History Main / SmokingIsNotCool

* As early as 1938 (when most of the world would reject this Trope) WesternAnimation/PorkyPig starred in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' commercial called "Wholly Smoke" that emphasized the dangers of smoking and made the habit look about as "cool" as self-mutilation.

* Most smokers really start looking uglier as they get older. Apart from their veins turning their skin pale many develop an annoying smokers' cough.

** Patty and Selma, who're already very ugly and downright unpleasant company, smoke heavily.

-->--'''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''

* "Pimper's Paradise" from Music/BobMarley's ''Music/{{Uprising}}

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The entire plot of the episode "Secondhand Spoke" revolves around this. Peter takes up smoking to have an excuse to quit working, and quickly becomes addicted; the episode does not pull any punches on how much havoc Peter's wreaking on his body and health by doing so. Eventually the episode ends [[spoiler: with Peter wondering how things will turn back normal for him. Lois tells him the effects of smoking can't be overturned. Peter just asks for a cutaway gag, but when it returns to him he is still in the same worse shape, causing him to say: "Oh, crap!". Cue the end credits.]]

* Smoking big, smelly cigars is one of the most annoying habits of J. Jonah Jameson, Peter's MeanBoss at the ''Daily Bugle''. Employees often call him "Chimney Lungs" behind his back, and often wonder if the habit contributes to his HairTriggerTemper.

* Music/TheRollingStones: Keith Richards also falls into this trope as he grows older.

* As early as 1938 (when most of the world would reject this Trope) PorkyPig starred in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' commercial called "Wholly Smoke" that emphasized the dangers of smoking and made the habit look about as "cool" as self-mutilation.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The entire plot of the episode "Secondhand Spoke" revolves around this. Peter takes up smoking to have an excuse to quit working, and quickly becomes addicted; the episode does not pull any punches on how much havoc Peter's wreaking on his body and health by doing so.

* Most smokers really start looking uglier as they get older.

Not necessarily. Plenty of characters are perfectly capable of being tough or cool without lighting up. See also DoNotDoThisCoolThing and GoodSmokingEvilSmoking.

In fact, to emphasize this point even further, characters will be made more unlikeable or unattractive by having them smoke. This can happen by them taunting the non-smoker into lighting up, because otherwise he's a "wimp". Or by blowing SecondFaceSmoke in his face. Or just by having an ugly, obese, badly dressed, lazy or otherwise degrading character light up a cigarette or a cigar.

* ''Series/SisterSister'': One episode had a girl taunting one of the twins because she did't smoke, but near the end of the episode the bully eventually got her comeuppance.

** Most of the series relies on DoNotDoThisCoolThing to get this trope across, but ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots MGS4]]'' plays this painfully straight as Old Snake keeps losing his cigs or getting them confiscated and, at one point, is coughing away with a oxygen mask and STILL asks for a cig. It's a powerful moment when he decides to give it up after learning he no longer has to fight.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestar}}'' rams this message down your throat. Tex Hex had a toadying lickspittle named Scuzz, a who smokes cigars, and is always coughing and hacking up a storm. Even the other villains despise him.

[[caption-width-right:259: [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E13SelmasChoice "Ugh! Back to your loch, Nessie!"]]]]

** Most of the series relies on DoNotDoThisCoolThing to get this trope across, but ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots MGS4]] plays this painfully straight as Old Snake keeps losing his cigs or getting them confiscated and, at one point, is coughing away with a oxygen mask and STILL asks for a cig. It's a powerful moment when he decides to give it up after learning he no longer has to fight.

* Dutch film director and assassination victim Theo Van Gogh was also an obese chain smoker who liked to shock and offend people for the sake of doing so.

* ''Series/TheSimpsons''

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[[caption-width-right:259: [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E13SelmasChoice Ugh! Back to your loch, Nessie!]]]]
->"Okay...I have only one very important question... You got a smoke?"
->"Got gum."
-->-- Leon Kennedy and Luis Sera upon the latter's rescue, ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''

* Film/MeetTheFeebles: The rat character is seen smoking a cigarette at times.
* Film/{{Flodder}}: Mum Flodder is a middle-aged, obese, grouchy woman who smokes cigars.
* Film/{{MurielsWedding}}: One of Muriels' sisters is an obese cigarette smoking couch potato who often scolds her.

* Series/SisterSister: One episode had a girl taunting one of the twins because she did't smoke, but near the end of the episode she eventually got her comeuppance.
* Series/KeepingUpAppearances: Onslow's couch potato appearance is made even more degrading by having him drink and smoke in front of the TV.
* Series/TheRoyleFamily: The entire family looks downright disgusting, also because some of them are seen smoking.
* Series/AbsolutelyFabulous: Patsy and Edna are two middle-aged cynical women who still tries to look young and are both heavy smokers.

* The music video of Music/{{Eminem}}'s "My Name Is" had two low-life partners watching television when Eminem first appears on TV. The man is an obese couch potato, while the equally unattractive woman has messy hair and smokes a cigarette. In one GrossUpCloseUp she's even seen blowing smoke at the camera.

* Dante of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' was explicitly designed with this in mind, WordOfGod declaring that he's "too cool to smoke." His ContinuityReboot counterpart in ''DmCDevilMayCry'' was initially shown smoking in the first trailer, but again, WordOfGod states that he ''did'' smoke before, but has kicked the habit.
* ''Franchise/MetalGear'': Solid Snake and Naked Snake/Big Boss will inevitably get [[WhatTheHellHero criticized]] by at least one member of their supporting teams for their smoking habit. Averted in ''[[MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'', where just about every member of Big Boss's [=MSF=] smokes or otherwise uses tobacco.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': Leon Kennedy takes measures to follow this. In ''ResidentEvil4'', he turns down a smoke when offered, and, as shown in the page quote, offers Luis Sera gum when he asks for a smoke.

* Disney/{{Pinocchio}}: Lampwick, who is already being portrayed as a cocksure idiot, taunts Pinocchio for not smoking properly. In an example of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped and ScareEmStraight he then literally transforms into a donkey. Pinocchio immediately throws his cigar away.
* Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians: Cruella DeVil, an incredibly thin and unsympathetic fur enthusiast, is shown smoking from a cigarette holder.
* Series/TheSimpsons

* Actress Helena Bonham Carter often plays roles where she looks pale, badly dressed and smokes a cigarette to touch it all off.
* Belgian politician and criminal Jean-Pierre Van Rossem is an obese, long haired, bearded man who chain smokes all the time and made a habit of insulting everybody in his vicinity.
* Belgian author Herman Brusselmans has long hair, a nihilistic approach to life and also chain smokes.

* Music/TheRollingStones: Keith Richards also starts to fall into this trope as he grows older.
* Dutch film director and assassination victim Theo Van Gogh was also an obese chain smoker who liked to shock and offended people for the sake of doing so.
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Not necessarily. Plenty of characters are perfectly capable of being tough or cool without lighting up.

See also DoNotDoThisCoolThing and GoodSmokingEvilSmoking.

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