Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> There's an anti-smoking group in Liverpool that wants any film in
> which people smoke to be barred from audiences under 18.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7298970.stm
>
> ObSF: Willis, _Remake,_ in which the protagonist spends
> three-quarters of the time taking smoking scenes out of films,
> and the last one-quarter putting them back in again.
I wrote a story with this premise in the late 70s. It was cigarette
porn, mentioning that such scenes were routinely cut out of old movies.
I'd had the idea for the story for a while, but it all came together
when I happened on a Reader's Digest quote stating that "...one day,
smoking might be an activity engaged in privately, by consenting adults."
I used to hope I could sell it somewhere, but I guess it was too short,
or something.
Kip W
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