If a vintage cartoon character smokes a cigarette in a cartoon made decades ago before smoking hazards were known, should that cartoon be re-edited to delete smoking references? Oh boy. Now what ...

<TAB>If a cool camel could make youngsters want to smoke, researchers reasoned, then a smart-alecky penguin, walrus, bear and buzzard might help them shun the habit.<@SM><@SM><TAB>The buzzard was ...

Is a smoking cartoon character a health risk? Some observers say the issue is overblown. Parenting author Kathy Buckworth hasn't seen the movie yet, but dismisses the controversy.

A British media watchdog complained about cartoons that put smoking in a positive light. Turner Broadcasting, which runs Boomerang, has agreed to review its archive material. Media.

MOSCOW - He's been battered and humiliated for more than 40 years, but the wolf in a classic Russian animated cartoon has skirted the indignity of having to drop his smoking habit.

LONDON - A British TV channel is snuffing out smoking from classic children’s cartoons after a viewer complaint about episodes of “Tom and Jerry.” ...

Turner Broadcasting says it will go through more than 1,500 Hanna-Barbera cartoon classics, including The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking.

A proverbial Russian bear has long alarmed Westerners as the symbol of Moscow's might and purported ferocity. But the Russian who has taken the world by storm is a sweet goof who hasn't fired a ...