Smoking to be edited out of Tom and Jerry Cartoons
by AndyC on Aug.22, 2006, under Musing, Personal, Politics
According to the BBC, the children’s TV channel will be editing Tom and Jerry cartoons to remove characters smoking.
Now, I admit, I’m about as anti-smoking as you can get without actually throwing buckets of water at people.
But these cartoons were made back in the 1950’s when smoking wasn’t seen as the health hazard it is today. Surely it should be seen in the same light as a a character being crushed by an anvil and bouncing back.
Cartoons aren’t real.
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