[kupoartist]

Originally posted by fritz14
but they coime up as much as soda and fortys, they may have little use but its a use. cigarettes must have a use lol. maybe they make noise?

though not really a use, I once heard that the testers tried just about every class possibility - one was dubbed the "grenadier", which basically involved the player using only grenades, with possibly anything else that went bang. The testers apparently made it their goal to smoke every packet they found, and also to shout action movie quotes everytime there was a big explosion

Anyways... I guess the cigaretes are just part of the role-playing experience. You can act like a twenty a day person if you wish... Essentially, they're pointless but not alone - things like the cigs and the stories you can read are just what Warren Spector would be keen to call "attention" to detail - every WS game has somthing entirely pointless yet atmospheric, as does every game he indirectly influenced (System Shock 2 did the Cigerete, Soda and orange juice thing before Deus Ex for example, but them System Shock 1 did it before that)