They did it before and they’ve done it again.
 
Who are ‘they,’ and what did they do? ‘They’ is the United States Post Office and what they’ve done is airbrushed a cigarette out of Bette Davis’ hand on the new stamp issue bearing her likeness.
 
The commemorative issue is the fourteenth in the Legends of Hollywood series and honors the 100th anniversary of the screen legend’s birth. The stamp features Davis in an iconic pose, but without her iconic smoke. A look at the image reveals that her hand looks awkward and unnatural and it is easy to see that her fingers were originally holding a cigarette.

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