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Turner to ax smoking scenes from cartoons
Cable network to remove decades-old sequences after viewer complaint
LONDON - Turner Broadcasting is scouring more than 1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favorites Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking.
The review was triggered by a complaint to British media regulator Ofcom by one viewer who took offence to two episodes of Tom and Jerry shown on the Boomerang channel, part of Turner Broadcasting which itself belongs to Time Warner Inc.
“We are going through the entire catalogue,” Yinka Akindele, spokeswoman for Turner in Europe, said on Monday.
Maybe some agree with this, but this is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion. Smoking is bad for you, in fact it's terrible for you, but you shouldn't go back and edit the past! Besides, it changes nothing. Kids start smoking because of peer pressure and lack of parental involvement, not because a cat is sharing a cigar with a mouse.
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