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S-s-s-smokin’!
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There’s something sort of incredible to me about the Nintendo seal of quality being on that specific game
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Played a game last summer about sharing a cigarette with a handful of strangers who are as lost in their thoughts as you are.
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Wow he’s blowing rings
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The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa indeed has a dedicated smoke button and any time during my playthrough I was about to get in a fight or do anything noteworthy, I’d hit the smoke button to get the delinquent vibes going.
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Does anyone else see smoking in media and think “that’s old” or “that’s foreign.”
Maybe this is just a American feeling, or even a California one, but nobody smokes anymore. So it feels foreign and almost like… Ignorant, when I see it? Especially in Japanese media where it’s still just shorthand for “thinking” or “taking a break” even though smoking has decreased dramatically there too.
Every US tradeshow like gdc or e3, I’d wind up caught in a cloud of smoke for the first time in months and be like “oh, the Europeans have arrived.”
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I think it is wrapping back around to getting more popular. At least on the sets and things I usually work on. Outside bars and concerts in particular it feels like more and more folks are. Obviously it’ll never be what it was but I think the youth have gotten annoyed with the vaping.
Hmm, that’s unfortunate. I only ever see vaping out here, and pretty much only weed.
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Reporting in from NZ and I agree. Odd to see someone proper smoking.
Rates are really on the decline:
“6.8% of adults were daily smokers in 2022/23, down from 8.6% the previous year and 16.4% in 2011/12.”
However
“The rate of daily vaping increased over the past five years from 2.6% in 2017/18 to 9.7% in 2022/23.”
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That game is busted and I couldn’t never get passed that grandma landlord boss.
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Seeing people smoke definitely makes me feel like they are stuck in the past. It’s become pretty rare around here, too. Especially among younger people.
Though I experienced a dystopian moment yesterday when I got passed by three kids on one e-scooter, one of whom was vaping, while the other was blasting TikTok at maximum volume. All of them most likely around or below 10 years of age.
I guess the youth was brave enough to finally admit that cigarette smoke stinks horribly but stopped at that. So now that the cancer sticks smell like a candy store it’s alright to smoke again.
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It always makes a film feel archaic to me too. I’ve been watching a lot of 50s and 60’s romantic comedies and you see things like smoking in the hospital or grocery store.
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Any time I see smoking in media it just makes me think the creators want the character to come across as edgy or stressed.
Smoking generally doesn’t register very strongly on my radar because it’s “just a thing” equivalent to if someone was drinking a beer. My perspective on smoking is completely out of whack so my viewpoints are probably not at all typical. I smoke, despite the myriad of reasons not to. Smoking is very popular in the rural area I’m from. Not that I’ve ever viewed my area as a barometer of things, it’s always been very stuck in the past and hick.
My family and many others raised tobacco. My hometown hosted the Ohio Tobacco Festival every year until a rebranding about a dozen years back. I won grand champion for tobacco at the county fair multiple times as a kid. Tobacco and smoking has always just been this weird, sinister constant presence in my life so it just seems somewhat normal to me.
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I smoked for ten years and quitting was arduous and time-consuming. I don’t talk about quitting around smokers because it’s deeply pretentious and judgemental. Having compassion for people with addiction is cool, imo.
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I live somewhere in the UK where smoking has declined a lot especially among younger people but I think I still see it as pretty “normal”, probably due to having a lot of friends that work in service sectors where it’s still more common. Also although 13% smoking is a pretty big decrease from where it used to be, it’s still not exactly a small amount of people
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Funnily enough I’m from another town where I’d say smoking weed in public is more common than cigarettes (even if it is still illegal) so in a way there’s part of me that sees that as more “normal”
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Probably no surprise that I share this perspective. There’s a lot more I could say about the regulations, the culture, and my personal experience but instead of yappin I’ll just leave it at that :o)
I don’t notice smoking in much new media. But I also don’t consume much new media.
I love This Guy and refuse to play any version with the cigarette edited out
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