‘Moon’ illustrator’s missing cigarette angers bookseller

columbia tribune ^ | November 19, 2005 | AP

[Moonman62]

They cleaned up the rest of the photo too. He would have been 39 in the photo and appears to be in excellent physical condition. He lived to 80.

In another article I found on Google his son admits he gave permission to remove the cigarette, that his father quit smoking a few years after the photo, and really disliked smoking later in his life. Considering the facts I don't see this as Stalinesque at all.

[Jeff Chandler]

"everybody agrees" that smoking is bad

That is ridiculous. Smoking is not bad. Smoking is unhealthy. Dennis Prager is right. Liberals worship health, but eschew morality.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

BWWWWAAAAA HHHHHAAAAA HHAAAA!

[newzjunkey]

Except the pose now looks totally unnatural. All they had to do was recrop the photo. Problem solved, no controversy.

[webboy45]

Much ado about nothing.

[The Red Zone]

I'm smoking a Nothing. World's first invisible cigarette.

[newzjunkey]

Liberals worship health

Abortion, birth control pills, risky sexual behaviors... yup, they're all about health alright! They worship narcissism and hedonism.

[Jeff Chandler]

Abortion, birth control pills, risky sexual behaviors... yup, they're all about health alright!

They don't consider those indulgences unhealthy. No, cigarettes and McDonald's are evil to them.

[Jeff Chandler]

Would you rather your teenager smoke or cheat?

[sagar]

"Except the pose now looks totally unnatural.">

Not anymore

[Buck W.]

This actually makes sense.

Thank you. I thought so.