Tom and Jerry smoking ban

Following the intervention of the British entertainment industry regulator Ofcom, the cartoon stars Tom and Jerry have been banned from smoking. The authority intervened after complaints from viewers. It justifies the smoking ban with "the possibility of harm to children" when they watch Tom the cat smoking his cigars with relish and, on top of that, trying to impress pretty chicks with hand-rolled cigarettes. Even non-smoking associations are surprised. In the Austrian Standard, Amanda Sandford, spokesperson for the anti-smoking organization Ash, is quoted as saying: "We can't reinvent history by changing Hollywood classics after the fact."
The two comic heroes have not been banned from other activities that are harmful to their health. So Katz and Maus can continue to fight each other with hammers, axes, bombs and swords until they are half-dead.