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4->''"These days, when someone smokes in the movies, it's either a psychopath or a European."''
5-->-- '''Nick Naylor''', ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking''
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7Smoking is generally considered bad for you. Thus, smoking is portrayed by the villain, so as to drive home the {{A|nAesop}}esop that DrugsAreBad.
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9It is almost never portrayed as [[SmokingIsCool "cool"]] in 21st century media, and even the badass seems to be quitting the habit. In children's cartoons, it's perfectly acceptable for a villain to smoke, especially if they [[SecondFaceSmoke blow it in somebody's face]], but the hero thinks it's a disgusting habit, or they may be trying to quit. Alternatively, a heavy smoker may be shown as extremely affected by the smoke to show how bad it is.
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11The rule is suspended under very specific conditions:
12* The smoker is someone wise or fatherly. This utilises a pipe. It's okay because nobody under 50 is going to stuff a pipe with tobacco nowadays.
13* [[SmokingIsGlamorous The smoker is sexy.]] And ''seriously'' so.
14* The smoker is under [[CigaretteOfAnxiety extreme amounts of stress]] (usually associated with nervous pacing; think [[PanickyExpectantFather "father in a maternity ward"]]).
15* The smoker is incredibly badass. This often uses a CigarChomper.
16* The smoker is celebrating; cigars are associated with "special occasions" because they are expensive.
17* [[EverybodySmokes The smoking is correct to the era]]. This is why UsefulNotes/WorldWarI movies have soldiers smoking: in that era, everyone smoked in the trenches to drown out the terrible smell.
18* The smoker is [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys French]], and somebody wants to be stereotypical.
19* The smoker is Native American, and only smokes a PeacePipe as a cultural gesture.
20* The smoker isn't ''really'' smoking, but rather blowing bubbles from a BubblePipe or something like that.
21* The smoker is rich, and has enough money to blow on large amounts of cigarettes, cigars etc. (But note: if a prosperous older woman who doesn't seem to give a monkey's what anyone thinks is a heavy smoker, she will probably also be an inveterate liar.)
22* The smoker is immortal, magical, undead, or otherwise immune to the negative effects of smoking.
23* The character is TheStoner, and smoking is a part of their character. Of course in a lot of films with stoners, TheStoner gets killed so smoking is very, very bad for you indeed…
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25Also, what and how one smokes determines Good Smoking from Evil Smoking.
26* A cigarette holder, especially the long ones, is an Evil Smoking indicator, usually reserved for [[RichBitch evil bitches]] [[ManipulativeBastard of all]] [[MagnificentBastard kinds]]. However, as symbols of class and elegance, a female using a cigarette holder could be either Good or Evil, depending on the time the work was made.
27* ''Male'' users of cigarette holders are always Evil unless they're WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther, Creator/HunterSThompson, or UsefulNotes/{{F|ranklinDRoosevelt}}DR (or an {{Expy}} thereof), who is allowed to use the holder by means of the GrandfatherClause.[[note]] (FDR himself once explained to a child that he used a cigarette holder because, "[[ExactWords I promised my doctor that I would stay as far away as possible from a cigarette]].")[[/note]]
28* Long and fine cigarettes often indicate a bitch or a DepravedHomosexual.
29* A character smoking several cigarettes at once indicates a rebellious character who has little to no regard for their health.
30* A pipe is a [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe Good Smoking indicator]], usually reserved for grandfatherly gentlemen. If the character is younger, he is calm, collected and stoic, probably an intellectual, and probably a character in a period piece. A member of law enforcement, most often a detective (or private eye), is more likely to use a pipe in homage to [[Literature/SherlockHolmes a certain famous pipe-smoking detective]]. If they do, this also generally makes them a Good Smoker and not a DirtyCop. Corncob pipes are also a Good Smoking indicator, but they have a different set of stereotypes, generally being associated with honest, plain-spoken, unpretentious salt of the earth types, especially farmers and sailors. If a woman smokes a pipe, she is inevitably old enough to be a grandmother, working class or dirt-poor and from a rural area. If she's none of those, she's probably the madam of a brothel. The exception is East Asian women, if they're not Westernized enough to smoke cigarettes; while not being Westernized obviously often goes along with poverty and/or isolation, there is also a certain tendency in Asia for the wealthy--especially wealthy ''[[MRSDegree women]]''--to stick to traditional dress and habits. Western customs were partly adopted [[BoringButPractical as a business expedient]], after all, and the alternative therefore has gained connotations of luxury and leisure.
31* Clove cigarettes are cool smoking. Alternately, they may be the sign of a pretentious hipster douchebag or EmoKid.
32* Smoking weed goes all over the place with this trope, mostly because works have differing opinions if DrugsAreBad and if the people who use them are bad also. In stoner-friendly productions, a good smoker is someone that sticks to mostly soft natural psychoactives (marijuana, salvia, magic mushrooms, etc) and occasionally LSD, but this only applies when contrasted with someone that does hard drugs like meth, crack, heroin or PCP. Even then, the latter group may be treated with at least some sympathy, rather than outright disdain.
33* [[CigarChomper Characters who smoke lots of cigars]] are some combination of badass, {{jerkass}} and rich. Generally, the CorruptCorporateExecutive and rebel will smoke cigars. If the smoker is out of shape and well-dressed, then they're evil or at least a self-important jerk (unless they're UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill). If the smoker is muscle-bound and wearing rough clothing, they're generally either morally gray or heroic badasses. A woman who smokes a cigar is usually either TheVamp or rather butch. It isn't entirely clear-cut, but good characters will often smoke slender cigars, and evil characters fat ones. Since Cuba, until recently, was under a trade embargo from the US, anyone in American media who smokes Cuban cigars has often been depicted to be some stripe of sleazebag. See ItsCuban for more.
34* Cigarillos are usually sleazy, low-level evil with a tendency to droop. Of course, there is Creator/ClintEastwood.
35* GangBangers have a habit of smoking blunts, inexpensive cigars or cigarillos that have been hollowed out and filled with weed.
36* Also an indicator of Evil Smoking is if they hold a cigarette in an unusual way. As Creator/JimJarmusch comments to Harvey Keitel in 1995's ''Blue in the Face'':
37--> Nazis in movies. Why do they always smoke in some weird way like this? [puts cigarette between middle and ring fingers and speaking in German accent] "Ve have vays of making you talk!" Or this [holds cigarette with thumb and index finger] "Jah, we have seen vhat you've done!"
38** An exception to this is soldiers, who will sometimes be seen smoking cigarettes "squaddie-style", i.e. held between thumb and index finger with one or both hands, and with the palm or palms hiding the ember. This has the advantage of letting you warm your fingers and hiding the ember from vision (on a dark night, a cigarette ember is visible to the naked eye from half a mile away). Someone who smokes this way is usually an OldSoldier, SergeantRock, or someone else who has seen the elephant.
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40Not surprisingly, before the Surgeon General's report on tobacco use this trope was almost completely reversed. Non-Smokers were uptight and uncool, Smokers were just doing what everybody else did, and were perfectly normal, and made smoking look cool and perfectly healthy. It was more common for heroes to smoke than villains.
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42The critical change was in 1964 when the US Surgeon General released a damning report of the incontrovertible link between smoking and lung cancer, which convinced the public to gradually turn against tobacco. By UsefulNotes/The70s, the NoSmoking trope had gotten sufficient strength that tobacco advertising on American TV was banned and artists were encouraged to downplay tobacco such as in the TV series, ''Series/{{Kojak}}'', when the detective switched to lollipops and made them his trademark.
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44SubTrope of GoodFlawsBadFlaws
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46See Also: RedRightHand, UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness, FurAndLoathing.
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48Contrast SmokingIsCool, EverybodySmokes, SmokingIsEdgy, and NoSmoking.
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50!!Examples:
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55* An old Airwick commercial commented on "The Old Fogie Stogie", featuring an old man who laughingly blew cigar smoke at the viewer.
56* Before the climate changed against smoking, Marlboro had a series of ads featuring The Marlboro Man, a cowboy who would invite viewers to "come to where the flavor is". Marlboro cigarettes were ''so'' popular that there was a billboard of the Marlboro Man ''blowing smoke rings'' on Times Square in New York until the late [[The80s 80s.]]
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60* In ''Manga/EightMan1963'', 8 Man (AKA Tobor the Eighth Man) had to smoke (or maybe eat) cigarettes to keep his powers running. Later versions of the character had him shoot up drugs instead.
61* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s {{Anti Hero}}es mainly smoke cigarettes, with the main cigar-smoker of the cast being [[MagnificentBastard Balalaika]].
62* In a {{filler}} ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case, there's an UpperClassTwit who smokes. He ends up as the victim of the week. [[spoiler: In fact, a guy who was jealous of him for fancying the same girl tried to use his smoking habits to go MurderTheHypotenuse by poisoning his cigarette filters. The twit had the habit of cutting said filters off, so he dodged death barely... And then he got killed by someone else.]]
63* The three main characters of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' frequently smoke cigarettes, with all of them leaning towards good. This is never mentioned by anyone in the show, giving the audience the impression that smoking instead became more commonplace in the future. Whether this is because the health issues are no longer a problem given superior medical technology or just because their line of work makes them unlikely to live long enough to worry about lung cancer is uncertain. The aesthetics of the show come from 1970's. Smoking is a part of the image.
64** Lampshaded in an Adult Swim bumper that theorized that in the ''Cowboy Bebop'' universe, tobacco is classified as a food group.
65* Used unusually in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''. "November 11" is forced to smoke [[PowerAtAPrice every time he invokes his contractor's power]], and he ''hates'' tobacco smoke...
66** In another case, there's a VERY bitchy chain smoker who is one of the suspects for killing a loan shark. [[spoiler: She's the SympatheticMurderer, as she killed said loan shark for driving her boyfriend to suicide.]]
67* ''Anime/DragonBallGT'': The Dragon of the Black Smoke smokes a cigar and is literally MadeOfEvil.
68* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
69** UnluckyEverydude Jean Havoc is always smoking a cigarette, and is definitely a good guy. However, the real reason the author made him a smoker was [[spoiler:just so he could throw Mustang a lighter in that ONE SCENE]].
70** Pinako Rockbell, the Elric brothers' surrogate grandmother, smokes a pipe. As someone wise and grandmotherly, she is allowed.
71* When [[spoiler: Tsubaki Kasugano]] from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' shows [[TheFakeCutie her true colors]] to Yukki and Yuno, she pulls out a pipe and smokes on it. Definitely evil smoking.
72** Lampshaded and parodied in the Abridged Series:
73--->[[spoiler: '''Tsubaki ''']]: Yukiteru. There’s something important I have to tell you. \
74'''Yukiteru''': What is it [[spoiler: Tsubaki]]? \
75[[spoiler: '''Tsubaki''']]: I... [[TheReveal have a pipe]]! \
76[''[[FauxHorrific dun dun DUUUUUUUN]]''! ] \
77[[spoiler:'''Tsubaki''']]: [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Also I’m going to have the two of you killed]]. \
78'''Yukiteru''': [[LittleNo No!]]
79* Hijikata Toshirou of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is known for his chain cigarette smoking, and falls under both the sexy and badass exceptions. The mayonnaise bottle lighter ruins the effect somewhat. Or enhances it, whatever works for you. Quite a few characters in the series smoke, including Otose who smokes almost as much as Hijikata. The main villain Takasugi Shinsuke however smokes a long pipe. Tsukuyo also smokes a pipe, but though she was introduced as a villain she soon became one of the good guys.
80* In ''Anime/GreatPretender'', Makoto takes up smoking as he geets deeper and deeper into the world of the yakuza, symbolizing his BecomingTheMask.
81** His yakuza boss [[TheQueenpin Lady Suzaku]] also smokes.
82** Kim Shi-won is often seen with a cigarette, though in her case it's more that she's a CoolOldLady.
83* Mr. Fujisawa from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' smokes regular cigarettes - and drinks alcohol, too - despite being one of the protagonists. [[spoiler:It should be noted that drinking and smoking are "bad" for him in El Hazard, but not just in the ways you'd expect - he's MadeOfIron and has SuperStrength there, but both habits significantly inhibit his power; when he hasn't smoked or drinked in a while, he's a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le, unstoppable [[TheJuggernaut juggernaut]].]]
