Before Nepleslia was independent, cigarettes were essentially unheard of in the SARPiverse. It's the far future, and such moronic things were left behind long ago. But since then, Nepleslia has slowly turned into this hellish smoking area until now, where I can't even read a forum thread outside of Yamatai without reading a cigarette reference. People are making characters smoke on the premise that it makes them more badass or cool (they don't).
Look, I can't stand smoking. I hate having to smell the stench when I walk my dog. I hate having to walk through the cancer-fog outside of buildings to get inside. I hate it when kids come into my classroom reeking. I hate how it kills thousands yearly and is a giant drain on the medical system. Growing up with a surgeon as a dad I spent a lot of time around hospitals and saw cancer victims, the people the holes in their throats trying to smoke through them, the blackened lungs. I hate how addicts like my cousin Justin are too weak to stop smoking even though it's poisoning his toddlers he's raising, and that those kids will get used to it and probably turn into smokers themselves. So I do not want to run a site that in any way promotes smoking.
There are any number of ways that Nepleslia can and does contrast with Yamatai without smoking being one of them. It's ridiculous, and it's not futuristic, it's outdated. We need a plan to get this crap under control.
I think the first step is a ban on all character art featuring cigarettes or imitation cigarettes. Secondly, Nepleslia needs to consider some IC reforms to Nepleslian culture and/or law with the aim of curbing it so that smokers aren't seen as the "norm" for Nepleslia in the way that cybernetics are.
Look, I can't stand smoking. I hate having to smell the stench when I walk my dog. I hate having to walk through the cancer-fog outside of buildings to get inside. I hate it when kids come into my classroom reeking. I hate how it kills thousands yearly and is a giant drain on the medical system. Growing up with a surgeon as a dad I spent a lot of time around hospitals and saw cancer victims, the people the holes in their throats trying to smoke through them, the blackened lungs. I hate how addicts like my cousin Justin are too weak to stop smoking even though it's poisoning his toddlers he's raising, and that those kids will get used to it and probably turn into smokers themselves. So I do not want to run a site that in any way promotes smoking.
There are any number of ways that Nepleslia can and does contrast with Yamatai without smoking being one of them. It's ridiculous, and it's not futuristic, it's outdated. We need a plan to get this crap under control.
I think the first step is a ban on all character art featuring cigarettes or imitation cigarettes. Secondly, Nepleslia needs to consider some IC reforms to Nepleslian culture and/or law with the aim of curbing it so that smokers aren't seen as the "norm" for Nepleslia in the way that cybernetics are.