marts wrote:
"wider variety of characterisation"

Really?!

I'd have hated working in the smoke-ful Marvel offices back then. 
​Thank goodness we live in enlightened days. Say NO! to lung cancer, kids.
Come on...I don't smoke, never have, but I don't hide my head in the sand and pretend nobody does, either...I remember going to junior college in the early 80s and people would smoke in class, and finally stubbing their butts on the carpet. Whew, I sure am glad that that's over with...
Yes, things have changed for the better, health-wise, but smoking still happens. I was always ok with the Thing having a big ol' stogie, it made him more of a big ol' bear...