Refreshing video game review with reference to smoking

[El Presidente]

I came across this review of a video game involving smoking. 

10/10. 

 

Summary:

"While we've become used to tobacco as an indication of foolishness or villainy, it's refreshing to find tobacco, even tobacco use, without the drudgery of some contextual life lesson about how dangerous tobacco is. In these games, the character would smoke, so the character does smoke. It's a refreshingly honest approach to a needlessly taboo subject, and it's about time. Contrary to what all those horrified mothers must be thinking, these games don't encourage smoking as much as acknowledge the habit. What it does represent to me is not that smoking is making a comeback, but rather that our culture is tired of the fight. Maybe the anti-tobacco crowd has found a new cause, maybe even one that they can use fact rather than doctored studies and public opinion to battle, and is leaving us smokers alone to enjoy our hobby below the 17th Parallel. Probably not, but I can hope, and I can hope while playing video games that feature people like me, people who made the choice to use tobacco and don't need to justify it to anyone."

[Chas.Alpha]

I wonder how those horrified mothers feel about "Grand Theft Auto?"

[johnohuc]

I've seen some moms expressing their horror about GTA, and it's understandable that they might have concerns. I wonder what they think about CS2, actually.

[jakebarnes]

On 8/2/2021 at 4:45 PM, El Presidente said:

I came across this review of a video game involving smoking. 

10/10. 

 

Summary:

"While we've become used to tobacco as an indication of foolishness or villainy, it's refreshing to find tobacco, even tobacco use, without the drudgery of some contextual life lesson about how dangerous tobacco is. In these games, the character would smoke, so the character does smoke. It's a refreshingly honest approach to a needlessly taboo subject, and it's about time. Contrary to what all those horrified mothers must be thinking, these games don't encourage smoking as much as acknowledge the habit. What it does represent to me is not that smoking is making a comeback, but rather that our culture is tired of the fight. Maybe the anti-tobacco crowd has found a new cause, maybe even one that they can use fact rather than doctored studies and public opinion to battle, and is leaving us smokers alone to enjoy our hobby below the 17th Parallel. Probably not, but I can hope, and I can hope while playing video games that feature people like me, people who made the choice to use tobacco and don't need to justify it to anyone."

Curious what game this is in reference to?