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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 23, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wednesday August 23, 2006 b1 fuel Price shit Home Manitoba Consumers feel Impact of Energy Price increases City business business b6 City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 i i family notices c7 pollster sees Low voter turnout h Ell has officially Frozen Over. The anti smoking lobby has gone too far even for me. Yep that a right i am the newspaper columnist smokers love to hate. I honestly believe ? and i be told you this before ? that smoking should be illegal. I mall for smoke free restau rants schools bars bus shelters and Bingo Halls. I think if you smoke you should have to pay a Premium for your health care. You re All Clear where i stand right let me share something i read yesterday morning. Its part of an associated press Story out of London that proves that when political correctness meets cat and mouse Humour really dumb things can happen. Here san excerpt from the Story a British to Channel is snuffing out smoking from classic children a cartoons after a viewer complaint about episodes of Tom and Jerry. Children Schannel Boomerang said tuesday it had Cut scenes from two episodes of the violent cat and mouse cartoon where smoking could be deemed to be we have now pledged to View boomerangs entire Library of Favourite cartoons and remove All other references that could be seen As Glamor izing smoking in All our shows said Cecilia Persson vice president of programming acquisitions and presentation for boomerangs Parent Turner Broad casting us. Lets Recap one viewer complained about Tom and Jerry cartoons. Each funny reel is More than 50 years old. According to the a Story in one car Toon Tom tries to impress a female cat by rolling a cigarette with one hand. Continued please see Tom and Jerry b2 ;