Editing Lucky Luke (section)

===Smoking controversy===
[[File:Lucky Luke-100x100.png|thumb|Lucky Luke's cigarette was replaced with a wisp of straw in 1983.]]
Morris, who had been criticized over Lucky Luke's [[tobacco smoking|cigarette]] for a long time, answered his critics: "the cigarette is part of the character's profile, just like the pipe of [[Popeye]] or [[Maigret]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whqlibdoc.who.int/whf/1990/vol11-no1/WHF_1990_11(1)_p14-31.pdf |title=World Health Forum Vol 11 1990 footnote Les cahiers de la bande dessinée. No. 43, 1980, p. 11. |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> It is claimed that Morris was forced to remove the cigarettes Lucky Luke smokes from his strip and Lucky Luke who "used to be a heavy smoker", had to give up smoking for "commercial reasons", apparently to "gain access to the American market".<ref name=NWO>{{cite web|url=http://whqlibdoc.who.int/whf/1990/vol11-no1/WHF_1990_11(1)_p14-31.pdf |title=World Health Forum Vol 11 1990 |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200608/23/eng20060823_295966.html |title=Peopledaily.com.cn |publisher=Peopledaily.com.cn |date=23 August 2006 |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref><ref name=smoking>{{cite web|author=Harrie Verstappen |url=http://www.thelooniverse.com/strips/luckyluke/luckyluke.html |title=Thelooniverse.com |publisher=Thelooniverse.com |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref><!-- The review was not the first time a famous cartoon character was forced to give up smoking. Belgian cartoonist Maurice de Bevere replaced his most popular creation Lucky Luke's ubiquitous cigarette with a blade of grass, winning him an award from the World Health Organization in 1988. -->

Morris received an award from the [[World Health Organization]] in 1988 for replacing Luke's omnipresent cigarette with a wisp of straw in the story ''Fingers'' (1983).<ref name=NWO/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2006/08/looney_tunes.html |title=ABCnews.com |publisher=Blogs.abcnews.com |date=22 August 2006 |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Surette |first=Tim |url=http://www.tv.com/story/5948.html |title=TV.com |publisher=TV.com |date=21 August 2006 |access-date=14 February 2012 |archive-date=9 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309141624/http://www.tv.com/story/5948.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><!-- In addition to providing structural identification of characters, the act of smoking can be used to narrative effect. -->
In the 2007 animated film ''Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke'', Lucky Luke is seen using what appears to be a [[nicotine patch]] and mentions that before that he had to "chew on a piece of straw for a while" right after he quit smoking. In the 1994 story ''Le Pont sur le Mississippi'' (''The Bridge Over the Mississippi''), he is seen rolling a cigarette again, although he claims it was just to hide his boredom. And in ''Sarah Bernhardt'' (1982), when Bernhardt's cook lights a fire to make a cake, despite Luke's strict orders not to, Luke is seen rolling a cigarette in an irate mood. He then strikes a match, only for it to be blown out by Jolly Jumper, who reminds him of his own "no fire" orders.