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| 4 | [[quoteright:270:[[Anime/CowboyBebop https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smoking_is_cool.png]]]] |
| 5 | [[caption-width-right:270:Remember, kids: Smoke, and you too can be this badass.]] |
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| 7 | ->''"There were guns in ''Film/OutOfThePast'', but the real hostility came when Creator/RobertMitchum and Creator/KirkDouglas smoked at each other."'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Film/TwoHundredCigarettes'' |
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| 10 | If you're badass, you smoke. (Unfiltered, you sissy!) |
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| 12 | For some reason, smoking is used as a shorthand in fiction to say that someone is a badass. It probably has its roots in [[TheFifties '50s]] rebel flicks, or [[TheForties '40s]] FilmNoir, or maybe the somewhat deeper idea that someone who cares nothing about their health will willingly expose themselves to pain on a regular basis, or maybe the play of smoke on the screen around a character in slow-mo is just that damn cool -- but whatever it is, there's no denying that nine times out of ten a fictional smoker is a badass. No childlike or upbeat characters ever smoke. The smoker is the AntiHero, the BadassNormal, or the DeadpanSnarker, whereas the non-smoker is the GenkiGirl, MessianicArchetype, the KidHero. |
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| 14 | And you can forget about the millions of ways cigarettes can kill you or make your life miserable. Fictitious smokers are hardly ever affected by so much as a smoker's cough, let alone shortness of breath, lung cancer, gum disease, or heart disease. No-one else minds, either -- the only people who complain are going to be the naggy SideKick, the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat joy-killing bureaucrat]], or the irritating little brat who tags along just outside the lower boundary of the CompetenceZone, and they'll give the hero a good chance to sarcastically brush them off and show how cool and viciously witty they are. |
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| 16 | There may be a pragmatic element to this trope, given the predicted lifespans of most people in badass professions. The prospect of dying of lung cancer in twenty years loses much of its sting when there's a real chance of dying of high-velocity lead poisoning tomorrow. This is one of the reasons smoking is still popular in high-risk professions, like the military, or convenience store cashiers. Not to mention that nicotine has a (short-term)[[note]] Although the long-term stress caused by [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600451/ addiction and other nasties from nicotine]] will cause the smoker to pay dearly for it. Of course, if there is a good chance you'll be dead soon from your profession, this is probably not a high concern for you.[[/note]] positive effect on anxiety and stress; two major issues that come up in high-risk professions. |
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| 18 | While this trope is [[DiscreditedTrope dying away]] as smoking becomes less socially acceptable, it's notable enough in older media. Interestingly, shows aimed at younger audiences [[NoSmoking don't seem allowed to smoke]]. Since smoking in Japan hardly even raises an eyebrow (that culture has smoking strongly associated with hard work, among other things), this trope is also common in anime and manga. |
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| 20 | In older media from before the Surgeon General's report on tobacco use, smoking conveyed maturity, experience, and social acceptability. The StopHavingFunGuys character in an old movie or TV show will almost always be a non-smoker, as will be the male NeatFreak and AmbiguouslyGay and the female MaidenAunt, PuritySue, and StrawFeminist. Basically, the non-smoker was thought to be no fun at all, and (unless they're a youngish PuritySue) socially transgressive in some way. The message was that most non-smokers were weirdos you didn't want to know, which might be part of the reason why people of that generation refused to believe the Surgeon General for so long. It seems like a classic case of DoNotDoThisCoolThing. |
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| 22 | As a side note, much like DrinkBasedCharacterization, the actual forms of tobacco smoked seem to fall into tropes of their own. Cigarettes are smoked by the typical cool badasses. Pipes are smoked by wizened ancient old wizards and [[OldMaster martial artists]]. Cigars, if they're not being smoked by DaChief or a soldier, are typically the favored form of tobacco for gangsters and {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s. |
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| 24 | At one time pipes looked more "intellectual" than cigarettes, so a [[TheProfessor professor]] or scientist, even quite a young one, would smoke a pipe, while policemen, soldiers and other men of action smoked cigarettes. Nowadays pipes usually denote old codgers or homages to Franchise/SherlockHolmes.[[note]]Pipe smoking enjoyed a mild revival among nicotine-addicted millennials towards the end of the 2010s, partly because of the hipster appeal but also because cash-strapped millennials are attracted to the fact that it's by some way the cheapest form of smoking: inexpensive pipes are readily available, and pipe smoking is so fiddly that pipe smokers tend to smoke much less tobacco per session than cigarette or cigar smokers.[[/note]] |
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| 26 | Smoking fetish fiction has its own conventions, subdivided down to brand. Generally speaking, housewives and other prole heroines smoke Virginia Slims or Marlboro Lights. Career women smoke Mores. Black women smoke cheap cigars, such as Swisher Sweets, Backwoods or Black and Milds (this is TruthInTelevision); "street smart" white women do the same. Older women smoke unfiltereds, usually Pall Malls or Camels. Black men go for Kools. TheVamp uses a holder, which is often campily long, or smokes a cigar for the Freudian connotations. {{Goth}}s, Byronic Romantics and bohemian types wouldn't be caught dead smoking anything but clove cigarettes. People in the "ghetto" go for Newport menthols. The TroubledButCute will inevitably smoke Lucky Strike. |
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| 28 | Compare StealthCigaretteCommercial, SmokingIsGlamorous, and CigarChomper. See also GoodSmokingEvilSmoking. Contrast SmokingIsNotCool, SmokingIsEdgy, CigaretteOfAnxiety. |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 35 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 36 | * ''Manga/Acca13TerritoryInspectionDept'': Main character Jean Otus is known as "Jean the Cigarette Peddler", and smoking is considered his trademark. Played with in that tobacco is very rare in this setting, and it does make him stand out. And when he does offer them to other characters, several - notably Chief Officer Lilium - refuse. |
| 37 | * Stylized smoking is especially prominent in ''Anime/AfroSamurai'', in which characters' rolled cigarettes can conjure ''fountains'' of smoke. Between [[RevengeBeforeReason Afro]] and [[TheGunslinger Justice]], enough smoke is blown out of their noses over the five-episode first season to smother a small town and then some. And it [[RuleOfCool looks]] ''badass''. |
| 38 | * Several characters from ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'' seem to be chain smokers, including the undoubtedly cool, demoniacally talented titular character. Of course, this is a series that consists entirely of professional gamblers, gangsters, conmen, thugs and crooked cops, so the constant smoking is hardly out of place. |
| 39 | * Kira Sakuya & Kato Yue from ''Manga/AngelSanctuary''. True to the trope, their friend & ''the MessianicArchetype'' Setsuna Mudo is the only non-smoker of the delinquent trio. |
| 40 | * Prominent in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', which is set in 1930s America, so obviously, EverybodySmokes. Subverted, however, when Elmer startles Ronnie into swallowing his cigarette and he ends up hacking his lungs out for a good few minutes. Not very cool. |
| 41 | * Masa the charismatic leader of the street orphans from ''Manga/BarefootGen'' 2 always has a cigarette in his mouth, the younger impressionable Ryuta begins imitating him by smoking discarded cigarettes. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/BlackButler'': Is Bardroy ever seen ''without'' a cigarette in his mouth? |
| 43 | * Sven in ''Manga/BlackCat'' is a heavy smoker. In the dub, he has a slightly gravelly voice. |
| 44 | * Yami in ''Manga/BlackClover'' can usually be seen with a cigarette in his mouth and is easily one of the most popular supporting characters for being a powerful magic swordsman who wields Dark Magic. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he took up smoking after his friend Morgen died years before the start of the series. Yami's former best friend and Morgen's twin brother Nacht ''stopped'' smoking at the same time.]] |
