Sometimes a cigar is just airbrushed out of the picture

Sir Winston’s bust got thrown out of the White House last year, and now he lost his cigar:

Winston Churchill’s cigar airbrushed from picture
A photograph of Winston Churchill giving his victory salute has been airbrushed to remove his signature cigar.

The alteration of the original image, taken in 1948 during the opening of a new military headquarters, was noticed by David McAdam, a visitor to the museum.

He told the Daily Mail: “I pointed out this crude alteration to a museum steward who said she hadn’t noticed the change before, nor had anyone else pointed it out.

“So much for the notion that only communist tyrants airbrushed history.”

Lucky for him he’s dead, or they would be making him cut down on salt, too.