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« Reply #105 on: March 02, 2013, 06:25:22 AM » |
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I think death sticks are a warning against smoking... they shorten the consumer's lifespan, after all, and only the seedy people/establishments carry them.
Death sticks are narcotics in the Star Wars universe. Quoted: Death sticks were a mild hallucinogen primarily sold on Outer Rim worlds, but could be found in abundance on Coruscant. Originally developed in the illegal pharmaceutical labs of CoCo Town, they were relatively cheap and were smuggled into the clubs of cities by slythmongers. The cilona extract offered euphoria in exchange for a horrific outcome, producing a twisted version of reality enhanced by bright colors. With each dose, the user's life was shortened, and the successive dosages took away larger chunks from a lifespan. With each successive dose, the desire for a harder reaction increased. It was thus very difficult for a youth to shake off their addiction without medical assistance. Tobacco exists in the Star Wars universe in one form or another. Death sticks are like liquid LSD.
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« Reply #106 on: March 02, 2013, 06:34:41 AM » |
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Death sticks are narcotics in the Star Wars universe.
Quoted: Death sticks were a mild hallucinogen primarily sold on Outer Rim worlds, but could be found in abundance on Coruscant. Originally developed in the illegal pharmaceutical labs of CoCo Town, they were relatively cheap and were smuggled into the clubs of cities by slythmongers. The cilona extract offered euphoria in exchange for a horrific outcome, producing a twisted version of reality enhanced by bright colors. With each dose, the user's life was shortened, and the successive dosages took away larger chunks from a lifespan. With each successive dose, the desire for a harder reaction increased. It was thus very difficult for a youth to shake off their addiction without medical assistance.
Tobacco exists in the Star Wars universe in one form or another. Death sticks are like liquid LSD.
You are correct. None of that information is given in the movies, so the otherwise uninformed viewers probably envision a cigarette-like object, and will be left with that vision until they look it up (which in all likelihood they won't).
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« Reply #107 on: March 02, 2013, 06:45:26 AM » |
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You are correct.
None of that information is given in the movies, so the otherwise uninformed viewers probably envision a cigarette-like object, and will be left with that vision until they look it up (which in all likelihood they won't).
I can agree on that. I just thought I'd clear that up in case people on here weren't informed. In fact. When I saw Episode II when I was around 10 I believe, I thought they were smokes.
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« Reply #108 on: March 02, 2013, 02:23:34 PM » |
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i thought they were supposed to be drugs when I saw them.
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« Reply #109 on: March 02, 2013, 05:37:27 PM » |
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How come we never see anyone smoke space cigarettes(or whatever they would be called) in SW?
Lando (and other minor characters) smoke cigars in The Lando Calrissian Adventures, though it seems awkwardly out of place to me. (Then again, not the best Star Wars books, either.)
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« Reply #110 on: March 02, 2013, 06:49:25 PM » |
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Niles Ferrier does in the Thrawn Trilogy - t'bac or tabac, I forget which.
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« Reply #111 on: March 02, 2013, 06:55:37 PM » |
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i knew death sticks were a narcotic type substance.....but god damn!
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« Reply #112 on: March 02, 2013, 07:00:06 PM » |
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Niles Ferrier does in the Thrawn Trilogy - t'bac or tabac, I forget which.
Wait, no - it was a cigarra. I was wrong.
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« Reply #113 on: March 02, 2013, 07:09:26 PM » |
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this just gave me a bad idea for a substance abusive jedi best outcome most likely outcome
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« Reply #115 on: May 22, 2013, 06:49:07 AM » |
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As for death sticks, I never had a problem with confusing them for cigarettes, because in the Russian translation they were called "dur'" (which is an underworld slang term for narcotics in Russia).
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« Reply #116 on: May 31, 2013, 03:12:42 AM » |
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« Reply #117 on: May 31, 2013, 10:22:36 AM » |
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I'll withhold my judgment until someone posts the inevitable pic of that.
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« Reply #119 on: May 31, 2013, 12:00:02 PM » |
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