| 45 | * ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' tries very hard to be cool, to the point where it's ambiguous whether it's a parody or not - and nearly the entire cast seems to chain-smoke as a result. It's notable in that the most intimate moment shared by the leads is an IndirectKiss where the heroine chains her cigarette off the hero's. |
| 46 | ** Really, smoking is presented as something that everyone in Roanapur simply ''does''. It's like the sixties, it's just kind of weird ''not'' to smoke. This is probably because Roanapur is such a [[WretchedHive high-risk location]] that lung cancer is the least of anyone's worries. That said, the shot at the beginning of the theme song of the cigarette burning down really fast was probably taking it a bit far. |
| 47 | ** Also somewhat notable is that while most everybody else smokes cigarettes, Balalaika prefers a good cigar. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 49 | ** Captain-class [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Isshin Kurosaki]] is an ex-smoker who still smokes a cigarette every year in front of his wife's grave on the anniversary of her death because she once told him it made him look cool. |
| 50 | ** Isshin's equal, [[HeroicNeutral Ryuuken Ishida]] has once been seen smoking two cigarettes on the trot, after completing a nerve-wracking procedure to restore his son's lost power without killing his son in the process. The anime includes a comedy {{filler}} scene at the end of the episode to have Isshin notice with horror that Ryuuken's breaking his own rules by smoking inside his own hospital. |
| 51 | ** [[BewareTheSillyOnes Kisuke Urahara]] is hinted to be a pipe smoker, given the Chapter 36 cover artwork that shows him in a Rule of Cool pose, openly smoking as he gazes unfathomably off the page. |
| 52 | * Akio from ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' always has a cigarette sticking out of his mouth, though a great shock causes it to fall out on one occasion. Also, in episode 16 of ~''After Story''~, he notably starts to shake one from the pack to light up . . . and then thinks better of it, because his daughter is in labor in the next room. [[spoiler: Then when Akio's daughter dies from said labor, her husband,]] Tomoya also picks up on the smoking habit, but it's deconstructed, as it shows how [[HeroicBSOD screwed up]] he is [[spoiler: over Nagisa's death]]. Tomoya eventually quits smoking; Akio comments that this was a wise decision, but continues the habit himself. |
| 53 | * Rakshata, the genius weapons developer of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', is never seen without her extremely long pipe in hand. |
| 54 | * The entire main cast of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', a bunch of bounty hunters, smoke heavily. In their line of work, life expectancy isn't exactly high enough to worry about lung cancer. Well, Ed the PlayfulHacker doesn't, because she's a kid. And Ein doesn't, because he's a dog. In one episode another young girl is on board their ship, and the smoke bothers her, so Jet unilaterally declares a no-smoking zone until she leaves. Ed must have tougher lungs (after all, she's been living on [[EarthThatWas Earth]]). |
| 55 | * ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Tyki Mikk is constantly smoking. |
| 56 | * Usahara from ''Manga/DamekkoDoubutsu'' is a chain-smoking rabbit and is very aggressive around various animals. It's never brought up why he started in the first place. |
| 57 | * Interestingly subverted in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''. Contractor November 11 has to smoke after every time he uses his powers... which wouldn't be so bad if he didn't hate smoking and smokers. It's somewhat jarring watching someone [[AnIcePerson freeze]] some guys in the most badass manner possible and then cough like a child right after nonchalantly smoking a cigarette. In his first appearance, he also gives a [[CharacterFilibuster very long and very specific address]] on the dangers of second-hand smoke. |
| 58 | ** A more straightforward subversion is CluelessDetective Guy Kurasawa, who smokes because he thinks it looks cool and is yelled at by his SassySecretary because she says it makes him smell even worse than he already did. |
| 59 | ** Subverted again, more subtly. Before Huang decides to [[spoiler: go out]] in one of the most badass ways possible, he asks Hei to light his cigarette. Hei initially seems to comply but destroys the cigarette, admonishing Huang on his bad habit and forcing him to be a badass without relying on smoking. |
| 60 | * Also subverted in ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' with Senji; he's definitely one of the most badass characters in the series, but he claims that cigarettes are "the nails of coffins". |
| 61 | * Takashi Ichinomiya from ''Manga/DearBrother'' smokes on a regular basis. "Lady Vampanella" Hoshino also does it, but she does it when she's not in school. |
| 62 | * In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Matt has a cigarette in his mouth (literally) right up to the end. He is shown conspicuously lighting a cigarette [[spoiler: that would turn out to be his last]] while driving a classic car into battle. |
| 63 | * The titular character of ''Manga/TheDemonOroron'' is a smoker, and has been for at least 113 years. (He's 123.) One of his abilities as an invincible is to make a demon several times larger than himself explode--by touching it with ''one finger''. It is interesting to note that while he is the [[SatanIsGood the king of Hell itself]], no other demons are shown to smoke quite as regularly as he does. |
| 64 | * In ''Manga/DogsBulletsAndCarnage'', Badou Nails is a chain smoker. It's shown that he's a goofy, clumsy, laid-back, and terminally unlucky but fairly nice guy with something of a cowardly streak when he has his smokes, but if he goes without one for more than a few moments, he becomes an [[BerserkButton unstoppable killing machine]], to the point where his "friend" Heine will intentionally take his cigarettes away from him when a fight's coming up. |
| 65 | * Heiwajima Shizuo of ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' almost always has a cigarette in his mouth, and makes a point of throwing it to the ground and stomping on it every time he gets ready to beat the ever loving shit out of somebody. |
| 66 | * Fujisawa-sensei from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' chain smokes. It isn't treated as cool though, as it actually hinders his powers. Like the rest of the cast that crossed over to Roshtaria, Fujisawa-sensei is granted a specific power: superhuman strength that draws from his withdrawal from cigarettes (although it's also from alcohol withdrawal since he is also a heavy drinker). |
| 67 | * ''Literature/FateZero'' has Kiritsugu Emiya, smokes, and temporarily stopped for 9 years in regard to his wife and child, but picks up the habit again during the start of the Holy Grail War. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 69 | ** Jean Havoc constantly has a cigarette in his mouth. SerialKiller Barry the Chopper even calls him "nicotine dude". |
| 70 | ** Pinako also smokes a pipe. She even had it back in the photo of her and Hohenheim. |
| 71 | * ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' has Bleed Kaga, a funny guy who picks up the smoking habit as he stops being a partly comedic relief and turns all serious and badass in the last 3 OVA sequels. |
| 72 | * Saki of ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' is a DeadpanSnarker example. Notably, after accidentally committing arson, she gives it up from trauma (at least temporarily). |
| 73 | * Ban Midou from ''Manga/GetBackers'' whenever he's doing something calm and collectedly (and most of all, looking like a badass). |
| 74 | * Hijikata from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' smokes all the time. There's a small, one-off arc in which Sougo, his mortal frenemy, successfully lobbies for a universal smoke ban in Edo which forces Hijikata to travel across planets to find somewhere he can finally smoke, only to give up in the end. Tsukuyo, who is portrayed as a cool, bad-ass and sexy {{tsundere}}, also smokes with a kiseru (Japanese pipe) all the time. Ginpachi-sensei, an [[AlternateUniverse alternate universe]] version of the protagonist Gintoki is also shown to smoke in class in front of his students; it is revealed that he is actually [[OralFixation sucking on a huge-ass lollipop]] in the anime, almost certainly for [[NoSmoking TV censorship]]. |
| 75 | * Yuki Eiri (or Uesegi Yuki) from ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' He's pretty much the resident badass in the series (having been known to beat up plenty of people before when they mess with Shuichi) and smokes like a fiend. There was even one scene when he lit an ENTIRE pack of cigarettes at once and smoked the whole thing because he was irritated. He was actually half asleep (irritated because Shuichi wouldn't shut up and let him sleep) and it was just a funny gag. He didn't even take the cigarettes out of the pack- the last panel of that scene shows a blaze going up from his ash tray (again, as a one-off gag, so no actual harm was done). |
| 76 | * ''Anime/GreatPretender'': |
| 77 | ** Makoto starts smoking once he gets in deep with the yakuza. Overlaps with GoodSmokingEvilSmoking, as he slowly [[BecomingTheMask becomes the mask]]. |
