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Alex Habighorst Posted: Wed, Jun 16 2010 1:30 PM

Just came across this today, about a picture of Churchill at a museum in London has had his Cigar airbrushed from the picture. From what I gather, no one has verified who did it, but still it is pretty sad to see this go on in our supposedly 'free society' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7828755/Winston-Churchills-cigar-airbrushed-from-picture.html

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Giant_Joe replied on Wed, Jun 16 2010 1:31 PM

Thank You for Smoking was a great movie.

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Indeed, one of my favorites. Especially the speech where he talks about defending those really victimized by society, it kind of reminded me of Walter Block's Defending the Undefendable.

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MaikU replied on Wed, Jun 16 2010 4:36 PM

It's a conspiracy. Government is behind it.

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(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)

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William replied on Wed, Jun 16 2010 4:39 PM

Few things in life have pissed me off or affected me as much as the anti-smoking lobby

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Indeed, I know what you mean. As a pipe/cigar smoker, it is interesting to see the laws on this through out the country. Where I go to college at, the city has a general ban so I usually confine myself to my home, other then that the local cigar shoppe had to threaten litigation to be allowed to have its patrons smoke inside (die to the law  not pertaining to clubs). One state over, there is a state wide ban which for the most part means one has to go out in the middle of nowhere to smoke.

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William replied on Wed, Jun 16 2010 7:23 PM

Indeed, I know what you mean. As a pipe/cigar smoker, it is interesting to see the laws on this through out the country.

I'm an ex bar owner.  I can not even begin to tell you how much grief/ money it cost not only me but other bar owners.  Just thinking about it sends me into a rage.

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Few things in life have pissed me off or effected me as much as the anti-smoking lobby

Affected. I presume that the anti-smoking lobby is not a primary cause of your being.

That being said, yes, it's retarded. But I would say the enviro-kooks have as much or more influence on your life, just on a much broader scale.

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William replied on Wed, Jun 16 2010 7:25 PM

The magic "edit post" button just made you look like the oddball instead of me.  But no, the smoking ban cost me a lot of money as I was sort of in the front line trenches of that one.  On the bright side, a mix of Taco Bell food poisioning and the smoking ban both got me to quit smoking after 8 years and eating Taco Bell all on the same day

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