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The Truth About Non-Smoking Vegan Winston Churchill’s Vanishing Cigar

by | 17th, June 2010

WINSTON Churchill has finally been defeated by the fascists. At the entrance to the The Winston Churchill’s Britain at War Experience on Londond’s Tooley Street a mural celebrating the wartime leader’s life and greatness shows his cigar airbrushed from history.

Or was it airbrushed in?

Might it be that Churchill never smoked and the wartime propaganda machine needed a way of making him look cool and not like Hitler? Look out for unaltered photos of a naturally skinny Winston tucking into his evening plate of vegetables soon. Vegans can be winners!

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PA PHOTOS/DPA - UK USE ONLY: British statesman Sir Winston Churchill (R) chats with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Aachen, West Germany, 10 May 1956. Churchill came to Aachen as laureate of the Charlemagne Prize ('Karlspreis'), which is since 1950 annually presented by the city of Aachen to a person who has contributed outstandingly to European cooperation.



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