| 78 | ** The yakuza boss [[TheQueenpin Lady Suzaku]] also smokes, though in her case it's a pretty clear case of Evil Smoking. |
| 79 | * Onizuka in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is almost always seen smoking unless he's in the middle of teaching a class. Kikuchi, one of the "coolest" students, also smokes. |
| 80 | * Bunji in ''Anime/{{Gungrave}}'' is almost always seen smoking, in both the anime and games. |
| 81 | * Subverted with Reki from ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei''. She's the cool, aloof TeamMom to the younger Haibane as well as the CoolBigSis to Rakka. Reki is often seen smoking. At first it seems she's this, however, it turns out that it's because she's [[CigaretteOfAnxiety not as content]] [[StepfordSmiler as she appears]]. |
| 82 | * In one chapter of ''Manga/TheHatingGirl'', Asumi starts to think this after seeing some delinquents smoking, finding out that her friend Ryouji has the occasional cigarette, and trying one herself. This leads her to start trying to act like a delinquent, but it gets out of hand when she's confronted by the real thing. By the end of the chapter, both she and Ryouji have sworn off cigarettes. |
| 83 | * Integra from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' smokes [[WordOfGod cigarillos]], because she's badass like that. |
| 84 | ** Heinkel of the same series smokes cigarettes and an encounter between two where Integral asks her for a light is one the funniest moments in the series. |
| 85 | ** Captain Bernadotte is also smoking most of the time he is on screen. Even when [[spoiler:he's a disembodied spirit residing inside Seras Victoria after she drank his blood]]. |
| 86 | ** In the {{Prequel}}, ''Hellsing: The Dawn'', Alucard takes a moment to himself to have a cigarette with his living coffin... the coffin also has a smoke with the vampire. |
| 87 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': |
| 88 | ** The Netherlands is a badass male {{Tsundere}} who smokes in a pretty stylish pipe. |
| 89 | ** Cuba, of course, has his famous Cuban cigars. |
| 90 | * In ''Manga/HidamariSketch'', the heavy smoking of the girls' landlady is generally depicted as something cool, despite her efforts to quit. |
| 91 | * The reporter Yoshizawa in ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' seems to always have a cigarette on his lips. |
| 92 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 93 | ** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]], after [[spoiler:Caesar's death]], Lisa Lisa ''tries'' this, taking out a cigarette to make herself look cool and calm... until she's told that it's in her mouth upside down, [[spoiler:showing that she was just trying to cover up how close she was to breaking down into tears]]. |
| 94 | ** Jotaro Kujo from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]] will sometimes smoke cigarettes, fueling his image as a rougher, grittier [=JoJo=]. At one point, he uses his cigarette as part of a bluff to SpotTheImposter, and in another instance he uses Star Platinum's SuperSpeed to light up faster than his opponent can see in order to intimidate him. Considering that he's a delinquent in the year 1987, his smoking isn't really out of place. |
| 95 | ** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Part 7]], an enemy stand user makes smoking even cooler by making the smoke [[StuffBlowingUp explosive]]. |
| 96 | * Creator/KenAkamatsu seems rather fond of this trope. Between ''Manga/LoveHina'' and ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', there's a total of three [[CoolOldGuy cool mid-thirty-somethings]] distinguished by chain-smoking permanent [[PermaStubble chin stubble]], and being at least one main character's role model/love interest because they're so damn badass. The HaremNanny in ''Love Hina'' smokes, as well, although she isn't as much of a badass mentor figure. |
| 97 | ** Subverted in ''Negima'' by Chamo, who is not badass in the least, although he is TheStrategist on occasion. Also, he's an ermine. |
| 98 | * Subverted also ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'', when Kyousuke loudly lectures Madoka and tells her pretty much the same that Mikihisa did to Hao's follower when he catches her smoking. She slaps him but later quits. |
| 99 | * Soubi Agatsuma from ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' is a sexy badass who smokes. Granted, this is probably to make him seem even more adult compared to his [[LoliconAndShotacon shotacon]] cat-boy love interest, Ritsuka. Also, Ritsuka comments more than once that he really dislikes Soubi's smoking habit. |
| 100 | * Aoi Reiji from ''Manga/LoveMode'' more often than not, has a cigarette at work and at home, the exception being the hospital when he broke ribs after a car accident. Looks badass enough in a double-breasted suit, too. |
| 101 | * The cast of ''Franchise/LupinIII'' has various favorite brands of smokes, hinting at a part of their personality: |
| 102 | ** Lupin III smokes primarily Gitanes Caporal, a French brand of cigarettes that would typically have to be imported to Japan, hinting at his penchant for doing the impossible and taking what he wants no matter what; |
| 103 | ** Jigen primarily smokes Pall Mall (Longs), but has also smoked Marlboro Red (boxed) and occasionally a briar pipe, with his cigarettes being infamously bent. It all hint at him being a former mob enforcer. |
| 104 | ** Fujiko likes More Menthol, the most expensive cigarettes in the world bar none, and occasionally uses a cigarette holder, all appropriate for a luxury-loving FemmeFatale. |
| 105 | ** Zenigata prefers Shinsei, the only Japanese brand in the group, hinting (to Japanese) at him being the quintessential ''Japanese'' cop. |
| 106 | ** Goemon, being a samurai and occasionally seeking enlightenment, doesn't smoke. |
| 107 | ** Notably {{averted|Trope}}, [[JustifiedTrope and with good reasons]], with the new important characters in ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'': Rebecca Rossellini is from UsefulNotes/SanMarino, Nix is British and Robson is either British or American and between that and them spending most of their time in Italy they would have [[SmokingIsNotCool the typical European attitude toward smoking]], while [[spoiler:Leonardo Da Vinci]] doesn't smoke because [[spoiler:his mind is from before tobacco even came to Europe]]. |
| 108 | * Michiko Malandro from ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' has the "looking-awesome-with-a-cigarette" shtick down pat. |
| 109 | * ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'': Cassim and several of his cohorts in the Fog Troupe smoke almost all the time, fitting with their status as career criminals and bad eggs. Alibaba ''tries'', but keeps breaking into coughs and looking silly. |
| 110 | * Lyle Dylandy in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' (although only once and in the second opening). |
| 111 | * Char Aznable in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', specifically the manga The Origin. Char is shown smoking AND drinking. |
| 112 | * Kou from ''Manga/MonochromeFactor'' is one of the [physically] strongest characters of the cast and is usually seen smoking. |
| 113 | * Zelik and Jim from ''Manga/MotherKeeper'' are both shown smoking cigarettes constantly. Jim is the amazing scientist in charge of Heaven's Tower who builds cyborgs and Zelik is the strongest man in the slums who can near destroy a wall in a single punch. |
| 114 | * ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'': Let's admit it: Ginko wouldn't be nearly as cool without the constant drags from his cigarette. His smoking is justified, partially, in that the smoke from his cigarettes is used to drive away nearby Mushi and counteract his inherent ability to attract them. |
| 115 | * Several characters in Manga/{{NANA}}, but the award for coolest smoker ever goes to Yasu. |
| 116 | * Asuma Sarutobi in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is quite famous for his smoking habit. [[spoiler: His pupil Shikamaru]] started smoking as well, [[spoiler:after Asuma's death,]] even though he hated it. Not like he wasn't badass before, but to get {{revenge}} [[spoiler:on Asuma's murderer]] he [[TookALevelInBadass took another level in badass]], finally burying an [[spoiler:immortal]] opponent [[spoiler:alive and cut]] in pieces. |
| 117 | ** [[spoiler:Asuma's death]] provoked both the smoking and the reckless badassery, which makes this a JustifiedTrope. Notably, [[spoiler:Shikamaru]] hasn't lit up again since achieving his revenge [[spoiler:on Asuma's killer, with Asuma's lighter used to strike the final blow]]. |
| 118 | * Sanji of ''Manga/OnePiece'' takes up smoking at the tender age of nine in an admitted attempt to seem grown-up and cool. Ten years later, he still has the lung capacity to be the designated rescue-the-captain-from-drowning-underwater guy, and the refined palate to be a SupremeChef, despite Zeff's warnings about smoking ruining one's palate |
| 119 | ** Smoker the White Hunter of the Marines habitually smokes two cigars at once, but he at least has the excuse of possessing the power to turn into and/or eject smoke, meaning that he can probably absorb cigar smoke with no ill effects. Though perhaps the very fact that his badass power IS smoking, is intended to be a nod to this trope. His [[SmokyVoice voice in the French dub]], however, makes it clear that smoking is bad for you. |