84* [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Sir Integra Hellsing]] is known for smoking manly cigars, both because she's a badass, and because she's a {{Bifauxnen}}.
85* The Red King, Mikoto Suoh, and his second-in-command, Izumo Kusanagi, from ''Anime/{{K}}'' are the "sexy" and "badass" variety.
86** The Blue King, Reisi Munakata, is also both sexy and badass, ''and'' only smokes when he's stressed (and [[FoeRomanceSubtext thinking about Mikoto]]).
87* Alan of ''Manga/{{MAR}}'' is a cigar-smoker who meets the "badass" exception.
88* ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' protagonist Ginko is an unusual example of a non-badass good guy who smokes cigarillos - he's rarely seen without one. Likely more of a tool than a vice, though, as the smoke they give off keeps [[TheFairFolk mushi]] from getting too close for comfort.
89* Asuma from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' met every condition for the suspension, he was even going to be a father soon. [[spoiler:Shikamaru however didn't quite make the cut and thus, his smoking had to be censored in the anime. He carried a lighter with him that he turned on and off in the deceased Asuma's memory instead.]]
90* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Smokers who are Luffy's allies, such as crew member Sanji, smoke cigarettes. Those who are his enemies are more often the ones with cigars.
91** The obviously named ''Smoker'' has cigars strapped to his arms like machine-gun rounds (they're edited out in the 4Kids dub of the anime). He's seen smoking two or three at once sometimes, and while he is more a rival than an enemy, it's meant to signify "Badass". He also has the excuse of his Devil Fruit giving him smoke-based powers.
92** Sir Crocodile smoked huge cigars, and was THE antagonist of the Alabasta arc
93** Averted with Paulie, who's the only good character smoking cigars that doesn't oppose Luffy at all.
94** Capone "Gang" Bege, one of the Worst Generation, is a crime boss-turned-pirate. Still incredibly ruthless, to the point of stabbing an underling in the ''eye'' for talking back to him, and fond of smoking cigars. [[spoiler:In a subversion, however, he shows himself to be a principled family man and an ally of Luffy's.]]
95* Gilbert in ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' could fall under sexy smoking. In an omake, however, the other characters make fun of him for smoking. Then they make fun of him for trying to quit (eight times now, in fact). Then they make fun of him for failing to quit (...eight times). [[ButtMonkey He gets a lot of abuse for everyone's entertainment]].
96* Gokudera from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' is a chainsmoker and makes it look really cool - partly justified in that he needs it to light his bombs and cuts down when he gets new powers.
97* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
98** At least one person per antagonistic unit smokes (with the exception of the Hiruma Brothers and Woo Heishin/the Su-shin).
99** Jin-e Udo not just smokes, but uses how long it takes him to finish a cigarette to determine how long it would take to defeat Kenshin as both Kenshin and Battosai.
100** The Tokyo Oniwabanshu's employer, Takeda Kanryuu, prefers the stereotypical rich man's smoke: cigars.
101** Shishio Makoto uses the more traditional kiseru, which fits more with the time period than an 'evil must smoke' cliche.
102** From the Jinchuu Arc, Otowa Hyouko of the Six Comrades uses a hookah, and in a flashback, the traitor I'izuka is seen once smoking a kiseru.
103** Saitou is just badass enough to be a 'good smoking' exception.
104* ''Manga/SailorMoon '': In her original incarnation, Sailor Jupiter was to be the leader of a gang of female {{Delinquents}}, which included smoking. When the idea of her being a ''sukeban'' was scrapped, so was the idea of her smoking.
105* Lots of characters in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' smoke (and indeed in Minekura's other works). It tends to be thematically related to "life"--as a way of savoring the moment or as a fuck you to mortality. Sanzo, Gojyo, Tenpou, Kenren, and Koumyou smoke or smoked, and are all good guys. Koumyou smokes a long-stemmed pipe rather than cigarettes for added traditionalism and fatherly benevolence. [[SchizoTech Tobacco products are far from the only anachronism in a series supposedly set in ancient China.]]
106* Stein from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is almost certainly a "badass" exception for good smoking. On the other hand, his addiction to cigarettes is also used as a metaphor for [[TheCorruption his insanity]]. So it's a mix of Evil Smoking and EvilIsCool.
107* The hero from ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' is a cigar smoker of the badass variety. It is very rare to see him without a cigar in the mouth (though not always lighted). Note that his cigars often contains bondesque gadgets (like some allowing ''water-breathing'').
108* In ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', the villainous Yubaba smokes a cigarette and exhales billowing clouds of smoke right into [[SecondFaceSmoke Sen's face]]. Her nicer sister Zeniba is not seen smoking.
109* Choji Suitengu of ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' does not just smoke long cigarettes. He smoked using rolled up [[MoneyToBurn 10,000 yen bills]].
110* Seishirou Sakurazuka from ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' and ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' is the perfect example of how adults who smoke can prove to be bad role models for teens by negatively influencing them with their habit. Of course, being [[TheSociopath a sociopathic]] ProfessionalKiller Seishirou was never going to be a good role model by a long shot, but when he sees the once AllLovingHero Subaru Sumeragi has [[TookALevelInCynic taken it up]] since their [[BreakTheCutie last meeting 9 years ago]], even he has a few words to say about the health risks.
111* We haven't seen her smoke it yet, but ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'''s [[HotWitch Beatrice]] habitually carries a long, old-fashioned pipe, similar to a cigarette holder, using it as a MagicWand.
112* Yuuko of ''Manga/XxxHolic'' smokes a traditional Japanese pipe a great part of her time at home. [[spoiler: Later on Watanuki eventually inherits and uses the pipe himself.]]
113* One of the more famous aspects of Doronjo in ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'' is her habit of carrying a long, rather odd-looking pipe. In ''Tatsunoko Versus Capcom'', she uses it as a weapon.
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117* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Big M.'s commander is often seen smoking cigarettes and using a cigarette holder. He's one of the villains and the only character in the series who regularly smokes.
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121* Emperor Zombie in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingScrewOnHead'' actually smokes a ''scholar'' to learn everything he knows. Miraculously, it actually works. The fact that he was smoking and killing a person at the exact same time kind of seals the deal on that one.
122* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity,'' this is played straight with Julius Furst, a CigarChomper of the old school. It is, however, subverted with his BadassBookworm brother Augustus; WordOfGod is that the pipe he keeps in his mouth is actually a portable energy source, which is simply pipe-shaped for portability and habit.
123* In ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'', the two heroes are often seen smoking pipe. Olrik, their {{Archenemy}}, is often shown with a cigarette holder.
124* ''ComicStrip/DanDare'' achieved the rare feat of being a young and dashing pipe smoker.
125* ''Creator/DCComics'':
126** In the earlier days of the company, nearly every heroic character who was "respectable" (i.e., businessmen like Bruce Wayne or alien scientists from the future like Brainiac 5) was shown smoking pipes constantly. This remained the case for Dr Will Magnus, creator of the ComicBook/MetalMen, to the extent that when he became a Metal Man himself called Veridium, he still had the pipe, generated from his own veridium body.
127** [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Jenny Sparks]] is a chainsmoker. It gets to the point where she is seen with a cigarette almost 3/4 of the time. Jenny Quantum picks up the habit.
128** Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} has been seen smoking a pipe in his Bruce Wayne identity as late as 1980 in an issue of ''New Teen Titans''. He was addressing Robin in a fatherly way while relaxing in his armchair.
129** [[Characters/SuicideSquadOperatives Deadshot]] constantly chainsmokes whenever he's unmasked and not killing something. This is indicative of his DeathSeeker status.
130** [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] is often shown smoking those evil cigars. Well, he is incredibly rich...
131** [[Characters/SupermanCentralRoguesGallery Manchester Black]]. His sister [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite Vera]] also develops a smoking habit [[spoiler:as she increasingly becomes convinced that he's inside her head]].
132** A cigarette holder is part of [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin The Penguin]]'s iconic look.
133** Daily Planet chief Perry White was known to smoke cigars at one point. He was also a blowhard, but a good guy.
134** In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Desire not only smokes all the time, but he/she is apparently just ''lighting'' its cigarettes ''constantly''. This is possibly a subtle ShoutOut to Creator/OscarWilde: "''A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.''" A perfect habit for the incarnation of desire.
135** When it was revealed that [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Terra]] was TheMole, she took to smoking. In this case, however, it was to provide a more mature look to the rather immature looking character.
136** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
137*** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]]: Prior to her HeelFaceTurn Paula von Gunther's smoking habit was so constant that her long stemed dragon cigarette holder was her IconicItem, but after her daughter was returned to her and she swiftly dedicated the rest of her life to wrecking Nazis she gave up the vice.
138*** One story features [[HonestCorporateExecutive Art Fairdeal]] and his DistinguishedGentlemansPipe versus his [[CigarChomper cigar chomping]] rival [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Josh Slicker]].
139* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck comicverse, Donald himself smoked until the climate changed. Now only bad guys such as Black Pete are seen to smoke.
140* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' has a wolf who smokes cigarettes and occasionally cigars to mask [[spoiler:the scent of his One True Love and]] the general scent of the city. He's a [[NobleWolf heroic badass example]], but unusual in that he has a specific reason for smoking.
141* ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'', according to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]].
142* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'''s John Constantine. Good badass smoker, and doesn't even have to worry about lung cancer [[spoiler:thanks to his triple devil deal]].
143* ComicBook/LuckyLuke used to smoke until he quit and switched to a ''piece of straw'' circa 1983. The {{Prequel}} comic ''The Man Who Killed Lucky Luke'' shows how it happened in-universe (including why he picked the straw).
144* German comic ''ComicBook/LulaUndYankee'' had ''gummy bear'' cigarettes at one point. As Lula commented, this was a case of decadent smoking.
145* ''Creator/MarvelComics'':
146** On the evil side of the equation, [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] was often seen lighting up cigarettes before Marvel banned them.
147** In reprints of the original 1940's ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Steve Rogers can be seen smoking a pipe. This gets the "correct to the era" exemption (probably why Marvel didn't photoshop the pipe out).
148*** His ArchEnemy the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] smokes a cigarette on a holder, often using it to conceal his [[PerfectPoison Dust of Death]] and use it on an enemy.
149** Dr. Stephen Strange, the man who eventually became ComicBook/DoctorStrange, is shown lighting a cigarette ''in the operating room'' immediately after performing a surgery. In context, it indicates how self-centered he was.
150** Before the climate changed against smoking, [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] used to smoke a pipe.
151** Characters/TheThing has been known to chomp on cigars, as has ComicBook/NickFury. This was because their shared co-creator Creator/JackKirby loved cigars, and put elements of himself into both characters.
152** ComicBook/HowardTheDuck had a cigar.
153** J. Jonah Jameson chomps on a cigar. He's a blowhard, but a good guy. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kinda.]]
154** Mob boss [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]] originally had a cigarette holder, but switched to villainous cigars after they went out of style. Naturally, he only selects the best Cuban cigars.
155** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Xavier, a wise and fatherly figure, smokes in a pipe. Wolverine smokes cigars and fills the room with smoke, just because he's so jerkass.
156** ''ComicBook/XMen'':
157*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]] was known to smoke in his early appearances in the 90s.
158*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Kitty Pryde]] only smokes when she's been somehow turned evil or possessed by something evil. The regular, non-possessed Kitty learned a long time ago that she had no interest in smoking after trying one of Wolverine's cigars in a moment of extreme frustration. A scene that Marvel would never allow in the modern era, since Kitty was only 15 at the time.
159*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] used to smoke cigars, but eventually gave up the habit, specifically directly after [[ComicBook/FatalAttractionsMarvelComics losing his adamantium]] to Magneto's cruelty; his healing power got extremely taxed during that incident, which may have something to do with it (in-universe, at least). Paraphrasing:
160---->'''Wolverine:''' Time I gave those nasty things up, anyway.
161* GreatDetective from Germany, ''ComicStrip/NickKnatterton'', smokes pipe. He's from The50s.
162* ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'''s enemies often smoked to indicate they were evil. Whereas cigarettes and cigars were often prominent, cigarette holders were reserved for the incredibly pompous, egotistical blowhards, such as General Tara, a self-centered dictator who brandished one easily a foot in length. It was an effective touch by artist Sy Barry as the accessory was obviously intended to affect a superior, haughty air, and when used by a fat, barbaric paramilitary type, very effete. When he was feeling his most smug and content, he blew smoke rings, often while anticipating some sadistic act, such as torturing the Phantom's fiancée, Diana Palmer in "The Tyrant of Tarakimo." In the story's sequel, he huffs lazy smoke rings from a massively ornate throne to indicate his satisfaction after his henchmen successfully kidnap Diana, presenting her to him in harem outfit.
163* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. Jesse smokes constantly, even pausing to light up mid fight on more than one occasion.
164* ComicBook/ScottPilgrim has a personal aversion to smoking to the point that he believes smoking to be a sign of being evil.
165* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' is filled with smokers:
166** [[AntiHero Marv and Dwight]] both smoke cigarettes.
167** [[MsFanservice Gail]] smokes thin cigarettes that look like cigarillos but Dwight mentions that they're Russian.
168** Senator Roarke chomps down on cigars since he's rich, powerful, and evil.
169** Neither [[TheHero Wallace nor John Hartigan]] smoke and they're the nicest "heroes" in Sin City.
170* Miss Misery in ''ComicBook/SleeperWildStorm''. For her to stay perfectly healthy, she has to do bad things, which is why she's always seen smoking.
171* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': Spider Jerusalem forces his non-smoking assistant to ''start''. He's the hero, [[JerkAss kind]] [[AntiHero of]]. At least he seems to keep a good supply of "anti-cancer traits" on hand, and always tells the new assistant where they are just after telling them to start smoking; so, at least within The City, smoking isn't particularly harmful. According to a flashback, [[spoiler:his ex-wife]] smoked from an octodecuple (that's ''eighteen'') cigarette holder.
172* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', The Comedian smokes cigars, while Laurie and other side characters smoke cigarettes, though they look vastly different from what we would know them to be, given the divergent technology; they're something akin to e-cigarettes, although nothing like that would exist for decades in real life.
173* If a witch in ''TabletopGame/{{Witch Girls|Adventures}}'' or ''Witch Girls Tales'' is smoking, they're a wicked witch. Especially if they're a child at the time. Cigarette holders are favored, but not mandatory.
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177* In ''Fanfic/AndSoWeFight'', Link's ally Ishaka uses a pipe, while Ganondorf prefers cigars.
178* Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow, a psychopath who {{mind rape}}s people for research and sadistic gratification, is a chain smoker in ''Batman: Melody for a Mockingbird''. [[WordOfGod Fareeha Huq confirmed]] smoking was a trait added to Scarecrow, along with a DeepSouth accent, to make him "as vile as possible." The heroes and Crane's cohorts both comment on [[EvilSmellsBad how loathsome the fumes stink]], and one of his dickish habits is blowing smoke in the face of whoever irks him. [[spoiler:It turns out the cigs are more evil than they seem: His "special" tobacco is laced with diluted fear toxin. Yes, he's using his nightmare juice ''recreationally''.]]
179* Played with in ''Fanfic/BadFutureCrusaders'' where only Apple Bloom and Silver Spoon, a morally gray ShellshockedVeteran and an ostensibly villainous thief / assassin respectfully, are smokers. It's explained though that smoking is effectively unheard of in Equestria, with cigarettes themselves being outright unavailable and needing to be imported from elsewhere, and the two smokers happened to spend a good period of their lives in a country where smoking is apparently rather common. The story still gets it's [[AnAesop Aesop]] in, though, when Scootaloo watches Apple Bloom light up for the first time:
180--> '''Scootaloo:''' That can ''not'' be good for you.
181--> '''Apple Bloom:''' It ain't. Pep always wanted me to quit.
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184[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
185* Big Boss, TheBigBadWolf of ''WesternAnimation/The3LittlePigsTheMovie'', is the only character in the story who smokes, often seen around his inn with a cigar in his mouth.
186* Carface in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'', who is practically an {{Expy}} of Warren T. Rat (mentioned below), does the same. If someone smokes in a Creator/DonBluth movie, they're a villain.
187* Warren T. Rat in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' smoked cigars, blowing smoke rings and dollar signs to cue the audience in to the fact that he's really a villain and tricking Fievel.
188* Mobster Salvatore Valestra in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' is shown in flashbacks as a heavy cigar smoker. In the scenes taking place in the movie's "present", the cigars took such a toll on him that he's constantly wheezing and has to carry around an oxygen tank.
189* ''Creator/{{Disney}}'':
190** In ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', Cruella [=DeVil=] not only smokes, but for added evil, uses a cigarette holder. Indeed, no animated film ever made smoking look more disgusting than this film with Cruella polluting the air with smoke and putting out her cigarette in a pastry. Roger smokes as well, but he smokes a pipe, and the smoke itself is natural white whereas Cruella's has a decidedly evil-looking green color as well as being much more villainously expressive. In addition, the quick scene where Jasper Badun contemptuously flicks cigar ash onto Horace's sandwich bread is even more stomach churning.
191*** Disney released quit-smoking ads on their [=DVDs=] featuring clips of Cruella and her ''greeeeeen'' smoke. [[note]]Mid-2015 and up. In 2008-early 2015, a ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''-themed ad was used. See the entry below.[[/note]]
192** In ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', The generally mellow but rather unhelpful and slightly sinister Caterpillar smokes a hookah ominously, as he does in the book. He normally produces colorful smoke letters and other impossible shapes but when Alice manages to push his BerserkButton the smoke changes to grey. Also, the FauxAffablyEvil Walrus smokes a cigar, while the Dodo Bird smokes a pipe.
193** WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, as much as people don't remember it now, was a sailor. He cursed up a storm (in duck quacks), he got mad, and yes, he smoked cheap stogies. Huey, Dewey, and Louie once got a taste of the 'forced excessive smoking' part of the trope above. Of course, it being Donald...
194** Practically everyone smokes in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', including the hero, but [[DeliberateValuesDissonance seeing how the movie is set in the Victorian Era]], it shouldn't really be a surprise. Basil, the quick-thinking Literature/SherlockHolmes-esque detective, smokes a pipe, while [[BigBad Ratigan]], the world's greatest... [[BerserkButton mouse]] and criminal mind, uses a cigarette holder. Later in the film, when infiltrating a BadGuyBar disguised as a sailor captain, Basil swaps out his pipe for a cigarette.
195** Hades, the villain from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' smokes a cigar, lighting it with [[FingerSnapLighter his thumb]]. Since this movie takes place in Ancient Greece, this is an [[AnachronismStew anachronistic]] example.
196** Jim Dear in ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' smokes a pipe.
197** Ariel from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' grabs the meerscham pipe on the dinner table when she sees it. Eric's guardian starts to tell her about it when she blows into it, thinking, because of Scuttle, that it would make music.
198** Sykes in ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' smokes a cigar and wears a suit. Fagin is seen choking on the smoke in one scene.
199** Captain Hook in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', as well as in the book it was based on, combines multiple "Evil Smoking" indicators into one; if he had a cigar ''or'' a cigarette holder, it would've been enough, but the fact that he not only combines the two, but uses a custom double-holder to smoke two cigars at once, is just overkill. Meanwhile, the territorial but neutral Indians pass around a peace pipe after reaching an accord with the Lost Boys: the morally ambivalent Peter smokes it without any problems, while of his new guests, Wendy stops Michael from trying it and refuses to do it herself, and John immediately gets sick when he tries it.
200** Early in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' kindly old Geppetto smokes a pipe. That is the only smoking in the film that isn't evil smoking of some sort. Lowlife grifters Honest John and Gideon smoke cigars, and the demonically evil [[AmbiguouslyHuman (and possibly a literal demon)]] Coachman not only smokes a pipe but also encourages the boys he takes to Pleasure Island to smoke the abundant cigars it offers; when they do so, it's a sign they've been [[CorruptTheCutie ensnared]] by the park (and smoking makes Pinocchio sick to his stomach). As noted above, it was also later used in a quit-smoking ad.
201** In ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', [[MagicalNegro Uncle Remus]] smokes a corncob pipe, along with Brer Bear and one of the animated frogs.
202** Jose Carioca from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' also smoked a cigar, but he doesn't smoke one anymore in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''.
203* One of the Sisters from ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' smokes a pipe. Whilst pipes are normally more of a good example, it's rather sinister looking and elongated like the more conventionally evil cigarette holder. She's also able to cast powerful smoke-based magic from it.
204* In ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'', only the nuisance Flip smokes and multiple characters including the title character order him to stop. In the early 20th century [[ComicStrip/LittleNemo comic]], Flip was far more amoral (though friends with the title character) and again the most prevalent smoker, never going anywhere without a cigar in his mouth (Nemo's mom thinks he is a troublemaker because of his cigars), though Nemo's father is shown smoking a few times too.
205* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'', two villains, siblings Klaus and Claudia, are seen smoking cigarettes. Claudia even coughs from her cigarette at one point into [[SecondFaceSmoke her dog Sophie's face, making her cough as well]]. Inspector Jamal also smokes as well, as he seems to be villainous... [[spoiler: until he's revealed to have been after Klaus and Claudia and succeeds in capturing them.]]
206* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Taffyta doesn't actually smoke of course, but the way she handles a lollipop is clearly meant to evoke a cigarette.
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210* Soldiers smoke in war movies. Grunts are generally seen smoking cigarettes, while colonels and generals smoke cigars.
211* Cruella de Vil also has this habit in ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996''. The sequel, ''Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians'', uses her attitude towards smoking as an indicator of her "Ella" personality (who now hated it) and the return of "Cruella" (who loved it).
212* Everyone period-appropriate smokes in ''Film/AllAboutEve'' but Addison [=DeWitt=] uses a cigarette holder, indicating evil and also possibly DepravedBisexual.
213* ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'': Good people are portrayed as victims of smoking (Derek's mom), evil people enjoy smoking (all dem neo-Nazis). Derek specifically criticizes Danny for smoking and gently criticizes his mother for the same.
214--> '''Derek:''' She's coughing her lungs out and you're blowing this shit in her face all day?
215* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'':
216** ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': Lorraine, Marty's mother, is introduced in 1985 as an alcoholic, so when Marty's in 1955, he tells the teenaged Lorraine that she shouldn't drink or else she'll regret it. After being a bit peeved, Lorraine lights a cigarette, which shocks Marty more, asking "Jesus, you smoke, too!?", to which Lorraine responds "[[{{Irony}} Marty, you're beginning to sound just like my mother]]...".
217** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': In [[BadFuture the alternate 1985]] where [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Biff is a corrupt and powerful businessman]], [[ShrineToSelf the museum dedicated to Biff's life]] has a "smoking required" sign at the entrance.
218* As noted in the comics section above, actors portraying the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villain Penguin have appeared with a long cigarette-holder in their mouths or hands, in order to play up the character's snobbery and moral degeneracy. Ironically, both actors who played this character in live action -- Creator/BurgessMeredith and Creator/DannyDeVito -- were nonsmokers at the time. Rumor has it that Meredith's distinctive "waugh waugh waaaaugh" laugh was to cover up the cough that the herbal cigarettes caused.
219* In the 1997 version of ''Film/{{The Borrowers|1997}}'', Mr. Potter smoked a cigar while wearing a suit and being played by overweight actor John Goodman. Guess what his alignment was.
220* In the 1961 version of ''Film/CapeFear'', villain Cady smokes Scummy Bastard cigars, while heroic Bowden does not smoke.
221* The RichBitch villainess of the 1995 live-action ''Film/{{Casper}}'' movie smoked cigarettes.
222* In ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' Eric Knox and the Thin Man both smoke, the former only after he is revealed to be a bad guy.
223* A subversion and a straight example feature at the same time in ''Film/{{Chicago}}''. "The Cell Block Tango": Velma Kelly being very sexy and smoking. But she's an incarcerated murderess who sings "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" about the victim, so she's also evil. So the smoking makes her more evil than all the non-smokers with ImplausibleDeniability.
224* ''Film/Constantine2005'':
225** Papa Midnite subverts the cigarillo trope by being a good/neutral witch-doctor turned bartender.
226** Constantine smokes excessively, only to find out during the movie that he has lung cancer. [[spoiler:After Constantine willingly sacrifices himself to save the world (allowing him to enter Heaven), Satan ends up curing his cancer to keep him alive so he can claim him later.]] At the end of the movie, he's seen popping gum in his mouth.
