Oh, the ashes on his red suit aren't from the fireplace. This explains it.

Using Santa to sell cigarettes!  Awesome.  These days parents complain that Santa shouldn't be used to sell Coca Cola.  "HO, cough, HO, cough, HO, cough, cough, cough, followed by an awesome throat clearing sound." 

It doesn't answer the question...Well, Is it Illegal?

I don't know about you, but I'm sitting here wondering what she did to deserve the implied violence.  And what does the postage meter have to do with it?  Is that going the be the weapon of choice?  Colonel Mustard in the Office with a Postage Meter?

Some may think she does it on purpose..

Things were different back in the day.  According to this window into the past, a husband would regularly spank his wife for misbehaving.  How dare she not store test her man's coffee.  I do wonder if she likes it though...