as doggy bags for airline food. Continental Airlines (IATA: CO, ICAO: COA, and Callsign: Continental) (NYSE: CAL) is an airline of the United States. ... Doggy Bag is a 2002 album by Bow Wow for So So Def recordings, produced by Jermaine Dupri. ...

Some airlines have displayed a certain sense of humor in designing their air sickness bags. For a brief time, for example, Germany-based Hapag Lloyd Express had bags that said "Thank you for your criticism!". Hapag-Lloyd Express is a no-frills, high-frequency German express airline. ...

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References in popular culture

• Back in the USSR - a track from The Beatles White Album contains the lines

 "Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC Didn't get to bed last night All the way the paper bag was on my knee Man, I had a dreadful flight" 

• In the movie Independence Day (film), Jeff Goldblum's character, David, required air sickness bags whenever he flew. In Air Force One he uses a grey bag with a Presidential seal. However, this is a United Airlines bag with a sticker.
• Microsoft included an air sickness bag with Flight Simulator 98, a computer game. [2]
• A number of movies (especially low-budget horror films) have distributed bags at the door of screenings or as promotional materials. Among those known to have done this are The Night the Screaming Stopped [3] and Spawn Of The Slithis [4]

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External links

• History of the barf bag
• Rune's Barf Bag Collection
• The Vomitorium - Museum of barf-bags
• Air Sickness Bag museum
• A sampling of barf-bag cartoons