| 120 | ** Ben Beckman, Shanks' first mate on the Red-Haired pirate crew, smokes cigarillos, and at one point early in the series, he grinds out his smoke ''in an attacker's eyeball'' before bashing him over the head with a rifle, making Ben a badass smoker if there has been even one. |
| 121 | ** Hina the Black Cage, a badass Marine captain and a friend of the aforementioned Smoker, also smokes. Unlike with Smoker and many other smoking characters, however, no specific attention is ever drawn to her cigarette. It's just there, and sometimes it isn't. |
| 122 | ** [[MagnificentBastard Crocodile]] is almost always seen smoking a cigar, [[spoiler: he's even seen smoking one after escaping from his cell in Impel Down after all his possessions were taken away. Makes you wonder where he hid them]]. |
| 123 | ** Also Paulie, who is almost never seen without a cigar, though he does break the cigar-symbolism and just goes for regular badass instead of a gang/corporate one. |
| 124 | ** Curly Dadan was seen smoking in Luffy's flashback, a habit continued into the present. |
| 125 | ** And of course there's Captain Capone "Gang" Bege; a cigar-smoker, as part of his gangster motif. |
| 126 | ** [[spoiler:Donquixote Rocinante/Corazon]] smokes cigarettes. [[PlayedForLaughs Unfortunately for him]], he is extremely clumsy, to the point that it's become a RunningGag for him to accidentally light ''himself'' on fire while trying to light his cigarette. |
| 127 | ** Admiral Akainu/Sakazuki now smokes cigars after [[spoiler: becoming a Fleet Admiral]]. |
| 128 | * Fee from ''Manga/{{Planetes}}'' is a die-hard smoker [[spoiler:and one of the not so minor plot points revolves around her going awesomely apeshit when terrorists start interfering with her smoking habit]]. Remember kids: smoke and you too can kick terrorist ass. It also makes a point to show how hard it is to smoke when you live in space and the lengths to which the stations engineers had to go to allow it. Too bad neither Makoto Yukimura nor Goro Taniguchi ever read Creator/SpiderRobinson's ''Stardance''. Only {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s need to lock smokers in airtight rooms. All you really need is a wrist-worn scrubber fan to draw away the smoke. |
| 129 | * Gokudera Hayato of ''Manga/Reborn2004'' is (at least in the manga) a delinquent who smokes even on school grounds, and uses his cigarettes to light up his dynamite sticks. |
| 130 | * The [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Bus Driver]] from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is never seen without a cigar. It's not clear how badass he actually is, but the [[EnsembleDarkhorse fandom]] generally sees him as an AlmightyJanitor. |
| 131 | * Saitou Hajime from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' most definitely counts. |
| 132 | * In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', Gojyo and Sanzo both smoke like chimneys (Sanzo goes from only occasionally being shown with a cigarette early in the manga to his current near-chain smoker status. Gojyo has consistently chain smoked). For Sanzo, it's revealed that he [[spoiler:got into smoking at the encouragement of a monk who gave his life to protect him when he was a teenager, and helped him come to terms with having to kill to survive]]. Interestingly, in the ''Gaiden'' manga/anime arc, it's revealed that in their [[spoiler:past lives as Gods]], Sanzo didn't smoke at all, but TeamMom Hakkai was a chain smoker who would remark fondly on his love of cigarettes. Sanzo's increased use of cigarettes can probably be attributed to the stress of the journey... and company. |
| 133 | * Over 80% of the cast in ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' is seen with a smoking pipe. However, the award for coolest smoking badass go to Bontenmaru and Demon Eyes Kyo |
| 134 | * Subverted in a manga chapter in ''Manga/ShamanKing''. When a group of pseudo-witch girls, working for [[BigBad Hao]] attacks Yoh's father, the first thing he does when they meet each other is put out the leader's cigarette, telling her that smoking will be bad for her if she ever decides to have kids. |
| 135 | * Doctor Stein from ''Manga/SoulEater''. Takes on a less-than-cool aspect when it turns out he's trying to avoid cigarettes in an attempt to resist his own insanity. He reasons to Spirit that he if he can't handle one, he won't be able to deal with the other. And now he's started again. So, back with the cool presumably. Because... Stein is badass. |
| 136 | * Both TheHero and the BigBad in ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' smoke pretty constantly. Saiga the war photographer smokes the workin' Joe regular cigarettes, which Suitengu smokes long and delicate cigarettes [[MoneyToBurn rolled from 10k yen notes]]. |
| 137 | * Subverted twice in ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow''. Tsumugi, the landlady, is often trying (and failing) to stop smoking. Moreover, [[CoolBigSis Nobue]] gets berated a lot for smoking by her little sister and neighbor girl. Especially since, in the manga series, she's 16, and would be too young to smoke ''in America'', never mind Japan. (The anime adaptation made her 20, and thus old enough.) She apparently started in junior high, though she held it without smoking it before then. |
| 138 | * Elizabeth Beurling in ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' is the avid smoker of her team. The thing is, her real-life inspiration George Beurling was a staunch anti-smoker. Yet this girl goes through a cig (or fag in British slang) commonly. |
| 139 | * Seishirou Sakurazuka from ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' and ''Manga/{{X 1999}}''. Smoking does [[FunctionalMagic help play a part]] in some of his onmyojitsu spells, but he also lights up for that badass-routine drag. Subverted later: Subaru Sumeragi also picks it up in simple imitation, but everybody pesters him about it. ''[[DestructiveRomance Seishirou]] [[StarCrossedLovers himself]]'' ''included''. |
| 140 | * Manga/{{Toriko}} often smokes a cigar that's actually a ''tree branch''. And he lights it by ''snapping his fingers.'' |
| 141 | * Nicholas D. Wolfwood from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. As with many examples on this page, he knew he was never going to live long enough to worry about lung cancer. |
| 142 | * Borgoff Marcus from ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'' perpetually has a cigar in his mouth. [[FridgeLogic Which is strange]], as he never seemed to actually smoke it. |
| 143 | * Lucia from ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' smokes, though only once in the anime. She's a badass [[ElegantGothicLolita gothic]] lolita, [[YoungerThanTheyLook fifteen]] year old girl [[TheGunslinger wielding a gun]] at ''all'' times, has one golden [[GlowingEyesofDoom glowing]] eye and has quite the [[PseudoRomanticFriendship friendship]] with her best [[HoYay friend]]. And she '''smokes'''! Bonus points! However, she quits eventually. |
| 144 | * Kubota in ''Manga/WildAdapter'' has a cigarette in his mouth most of the time. Weirdly, it doesn't always seem to be lit. This could be an artifact of the art style. |
| 145 | * Yuuko Ichihara from ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'' loves relaxing with a bottle of sake and her pipe [[spoiler: and when Watanuki resolves to take over the store until she returns, he dons her robe and takes up her pipe]]. |
| 146 | * ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'': Yotsuba asks Torako why she smokes. Torako replies: "It makes me look cool." |
| 147 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': |
| 148 | ** In the manga smoking is one of Yusuke's delinquent habits. |
| 149 | ** Shizuru Kuwabara even puts her cigarette out on an apparition's tongue to shut him up. |
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| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 153 | * The Pogs from ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' are probably the least badass race of science fiction history. They are a race of small lizard-likes who are allied with the humans, doing all the odd jobs we find too mundane or monotonous, but still need to be done by a sentient. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205519/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20090409 Smoking even makes them look badass.]] |
| 154 | * Constantine from ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' and [[Film/Constantine2005 the movie of the same name]] subverts this -- badass or not, he still gets lung cancer. Of course, he's still [[MagnificentBastard badass enough]] to find a way not to die of it, either. [[spoiler:However, in the movie at least, the experience is enough to get him to quit. In the comics, Constantine went back to smoking pretty much instantly and never stopped.]] |
| 155 | * Creator/MarvelComics: |
| 156 | ** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is well known for smoking cigars. It was once explained that because of his HealingFactor, he can smoke them without any damage. When he temporarily lost it, he couldn't smoke. The first time he lit up a cigar while his healing factor was on the fritz, he started hacking uncontrollably. |