227* In ''Film/TheCore'', Zimsky was the self-serving JerkAss through the entire movie, and had been denied his cigs by the rest of the cast. Due to the tendency of {{Disaster Movie}}s to off the cast one member at a time, he finally ends up alone with his cigs, just in time for a RedemptionEqualsDeath soliloquy.
228* ''Film/DieHard'':
229** John [=McClane=] lights up a cig in the limo in the first five minutes of the first movie.
230** Also notable in his scene with Hans. The fact that Hans -- masquerading as an escaped hostage -- holds his cigarette with his thumb and index finger is just one of the things that helps clue John in.
231* Snake Plissken, tough guy badass from ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', smokes through that movie, and actually got the final shot with TheSlowWalk and a cigarette. In ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' he doesn't have access to cigarettes until the end, in which he illuminates his face purely with the light of his match. In fact, the film is supportive of smoking rights. John Carpenter himself is a chain smoker.
232** Really, most (if not all) of Creator/JohnCarpenter's films include at least one scene in which a major character smokes a cigarette.
233* The entire cast of ''Film/EventHorizon'' shares a cigarette early in the film, which works as kind of a "Three on a match" callback. Thing is, that includes both good and evil characters.
234* In ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'', Raoul Duke (an amoral, ChaoticNeutral / TheHedonist character, at best, when he's away from his typewriter) constantly smokes cigarettes from a cigarette holder (which Depp stole from the real HST, after he followed him around to get his characterization down), just like the real Hunter S. Thompson. Several critics complained that the cigarette holder always clenched between Creator/JohnnyDepp's teeth made some of his dialogue unintelligible. As an interesting side note, Duke holds the cigarette holder with a lit cigarette in it in his mouth constantly, but he is never shown actually ''smoking'' the damn thing.
235* Which leads to ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', in which Col. Mortimer's pipe (incidentally, a gorgeous example) makes him a Distinguished Gentleman Badass. Similarly Clint's character, Manco, also smokes cigarillos and continues to be an exception to the rule while the villain smokes marijuana which adds to his unstable image via DrugsAreBad.
236* In ''Film/GhostRider2007'', the police try GoodCopBadCop on Johnny, and the good cop asks if he can have a cig. Johnny indicates he doesn't mind, but the Ghost Rider powers are in ready mode, and the cop's lighter flares up wildly.
237* The Ghostbusters smoke in the [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} their first film]]. It's not necessarily ''[[SmokingIsCool cool]]'', but it does help ground the heroes as working-class stiffs.
238* The first sign of Henry's evil in ''Film/TheGoodSon'' is that he smokes. And gets Mark to smoke too.
239* Doubly inverted in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Angel Eyes (the Bad) smokes a pipe, but this makes him a Distinguished Badass rather than a Distinguished Gentleman. Of course, this is ''Lee Van Cleef'' we're talking about, so the Badass comes with the territory; Blondie smokes cigarillos, but is the Good (relatively, within the spectrum of GreyAndGrayMorality).
240* ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}'' is a heroic badass and smokes cigars.
241** The [[Film/Hellboy2004 first film]] has a scene near the end which illustrates Hellboy's and Director Manning's grudging respect of each other with them bonding over cigars.
242** By the [[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy second film]], Hellboy's loose adherence to the rules has reduced Manning to bribing him with Cuban cigars. There is even a disclaimer at the end of the credits (next to "this is a work of fiction" and "NoAnimalsWereHarmed") explicitly stating that the film's depictions of smoking are for dramatic purposes only and should not be taken to imply anything positive about smoking in real life.
243* In ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'', [[LouisCypher Mr. Nick]] is usually seen with a cigarette holder in his mouth.
244* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', Steve only smokes cigars at the end of any aerial dogfight he wins, because he's the hero. David, on the other hand, spends the whole movie as an over the top green type. He berated his father for smoking cigarettes. But after he and Steve have saved the world (and they light up Victory Cigars together), he cheerfully tells his father, "Oh, I could get used to it."
245* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': SS officer Hans Landa's FauxAffablyEvil personality is embellished by his huge and cartoonishly extravagant calabash pipe.
246* In ''Film/ItHappenedInHollywood'', heroic cowboy actor Tim Bart only smokes cigarettes he rolls himself; even turning down a pre-made one his agent offers him.
247* Film/JamesBond makes his big-screen debut with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth. Good guys and bad guys alike smoke a variety of cigars and cigarettes throughout the series (although this has declined in recent decades). ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' has Bond exploit this trope twice against the bad guys, who smoked.
248* In ''Film/KillBill'' Elle Driver smokes, and it is definitely evil smoking.
249* After [[Film/KingKong2005 King Kong falls to his death in the 2005 remake]], a man at the scene wonders aloud, "Why'd he do that? Climg up there and get himself cornered? The ape must have known what was coming," and another man--who has a cigarette in his mouth, while the other doesn't--callously dismisses the possibility, "He's just a dumb animal. He doesn't know nothin'." Not precisely ''evil'', but it probably counts since this version goes out of its way to make Kong more sympathetic.
250* ''Film/KnivesOut'' has numerous examples of symbolic smoking.
251** GreatDetective Benoit Blanc is occasionally shown puffing on a long, slender cigar, which gives him an air of sophistication and adds to his folksy-yet-brilliant demeanor.
252** Morally-ambiguous Linda Drysdale is often shown smoking cigarettes, [[CigaretteOfAnxiety usually when she's upset or thinking]].
253** Sleazy {{Jerkass}} Walt Thrombey smokes fat cigars, which his father disgustedly claims he can smell from the top floor of his mansion.
254** BourgeoisBohemian Meg Thrombey vapes, which symbolizes her status as a shallow trend-follower.
255** Good-natured housekeeper Fran smokes weed in secret to deal with stress, and is known to share with others.
256* This trope is invoked in the film version of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''; even though only good guys smoke in the movies, Aragorn is made to look sinister in his first appearance by having him smoke in the shadows, with the fire glinting off his eyes.
257* In the original ''Film/{{M}}'' (1931), Inspector Karl Lohmann of the Berlin police smokes cigars using a holder.
258* In ''Film/MarsAttacks'' [[TheProfessor Professor]] [[ScientistVsSoldier Donald Kessler]] spends several scenes with a pipe in his mouth (notably when he's discussing the possibility of the Martians being peaceful because they are a technologically advanced race) showcasing he's a classy old-school sci-fi OmnidisciplinaryScientist while Art Land puffs cigarettes like a chimney and is [[{{Jerkass}} a complete asshole]]. His wife Barbara also starts to puff a lot after the Pahrump massacre (as well as binges on alcohol), but it's pretty obvious [[INeedAFreakingDrink she's doing it to try to keep her nerves calm]].
259* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', George Banks (who's an uptight {{workaholic}} but a JerkWithAHeartOfGold nonetheless) smokes a DistinguishedGentlemansPipe, as one might expect from a QuintessentialBritishGentleman like him. We never actually ''see'' this, but he mentions it in "The Life I Lead":
260-->''At 6:01, I march through my door''\
261''My slippers, sherry and pipe are due at 6:02''\
262''Consistent is the life I lead!''
263* Helena's EvilTwin in ''Film/MirrorMask'' smokes (and snogs goth boys! Ick!), though never on screen. Even the commentary admits that this is a bit odd.
264* Satine in ''Film/MoulinRouge'' is shown smoking a cigarette in a holder (evil smoking, though she is [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold secretly idealistic and ambitious]]). DVD commentary revealed it was Nicole Kidman's screen test for the character, which explains why Satine is never seen smoking except in that one shot.
265* In ''Film/Oldboy2003'', when the protagonist smokes his first cigarette after 15 years of imprisonment (during which he [[TookALevelInBadass has become quite the badass]]), he [[ThisMeansWar takes it away from a gang member's mouth]].
266* In ''Film/PeachBlossomWeepsTearsOfBlood'', a RichBitch mother refuses to allow her son to marry a poor peasant woman, even after the son has knocked the peasant woman up. The snobby, bitchy mother is frequently shown smoking from an elaborate cigarette holder.
267* Davy Jones smokes a pipe during his introduction in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', and ''damn'' if it doesn't make him about five times scarier. He lights the thing with a fuse of the type normally used for firing cannon, he's completely silent while lighting it and glaring into the eyes of a terrified doomed soul, he blows the fuse out with a gust of smoke from some sort of [[FishPeople hollow tentacle breathing tube]] on the side of his face, and only ''then'' does he go into his "Do ye fear death?" spiel [[SecondFaceSmoke while blowing smoke into the guy's face]].
268* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' is granted the suspension for toughness. The tough heroine Marion Ravenwood smokes during her meeting with Todt in her saloon, and blows smoke in his face and makes him cough.
269* Tough Guy {{Love Interest|s}} Carlos Oliveira in ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'', lit up a joint and took a puff, as the zombies were closing in on him. This was also his HeroicSacrifice, only not so much as he was a ZombieInfectee and would've had to have been killed anyway. The previous film portrayed Jill as hard ass and bitchy, and smoked, in contrast to her more GoodIsNotSoft portrayal in the games.
270* ''Film/RichardIII'' shows its title character smoking. In real life, Sir Ian [=McKellen=], who plays Richard, is a nonsmoker, but he remembered the "Abdullah" brand of herbal, non-nicotine cigarettes from advertisements he'd seen in his childhood. ''The props department found for him some of the last few surviving packs of Abdullah cigarettes in existence.''
271* In ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'', Santa Claus is depicted smoking a pipe in many scenes before being kidnapped by Martians.
272* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', Hades is frequently seen taking leisurely drags on cigarettes, with Persephone lighting one to [[spoiler:celebrate their victory]] in the finale. In contrast, Orpheus's manager Linus only lights up under stress and isn't actually shown smoking.
273* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', CorruptCorporateExecutive Swackhammer smokes cigars.
274* ''Film/{{Starman}}'':
275** In a subversion, Shermin is a good and gentle sort, who smokes a cigar. He's actually the one who arranges it so Jenny and her alien companion get away. And he [[SecondFaceSmoke blows smoke in the general's face]] to indicate he's glad he did it, even though it might well be the end of his career.
276** Jenny is also shown smoking in the opening scene, which helps establish that she is upset about her husband's loss.
277* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
278** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': Jabba the Hutt, the Huttese gangster, is usually seen smoking on a hookah.
279** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': When Obi-Wan and Anakin are in a Coruscant night club, an alien drug dealer walks over to Obi-Wan and asks "You want to buy deathsticks?", to which Obi-Wan mind-tricks him into leaving him alone, saying "You don't want to sell deathsticks" and "You want to go home and rethink your life".
280* ''Film/TheStrawberryBlonde'': As part of her faux-sophisticated act, Amy asks Biff for a cigarette. Later she admits that she only put one in her mouth once and didn't like it. At the end, Virginia asks Biff for a cigarette and smokes it, showing how coarse and hardened she's become.
281* Norma Desmond stands out in ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' because she smokes her cigarettes in a weird finger-mounted holder. One of her least weird tendencies.
282* In the 1970s ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] not only smoked, but she smoked Marlboros. Because Marlboros are thought to be a manly cigarette, this was probably characterization for Lois Lane as a {{tomboy}}. Superman does warn her about the dangers of smoking as she does so, and in the distant sequel ''Film/SupermanReturns'', actually blows out her lighter before she can light them. As a sign of changing times, Lois smoking is treated as a slightly bigger deal in ''Returns''.
283* One of Creator/TerryThomas' trademarks was smoking using a cigarette holder. He almost always played upper-class scoundrels.
284* ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'' (set in the early '90s) featured this prominently, pointing out the idea of Hollywood getting paid to advertise smoking, as Big Tobacco was trying to find a mass market appeal again while facing allegations that cigarettes cause cancer. For extra irony, the film never actually shows anyone smoking.
285* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Sympathetic characters' smoking was [[https://gizmodo.com/warner-bros-forced-watchmens-laurie-to-go-cold-turkey-5156140 reportedly]] excised from the film adaptation due to an executive who strongly believed that SmokingIsNotCool. Villainous ([[Film/ThankYouForSmoking and European]]) characters were fair game though:
286** The Comedian chomps cigars, lighting one with the torch of his flamethrower, to show that he's a badass as well as a JerkAss.
287** Silhouette uses a cigarette holder as she does in the comics.
288* The evil Smokers in ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' not only rely on smoke-spewing gasoline engines, but also seem to have an unlimited source of cigarettes.
289* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'':
290** The era-appropriate exemption is played with, as Eddie Valiant either borrows or buys some cigarettes from some people he met on the Red Line trolley. The exemption is also thrown into sharper relief by the fact that it's a ''bunch of kids'' that supplied them.
291** Among the cartoon characters, Baby Herman (not really a baby) smokes a (real) cigar to show that he's a tough guy when not performing; one of the evil weasels, named Wheezy, is constantly smoking several cigarettes at once, giving him a weak, raspy voice; and Roger himself poses with a cigarette holder on a publicity photo seen in a newspaper to look sophisticated, as was the fashion back then.
292* In ''Film/XXx'', only the bad guys smoke. One villain gets killed when his cigarette attracts a heat-seeking missile to him.
293-->'''Xander:''' I told him that cigarette would kill him some day.
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297* In one of the ''Literature/AlexRider'' books, one of the characters smokes, and Alex specifically comments that he thought he would take better care of himself. He turns out to [[spoiler:be TheMole]].
298* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'':
299** Commander Julius Root is well known for [[CigarChomper constantly having a cigar in his mouth]], though his are not made of tobacco but of some unnamed (and nasty-smelling) fungus. He's pretty badass, but mostly he's DaChief, so he's contractually obligated to have one.
300** In the third book, the villain Jon Spiro puts a cigar in his mouth, but [[SubvertedTrope doesn't light it]]. He's a NeatFreak obsessed with his health (to the point that he doesn't even drink non-decaf coffee), but he still has to keep up appearances.
301* Everybody in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' smokes and one of the very many [[CharacterFilibuster filibusters]] in that novel is about how appropriate it is to smoke while thinking: this notorious "point of light" argument is one thing that Rand haters and Rand fans both generally agree on.
302* Stephane Maturin of Patrick O'Brian's ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series smokes a pipe on occasion. He also struggles with a laudanum addiction throughout the series, gets addicted to coca leaves in the later books, and experiments with various other drugs that he comes across.
303* The Herdmans, the Worst Kids In the World from ''Literature/TheBestChristmasPageantEver'', all smoke cigars. [[ValuesDissonance Even the girls.]]
304* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': The first three novels were written back in the 1960s, and Qwilleran smoked a pipe, which was considered to add character. Flash-forward to the 1980s when new books in the series started being published again. A lot more was known about the dangers of smoking and Qwilleran was convinced to drop the pipe. Not only that, but once he stopped smoking, he developed an aversion to tobacco smoke in all forms.
305* In ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'' and ''Literature/TheNakedSun'', Elijah Baley smokes a pipe. At the beginning of the second book, he is debriefed by a senior official who smokes cigars. He quits before the third book, and reflects that he normally doesn't miss it, but would have welcomed the feel of a pipe during a hard case.
306* Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'' shows its present-day protagonist ''becoming'' a smoker as part of his character arc, mostly as a way of implying that he's loosening up and adapting to a more varied and dangerous lifestyle. His girlfriend gets the toughness exemption, and one WWII-era protagonist the historical exemption. It was more that he would accept a cigarette when someone offered him one, rather than fretting about the health implications of one cigarette every couple of months or so; there is nothing to suggest he had acquired a pack-a-day habit.
307* In ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'', Roland smokes. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance He thinks it's healthy.]] Given that he lives in an alternate world, it may very well be.
308* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
309** The thoroughly badass Commander Samuel Vimes smokes cigars after he gives up drinking following his marriage to Sybil Ramkin in ''Literature/MenAtArms''.
310** Adora Belle Dearheart, in ''Literature/GoingPostal'' and ''Literature/MakingMoney'', is clearly one of the good guys and an unabashed chainsmoker. She is also sexy, a badass, and [[SmokingIsCool cool]] to the point of chilliness.
311** On a minor note, the goddess Anoia[[note]]Goddess of Things Getting Stuck in Drawers, but after Moist von Lipwig namedrops her for a bit of "providence" the spike in popularity has her tipped for Goddess of Lost Causes[[/note]] is also a chainsmoker, and smelling cigarette smoke is supposedly a sign that you're in her presence, but it doesn't come up much since she features most prominently in ''Going Postal'' and ''Making Money'', and thus her presence is rather overshadowed by that of Adora Belle.[[note]]A long-time follower of Anoia, and [[WildMassGuessing theorized to be her avatar.]][[/note]] Justified because she's implied to have been a volcano goddess in prehistoric times.
312** It's also mentioned in ''Going Postal'' that the sort of craftsman who smokes a pipe, and is therefore prepared to go through the methodical processes of tamping down, knocking out, etc., can be relied upon to be methodical in his work as well. Coincidentally, in RealLife Bernard Pearson of the Discworld Emporium smokes a pipe.
313* Fitz Kreiner from the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures smokes a lot -- he once admitted to smoking thirty a day. But he's from the 1960s and [[AntiHero not altogether]] [[ChivalrousPervert a paragon]] [[CowardlyLion of morality]], anyway. The writers go so far in [[AnAesop demonstrating its ill effects on his health]] as to have him cough up BloodFromTheMouth at one point[[labelnote:1]][[WhatHappenedToTheMouse it's never brought up again, though]][[/labelnote]], and other characters often tell him off for it[[labelnote:2]]he rarely smokes in the TARDIS because the Doctor disapproves[[/labelnote]], but whenever he tries to quit he falls OffTheWagon.
314* The ''Literature/TheDragonKnight'' series manages a series of exceptions leading to one (brief) instance of heroic ''opium'' smoking. The protagonist is recovering from bubonic plague, local medicine is around the Dark Age level, opium is realistically the most practical painkiller available in the world, and once he's coherent enough to realize what he's been given he immediately checks with an expert on the issue of addiction.
315* In Creator/EllisPeters' [[Literature/FelseInvestigates Felse novels]], Detective Inspector Felse likes to smoke a pipe when winding down after a hard day's work.
316* In ''Literature/ForgottenRealms'', one of [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Elminster_Aumar Elminster's]] "trademarks" is a pipe spewing vile blue or green smoke. {{Justified|Trope}}: magic in [=FR=] requires material components (a burning pipe provides several) and Elminster is immune to mundane ailments like smoker's cough (...and some poisons, and the need to sleep). The pipe itself holds lots of enchantments (e.g. it's able to follow its owner, teleporting when necessary) and is the activation key to some others.
317* Smokers in ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
318** Mundungus Fletcher, [[PetRat Dumbledore's ear to the underground]] and a [[ConMan dealer in goods of questionable provenance]].[[note]]His [[MeaningfulName name even means]] "foul-smelling tobacco"[[/note]]
319** Professor Grubbly-Plank smokes as well.
320** This may be a case of WriterOnBoard; Creator/JKRowling is an admitted ex-smoker.
321* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Literature/HonorHarrington''. Citizen Admiral Lester Tourville smokes cigars, as part of a carefully cultivated image of unprofessionalism that he uses to [[ObfuscatingStupidity prevent the Committee of Public Safety from seeing him as worthy of their attention]]. Once the threat of the Committee has been done away with, Tourville realizes to his chagrin that [[BecomingTheMask he has become addicted and is unable to quit.]] His superiors, without comment, make a point of having his assigned seat at any given meeting be below the return vent for the ventilation systems, which he takes as a tacit acceptance of the practice.
322* The character Halloween smokes cloves in ''Literature/{{Idlewild}}'' as part of his teenage rebellion. He is very cool. The character Pandora also smokes cloves, presumably for the same reason, perhaps because [[spoiler:she loves Halloween and wants to share something with him]].
323* The ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels ditch all the smoking tropes here. Good guys smoke, bad guys don't. If the bad guy does smoke, it's invariably cheap, low quality cigarettes. Bond himself smokes as an indicator of how little he cares about anything. He knows he's hurting himself by doing it, he just doesn't care.
324* In ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheDetective'' Johannes says he only smokes to be anti-social, while the villain Count Marechal is constantly smoking-with Cabal thinking to himself 'I'm at the mercy of a demented chain smoker.' In a later chapter, Marechal is listening to Cabal talk for some time and is said to be on his eight cigarette of Cabal's speech.
325* Music/KinkyFriedman smokes cigars but badass may not be the best way to describe him.
326* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', smoking is not an indicator of good or evil but of culture, as smoking is not universally known or done.
327** Smoking is practised by the hobbits and men of the Shire and Bree-land, and by the Dwarves and Northern Dúnedain who adapted it from them. Elves do not smoke, and in the Southern human lands it is unknown. The actual smoking is done by pipe, and in the recreational-at-rest rather than the chain-smoking way. The hobbits are quite proud of the fact that, although they were not the first to cultivate pipe-weed, they ''can'' lay claim to the idea of smoking it.
328** Saruman is also a smoker, secretly picking it up after having seen Gandalf smoke, although in the open he ridiculed him for it. Amusingly, in ''Literature/UnfinishedTalesOfNumenorAndMiddleEarth'', the scene where Saruman berates Gandalf's smoking indicates that Saruman the Wise couldn't figure out the function or purpose of smoking without being explained; he assumed that it was a toy Gandalf had invented to make funny shapes with smoke. The idea of soothing herbs completely missed him.
329* In ''Literature/{{Momo|1973}}'', the villainous Grey Men are never seen without a cigar. They make the cigars themselves, not out of any ordinary leaf but out of dried-up time that they have stolen from their human victims and use to extend their own lives.
330* In the ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}''-verse, smoking is back in vogue, more-or-less. It can no longer cause cancer thanks to the SyntheticPlague, but it can still cause emphysema. So people smoking is no indication of their morality one way or the other.
331* ''Literature/PeterPan'': Captain Hook is fond of cigars, and has a holder that lets him smoke two at once.
332* Literature/SherlockHolmes smokes a pipe in most adaptations of his story. Probably because the fact that he also used cocaine in the books made it a case of choosing the lesser evil. He also smokes cigarettes in the original stories, but that detail rarely makes it into other adaptations, probably at least in part because of the prominence of this trope.
333* In ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'', the protagonist smokes cigars. He used to have an alternate persona (used to actually commit crimes) which smoked cigarettes.
334* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
335** Dannik Jerriko smokes in ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' and ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear''. He calls it a disgusting habit, and persists all the same (one of the people whose brains he ate was a smoker so he ended up addicted). In ''Galaxy of Fear'', he actually uses his smoking as an alibi, pointing to the amount of ash in his living area as a sign that he couldn't have been out murdering people.
336** In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', a well-known ship thief named Niles Ferrier smokes [[CallARabbitASmeerp carabbaba tabac cigarras]] -- think small cigar with beige smoke -- and the smell of carabbaba tabac smoke is something various characters use to pinpoint the man's location. He's scum. The heroes use him, and Thrawn pays him to do various things, but no one likes him and it's not hard to see why.
337** Elsewhere in the ''Legends'' universe, Lando Calrissian occasionally smokes a cigarra, but not at all often. Possibly only when he was young.
338* In his youth, Pufftail from ''Literature/Stray1987'' associated "smoke-breathing" with cruel, abusive humans. He didn't realize until later that humans smoke for various reasons.
339* In the famous Christmas poem ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'', SantaClaus smokes, and the smoke encircles his head like a wreath.
340* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
341** In ''Literature/ShardsOfHonor'', Cordelia's creepy psychotherapist Dr Mehta lights up at the start of a therapy session -- though she doesn't inhale [[spoiler:because the smoke is actually a truth drug]].
342** In ''Literature/TheWarriorsApprentice'', Baz has to pretend he's a DrillSergeantNasty type, and insists that he can only do this if he has a cigar as a prop, since the man he's modelling his performance on was a CigarChomper.
343* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Pipe smoking is a pastime of the heroes and many of their allies ([[AuthorAppeal and of the author]]), and the {{Arcadia}}n Two Rivers region from which the protagonists hail grows what's generally agreed to be the world's finest "[[CallASmeerpARabbit tabac]]".
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347* A majority of situation comedies prior to 1960 featured main protagonists who smoked cigarettes ... too many to list in their entirety, but a few examples:
348** ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'': George regularly smoked a cigar throughout each episode; Burns was a lifelong smoker.
349** ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'': It is implied Ward (the father) smokes a pipe, as he owns a collection of said pipes and has tobacco inside. In one episode, Beaver and Larry fill one of Ward's pipes with tobacco ash and light it – and Wally gets the blame! (The misunderstanding is cleared up, of course.)
