https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cj8qrWaWsAAqyk1.jpg:large
Because having Cigars in a game is bad for the kiddies but keeping gragas's cigar and wine, cho gath's pipe is perfectly fine for kids.
Why not replace 
and 
's guns and everything with 
because they do no damage :P
When you throw those little fuckers they hurt, perhaps not as much as a gun, but still! 40 damage is nothing to laugh at.
It's the same reason we'll never have a skeleton champion and why Karthus' face got blacked out in the recent splash update: In China, skeletons are a taboo in their culture.
Chinese doctors aren't even allowed to fix broken bones. /sarcasm
