If you don’t mind, I would like to start this post off with a few stupid questions:

• As a child, did you add a pipe to your Christmas wish list due to Santa’s penchant for tobacco?
• Are you worried about Santa’s longevity because he is known to indulge in a pipe from time to time?
• In high school, were you ever the victim of peer pressure that even remotely resembled the following argument “Smoking is cool because Santa does it. You want to be cool like Santa, right?!”?
• Have any of the kids in your life taken up smoking because they heard Santa can sometimes be found with smoke circling his head like a wreath?

Yeah, I didn’t think so. Continue reading →