| 157 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]] used to smoke (and wear a longcoat, too). |
| 158 | ** ComicBook/NickFury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the most BadassNormal in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse also smokes cigars. It was a RunningGag for a while that his connections meant he could get Cubans[[note]]Illegal in the United States since 1962.[[/note]], which he shared with Wolverine. |
| 159 | ** In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', Benjamin Grimm, the working-class morose [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], likes his cigars, while Reed Richards, the upper-class academic [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]], likes his pipe - or at least ''used to'', back when they started. |
| 160 | ** However, Creator/JoeQuesada imposed a NoSmoking policy when he became editor-in-chief. |
| 161 | ** J. Jonah Jameson, anyone? (Actually, fans may find that cool, but the other characters think that's the ''worst'' trait he has.) |
| 162 | ** Before they made [[NeverLiveItDown that movie about him]], the original ComicBook/HowardTheDuck was known for looking cool while smoking cigars. |
| 163 | * Several characters from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' by Creator/GarthEnnis, most notably the titular character and his girlfriend, often with the former's signature lighter. |
| 164 | * And while we're on the subject of Ennis, he takes this trope to the '''''extreme''''' with ALL of his characters. ''Comicbook/{{Hitman|1993}}'' is another example; it's a comic about a badass hitman ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Duh]]) who kills people and looks cool while doing it by smoking cigarettes. It should also be pointed out that the aforementioned Constantine and Nick Fury got their reputations of being badass smokers while under Ennis' pen. Nick Fury showed up repeatedly in the Ennis-written ''Punisher MAX'', '''always''' with a cigar in his mouth - in spite of Quesada's smoking ban. Whenever a character asked Fury to stop smoking he would have a very clever reply, like "Run along now, sonny boy" or "Son, you just made my day." And then he'd continue puffing away as though nothing had happened. |
| 165 | * Characters in ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' often smoke "tabs" or "fags" (cigarettes). They probably think this is cool, but it is part of the business of casting them as working-class chavs. |
| 166 | * In Franchise/TheDCU, Franchise/{{Batman}}'s ally Commissioner Gordon was seen smoking at least once per issue, especially after Creator/FrankMiller's big '80s stories. A heart scare in the mid-'90s put an end to that. |
| 167 | ** Specifically, he stopped smoking cigarettes to take up the pipe. The logic has sometimes been {{lampshade|Hanging}}d. |
| 168 | ** In the two-part movie adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', Gordon switched to nicotine gum. |
| 169 | ** Heh. Bruce Wayne himself used to [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking smoke a pipe]] back in the '30s. ''[[DiscreditedTrope O tempora, o mores!]]'' |
| 170 | * Grifter the badass longcoat of the ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm smokes. A lot. In very inappropriate situations (such as free falling a few hundred metres). |
| 171 | * Everyone who's anyone in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' smokes. Even the main character's ''cat'' smokes. At least the prevalence of genetic engineering has eliminated the "cancer" part. The cigarettes themselves have also been modified to provide health ''benefits''. This is definite AuthorAppeal for Warren Ellis. |
| 172 | -->'''Spider Jerusalem:''' ''Adolf Hitler's burned remains are still in the atmosphere. Everyone's got a particle of inhaled Hitler in their lungs.'' |
| 173 | * ComicBook/LuckyLuke, always with a cigarette in his mouth or rolling it himself. |
| 174 | ** In the later comic-books, however, he [[NoSmoking quit]], and started chewing on a straw instead. However, he still occasionally lights up the straw in a gesture of habit. |
| 175 | *** Several jokes were made out of the swap from cigarette to straw. In one story, a character offers Lucky Luke a cigarette, then remembers he had quit and offers a couple of straws to chew instead. Luke, hilariously, declines, saying he's trying to cut down. |
| 176 | *** This was parodied in the [[TheMovie 2009 live-action movie]], during the [[CreativeClosingCredits credits]]. While the credits roll, Lucky Luke can be seen smoking a cigarette... then he [[BreakingTheFourthWall notices the camera is on him]], turns around and somewhat clumsily replaces the cigarette with a straw. When he turns back to the audience, he says: "Hello. My name is Lucky Luke. I quit smoking in 1986, and I'm feeling much better now." |
| 177 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', the Comedian was constantly chewing on a cigar. Laurie also smoked -- first cigarettes, and by the main comic timeline, something eerily akin to a crack pipe which could be a weird-shaped cigarette holder. She's tried to quit and failed. Weirdly, in [[Film/{{Watchmen}} the movie]], there was no indication she ever smoked. In the comics, Silhouette was shown with a cigarette lighter during at least one Minutemen meeting. Apparently, since Laurie doesn't smoke in the movie it makes her fumbling around Dan's Owl Ship looking for a lighter and pressing the flamethrower button nonsensical. |
| 178 | * More or less inverted in various Creator/{{Disney}} comics. The only good guy who smokes in WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse comics is the rather incompetent cop Detective Casey, while PsychoForHire Pegleg Pete is just the most famous crook who is often seen with a cigar butt in his mouth. Meanwhile, on the Duck side, one of the few smokers is TheOldConvict Grampa Beagle and his corncob pipe. |
| 179 | * Mongrol in ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' commonly has a lit cigar dangling from his mouth. Even though he's a robot. |
| 180 | * As in the TV section below, [[Film/TheATeam Hannibal Smith]] is probably the only fictional character who chain-smokes ''cigars''. |
| 181 | * Most of the characters in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' smoke. This is due to its FilmNoir roots. |
| 182 | * Miss Misery of Out In The Cold smokes constantly; she is literally never seen without a cigarette. When she walks into a government building puffing away and a security guard tries to stop her, she says, "It's okay, I have a medical condition." This turns out to be, more or less, true: [[spoiler: her villain power is that the more evilly she behaves, the more she flourishes and the better she looks]]. |
| 183 | * ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'' is smoking in approximately 75% of the panels he is in. So. Cool. |
| 184 | * Dr. Will Magnus, creator of the ComicBook/MetalMen, smokes a pipe. In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' it was revealed that he does not actually light (or stuff, presumably) it any longer, but keeps the pipe out of an oral fixation. This oral fixation is so strong that when he was [[CanonDiscontinuity briefly a Metal Man himself in the 90s]], he actually ''grew a pipe out of his own mouth just to have it there.'' |
| 185 | * In ''ComicBook/TheSecretService'', Jack teaches Gary to smoke with style. |
| 186 | * Commissioner Gondor, a friend of [[ComicBook/WilqSuperbohater Wilq]], is certainly one of the noblest characters in the series. Finding one single panel with him without a cigarette may be a very difficult, if not impossible task. |
| 187 | * ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Early strips showed Gaston smoking along with the rest of the office (on one occasion, for the PanickyExpectantFather routine) when he was trying to hatch what turned out to be sea turtle eggs), but later quit when the health hazards became known. One strip even had him mess with the office sprinkler system to deliver a shower every time someone lit up. |
| 188 | * ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'': During a lull in the extended fight between Cryptus and Tengu, their disciples Requiem and Dragon make conversation and light up together for absolutely no reason but this trope. |
| 189 | * Many, many characters in ''ComicBook/TexWiller'', [[JustifiedTrope as expected from a western series set in the Wild West, when smoking was widespread and well before the link between tobacco and cancer was discovered]]. The only times smoking is objected is when it's opium (as its effects were already well known) or [[MushroomSamba peyote]] without control of a native shaman (even the shamans themselves are wary to do it more than strictly necessary, with one having explicitly done so ''once'' and then sworn to never to so again due being terrified by whatever he saw). |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 193 | * Steve Dallas of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''. He quit smoking for a time, but shortly before the comic strip ended he instantly picked it back up again. |
