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Wed, 07 Dec 2005

Uncle Joe would be mighty proud of HarperCollins!

In the great green room, there is a telephone, and a red balloon, but no ashtray. "Goodnight Moon," the children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown, has gone smoke free.

(link) [The New York Times]

via Overlawyered - also, check out the followup editorial here

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On 12/7/2005 21:22:06
JdJ wrote

Yeah, how incredibly lame is this nonsense? I ran across another article about this same incident a couple of days ago. The only rationale I can think of for this type of action is that these editors are playing some kind of more-sensitive-than-thou game with one another (or with other publishers). It's For The Children(tm)! First of all, I simply can't believe that this will have any measurable effect on the number of children grow up to be smokers. Secondly, even tho' I've quit smoking cigarettes, I still don't regard smoking as that much of a risk - unless you're a very heavy smoker (as I was). Sure, your chances of lung cancer are nearly twice normal -- but do you know just how low the normal rate is? Pretty damned low.

On 12/7/2005 21:24:22
JdJ wrote

Oops.. "children grow up to be" should read "children who grow up to be." And I forgot to add my "Paging Winston Smith..." comment.

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