The cigarette is gone
Whenever I see a cover like this, one which is not only bad but which does not make sense as a cover at all. I think to myself "this is a cover only an editor-in-chief could love", meaning that no matter how many people work at a magazine they are not a democracy. I'm sure plenty of people at the magazine saw the cover the way most of us here see it but the E-I-C must have seen it differently and thus thats what was sent to newstands.