Quote Originally Posted by Makeda View Post
SE might even get into legal trouble as a 'cartoon' glamorizing smoking if they put such an emote in.
It would essentially be a 'catgirl' version of a Joe Camel advertisement.

That's litigation big enough to drive SE out of business and maybe even put some of their managers at risk of jail time in some countries...

I'd steer very clear of doing such an emote.

I'm actually curious about whether or not a certain already existing NPC could have put them at risk of this. Joe Camel basically was a lightning rod for legal action against big tobacco, and inspired all kinds of legislation against representations of smoking in products that could even be hinted as possibly being of interest to minors.

This is probably a hornet's nest we don't want to kick...
I agree they aren't likely to ever add this. That said, they're probably safe with what they've done with npcs, their legal teams are probably on the ball with that. They've cited similar concerns with poker but they were able to clear mahjong. Big difference between an npc doing it and giving characters free reign to do something though, so while they can add occasional npcs like Yotsuyu I don't expect to ever see it playable.