>>>How about erasing cigarettes from historic photographs? The one from Yalta appeared in our daughter's history textbook without it. I've even seen album covers where the picture on the reissue is censored.
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>I can't remember who wrote it, when, or what the story was really all about but............
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>I do remember reading a science fiction story where the job of one of the main characters was to remove all images of smoking from old movies and/or TV shows.

Now my wife would say "predictive programming" - getting people used to all the stool years before it's physically dumped on everybody.

The more I learn of the current world, the more I think that 1984, "Brave new world", "We", all the myriad of mediocre SF which starts with a catastrophe and then the remainder of humanity reverting to clans or feudalism - were not social critiques. They were the project, or education for it.