There is no Link between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer.

My opponent claims that cigarettes could be around in Hyrule. However, Hyrule is a virtual world. Whatever the developers did not program into Hyrule is not in Hyrule, period. In the whole of the Zelda series, no game has included cigarettes [1], so there are no cigarettes in Hyrule. Additionally, the staple crop of Hyrule is the pumpkin [2]. Hyrule also grows beans [3]. There are pretty much no other crops in Hyrule. Tobacco probably isn't even grown anywhere near Hyrule, as Hyrule is relatively young compared to Earth [4], with no real technological advances since its birth, so evolution probably has not had enough time to produce any drugs that could be used to manufacture cigarettes. Additionally, even given the numerous rebellious gangs in Hyrule [5], not a single reference is made to any sort of drug, period, even though smoking is a common method of rebellion for kids [6], so one must logically conclude that the kids don't even know of such drugs, because such drugs do not exist in Hyrule or the surrounding trading partner areas. My opponent cites "multiple universes all with their own Links." He claims that in one of these universes, one Link must have discovered tobacco, or something of the sort. However, this greatly exaggerates the power one has in the game to deviate from the plotline. It is impossible for Link to do anything that he was not programmed to do. For example, none of the Links would end up building an airplane, because there is no programmed way for Link to obtain metal, tools, etc. There are absolutely no tobacco seeds or anything in any Zelda games for Link to plant and grow his own tobacco. Link isn't even programmed to smoke anything. Nobody in all of Hyrule is programmed to smoke anything. In short, nobody can smoke anything in Hyrule. My opponent claims that hacks may have programmed "stoned hippies" in a Legend of Zelda game, and placed Link between people smoking cigarettes and someone with lung cancer. There are numerous problems. First of all, for the resolution to be true, whatever game had this absurd hack (I seriously doubt there are any) would have to actually be on. Otherwise, Link would be off, and would no longer be between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer. Secondly, just because there are stoned hippies, doesn't mean that the action of smoking cigarettes has manifested itself. Smoking cigarettes is an action, and actions are not confined to certain locations. For example, it is impossible for something to be between swimming and snorkeling. Sure, it might be between people that are swimming and people that are snorkeling, but those people do not come to represent the actual actions themselves. Finally, lung cancer does not exist in video games, because cells do not exist in video games. Video game characters are not made up of cells, but pixels [7]. Therefore, with no cells, there is no uncontrolled cell growth, and therefore no lung cancer. In fact, there wouldn't be any lungs, because when video game characters are programmed, they are only given an outside shell. Link does not have any lungs programmed in his chest, and nor do any other Zelda characters. My opponent contends that because he has a cigarette lighter with a picture of Link on it between his own smoking cigarettes and his lung cancer-stricken grandfather, Link is between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer. However, this is to assume that a picture of Link could be a substitute for the real thing. Link is not a picture of Link, but Link. A picture of Link is not Link, but a picture of Link. My opponent attempts to use the two interchangeably, but I am not a picture of myself, and a picture of myself is not I. Finally, my opponent claims to have unlocked a bizarre scene from The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. First, I would like to ask, how did you get the scene from Minish Cap onto your computer? What technology did you use? And if you did use a camera, why can't you take a picture of yourself with two smoking cigarettes in your mouth? Second, how is it that this event does not appear at all in the Minish Cap Zeldapedia articles [8]? If you're so sure that such a scene can be unlocked, why don't you add it? It would give a whole lot of credibility to your statement. Third, how can a game that came out in 2004 use a picture taken in 2007 [9]? Finally, I'd like to point out that this is merely Link between a picture of a guy smoking cigarettes and a picture of a cancerous lung. Pictures cannot sub for the real thing. In conclusion, I have shown my opponent's propositions as to how the resolution could be affirmed to be false. Good luck, Nails. I'm looking forward to your argument. 1. http://zelda.wikia.com... 2. http://zelda.wikia.com... 3. http://zelda.wikia.com... 4. http://zelda.wikia.com... 5. http://zelda.wikia.com..., http://zelda.wikia.com... 6. http://en.wikipedia.org... 7. http://en.wikipedia.org... 8. http://zelda.wikia.com..., http://zelda.wikia.com... 9. http://www.ubergizmo.com...