the gala screening: smoking will simply kill you during drills
Because smoking will simply kill you during drills, only Bridget Boone, a steroidic Girls’ 16 named Carol Spodek, and one or the other of the Vaught twins are masochistic enough to do it, though Teddy Schacht has been known to enjoy the occasional panatela.
Context
The conditioned body sets the hard limit on the vice. Cigarettes are nearly nonexistent at E.T.A. not on principle but because "smoking will simply kill you during drills" — the lungs are load-bearing equipment, and the regimen's brutal aerobic demand makes tobacco a form of self-sabotage only a "masochistic" few will risk. It's the athletic body drawing the line the way a machine's tolerances would: you can crave what you like, but the drills will not permit a smoker's lungs. (Hal's own nicotine/sugar compulsion — dip and the induced "unpleasant emotional states" — is a-r's.)