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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   > Ubiquitous  wrote:   
      
   >> There was a time when seeing tobacco products on movie posters was normal   
   >> but not any longer; they've come for the cigars, cigarettes, and   
   >> cigarillos -- even if those were there virtually forever.   
   >>   
   >> HBO Max isn't the first corporate entity to crack down on displays of   
   >> tobacco in their films and accompanying imagery, but they've joined a   
   >> crusade akin to Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.   
   >   
   > A much better reference would be Arthur C Clark's “Ghost of the Grand   
   > Banks” where there was an entire industry set up to digitally remove   
   > cigarettes from old movies.   
      
   I did not know that!   
      
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   Let's go Brandon!   
      
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