The Future Is Then

Things you can't say on TV 2009: "WTF?!? I loathe tobacco smoke as much as anyone, but censoring old movies to remove smoking references is a terrible, terrible idea. Especially classics like Die Hard."

Arthur C. Clarke used this as a backdrop for characters in his out-of-print gem The Ghost from the Grand Banks. They ran a company that digitally edited all existence of tobacco and smoking out of vintage films from the 20th century.

It seemed far-fetched at the time.