Through the Eyes of Another Pony/Headscratchers
- The Protagonist's lungs. Why does he sill have smokers lungs? At first it's presumed a Morphic Resonance like his size, but the body existed before he landed so why are the lungs still horrible?
- He did not still have "smoker's lungs" in his new body, it was revealed that initially he could breath much better and had better cardiovascular stamina than in his human form; any later evidence of smoking-related hindrance can be attributed to the introduction of smoking to the new body, and it not having had time to develop around having to compensate for this.
- This troper's former boss is a regular (but not intensive) smoker at work, but at the same time is still quite an accomplished marathon runner who makes it a point to make time for a long run every single day of the year, and has an unbroken streak of doing so for the past umpteen years. While he would indeed be more athletically capable if he had never smoked at all, he has been able to adapt his body to accommodate this hindrance to a formidably competitive level through regular cardiovascular-intensive exercise.
- He did not still have "smoker's lungs" in his new body, it was revealed that initially he could breath much better and had better cardiovascular stamina than in his human form; any later evidence of smoking-related hindrance can be attributed to the introduction of smoking to the new body, and it not having had time to develop around having to compensate for this.