But in my opinion: I really don't think that kids are going to become addicted to stoges because of iEra. They aren't going to go and be like "Wow, a game has this so it must be cool, right?!" I mean, yeah, stoges do come off as being the "cool" thing. However, just because their pixelated character is doing it, i doubt they'll do it.

For starters, it's actually kind of hard to get your hands on cigs. You have to know someone who is 19 to buy them for you. And I doubt that a 19 year old is going to buy a 10 year old cigs, but that's just me. Plus, the first cig that someone has often turns them off from it. It did for me. I became really sick and light headed, a "smoker's high" you can say.

People are more likely to start smoking because they see their friends doing it than they are in a game. If a bunch of your friends are doing it, then you might fall into it. Peer pressure in a way. At least that's how I got started in doing things like this: my friends. Not from graal. If anything, we should be protecting kids from smoking in real life than in a game.

All in all: I really really doubt era is going to influence smoking.