This topic awakened my interest today. Obviously, when we played the old classic, early nineties video-games as kids we didn't pay attention to this. But now that I look back, on the art in those older games...
This was when I was thinking through of the 80's action movie heroes, that effected a lot the way late (NES and early PC) 80's-early nineties action characters looked like. The whole Arnold Schwarzenegger, Silvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren kind of look: Buff men, big guns, emotionless, cigarette-smoking... Smoking?
I could have sworn I saw a least some art of some games showing...
That's not a lollipop the NES Contra protagonist has got in his mouth.
I could have sworn I've seen a scene in Duke Nukem 3D showing Duke smoking as well. I couldn't find a screenshot of it though, so I'm probably wrong.
So how many are they? Do you guys know of any smoking characters? I would like to know I'm not just making stuff up.