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Subject: Re: Smoking. Was: Clarke Award Finalists 2001
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On 18/06/2025 02:41, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <102t20p$2ne82$1@dont-email.me>,
> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think MacLeod his having fun with the idea that, once medical science
>> can deal with all smoking-related illnesses easily, smoking may make a
>> comeback.  Which I found amusing in the novel.
>>
>>
>> William Hyde
> 
> I don't know if it's still a character point, but in the Claremont era,
> Wolverine was a smoker, because, mutant healing, why not?

I don't know if this stuck, but at one point,
I think Wolverine told Kitty Pryde that he
no longer smoked and that "that has Jeannie
written all over it" - Jean Grey, powerful
telepath team member, presumably doesn't like
the smoke, and either deliberately made
Wolverine a non-smoker, or else involuntarily
radiated distaste from her mind to his.