Tue, 22 Aug 2006

British channel bans smoking cartoons

What next for the historical revisionists? Stubbing out Churchill's cigar? Erasing FDR's cigarette holder? But why stop with smoking? Tom and Jerry is a pretty damn violent cartoon - I'll bet that's why we have so much gang violence these day! That's it: ban the 'toons!

AP - A British television channel is stubbing out smoking from classic children's cartoons after a viewer complaint about episodes of "Tom and Jerry."

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On 8/22/2006 16:14:01
Bjorngrímnir wrote

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