Monday, January 10, 2011

Disney isn't the only one

Now the United States Postal Service is also eliminating cigarettes from historical artifacts.

(link via Boing Boing)

5 comments:

Jonathan said...

Nor is it just the U.S.

Tati loses his pipe in advertising row.

http://www.france24.com/en/20090417-pipe-free-tati-poster-sparks-controversy-smoking-paris-metro

Floyd Norman said...

They'll soon be removing drinks from the hands of adults, and all bars in movies will become soda fountains.

I know it's well intended, but society is getting sillier and sillier.

Hans Perk said...

Next thing, men and women will become generic "persons..." You know it can be done in CG...

Tim said...

Sad thing is, that's one of the only two known photographs of Robert Johnson. He's not smoking in the other, why didn't they use that one?

Eric Noble said...

The world is losing its collective mind. Smoking is a part of American history, in fact world history. Why block it out when we can learn from it.