when i made this post i was thinking only of hand-rolled cigarettes. I just added cigars because in my opinion they were just as likely to be in that era, but your right about the cigars, just because the stigma that is associated with cigars. i think hand-rolled cigarettes would fit in, and not manufactured packs (which i feel most people are thinking when they read "cigarettes").

This is TES. You want cigarettes, there is Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Did cigarettes really add anything to those games? No I don't think they did, at least not in my games.

well you couldn't smoke them.... they were just junk items

Really? I've never heard it mentioned or wirrten anywhere that smoking is not harmfull in the Mass Effect universe, I have ready every little bit of information out there on that particular franchise, or close to it.
People in Mass Effect smoke because people smoke in real life, you have to admit, as harmfull as it may be, The Illusive Man just wouldn't have as much charm if he wasn't constantly seen with a drink and cigarette in his hand.

EDIT: Also, every character I've ever played in a game that allows it has been a smoker, granted that's not many, but still. I have done my share of virtual smoking, I have never smoked a cigarette in my life, I smoke a cigar maybe once or twice a year but that's hardly the same. So no, smoking in games does not make you smoke in real life, anyone who honestly believes that is in need of some education.

Liu Bei, do you smoke?

I dont see why not

Smoke what?

no i don't smoke cigarettes normally. I might if i am out drinking, but i wouldn't call myself a smoker.

I've always thought the romanticized idea of cigarettes was pretty cool though.

Cigars-Yes
Pipes-Yes
Cigarettes-No

Cigs and alcohol do go together very well.

I do smoke. I'd like to quit. I bought some patches today, but, as it turns out, I'm allergic to the adhesive. I'll have to use the gum.

This: http://www.widewatergallery.com/crow%20indian%20with%20peacepipe.jpg

Well, do you think having the ability to smoke in Skyrim would hurt your attempt to quit. And if so, would it be any worse than seeing people smoke on TV or in movies?

It was brought up earlier in the thread (months ago when this thread was created) that smoking in a video game would make people want to pick up smoking, which i disagree with, but i don't know about people who are trying to quit.

For me, it's not that cigars and cigarettes don't make sense here, but pipes just have so much more class.

would not fit in the world of Tamriel imo but pipes sound good!

My character isn't so classy, he's more the rugged/silent type. my character would look/feel ridiculous with a pipe to me.

Yes to pipes, cigarettes and cigars would feel very out of place in my opinion.

Pipe made of a skull? O_o

EDIT: Also http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf8f7lNfc31qgutswo1_400.jpg

I don't think you are objectively wrong at all, but i want to point out (even though it is in the OP) that cigars and cigarettes have been around for a LONG time. Where there was tobacco (which there is in tamriel) there were often cigarettes.

even if you already knew this, I can see why someone might think they don't fit. I just wanted to point it out.

still... It doesn't feel right with my character. He's more the cowboy-type minus the hat... with lack of a better example.

I think so. I quit once before, only to start again after seeing a guy next to me at a concert smoking. I had to bum one. Seeing it in Skyrim would be worse than seeing it in TV and movies, because I will spend much more time with Skyrim than I ever would with TV and movies.

I don't smoke in real life,and hate cigarette smoke.But I often have my chars smoking. (drawings)

Still,it's not fitting TES IMO.Looong pipes seem good,but cigarettes...Not in vanilla.

LOL, yes. I like this, the irony of course being that you can learn to BREATH FIRE as the Dragonborn, so I don't think you would need a light. Or you could just use magic in general.

Another irony in that being that if the PC continued smoking so much, how would he be able to Dragonshout? Now that would be funny to see a PC get ready to fight a dragon and wheeze out Unrelenting Force....creating a tiny breeze that moves a leaf across the ground. :teehee:


Ummm, since history.....I assume you are referring to smoking rules/standards of today and in recent years, as opposed to the entire human history. Did you also not know smoking used to be a common sight on airplanes until the 70's?



:rofl: Umm.....what? That is so stupid it's hilarious. Obviously a comment from a biased supporter of "being a j*ckass".

Why it is that giving yourself lung disease is badass I will never understand.

what are you part of "Truth" or something? often in pop-culture more "badass" characters smoke.

http://www.jusonline.nl/smokers/james_dean.jpg
http://author337.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/dn-1-0823-james-bond.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K4ncs0BvIRA/SW_p9o0E2II/AAAAAAAACnk/YpdlIRCjH-0/s400/20040109-cowboy+bebop.jpg

just to name a few...

It's about the romantiziced idea of smoking, not the real-world repercussions of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFhQu_v1LkY&t=0m21s

:rofl:

No thanks, it doesnt fit in with the viking-theme.(and personally i find smoking pathetic) Getting drunk should be possible though.