Because according to Grifton and Scratch, smoking will lead you on a path of hellfire and NO new skates under the tree, Timmy, they have released an edited version of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." The line "stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth/And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath" has been cut out, because it's totally cool now to cut the balls off of a famous poem that was written in 1822. Here's the thing: this lady, Pamela McColl is the one responisble for this unnecessary waste of $200,000 (cost of editing out the line), and she did it because she is one of those ex-smokers who think that the world has changed so deeply because they quit, and everyone else should too meh. What happens though, is that now everyone just sees what an uptight dick this lady is, and get (rightly) pissed that a classic piece of literature has been raped. And Santa doesn't even get to smoke afterward.
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