The anti's and the FDA are at it again ... target: menthol

[sherid]

This story REALLY bothers me. Isn't this a NAZI technique?
n the well-known original image, Churchill makes a "V" shaped symbol with his fingers – while gripping a cigar in the corner of his mouth.

But in a reproduction of the picture, hanging over the main entrance to a London museum celebrating the wartime leader, he has been made into a non-smoker through the use of image-altering techniques.



It is unclear who is responsible for doctoring the photograph, with the museum – The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience – claiming not to have noticed the cigar was missing.

John Welsh, manager of the museum, admitted he was shocked to learn of the alteration, but declined to reveal who was responsible for the display and for enlarging the image.

"So much for the notion that only communist tyrants airbrushed history."
Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture - Telegraph

 

[PaulB]

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"So much for the notion that only communist tyrants airbrushed history."
Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture - Telegraph

Same thing happened with the postage stamp commemorating blues immortal Robert Johnson. One of, I think, only two known photographs of Johnson, taken in a photo booth, had him with a cigarette in his mouth. On the 1994 stamp, no cigarette: news story | Robert Johnson: the case of the missing cigarette.

 

[VaporPhreak]

I say we all pool our money, go buy an island or 3rd world country (with decent weather ), and form our own country... Vaporia

And in said new country, you will be GUARANTEED the following:

1) You can smoke or vape whatever ya want
2) You can eat or drink whatever ya want
3) You can own any kind of gun ya want (sorry sick and tired of new gun laws as well)

 

[Koman]

Menthol? Are you serious? This is getting ridiculous.