350** ''Series/ILoveLucy'': A blatant example, where all four leads smoked on a regular basis, especially in pre-1956 episodes where Little Ricky became a prominent member.
351* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' had a one episode villain who smoked, and ended up accidentally burning down a house. Her response? "You have insurance." The message is "smoking is evil and you should never be friends with smokers".
352* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'':
353** Morticia Addams subverted it. She'd ask, "Do you mind if I smoke?" then began randomly emitting smoke.
354** Gomez, on the other hand, smoked cigars.
355** They also occasionally share a Turkish hookah, even though Charles Addams's original descriptions for the characters said Gomez was the only one who smoked (although he did mention Pugsley trying the occasional cigar, so perhaps he just meant the only one who smoked regularly).
356* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'': Although depicted later on as unhealthful, Archie Bunker was a cigar smoker. This was virtually eliminated by the time the show was retooled as ''Series/ArchieBunkersPlace''.
357* ''Series/AmericanDreams '' play this straight at first with only characters like GoodBadGirl Roxanne and troubled cop Pete being smokers but later subverts it with Helen the shows moral compass being revealed as secret a smoker.
358* Both incarnations of Starbuck enjoy cigars (when they are available) on ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'', as an indication of their badassness and masculinity/{{Tomboy}}ishness.
359* The reimagined ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' has this in multiple episodes:
360** It usually arrives in the form of a victory cigar for Viper pilot protagonists Apollo and/or Starbuck. Some of the other pilots also smoke the odd celebratory cigar. Justified in that a common celebratory gesture after successful combat missions actually ''is'' a cigar.
361** Baltar smokes fancy cigarettes.
362** [[DrJerk Doctor Cottle]] chain-smokes cigarettes in his own sickbay.
363** Bill Adama is implied to smoke (he carries a lighter his father gave him), and later is seen smoking a herbal blend with President Roslin.
364* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'':
365** The second season omitted the ubiquitous smoking of the Elizabethan Era (except in the first episode, [[SmokingHotSex shortly after Edmund learnt "Bob" was a girl]]), but the fourth season showed Lt. George smoking cigarettes and Cpt. Blackadder with a pipe.
366** The beginning of the Season 2 episode "[[Recap/BlackadderS2E3Potato Potato]]" had Blackadder remarking about how people were reacting to Sir Walter Raleigh's discovery of the potato, "people are smoking them, building houses out of them. They'll be eating them next". In the same scene Lord Melchett casually offers Blackadder a potato as one would a cigarette.
367* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
368** Angelus smokes once over the course of both series -after he's just killed a prostitute and sucked the smoke directly out of her neck. In fact once Angel turns evil, one of the very first things he does after he teams up with the other villains is smoke a cigarette.
369** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E11Redefinition Redefinition]]", Angel, descending into KnightTemplar territory, smokes a cigarette, which he subsequently tosses to the ground to ignite motor oil and set Drusilla and Darla on fire.
370** Angel also smokes in season 2 during a flashback.
371** Nearly every character seen smoking in the Buffyverse is evil, doomed, or under a spell.
372** Faith survived sharing a cigarette with Spike in season 7. Oddly, she smoked as an AntiHero but never as a full-on villain. [[FridgeBrilliance Maybe it's to help with the extreme stress of allying with those who would be happy to see her dead, as well as, y'know, the saving the world thing]]. Also, when she was a villain it would have been the Mayor preventing her, since he wouldn't want DaddysLittleVillain engaging in such a nasty habit.
373** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E6BandCandy Band Candy]]", both Joyce and Giles smoke. Joyce lives for another two seasons, and Giles [[spoiler: is killed in Season 8]].
374** Spike smokes cigarettes throughout the series. He is already dead. Of course, given the extreme susceptibility Buffyverse vampires have towards KillItWithFire, this makes him quite the badass by itself.
375*** In Season 5, with Spike having moved from Villain to AntiHero, the writers humorously make a point that his smoking isn't stupid only because he's already dead: Xander says as Spike lights a cigarette, "Those things'll kill you" and Spike gives him a look as a reminder that he's already dead.
376** Harmony takes up smoking specifically because she's evil. Unfortunately, she's as terrible at smoking as she is at [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain being evil]].
377** Lorne seems to be the "only smokes when stressed" type.
378* Averted. Practically everyone smokes in ''Series/{{Caprica}}'', to tie in with the general "1950s USA in space" atmosphere.
379* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': The Charmed Ones were shown smoking only twice in the series, both time cigarettes: adolescent Paige as part of her teenage rebel phase, and Phoebe in an alternate reality where she was trapped in a broken marriage to Cole, disillusioned about her life and associating with demons.
380* ''Series/{{Crusade}}'', in an homage to The X-Files (in fact, as part of a whole-episode homage to that show), played with this by having the episode's villain, an alien Man In Black, lighting up a cigarette at the episode's climax [[SmugSnake after explaining to the heroes how they have managed to convince their people]] of a planet-wide Earthling conspiracy being responsible for all the evils and incompetencies of their government. Of course, he didn't anticipate that Captain Gideon would simply reveal the entire conspiracy, including a recording of his monologue, to the entire planet's population, purely out of spite at him for being such a dick.
381* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
382** [[TheNthDoctor The Roger Delgado version]] of the Master smoked cigars.
383** And here's some bar trivia: [[CoolOldGuy The First Doctor]] lights up a pipe in his first story, which turns out to be an important plot point. The Fourth Doctor has a Turkish hookah in the TARDIS, although considering how much other stuff he picked up over the centuries, it doesn't imply he used it recently.
384** Countess Scarlioni in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]" was rarely ever seen without her cigarette holder. And yes, she was a villainess of the supremely classy type.
385** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld The Enemy of the World]]", the Doctor's CriminalDoppelganger, Salamander, is a heavy cigar smoker, which is used as one of the distinguishing points between him and the Doctor.
386* The very nasty Thomas and O'Brien of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' do their best plotting together on their cigarette breaks, while BenevolentBoss Robert smokes cigars.
387* Jayne in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' smokes cigars. Whether this is because he's a bad rude man or a heroic badass is uncertain, but he is quite capable of getting through a bar fight without discarding his stogie.
388* Lampshaded in an episode of ''Series/{{Flash Forward|2009}}'': "Only villains smoke. We know this, right? You may call me Flosso, and I'm a villain."
389* None of the main characters on ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' is a regular smoker, and Frasier and Niles usually come down against cigarettes - they are doctors, after all. Their intolerance apparently does not extend to ''cigars'', however, which Niles, Daphne, and Martin all enjoy puffing on in "Adventures in Paradise, Pt. 1". Frasier's [[MagnificentBastard fiendishly ruthless]] agent Bebe Glaser smokes cigarettes on the regular however, leading to a legendary MustHaveNicotine episode when she tries to quit cold turkey over a weekend.
390* In ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'', Serena Joy is often seen smoking. She's quite a bitch.
391* Subject of a joke by Creator/DemetriMartin on ''Series/{{Important Things|WithDemetriMartin}}'': "A pipe is better than a bong...because when you're smoking one, you at least look like you're thinking about something."
392* In the BBC series, ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'', everyone in the police station smoked (in 1973). Future boy Sam, with his unending morals and 21st century views, was the only one not to smoke, except for one time when it served to aid him in some way. An obvious reference to real seventies cop shows, especially ''Series/TheSweeney''.
393* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Charles Ingalls regularly smoked a pipe. Michael Landon was a real-life smoker.
394* ''Series/MadMen''. ''Everyone'' smokes at some point, usually cigarettes. Regardless of moral status, actually. The main exceptions are Pete Campbell (it seems that Creator/VincentKartheiser has never been a smoker, and one of the rules of ''Mad Men'' is that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot only smokers or ex-smokers are permitted to smoke in the show]], even though the cigarettes are herbal) and Bert Cooper (where it fits in to his rather eccentric personality, which also includes being a bachelor into old age and decorating his office in the Japanese fashion and requiring visitors to it to remove their shoes--all quite weird in early '60s America).
395* ''Series/MelrosePlace'':
396** When Sydney joined the show, she was shown smoking and with an ankle tattoo, the classic markers of a TroubledButCute GoodBadGirl.
397** Similarly, the darker side of Kimberly's SplitPersonality accessorizes with black nail polish and cigarettes.
398* ''Series/MyOwnWorstEnemy'' has an interesting example: [[spoiler: The main character has been given a split personality. Ordinary nice guy family man Henry doesn't smoke. BadAssNormal spy guy Edward does]].
399* ''Series/MyThreeSons'': Steve smoked a pipe. In several late 1960s episodes, Robbie also smoked a pipe.
400* ''Series/PushingDaisies''' Emerson Cod is a tough guy who smokes a cigar. He's got a decent streak, though.
401* ''Series/{{QI}}'':
402** They had an amusing take on Good Smoking, Evil Smoking; comparing a builder gesturing with a pipe while discussing his plans (and thereby looking solid and reliable) with another gesturing with a cigarette (and thereby looking shifty and untrustworthy).
403** Creator/StephenFry mentions in one episode that he was the last person awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year. A gentleman if ever there was.
404** Music/BillBailey would often whip out a pen and pretend to smoke it when he felt like doing a rather posh stereotype. He brought a real pipe a couple of times but hasn't for a while presumably because the BBC has lots of rules when it comes to smoking on TV.
405* Clove cigarettes are a sign that Kochanski's ex is a pretentious douchebag in ''Series/RedDwarf'', at least according to Lister. Then again, Lister also thinks the silly white hat he wears is a sign he's a pretentious douchebag, rather than a sign he's a chef.
406** In a complete subversion, Ace Rimmer is seen smoking a cigarillo (usually a marker of "sleazy, low-level evil"), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0 before skyboarding out of an aeroplane on a crocodile, stealing a parachute in mid-air, wiping out a base full of Nazis and rescuing a princess.]]
407* In ''Series/SixFeetUnder'', Nate takes to smoking in secret as a way of rebelling against the constraints of his life.
408* In the ''Series/SmallWonder'' episode "Smoker's Delight", Jamie and Reggie experiment with tobacco in hope of becoming more popular in junior high school.
409* In an homage to the 1978 ''Superman'' film, ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s Lois Lane is seen smoking in her debut episode, however she's trying to quit, and apparently does so because we never see her smoke again or hear it mentioned.
410* Sarah Connor has quit smoking by time of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. Prone to lighting up in T2, one episode shows her in a bar proving the habit well and truly kicked. Just as well for her, too, since one of the things she missed while time-travelling was California's smoking ban.
411* In ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', Mitchell and Webb parody the Evil Cigarette Holder in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9iQ1yU5Ops this sketch]].
412* ''Series/TwinPeaks'':
413** Benjamin Horne, a CorruptCorporateExecutive, smokes cigars. [[spoiler:He later quits after his HeelFaceTurn in the second season.]]
414** Josie Packard is shown smoking using a cigarette holder just before it is revealed that she is not so innocent and is scheming with Benjamin Horne.
415* ''Series/TheXFiles'' relied on this heavily for nearly eight seasons, The Cigarette Smoking Man being the most prominent example. Then they introduced Monica Reyes, who admitted that smoking was "not very FBI of [her]" and seemed sheepish about her habit, often making up excuses to go outside when she needed a cigarette. She claims she is trying to quit and is not shown smoking in Season 9. It seems possible that, given the series' previous use of smoking as a clear marker of evil, the trait was intended to confuse viewers as to whether or not they could trust her until her character was better-established.
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418[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
419* In Wrestling/{{WCW}}, The Giant (Wrestling/BigShow in WWE) would smoke cigarettes in the ring following a FaceHeelTurn late in his WCW run.
420* [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth's]] 2011 WWE FaceHeelTurn saw him light up a cigarette after brutally assaulting Wrestling/JohnMorrison.
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424* Only rebellious characters in ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' are shown to smoke. There's Nadine and her girl gang of bullies, and then various members of Daigo's gang who are shown to smoke frequently. Less antagonistic characters that are still counterculture, like Hyeon, have been shown smoking to get high.
