I have to disagree with you about the cigarette advertising. It's appropriate in
this historical context, and I hardly feel an image displayed on the irtc is
going to start people smoking. I have a particular gripe about this because a
colleague of mine recently had to search through video footage of historical
motor races looking for one shot of a man smoking a pipe, because he'd been told
to remove it under cigarette advertising laws in some countries! Fair enough,
cigarettes are a terrible thing and should be removed from our culture as soon
as possible, but I think we should stop short of sanitising history.

The image is not attempting to glorify smoking, any more than it's trying to
make you want a piano, it's merely using a number of period details.

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Tek
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"Copper Pin" <Cop### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> These entries should be disqualified:
>
> crabsim.jpg - Completely off topic.  It's clear the artist didn't read the
> rules before entering.  This one saddens me because I can appreciate the
> work that went into it, but unfourtunately this is the wrong forum.
>
> chrysler.jpg - Should be removed because of the large cigarette
> advertisement prominently featured in the center of the scene.  Tobacco
> advertising is banned in several European nations and this entry opens up
> the IRTC to potential legal liability.  Also, smoking is the world's
> leading preventable cause of death and the IRTC has no business promoting
> it.
>
> narrows*.jpg - Four identical copies of the same image.  Three of them
> should be cut.
>

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