Cartoon fans, take note.  Your beloved characters are not safe from the Smoking Police—- not even abroad.

Due to a complaint from one viewer, a British TV channel has resorted to censoring their cartoons.  The two Tom and Jerry episodes in question involved incidents of tobacco usage.  Those scenes—more than 50 years old—are now on the cutting room floor.  Additionally, the Boomerang Children’s channel has decided to go through their entire library to rid all their ‘toons of ‘glamorized’ smoking.  Other affected cartoons could include The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby-Doo. 

Seriously—they might as well drop Scooby-Doo altogether.  Once they edit out all the van scenes, there won’t be much of a plot left.