| 194 | * One ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip has Calvin telling his father that he should start smoking cigars because it's all the rage. His mother overhears: |
| 195 | -->'''Calvin's mom (dryly)''': Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting.\ |
| 196 | '''Calvin's dad''': Nicely put, dear. |
| 197 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': Madam Pheip, a middle-aged woman always smokes a pipe. She is nevertheless a badass fighter and can be very intelligent if a situation calls for it. In later albums, she tried to quit but always took on her habit again near the end of the story. The character was based on an actual pipe-smoking woman creator Marc Sleen saw as a child and was scared of. |
| 198 | * ''ComicStrip/PaulusDeBoskabouter'': Despite being a children's strip Paulus the wood gnome is often seen smoking a pipe. |
| 199 | * Inverted in ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''. Stephan Pastis, as part of his SelfDeprecation, has his AuthorAvatar smoke to make him look more like a loser. |
| 200 | * ''ComicStrip/RasmusKlump'': The captain smoked a pipe in the older stories, but in more recent editions he is drawn without one. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 204 | * Mokou from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is frequently shown smoking to make her look badass in [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=fujiwara_no_mokou+smoking fanart]]. This trope is also used for her in the fan video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOankqFsRBo search & caved]]. |
| 205 | * In ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'', three characters are confirmed smokers. Series/{{Barney|AndFriends}} constantly smokes because he thinks it's healthy. [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] smokes because he finds it fun. June started smoking when she was 14 (she started after ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' got canceled). |
| 206 | * As part of his rebellious phase, Izuku from ''Fanfic/SwitchTheColors'' had taken up smoking. After he receives his smoke-quirk, cigarettes no longer have a physiologically negative effect on him and it increases his power reserves, allowing him to switch to his smoke quirk at full capacity. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 210 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm''. During flashbacks, mob boss Salvatore Valestra is shown smoking like the Badass gangster he is. Fast forward to the present, where he wheezes and coughs, forever slave to oxygen tanks. |
| 211 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Basil is seen smoking from a pipe most of the time, but he smokes a cigarette while in disguise at a pub, which admittedly makes him look very badass. Ratigan also smokes cigarettes with great flourish. TONS of other minor/secondary characters in the film smoke, both good and bad guys. This seemed to have the second or third most smoking in a Disney film (''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' had the most.) One scene even showed the awful side effects, when some mean woman at the bar blew smoke in Dawson's face to make him hack and wheeze, only to laugh at him! |
| 212 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', José Carioca was often seen smoking a cigar, since he was Brazilian. In more modern interpretations of the character, he is never seen near a cigar. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 216 | * See page quote re: ''Film/OutOfThePast''. In one scene Robert Mitchum goes into a bad guy's office, punches him out, then lights a cigarette with the lighter on the bad guy's desk. |
| 217 | * The slang expression "don't bogart that joint" comes from the fact that Creator/HumphreyBogart frequently had a lit cigarette in hand during his various starring roles, but is often too preoccupied with dialogue and plot to actually take a drag. In one of his most famous films, ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'', Bogart and his co-stars purposefully smoked excessively -- partly to make their characters seem more tense and badass, and partly as a TakeThat to studio head Jack Warner and his [[NoSmoking new mandate that characters smoke less onscreen]]. The prank was Creator/PeterLorre's idea. Unfortunately, Bogart died fairly young in 1957 due to smoking. |
| 218 | * Creator/MarleneDietrich |
| 219 | * Creator/BetteDavis: Especially the famous dual smoking scene in ''Film/NowVoyager''. |
| 220 | * The titular character in ''Film/IpMan'' smokes a pipe. Of course, he's a badass. |
| 221 | * In ''Film/{{Grease}}'', Sexy Sandy smoked, while Plain Jane Sandy couldn't abide cigarettes. All of the T-birds smoked too, mostly Danny and Kenicki. Rizzo of the Pink Ladies was another smoker, as was Frenchie, and so was the guy in the car with the flames on it that everybody hated. |
| 222 | * To fit with her bad girl persona in ''Film/TheWholeTownsTalking'', Miss Clark (played by Creator/JeanArthur) smokes like a chimney. |
| 223 | * ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' habitually smokes a pipe. |
| 224 | * Jimmy Conway (Creator/RobertDeNiro) in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49xZ7VcfqE&NR=1 Case in point]]. |
| 225 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': |
| 226 | ** The movie Bond smokes much less than the original. It should be noted that the campiest and suavest Bond, Creator/RogerMoore, smoked cigars while the more brooding and badass Creator/TimothyDalton version smoked cigarettes, as did Creator/SeanConnery. |
| 227 | ** In ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', Bond is smoking while shaving, when a villain lets a venomous snake into the bathroom. Bond notices it, and ever resourceful kills it by using the cigarette and an aerosol can of aftershave to fashion a makeshift flamethrower and spraying it at the reptile. |
| 228 | ** One notable part is Bond's first line in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': after giving a terrorist a light, he punches him and says "Filthy habit!" However, since the guy was clearly smoking hand-rolled (and probably marijuana), and Bond is seen carrying a lighter in the film, one can speculate that he still doesn't have a problem with tobacco. That said, he did have [[BondOneLiner one good reason]] to say that. |
| 229 | ** Averted starting with ''Film/GoldenEye''. Creator/PierceBrosnan made a conscious decision to make Bond a non-smoker, a sentiment followed up by Creator/DanielCraig even though both have smoked before (Brosnan did a series of Larks commercials in Japan, in the eighties. Craig gave up smoking to play Bond.) Of course, Brosnan still smokes a cigar in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''. |
| 230 | * In ''Film/{{Hitman}}'', the Interpol agent pursuing 47 smokes cigarettes, because he's hard, but never gets to light them, because he's not a villain. |
| 231 | * ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Sergeant Apone sticks a cigar in his mouth the moment he wakes up from cold sleep (though he never seems to light it). Not to mention Ripley, whose smoking habit saves her life (when trapped in Medical with the facehuggers, she uses her lighter to activate the fire alarm). |
| 232 | * In ''Film/TheGreatRace'', The Great Leslie smokes a ''perfectly white'' pipe. While shaving. Of course, it's a comedy, so it's something of a send-up. |
| 233 | * Used with a raised eyebrow in the movie version of ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' - the protagonist smokes because he's in a dying world and wants, even if only subconsciously, to hasten his own demise. |
| 234 | * ''Film/TheLadyFromShanghai'' Elsa Bannister takes up smoking to prove her love to Michael O'Hara. |
| 235 | * Creator/ClintEastwood almost always smokes cigarillos in his western films, and it has become an iconic part of his "Man with No Name" persona created in his collaborations with Sergio Leone. In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', he even uses his cigar to light a cannon and knock Tuco off a horse. Eastwood made the choice to smoke as part of his character, but hated the cigars, and is a staunch non-smoker. This is part of the reason why he's so often doing a ClintSquint. |
| 236 | * Creator/LeeVanCleef made smoking a pipe look very cool. He does the same thing with Col. Mortimer in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' and as Angel Eyes in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. |
| 237 | * Smoking was big in film noir movies. In ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''. Norma Desmond smokes expensive cigarettes with a holder that is a strange piece of twisted wire that wraps around her index finger. |
| 238 | * The 1995 sci-fi film ''Film/{{Screamers}}'' made smoking a plot point: the drug that helped counter the radiation of the planet was administered via cigarette. |
| 239 | * In ''Film/MenInBlack'', the "worm guys" in the break room (according to the books their species is Vermar), smoke cigarettes while swilling coffee. (Zigzagged as far as the Trope goes, as WordOfGod insists that this was simply an attempt to make a scene that was funny, ''not'' portray smoking as "cool".) |
