However, the decline in the use and advertisement of the exploding cigar was neither complete, nor permanent, and they can be obtained worldwide. In the United States, makers include Don Osvaldo and Hawkins Joke Shop. However, their availability in the USA is limited, as some states, such as Massachusetts, have banned their sale entirely. Prank exploding cigars have caused many injuries over their history. For example, in 1902 one Edward Weinschreider sued a cigar shop for an exploding cigar which burned his hand so badly three of his fingers had to be amputated. As has been observed by one legal scholar, "[t]he utility of the exploding cigar is so low and the risk of injury so high as to warrant a conclusion that the cigar is defective and should not have been marketed at all." Laws have been enacted banning the sale of exploding cigars entirely, such as Chapter 178 of Massachusetts' Acts and Resolves, passed by its legislature in 1967. Both prank and intentionally deadly exploding cigars have been featured in numerous works of fiction, spanning many forms of media including literature, film, comics books, cartoons and others. A well-known use of the exploding cigar in literature, for example, appears in Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel, "Gravity's Rainbow". In it, the character Etzel Ölsch symbolically betrays his death wish by eagerly smoking a cigar he knows to be of the prank explosive variety. Other book examples include Robert Coover's 1977 novel, "The Public Burning", where a fictionalized Richard Nixon hands an exploding cigar to Uncle Sam, and Sherburne James' "Death's Clenched Fist" (1982), in which a Tammany Hall politico of the 1890s is murdered with an exploding cigar. Film examples include Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 romance "Fool's Paradise", wherein the main character is blinded by an exploding cigar; Laurel and Hardy's "Great Guns" (1941), which features a gag in which tobacco is replaced by gunpowder; the Elke Sommer vehicle, "Deadlier Than the Male" (1967), where a murder by exploding cigar is a key plot element; in The Beatles' 1968 animated feature film, "Yellow Submarine", where an exploding cigar is used to rebuff a psychedelic boxing monster; the 1984 comedy "Top Secret!", in which Omar Sharif's British secret agent character is pranked with an exploding cigar by a blindman; and in the 2005 film "V for Vendetta", where the main antagonist's cigar is swapped with an exploding one during a comedy skit.