The Boston Globe weighs in on the Clement Hurd cigarette debate.
The Globe gets it right:
CLEMENT HURD should get to keep his cigarette. Hurd, the illustrator of the famous children's book ''Goodnight Moon," died in 1988. But for years, copies of the book have featured a photograph of him with a big smile and a cigarette between two fingers. In the photograph, the cigarette is as casual a part of Hurd as the watch on his wrist.
Not that it's really up for argument anyway--apparently, HarperCollins is re-vamping the back flap of the book and the author/illustrator photos will be cropped to be head shots.