Santa is giving up smoking for Christmas. The iconic picture of Santa smoking a pipe is being removed in a new version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Author, Pamela McColl, decided it was sending the wrong message to kids. So, she shelled out $200,000 of her own money to self publish the politically correct version of this classic. She even deleted two verses: “The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.” You have got to be kidding me. The poem was first published in 1823. My children don’t focus on Santa’s nicotine habit when I read…