The LA Times is talking about Whoopi Goldberg's new show. It has been said to be the edgiest show since "All in the Family".

"Whoopi," featuring a relationship in which her brother is dating a white woman, takes a swipe at everything from fears about terrorism, Arab American stereotypes, kids who talk in exaggerated street slang to mispronunciations by President Bush.

With all that going on, guess who is getting their panties in a bind? The anti-smokers. That's right, Whoopi has the audacity to (gasp!) smoke a cigarette on her own show.

Pleasure police are up in arms, at this blatant slap in the face to their temperance movement. Of course not only will she be smoking on prime time television, but she's completely un-apologetic about it. Pleasure police groups like the American Lung Association successfully pressured CBS's Becker, starring Whoopi's old love interest Ted Danson, to go smoke free. Now they are pushing for NBC to move Whoopi's show to a later time slot, even though they haven't even seen it yet. Meanwhile the show's producers are already bending over backwards to try to convince them that she doesn't portray smoking in a positive light.

We'll see how long her smoking lasts on the show.