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Subject: Re: Smoking. Was: Clarke Award Finalists 2001
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On 18/06/2025 01:41, William Hyde 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.

And in the sci-fi comic _Transmetropolitan_.
Anti-hero journalist Spider Jerusalem tells
a series of assistants to get anti-cancer
trait sdministered and then start smoking,
because journalism requires it.  I say don't.