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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
If the experience of Tom and Jerry is anything to go by, no doubt the pipeweed will be quietly edited out at some point ...   |
Oh yes. And the Tom & Jerry thing was all because of
one complaint! As religion has declined, something else focussed on 'sin' has taken its place and that's the 'health' lobby. I understand they had to go easy on the smoking in the films - note how Merry tells Pippin he smokes too much, which is about the last thing you'd expect a Hobbit to say. I don't doubt it will be excised altogether from future editions of the films seeing as the powers that be are trying to have any film with any smoking in it whatsoever classified as 18 or X certificate.