| 240 | * In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', there's Absolem, of course. |
| 241 | * ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', including the famous slow-mo intro and Creator/TimRoth's character puffing out neat smoke rings in a flashback scene. |
| 242 | * Many characters in ''Film/PulpFiction''. |
| 243 | * 9-year-old Addie in ''Film/PaperMoon''. Just see that page image. |
| 244 | * Thin Man from ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' smoked his cigarettes with almost poignant refinement, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOrcnd_nCk this scene]] as an example. |
| 245 | * ''Film/EasternPromises'': Nikolai has some pretty awesome moves with those cigarettes. |
| 246 | * Hilariously defied in ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'': after coating themselves with invisibility spray, the Muppets sneak past a couple of Area 51 guards, one of whom lights up. Pepe the Prawn cannot abide this, and tells him "Smoking is very bad for you, [[VerbalTic okay?]]" The guard, thinking it was his colleague who spoke, smiles and says "Oh. I didn't know you care," in a sweet-natured, borderline homoerotic tone, before putting out his cigarette. |
| 247 | * The Dude smokes three joints over the course of ''Film/TheBigLebowski''. Then again, The Dude is a loser. Before beginning a new scene, Creator/JeffBridges usually would ask Ethan or Joel Coen whether "the Dude just burned one." The Coens usually replied "yes," so Jeff would rub his eyes hoping they'd look a bit red. So...only three joints were '''more-visibly''' smoked, apparently. |
| 248 | * Hobbits, Dwarves, humans, as well as Gandalf and Saruman, smoke in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. Aragorn's introduction involves him smoking in a shadowy corner, with the light of his pipe briefly illuminating his eyes. Gandalf also uses his magic to blow a smoke sailboat in a smoke ring contest. Apparently, Creator/PeterJackson considered giving Gandalf [[AddictionDisplacement candy to eat]] instead of [[NoSmoking a pipe]], but fortunately the idea was dropped; however, Gandalf is shown coughing while smoking in the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing third film]]. |
| 249 | * In ''Film/ThreeThousandMilesToGraceland'', the two Federal Marshals trying to catch the casino robbers always light cigarettes after they walk out of a building. Except the sidekick Marshal is always having to fuss with his lighter before it'll light. Finally, towards the end of the movie, the main cop (Quigley) lights his cigarette for him: |
| 250 | --> Federal Marshal Quigley: Either quit smoking or get a new lighter. |
| 251 | * [[SenseiForScoundrels Tyler Durden]] of ''Film/FightClub''. He's so cool that his loser friend picks up the habit as well. Marla attends cancer support groups in a cloud of smoke and complains that it doesn't go over well with the tuberculosis group. As the narrator talks about how much he hates her, there's a slow-motion shot of Marla impassively bellowing smoke in slow motion like a dragon. |
| 252 | * Napoleon Wilson of ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'' repeatedly asks the other characters, "Got a smoke?" throughout the film. |
| 253 | * In ''Film/{{Breathless}}'' (Godard), the main characters smoked. What made it kind of strange and hilarious was that the cigarettes were always the same length, and when they were done with them, they chucked them across the room. In restaurants, hotels, etc. Apparently, nothing catches fire in Paris. |
| 254 | * Film/{{Sartana}} smokes hand-rolled cigarettes often when he's not kicking ass. |
| 255 | * ''Film/BladeRunner'', since it was a neo-noir. [[TheFutureIsNoir It comes with the territory.]] |
| 256 | * ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' actually has a disclaimer buried at the end of the credits stating that all the smoking in the film is for dramatic purposes only, and should not be taken as an endorsement for the idea that smoking is cool. As if anybody who needs that information is going to read or pay attention to it. |
| 257 | * ''Film/TheWildGeese'': Creator/RogerMoore's character Sean Fynn, chomping on a cigar even as the mercenaries are infiltrating an enemy base. |
| 258 | * In ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', Keyzer Soze sports a cool gold lighter. Using a cigarette to light some gasoline is one of the few things we see him do before the end. [[spoiler:While in his loser Verbal persona, he cannot operate a lighter. When he transforms back into the cool crimelord, he deftly flicks the lighter open and strikes a pose lighting up as the real Kobayashi arrives to spirit him away.]] |
| 259 | * A trademark of Johnnie To. In his movies protagonists smoke much more often than the villains. Especially in ''Vengeance'', where they take part in a dramatic shootout while nonchalantly smoking cigarettes. |
| 260 | * In ''Exiled'', another Johnnie To movie, Sergeant Chen, a supporting protagonist and a sole survivor of a convoy heist, ''snipes gangsters'' while smoking. |
| 261 | * In ''Film/TheBankDick'', after being incorrectly identified as a hero in his small town, Creator/WCFields entertains some kids with some cigarette tricks. He sends them off, saying "I'll teach you when you're older! Didn't take it up myself 'til I was nine..." |
| 262 | * Creator/BruceWillis in his earlier films, particularly in ''Film/DieHard'' and ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''. |
| 263 | * ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' has Juno, who smokes in a way that's cool in a BlackComedy sort of way. A ghost who was killed by having her throat cut (and actually rather lucky, compared to the extreme JacobMarleyApparel of most of the other ghosts), when she smokes, she "exhales" through the wound in her neck. |
| 264 | * In ''Film/RaOne'', this trope is discussed (the hero's young son thinks it's cool), lampshaded when his father tells him he's just gotten that idea from the wrong sort of movies, and then parodied when the {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} tries it...unsuccessfully. The scene ends with the kid concluding that SmokingIsNotCool. |
| 265 | * There are a couple of scenes in the 1954 sci-fi classic ''Film/{{Them}}'' where you can barely see the characters for all the cigarette smoke. For example, the briefing scene where Dr. Medford the Elder is showing his film of [[spoiler:normal ants]]. |
| 266 | * Virtually everyone smokes in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. Jake, in particular, is typically seen holding a cigarette in the film's poster. |
| 267 | * Used as a plot point in ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking''; the tobacco lobby group sends a tobacco lobbyist (Nick Naylor) to push for a Hollywood megaproducer to make films that to bring this trope and SmokingIsGlamorous back. As the producer says, "Mr. Naylor's here to see if we can't get cigarettes into the hands of someone other than the usual RAVS (Russians, Arabs, and Villains)." They paint the image of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/CatherineZetaJones having sex in zero gravity in the far future with Brad blowing smoke rings over Catherine's naked body as the cosmos flies by. |
| 268 | * ''Film/LovingAnnabelle'': Katherine and Annabelle, the cool girls of their dorm, are smokers. |
| 269 | * [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken]]. The final scene of ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' is even Snake just lighting up his cigarette and staring at the flame, looking like a badass, [[QuipToBlack with a quote once the image cuts]]. |
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| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 273 | * OlderThanRadio: The hookah-smoking Caterpillar in ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. In Disney's [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland adaptation]], he's even ''cooler'', able to blow colored smoke rings in the shape of letters. |
| 274 | * In ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'': |
| 275 | ** Eve, Charlie, Rose, and Lili are all badass characters who smoke cigarettes.[[note]]In fact, Eve and Charlie didn’t start smoking until their much cooler mentors, Rose and Lili, introduced them to it.[[/note]] This being a period setting, smoking is still considered daring for a woman to engage in, making it even cooler. |
| 276 | ** Cameron, being the QuintessentialBritishGentleman and Eve's hot, edgy superior, smokes a pipe (although we never actually see him smoking, one of the things that Eve finds comforting and attractive about him is the scent of pipe tobacco that hangs around him). |
| 277 | ** René, being a French ManOfWealthAndTaste, smokes French cigarettes. |
| 278 | * In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo, Thorin, and Gandalf smoke pipes and can blow smoke rings; Gandalf, being a wizard, can blow them in shapes other than rings, turn them different colors, and make them hang in the air for a long time (making him look "strange and sorcerous") or make them fly around the room. |
| 279 | * In the ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' series, Lana in ''Lies''. Justified because she can heal herself of any damage caused. |
