[aardvark1]

This is directly out of Orwell's 1984. If you don't think history is not being rewritten (more important facts than whether or not someone smoked), you're living in a dream world. The debate over the separation of church and state, the 2nd Amendment, abortion, for example, all have an element of the attempt to change the past thru the rewriting of history.

[weegee]

The US Post Office did the same thing to a photo of Jackson Pollack that they used on a stamp.

Disney has digitally edited out smokers in some of their cartoons (wouldn't be a problem if those shorts were allowed to lapse into the public domain, but I digress). In Pecos Bill supposedly there is still footage of Bill rolling a cigarette except it has been digitally removed! What's he doing with his fingers then?

The communists were keen on removing politically incorrect people/items from photos. They doctored photos to add key figures too.