In message <NOCdnRxsKbh-gUDanZ2dnUVZ_vPinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Kip Williams
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> writes
>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
Wasn't editing out cigarettes from films the main job of two of the
protagonists in Clark's Titanic novel (forget the title)?
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