Sartre’s smoke aired
Sartre once remarked that "smoking is the symbolic equivalent of destructively appropriating the entire world." But that did not stop France’s National Library from airbrushing Jean-Paul Sartre’s Gauloise cigarette out of a poster of the chain-smoking philosopher (who smoked two packs + several pipes a day) to avoid prosecution under the 1991 loi Evin, a law banning tobacco advertising. Fittingly, the doctoring of the photo was first detected by Liberation, the left-wing newspaper founded by Sartre. The poster is for an exhibition marking the centennial of Sartre’s birth. It features previously unseen letters and manuscript, on display through August 21.
Hell is other people removing your cigarette, Telegraph.co.uk