425* Used to varying degrees in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG''. There were a number of characters who smoked for varying reasons. Cigarettes were commonly invoked by criminals or people with a shady past like Trigger, his partners, Snake, and Montoya, though granted they were also used by the comparatively more honest [[HardboiledDetective Detective Bogart]]. Clint Wayne often invoked the CigarChomper method which established him as a badass [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]], though also justified by [[ItMakesSenseInContext him coming from a Western community]]. Meanwhile Angel Eyes likes to use the DistinguishedGentlemansPipe.
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428[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
429* ''TabletopGame/TheOneRing'': {{Player Character}}s, who are [[NoCampaignForTheWicked heroic by definition]], can apply a skill specialty in Smoking to relax, concentrate, or grease the wheels of a social encounter with a nice bit of pipe-weed.
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432[[folder:Theatre]]
433* One example of Mike Teavee's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior in the 2013 adaptation of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' is that, according to his mother, he smokes cigarettes. His parents have managed to get him down to two packs a day.
434* In ''Theatre/CityOfAngels'', when FemmeFatale Alaura Kingsley takes a drag on Stone's cigarette after making him an offer he can't refuse:
435-->'''Stone:''' Nasty habit.\
436'''Alaura''' Only kind to have. ''[she returns the cigarette to his lips]''
437* In ''Theatre/DamnYankees'', Applegate mentions that he's trying to quit smoking after demonstrating his trick of pulling a lighted cigarette out of the air. One wonders whether FireAndBrimstoneHell would stop smoking if he did.
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440[[folder:Video Games]]
441* In ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfLomax'', Evil Ed (the game's BigBad) keeps smoking a cigarette when seen on the world map between levels.
442* Mr. Leland in ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' is chewing a big, fat cigar throughout his debriefing with Mike, [[spoiler:and if Mike accepts his offer and joins Halbech at the end, Leland gives him a cigar to seal the deal at the end of the game, signifying his FaceHeelTurn]].
443* ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'', despite the immense wealth of other costume part choices, does not have any form of cigar, cigarette, pipe, or anything else as a costume part - for either heroes OR villains.
444** ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' does have a Cigar costume piece.
445* In the ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' LicensedGame for the [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], Fat Cat is the FinalBoss. He is seen smoking a cigar, and attacks Chip and/or Dale by [[BlowingSmokeRings blowing cigar smoke at them]].
446* Some characters in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', including mobster Don Weaso and Conker himself (during the ''It's War'' chapter) were seen smoking cigars. The fire imp in ''Bat's Tower'' (who is much more manic and crude than either of them), however, smokes a tab [[labelnote:Definition]][[{{Website/UrbanDictionary}} L]][[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TAB SD]][[/labelnote]].
447** A straighter (or at least more common) example: [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010215003158/http://www.rareware.com/recent/games/bfd/castlist/ Carl]] ([[AllThereInTheManual The]] '''[[AllThereInTheManual very]]''' [[AllThereInTheManual obnoxious cog in]] ''[[AllThereInTheManual Bats' Tower]]'') smokes a cigar, while his sympathetic/upper-class-ish other half Quentin smokes a cigarette-in-holder.
448* One of the items you need to lay the ghost of Matilda Fly to rest in ''Dark Fall: Lost Souls'' is a cigarette holder, which she's depicted holding in posters for her stage performances. Justified because she's from the 1940s and dressed to project a glamorous, sexy image.
449* In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', the protagonist and Kathy are both hiding their failures to quit cigarettes, but when they smoke marijuana, it’s portrayed as positive overall, with no mention of an addiction.
450* In ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'', interacting with a hookah pipe reveals that both Emily and her late mother Jessamine enjoyed the occasional smoke. By contrast, MadScientist villain Kirin Jindosh has a creepy prosthetic thumb that also serves as a pipe.
451* [[AntiHero The Convict]] in ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' is seen smoking and flicking her spent cigarette butts down into one of the bottomless chasms of The Breach while idle during character selection.[[spoiler:Fitting for a [[VillainProtagonist former ruthless crime lord]].]]
452* Cid Highwind from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is most often seen with a cigarette. And keeps a pack held by his goggles. He actually uses them to light a stick of dynamite in one LimitBreak.
453** Though his [[Franchise/KingdomHearts other major appearance]] has his smoking habit replaced with him holding a reed in his mouth, and he's not seen to do much smoking in ''Advent Children''... but then he lights up a victory cigarette after blowing up a reactor in ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus''. This may be because in ''Advent Children'' he appears very briefly and spends most of the time killing a gigantic monster, and ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' is a [[{{Disneyfication}} Disney game.]] In the novelization of ''Kingdom Hearts I'', however, he is described as smoking cigarettes.
454* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'': Dr. Arecia Al-Rashia, a member of Rubrum's Consortium of Eight and Class Zero's "Mother", smokes a cigarette in a long holder, with a tendency to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness throw it aside when someone pisses her off]]. [[spoiler:As an OmniscientMoralityLicense holder and the closest thing [[BlackAndGrayMorality Orience]] has to a BigGood, she arguably qualifies for both Good Smoking ''and'' Evil Smoking.]]
455* Elvis in ''VideoGame/GodHand'' constantly smokes a massive cigar and uses it to fight. When he dies, the cigar goes out.
456* [[AmoralAfrikaner South African slaver]] Hoyt Volker in ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' smokes Cohiba cigars. As he points out to [[TheHero Jason Brody]], on the Rook Islands, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou "Cancer won't be what kills you."]]
457* Most of the characters in ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' qualify due to the heavy FilmNoir influences in the game's plot. The gentle Meche smokes to show you how hard and jaded her experiences in the Underworld have made her. But they're all dead, so...
458** Lampshaded in this exchange between Manny and literal [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Speed Demon]], Glottis:
459--->'''Glottis''': It's not just a job, it's what I was created to do! If I get any farther away from a car than this, I'll get sick and die! It's like I'm not happy unless I'm breathing in the thick, black, nauseating fumes!
460--->'''Manny''': *takes a very long drag of his cigarette* [[HypocriticalHumor I can't imagine...]]
461* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
462** Two notable characters both love the same brand of cigar and know John-117 quite well. Those two are Sergeant Avery Johnson and Senior Chief Franklin Mendez. In particular, Mendez was in charge of the Spartan-[=IIs'=] training.
463** Captain Keyes has a pipe he carries with him and chews on occasionally, but doesn't smoke it due to various reasons.
464** Any character in the ''Halo''verse can get away with smoking now, since cancer is out of the genome for most people. If you do get it, it's easily cured.
465* Gentleman Cho'Goth skin of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' features a pipe to go with the monocle and glass of wine.
466* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
467** An elcor businessman on [[WretchedHive Omega]] has a cigar in his mouth.
468** Two characters in ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' can be seen enjoying a cigar-like item, a salarian "legitimate businessman" with a fondness for sitting in dark and grungy bars, and Kheema Dorgan, [[spoiler:if she takes over running Kadara Port]].
469* Dr. Light from ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' smokes a pipe. He's an Elderly Gentleman.
470** One of the arcade games has DummiedOut sprites of Heat Man smoking. While he is evil, the fact that he's based on a Zippo lighter probably has more to do with it.
471* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': Solid Snake is a lifelong cigarette smoker whose smoking habit turns in handy in several ways during the games, while his original nemesis Big Boss has been a fan of cigars since at least [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater the 1960s]].
472* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': BigBad [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] is the only character in-game who smokes, and being a CorruptPolitician, he smokes cigars. He actually stops in the middle of his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Raiden to light up.
473* Captain Price in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' is shown smoking a cigar before the mission Crew Expendable. In in the sequel, Soap, who served under him, smokes a cigar before the mission Cliffhanger.
474** Big Bad [[spoiler:General Shepherd]] in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' is not only an excellent case of evil smoking. After he [[spoiler:shoots Roach and Ghost and dumps them into a ditch soaked with gasoline, he steps up to the dying Roach]] and [[WhamEpisode throws his burning cigar at them]].
475** Price also lights up a few times in ''[=MW3=]'', most notably after he [[spoiler:hangs Makarov from the ceiling of the Hotel Oasis]].
476* The Glukkons from the ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' series all smoke cigars, due to being a race of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s. Amusingly, General Dripik, one of the [[BigBadDuumvirate big bads]] from Abe's Exoddus, smokes a pipe ''with a cigar in it'' for some reason.
477* You can tell producer Dee Vasquez in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' is bad news because she uses a cigarette holder.
478** Played straight in a weird way in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' where both are doing different methods used to quit smoking. The [[spoiler: killer]] SexyStewardess Cammy Meele blows soap bubbles, while the [[spoiler:heroic]] HardboiledDetective Tyrell Badd uses lollipops.
479* [[TheSpock Sasha]] [[TheStoic Nein]] of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' chain-smokes constantly. He's good--he smokes through the European (he's {{German|icDepressives}}) and badass exceptions. It also helps with his image as a fifties-esque super spy and G-Man.
480* [[spoiler:Ana]] from ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider'' is a cigarette smoker. However, here this trope is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]: [[spoiler:Ana]] is SecretlyDying of cancer from all those cigarettes, which is why [[spoiler:she's]] trying to find [[spoiler:[[ImmortalityInducer the Divine Source]].]] Ultimately, however, as the above-mentioned Hoyt pointed out, cancer is not what kills [[spoiler:her]]: [[spoiler:it's a sniper's bullet through her head once [[AncientConspiracy Trinity]] decides YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.]]
481* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', resident BadassLongcoat Gilder smokes a cigar. It's even on his flag; this was, in fact, the lone relic of smoking left in the localization. Vyse's generally badass father also has a cigar in the Japanese version.
482* ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' uses the Evil Smoking for Lobo, a {{Black Market}}eer who has no compunctions, amongst other things with selling children for sexual slavery to [[AristocratsAreEvil corrupt people in high places]] like Hawthorne. There's also Christophe, who represents Good Smoking and has a pipe. The two are later revealed to be former friends.
483* Tychus in ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' smokes cigars, inside his helmet, and fits the JerkAss stereotype. Raynor on the other hand keeps a pack of cigarettes in his bandolier that he's only shown smoking a couple times, fitting with his "outlaw/rebel but good man" characterization. Straight-laced boy scout Matt Horner is only ever shown smoking a cigar once, when he and Raynor (with his own cigar) light up in celebration of [[spoiler:exposing Mengsk's war crimes]].
484** The 'smoking inside helmet' goes back to the original ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft|I}}'' as well, with a particular CGI cutscene. The characters in it didn't have much of a personality, but seeing as they are all Marines, they fit more or less into the same stereotype that Tychus is an extreme example of.
485* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. Smoking is era-correct, as it's set in the 60s, when smoking was cool.
486** A couple of servers make the Soldier a CigarChomper as he is in some of the short movies, for the express purpose of making him ''more'' badass, as the description for the thing says. Nowadays he has a misc items, a pair of mutton chops, this gives him a pipe, complete with a visible trail of smoke.
487** The Spy is rarely seen ''without'' a cigarette. One of his taunts involves flicking his cigarette onto his enemy's corpse! However, he is also French.
488** [[FriendlySniper Sniper]] is also a cigarette smoker, although not to the extent that Spy is. His newest misc item, a sweater vest, gives him a pipe similar to the Soldier's.
489** When the {{Pyro|Maniac}}'s around, ''everyone'' smokes. Because they're ''on fire''.
490** The [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds Administrator]] is often smoking in the comics, the same goes for her {{Identical Grand|son}}mother, Elizabeth. This would be evil smoking.
491* ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza 1}}'': Reina, in the "Rich East Asian Woman"-mold, smokes a long slender pipe that manages to invoke a cigarette holder too.
492* Mr. X in ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' is seen smoking a cigar in the second game before fighting you as the final boss.
493* Bill in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' is always smoking and his cigarette is never seen out of his mouth. Considering that he and the other survivors are fighting for their lives in a ZombieApocalypse, smoking is likely Bill's way of keeping a cool head.
494* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
495** Chris Redfield in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' can be seen lighting and smoking a cigarette in his live action introduction. The remake drops this aspect and future iterations of Chris don't show him smoking.
496** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon is the squeaky-clean hero and is explicitly a non-smoker, as he refuses one offered to him by one of the Policia and later rebukes someone asking for a smoke by replying all he has is gum. The police are assholes, but not ''bad'' people per se, and the person asking for a smoke is the morally ambiguous Luis who is [[spoiler:eventually revealed to have been working for [[BigBad Saddler]] but pulled a HeelFaceTurn when he realized what his research was to be used for]]. Worth noting that [[spoiler: neither smoker survives the events of the game. The cop (and his partner) are murdered by the villagers and fed to Del Lago, while Luis is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Saddler's tentacle.]]
497** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'', Lady Dimitrescu is seen smoking a cigarette holder in one scene just before answering her incoming phone call. The Duke (the ''good'' merchant) is sometimes seen smoking a cigar. You can even find a cigar in Heisenburg's factory and sell it to the merchant for 3,000 Lei.
498* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''
499** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' heroic Commissioner Gordon has a DistinguishedGentlemansPipe (though he never gets to smoke it), as a nod to the comics. He gets to light it in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''.
500** The Penguin is shown enjoying cigars. Part of his characterization is that he ''thinks'' he's WickedCultured when he's really just a thug with delusions of culture, so its possible that his cigars aren't as high quality as the ones used by a true CigarChomper. In any case, rather than the typically "rugged manly badass" vibe, the cigar simply adds to his thuggish qualities. It also seems to affect his health, he's shown to have a voice box.
501** The hopelessly [[CorruptCop corrupt]] [[KillerCop SWAT Team]] in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' have desks with ash trays full of cigarettes and/or cigars.
502* Kirtus Trent in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness'' is first seen lighting and smoking a cigarette as he watches Lara Croft [[OutrunTheFireball escaping from an explosion in a sewer pipe]] before he smirks and walks away while flicking away the cigarette. He becomes Lara's ally later on.
503* Yotsuyu in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' is usually seen with an ornate pipe she occasionally smokes from, which fits her nature as a cruel tyrant of Doma. [[spoiler: When she becomes a primal, she still has her pipe and uses it to blow big clouds of smoke as a part of her attacks on the players.]]
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507* In the "Bare Breasted Brawl" storyline of ''Webcomic/TheBlondeMarvel'', Victoria smokes a cigarillo to make her breasts larger.
508* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'':
509** Dominic smoked a pipe until his younger brother accidentally healed his lungs.
510** This was a plot point in an early arc - Luna's mother cursed him to have a fish fall on his head whenever he smoked.
511* In the first volume of ''WebComic/TheEasyBreather'', the sorceress Karman [=McKnockside=] usually has a cigarette in her hand. In fact, part of the premise of the Easy Breather mythos is the heroine's campaign against tobacco and other air pollutants.
512* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' uses the badass variant of Good Smoking very briefly and even then it seems to be used solely as setup to identify a character's silhouette.
513* Donald Donlan from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' has been seen with a pipe. Not to mention the stoner-like flashback from [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=519 this page]].
514* Enkidu of ''Heroes of Lesser Earth'' is an AntiHero type who is always chomping on a cigar.
515* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
516** Mr Egbert is an example of Good Smoking - he smokes an old-fashioned pipe almost constantly (his online handle is even 'pipefan[[ArcNumber 413]]'), and is portrayed as a BumblingDad and DotingParent who genuinely cares about his son.
517** Snowman, on the other hand, is an example of Evil Smoking, complete with a cigarette holder she likes to [[spoiler: stab people with because it is also a lance]].
518** This being ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', John's Dad's WALLET MODUS contains, among other things, a pile of pipes that is about the same size as John, as well as 10 ''tons'' of pipe tobacco.
519* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': TheDon Omun Vash smokes a water pipe on his throne while being interrogated about his criminal activities. Since his species has huge, elaborate nostrils [[EyelessFace in place of eyes]], it's a [[https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-1-14/ memorable sight]].
520* Miriam from ''Webcomic/OutThere'' smokes, and gets the sexy rule suspension. She's got a pile of character flaws, but not enough to mark her down as evil.
521* ''Webcomic/TheThrillingAdventuresOfLovelaceAndBabbage'': Ada Lovelace, while not a pipe smoker in reality, has been given one for the purposes of this comic. It does, however, represent Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 40-a-day cigar habit fairly accurately.
522* If a character in ''Webcomic/WeakHero'' smokes then high chances are that they're one of the antagonistic, crude delinquents that are opposed to Ben's gang. The only good character that smokes is Gerard, and he regrets how expensive and unhealthy it is for him.
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526* The "pipe smoking=good" part of the trope is averted by ''WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' who is rarely seen without his pipe. The fact that he's frequently had sex with this same pipe is one of his ''least'' disturbing vices. Among his more disturbing ones include serial murder, rape, pedophilia, and cannibalism.
527* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4999 SCP-4999]] smokes cigarettes. He appears beside those who are DyingAlone and offers them OneLastSmoke. If they accept, he puts the cigarette in their mouth, lights it, and lights one for himself; if they refuse, he smokes the offered cigarette himself. The cigarette is the only physical evidence he was ever there.
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531* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin1991'': In the adaptation of ''[[Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre King Ottokar's Sceptre]]'', Professor Alembick's cigarette smoking habit was moved to his EvilTwin.
532* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[BigGood Vander]] smokes from a rustic looking pipe, lighting it with matches. It only adds to his fatherly look and him growing to love the "vile" taste neatly summarizes him becoming comfortable with his new role as peacekeeping bartender. [[BigBad Silco]] on the hand smokes cigars, complementing his well put together outfits to show his expensive tastes and fundamental desire to live like the wealthy in Piltover.
533* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
534** Commissioner Gordon is seen to smoke a pipe in the first three seasons, but ''The New Batman Adventures'' depicted him without it.
535** [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin The Penguin]] was initially shown with his trademark cigarette holder, as befitting his WickedCultured ManOfWealthAndTaste aesthetic. Much like with Commissioner Gordon, Penguin seemed to have given up smoking by ''The New Batman Adventures''.
536* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'', Tex-Hex's henchman Scuzz smokes cigars, and it is clearly hurting him; he coughs and wheezes constantly. He's often the butt of many jokes about it, even by Hex's other henchmen.
537** Scuzz even gets an extremely rare villainous AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle speech, in which he admits that he wishes he'd never started smoking and advises the viewers to learn his lesson the easy way.
538* Apparently supporting Creator/BobClampett's statement that WesternAnimation/BugsBunny was a take on [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], the quazy wabbit has many times in his career been seen enjoying cigars.
539** At the end of "Herr Meets Hare," Bugs dresses up as UsefulNotes/JosefStalin and smokes a big pipe. He says to the audience in Stalin's voice, "Does your tobacco taste different lately?" (referencing an ad slogan for a pipe tobacco company).
540** This was parodied in another Bugs Bunny cartoon, "WesternAnimation/BugsBonnets". At one point, a general's cap lands on Elmer Fudd's head, which causes him to talk like [[UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur General MacArthur]] and smoke a pipe, which is conveniently hanging from the brim ("I haaave weturned!"). Later, a mobster's fedora lands on Bugs' head, which causes him to talk and act like a mobster, including smoking an accompanying cigar, whose smoke he blows in Elmer's face while threatening to "rub [him] out".
541* Father, the BigBad from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', has a pipe, appropriate since he's patterned after a Standard50sFather. Another villain, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Boss]], has a cigar.
542* Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} is one of the heaviest pushers of this trope. See the Film example above.
543** The company eventually announced that smoking of ''any'' kind, [[ButNotTooEvil by any character]], would never again be depicted in a film released under the Disney Studios label.
544** ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' shows this in an episode featuring a living wax museum which includes a Groucho Marx who appears to be holding... nothing. He even lampshades this by asking, "Hey, why is there nothing in my hand?"
545** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' shows they are holding true to that edict. In "Last Train To Bustville", we see Glenda the engineer with a pipe. It's a bubble pipe.
546* Dan Backslide, the "coward-bully-cad-and-thief" of Creator/ChuckJones's ''WesternAnimation/TheDoverBoys'', is first seen in a cloud of tobacco smoke (when he speaks, his first word comes out in smoky letters). Naturally he uses a cigarette-holder.
547* Bender, the nominally evil robot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', is frequently shown with beer and a cigar, particularly in his more selfish and narcissistic moments. He explains to Fry that he needs the alcohol to power his fuel cells, but the cigar just makes him look [[SmokingIsCool cool]].
548** Notably, smoking isn’t actually bad for Bender, given that he has no lungs to ruin. This doesn’t stop him from blowing smoke in the faces of characters who do. In a WhatIf segment where he becomes human, he’s particularly excited to have his vice become an actual vice.
549--->'''Leela:''' Bender, you drank and smoked when you were a robot.
550--->'''Human Bender:''' But now it’s ''bad'' for me!
551* Paw Rugg from ''WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears'' smokes a corncob pipe. So does his wife, Maw.
552* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
553** Dale Gribble is a chain smoker; having done it since the third grade because he doesn't know what to do with his hands. Cotton Hill smokes cigars when he celebrates. Hank Hill smokes rarely and it's typically when he's under a lot of stress.
554** One episode had a big anti-smoking message, where even his wife and SON wound up addicted to it, so it was up to his non-smoker niece to smooth things over, even taking drastic measures by locking them in a room.
555** There is also the Debbie Grund two-part episode, where Hank takes up smoking in response to all the stress he is facing. At one point, Hank ends up smoking a marijuana cigarette by accident, which leads to [[MarijuanaIsLSD a hilariously exaggerated reaction]] by Hank.
556* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' where a background character was intended to smoke a corn cob pipe that was ''literally'' a cob of corn, and would pop into popcorn whenever he got stressed or surprised. However, and unsurprisingly, the higher ups [[WhatCouldHaveBeen were having none of that in a kid's show]] and the idea, ahem, [[{{Pun}} went up in smoke]].
557* Next to spinach, the one item most iconic of ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} the Sailor Man is the corncob pipe he smokes. When Creator/{{CBS}} produced ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' cartoon show for Saturday mornings, they {{retcon}}ned this in one of its short segments, which had Popeye speaking out against the hazards of smoking. ("I just uses me pipe for tootin'!")
558* Cyril Sneer from ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' is always seen with a half-smoked stogie in his mouth.
559* ''WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog'': PunchClockHero Sam Sheepdog smokes a pipe, while PunchClockVillain Ralph Wolf smokes a cigarette which he holds between his thumb and index finger.
560* In the first three seasons of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', quite a few one-shot characters would be seen smoking, typically villains or crooked characters, such as the [[CigarChomper cigar-chomping]] lawyer F. Lee Barnum whom even smokes his cigar in a courtroom (from "Pickles vs. Pickles"), the cigar-smoking manager of Greenstreet's supermarket (from "The Case of the Missing Rugrat"), and the [[StupidCrooks bumbling crook]] Mike, whom always has a cigarette dangling in his mouth (from "Ruthless Tommy"). When the series [[UnCanceled was revived in 1996 after its' initial cancellation]], Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} was beginning to enforce strict no-tobacco policies for their shows by that point.
561* ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'': Tom Cat occasionally smoked when he was trying to impress a female, which makes it a very early example of "only big dummies smoke".
562* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'':
563** Dr. Girlfriend gets the "sexy" rule suspension...almost. She has a gravelly mannish voice from years of smoking.
564** Brock Sampson almost always has a cigarette in his mouth, and has the bad-ass exception ''in spades''. He's also a parody of the super-spies and government agents that made smoking look cool.
565** Brock's mentor Hunter Gathers is one of the very few examples of someone who smokes with a cigarette holder who isn't evil or sophisticated. Of course, he's an {{Expy}} of Creator/HunterSThompson.
566** Professor Impossible smokes a pipe. He's [[TheFantasticFaux an expy of Reed Richards]], but unlike his wise and heroic inspiration, Impossible is an uncaring, self-centered JerkAss who only comes across as wholesome because of his old-fashioned aesthetic, and he eventually undergoes a FaceHeelTurn. Professor Impossible's EvilCostumeSwitch is complete with him swapping his old pipe for a new one designed to look like a cartoony skull.
567** Monstroso chain smokes cigars and is a CorruptCorporateExecutive. He offers The Monarch a cigar three times in one minute, and again later, and begins their conversation by lighting up a cigar after he just put one out before they walked in.
568** Sergeant Hatred was very frequently seen smoking cigars back when he worked for the Guild, but ever since he made a complete HeelFaceTurn and joined Team Venture he seems to have dropped the habit.
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572* At least one [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_sharing_ministry health care sharing ministry]] forbids its members to smoke ''but'' makes an exception for cigars and pipes as long as they're confined to special occasions.
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