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Alternatively, maybe the project authors decided that the cigarette imagery was (1) bothering somebody, and (2) did not matter to the identity of the project an

Alternatively, maybe the project authors decided that the cigarette imagery was (1) bothering somebody, and (2) did not matter to the identity of the project and was easily removed, so they decided to honor the request. It's probably what I would have done. Conversely, I was the author of a project whose namesake and mascot was an animal considered unclean by several world religions. Nobody ever asked me to change it, but I probably would have refused, because in this case, it was tied too much into the identity of the project.

LekKit 4y ago
This is exactly what happened. I never though much about the imagery, it was a 5-min commit to "make README look nicer", and I actually have asthma as well (Never been much around smokers so maybe I don't have such terrible associations). So it's much more of a, heh let's honor this random person request since I don't care much in the first place, and even if it's a little weird to trigger at the icon, I can kind of see why.