If you ask me, smoking was an integral part of the First World War. As John Reid alluded to when he was in charge of the nation's health, a "one small pleasure" people who were about to die got.

Songs - "While you've a lucifer to light you fag...", sayings - "unlucky third light" (never light three cigarettes with one match - the sniper spots you on one, aims on two and kills the "third light"), show how important smoking was. We can't just eradicate its place even if we want to eradicate the habit.

So it seems pretty silly that English Heritage would want to remove all smoking from re-enactment scenes:

All smoke-free on the western front from Guardian Unlimited: News blog:

After yesterday's reports that broadcasters are cutting scenes from Tom and Jerry cartoons for crimes against clean air, we can reveal that English Heritage has been similarly censorious in releasing images of first world war soldiers, the famous Tommies in the trenches, having a cigarette.