Wednesday, June 16 2010
By Harry Phibbs (Daily Mail online/UK)
I am not a smoker. I have never smoked. None of my close relatives smoke. But the anti-smoking zealotry has gone too far.
One casualty of that zealotry has been truth. Part of the thought control process is to banish from the media any 'positive images' of smokers - of any images of smokers come to that.
They are to be regarded as non-persons. Most sinister is how this process has been extended.
Churchill, the greatest Englishman of modern times, used to smoke a cigar. It was one of his props.
But an iconic image of him smoking one has been doctored. The cigar airbrushed away. At the Britain At War Exhibition in Tooley Street, Central London, his imposing face stares out at the entrance with the cigar swiped...Debate continues here
Also see this related story: Winston Churchill's Cigar Airbrushed From Iconic Photo at British WWII Museum
