Smoking emote.

[Aurikai]

Oh wow, one of the first threads I ever posted in.

Shame it got buried under a bunch of moral grandstanding about how gross and icky cigarettes/pipes are and "I don't like it therefore it shouldn't be in the game" reasonings. Despite the fact that plenty of NPCs can be found casually lounging around with a pipe in their hand.

Welcome to FFXIV, we'll tolerate murder, genocide, subtle and not-so-subtle mentions of r*pe (shoutout to The Hole found in Sastasha, the very first dungeon of the game), alcohol use, and prostitution, but draw the line at the sight of a puff of smoke coming from a stick.

There's a huge difference between the insinuation of the act, and outright doing it or witnessing it.