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No One Ever Smoked

We're not pro-smoking, far from it, but the crusade against smokers never ceases to amaze us. First, no smoking in governmental buildings, then the current crusade to tell private businesses whether they can allow smoking, and now an effort to deny history. “France's National Library has airbrushed Jean-Paul Sartre's trademark cigarette out of a poster of the chain-smoking philosopher to avoid prosecution under an anti-tobacco law.” LINK. Reminds of Stalin's doctoring of photographs to remove the images of men who had ostensibly turned against the Communist faith. What's next? Doctoring pictures of the Rat Pack? You better buy that Dean Martin Comedy Hour DVD collection before the anti-smokers get a bill passed over here.

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