History Main / TaintedTobacco

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Happy Families", the first VictimOfTheWeek is killed when the murderer spikes his vaping solution with a slow-acting poison.

* ''Series/NCIS'': In "Dead Man Walking", the victim who seeks the team's help to identify how he was exposed was poisoned by radioactive material added to his cigars.

Or, if they are a smoker, you can poison their tobacco. This has the advantages of being a substance they will willing take into their body without any urging from you, and may smoke it some time after you poison it; meaning there is no immediate link between you and their death.

** In "[[Recap/ColumboS03E01 Lovely but Lethal]]", Shirley implies that she knows that Viveca is responsible for Karl's death and [[BlackmailBackfire tries to blackmail her for silence]]; Viveca invites her out to her complex that afternoon to talk things over. At her complex, which serves as a spa and home to a weight loss program, Viveca poisons a number of cigarettes. When Viveca and Shirley meet, Viveca slips the poisoned cigarettes into Shirley's bag without her noticing. Shirley smokes one of the poisoned cigarettes and succumbs to the toxin while driving away: crashing her car and killing her instantly.
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS10E02 Caution: Murder May Be Hazardous to Your Health]]", Columbo sets out to prove that television host Wade Anders is guilty of murdering his long-time rival, Budd Clark. Anders uses Clark's addiction to cigarettes to poison him by adding concentrated nicotine sulfate drops, which kill almost instantly, to his cigarettes.

* ''Film/{{Friday}}: Smokey tells Craig about the time he smoked with his Latino friends in the back of their Lowrider, only to find out the blunt was laced with PCP, and ended up running naked down the street and hiding in a pidgeon coup.

* In ''Film/{{Fallen}}'', [[spoiler:Det. Hobbes]] commits suicide by lighting up a poisoned cigarette: allowing to kill himself in front of [[spoiler:Azazel]] without the other being aware of what he is doing.

* ''Series/ColonelMarchOfScotlandYard'': In "The Stolen Crime", the murderer douses the VictimOfTheWeek's cigarettes in a new insecticide that is [[PerfectPoison colourless, odourless and tasteless]] and vaoprizes easily when heated. After she is dead, the killer removes all of the cigarettes from the room and empties the ashtrays to disguise the cause, but doesn't realise that the victim had been using a cigarette as a bookmark.

* In ''Film/AJollyBadFellow'', Professor Bowles-Ottery murders Delia by replacing her cigarettes with ones treated with his PerfectPoison. He is later HoistByhisOwnPetard when his wife refills the cigarette box in the sitting room with cigarettes from his laboratory, not knowing they are poisoned.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': As Jessica drives away from Misty's home in "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS1E10SicTransitGloriaMundi Sic Transit Gloria Mundi", she lights a cigarette. Shortly after, she gets dizzy and realizes Misty laced her cigarettes with Fentanyl, like with the chocolates she threatened to send to Jessica's dad. She manages to cuss out Missy before collapsing at the wheel.

This is most commonly done with cigarettes, but can also involve cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco, snuff or even [[TimeMarchesOn E-cigarettes]].

** In "Lovely but Lethal", Shirley implies that she knows that Viveca is responsible for Karl's death and [[BlackmailBackfire tries to blackmail her for silence]]; Viveca invites her out to her complex that afternoon to talk things over. At her complex, which serves as a spa and home to a weight loss program, Viveca poisons a number of cigarettes. When Viveca and Shirley meet, Viveca slips the poisoned cigarettes into Shirley's bag without her noticing. Shirley smokes one of the poisoned cigarettes and succumbs to the toxin while driving away: crashing her car and killing her instantly.
** In "Caution: Murder May Be Hazardous to Your Health", Columbo sets out to prove that television host Wade Anders is guilty of murdering his long-time rival, Budd Clark. Anders uses Clark's addiction to cigarettes to poison him by adding concentrated nicotine sulfate drops, which kill almost instantly, to his cigarettes.

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