So, just wondering do you think Lizzy Wizzy is getting any kind of 'benefit' from smoking? I never smoked, but I'm curious if she is getting a 'high' or whatever it's called. Since her body is practically all synthetic, and I guess Johnny for that matter. I don't know how he has a cigarette to begin with, but whatever. Speaking of, how does Johnny have a cigarette anyway?
Lizzie, my guess > by habit and for the pleasure to smoke (weird for non-smokers, but it is a pleasure when your addicted^^)
Johnny don't have cigarette, it's an "imaginary cigarette". That's why he said to V that living in her body is not a picnic (because he is craving nicotine). And when V have a "real" cigarette, it's Evelyn's (the ones in the cigarette case that Judy gives to V before going to the Clouds).
Not everywhere, but I think in Japan Town apartment, you can light a cigarette and smoke
You both are thinking only about the physical component of it.
I'm talking about the psychological aspect of it, forget the addiction.
Let me elaborate. Back when I was a smoker, and addicted to cigarette, I would find peace and calmness in these moments where I'd go out and smoke. I stopped a decade ago. I am now a father of three, a husband and I have a very demanding job. All of my time is dedicated to other people and I do it voluntarily and happily. I get very little time for myself but, like everyone else, I need time for myself.
One of those moment is that one cigar every year that I smoke at the same time of the year, every year. No one in their right mind would call me addicted - I don't crave cigarette (or tobacco in general) and if for some reason I can't get that cigar it doesn't affect me in the slightest. So every year, we have a week long boat trip and there is this one hour that's just mine. I sit on the upper deck and enjoy that cigar. I make sure the kids are not anywhere near me and my wife will let me enjoy that one hour despite her dislike for tobacco because she knows just how much that one hour recharges my batteries. It's a moment that's just entirely mine - no worries, no thinking about anything, just enjoying the moment.
Now, to be clear, it's not the only such moment I get, it's just one of them. These moments are incredibly important in a person's life. People have various ways of experiencing these moments. For me, and it's definitely because I used to be a smoker, this is one of them. It's not about nicotine, it's not even about the cigar, it's the peace and quiet of the moment. Could it be achieved in other ways? Surely. But I enjoy it and it's almost become a ritual at this point. I know plenty of ex-smokers who feel this way about smoking and miss these moments. It seems weird to non-smokers because they don't know what it's like and it's easy to attribute it to addiction but not everything about smoking is negative.
Sooooo..... after this needlessly long-winded post,
@Andrew_Waples, I would assume Lizzie smokes purely out of habit and enjoying smoking as there is definitely no physical addiction component for her. Unless her artificial lungs are somehow not filtering nicotine so she can get her dose but that would seem a bit counter intuitive.