| 280 | * Creator/OscarWilde certainly thought so. [[GentlemanSnarker Lord Henry Wotton]], easily the coolest character in ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' is a prolific chain-smoker. |
| 281 | * Commander Samuel Vimes from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels smokes cigars. This seems to be something he took up to get his mind off drinking, which was his previous vice. |
| 282 | ** Occasionally, however, he uses his smoking for practical purposes like ruining an opponent's night-vision. Arguably, this makes his smoking habit even more badass. |
| 283 | ** Even if smoking isn't cool, using a dragon as a lighter ''is'' ([[OurDragonsAreDifferent even if it's a small dragon]]). |
| 284 | ** Also from Discworld, Adora Belle Dearheart. Kissing her is apparently "like kissing an ashtray, but in a good way." |
| 285 | ** Death's manservant Albert also smokes foul cigarettes that he rolls himself. He, of course, has no reason to worry about the ill effects of smoking. In the miniseries made of ''Film/{{Hogfather}}'', it is a RunningGag that Albert constantly fails to roll his fag for various reasons. He finally succeeds at the end, grimaces at the taste and throws it away. |
| 286 | ** In ''Literature/{{Mort}}'' Death himself smokes an ornate pipe once, which definitely qualifies as cool at the same time as working as a stealth warning against smoking. He blows smoke rings with his eyeholes. |
| 287 | * The most intellectual of detectives, Franchise/SherlockHolmes, smoked a variety of pipes in his youth but went over to cigarettes as they came into fashion. |
| 288 | * Literature/PhilipMarlowe, father of all BadassLongcoat heroes, smoked cigarettes when he was out and about and a pipe when he was at home or in his office. |
| 289 | * A.J. Literature/{{Raffles}}, who was intended partly as an EvilCounterpart of Holmes, smoked Sullivan cigarettes, to the point where [[spoiler: when returning to London after being lost and presumed dead, he didn't dare smoke that brand, since it was so heavily identified with him]]. |
| 290 | * Aversion: Literature/NeroWolfe not only did not smoke, but he also objected to smoking to the extent that he once sent a client who had just paid him a five-figure retainer out on the front stoop to smoke. (And this was written in the 1930s when smoking was socially acceptable.) |
| 291 | ** Maybe it's supposed to show how neurotic he is. Or, at least, fastidious and eccentric. |
| 292 | ** That and even being near a smoker can harm your palate. Even back in the 30s gourmands tended not to smoke or, for that matter, drink cocktails/spirits. |
| 293 | ** Interestingly, Wolfe's sidekick Archie Goodwin also didn't smoke, despite otherwise being a typical hardboiled detective. |
| 294 | * In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' most of the members of the Fellowship smoke. In Middle-earth, smoking was invented by the Shire-Hobbits, and subsequently adopted by the people of Bree-land, and the Dwarves, and at least some of the Rangers of the North (including Aragorn); no other cultures have adopted it, and most places it is unknown. For the hobbits, it's one of their domestic comforts. Gandalf displays his magical nature by blowing special smoke rings. In the first film, Aragorn is introduced as a bad ass through his smoking, posed in the shadows with the light of the pipe illuminating his eyes. As part of Tolkien's DirectLineToTheAuthor, he felt obliged to include an entire appendix explaining the history of smoking in his artificial pre-Literature/{{Beowulf}} myth cycle. Probably because tobacco is an American plant, and the book is set in what will become Europe. Tolkien {{handwave}}d it by explaining that it was brought to Middle-Earth by Numenorian explorers. |
| 295 | * One of the eventually solved mysteries in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' concerns a brand of cigarettes whose trademark is a dollar sign. (Remember the theme of ''Atlas Shrugged'': $ = capitalism = good.) One character gives a speech on how "fire in a man's hands" makes him feel powerful. |
| 296 | * ''Literature/TheGeneralSeries'': Everybody on planet Bellevue smokes like chimneys, the rich and aristocratic using long ivory cigarette holders, probably as a tension reliever. On Bellevue, the homefront is every bit as stressful as the battlefront. |
| 297 | * Creator/HBeamPiper: |
| 298 | ** ''Literature/LittleFuzzy'': Darn near ''EVERYONE'' in this series smokes. By the looks of it, enough to keep Philip Morris in business by themselves. |
| 299 | ** "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": This {{novelette}} ([[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19445/19445-h/19445-h.htm link]]) is about archaeology on Mars, using smoking as a plot point. |
| 300 | * Catherine Li of Chris Moriarty's Spin series. One character even thinks wonders why she hadn't completely covered an explosion crater with them. |
| 301 | * Creator/StephenKing, the chain-smoking Harley Davidson rider, has many characters that smoke; some of whom have used cigarettes as improvised weapons. |
| 302 | ** Didn't he quit (many years ago) for health reasons? |
| 303 | ** Stephen King tends to play around with this more than playing it straight, especially in later years since he (presumably) quit. For example, in one short story, a man who'd quit smoking uses the cigarette offered to him by his captors as a weapon, and then, after he escapes, buys a pack of cigarettes and smokes just one as a sort of reward to himself. Other stories depict characters who quit smoking, know they ''should'' quit smoking, don't normally smoke but do so in an extreme situation to show how stressed out they are, refuse cigarettes DESPITE how stressed out they are, or other variants on the trope, all pretty much true to life. Rarely is it played as straight as "cigarette = badass." |
| 304 | * Ilia Volyova of Alastair Reynold's ''Literature/{{Revelation Space|Series}}'' series. It seems to be a habit for the fun of it, but also because it keeps her going in a twisted environment. |
| 305 | * Fitz Kreiner from the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' smokes "thirty a day". This despite the fact that the Doctor has some sort of AppliedPhlebotinum that could almost instantly cure him of his addiction, and almost every other character has lectured him about it at some point or another. Apparently, smoking is just that cool. Also, oddly enough, in one of the novels, Fitz coughs up blood for no possible reason except his smoking. It's never mentioned later on, he never does so again, and he [[AesopAmnesia doesn't quit smoking]]. It's almost like a very minor, low-key BigLippedAlligatorMoment. |
| 306 | * There are at least two species of organism that have colonized every planet in the galaxy in Isaac Asimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series: Humans, and tobacco. |
| 307 | * Literature/JamesBond, in the books, is a particularly heavy smoker. As mentioned in an episode of QI, there is a passage where Bond lights "his sixtieth cigarette of the day". He probably then goes on to run two miles in six minutes, shoot [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun a homosexual (who can't whistle)]], eat a magnificent dinner, and make love to many beautiful ladies in a single night, all without ever getting out of breath. |
| 308 | * In the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' books, nearly everyone smokes like a chimney. They also drink like fishes. Various other X like Y metaphors might also be deployed here. But ''illegal'' drugs, like "Thionite", are a scourge on mankind that must be met with hot lead justice, and are invariably a money-maker for the forces of evil. Put it down to the cultural mores of the time, I suppose... |
| 309 | * In the ''Literature/WickedLovely'' series by Melissa Marr, smoking seems to be a general feature of the [[CastingAShadow Dark court]]. Particular mention goes to Irial, who is simply that awesome, and Niall, who only starts smoking once he [[spoiler:Becomes dark king]]. Plus, it helps make their feelings for each other clearer- Irial reached into Niall's jacket to get his cigarettes, conveniently brushing his fingers over the other male's chest whilst doing so. |
| 310 | * Citizen Admiral Lester Tourville of the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series smokes cigars to accentuate his MilitaryMaverick image[[note]] As part of an ongoing ploy to avoid the kind of responsibility that [[YouHaveFailedMe gets Admirals shot in the Peoples' Navy]][[/note]]. In any given meeting he is required to attend, his assigned seat is always directly under a return vent for the air circulation system, so his cigar smoke will make a hasty AirVentPassageway escape instead of lingering in the room. |
| 311 | ** Also, while modern medicine means he will never develop cancer and that any staining effects on his teeth can be treated, there is still no cure for nicotine addiction. [[BecomingTheMask He finds himself unable to quit once he no longer needs the cigars.]] |
| 312 | * In ''Literature/StillLifeWithWoodpecker'' by Creator/TomRobbins, we get this: |
| 313 | -->"Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning." |
| 314 | * In Creator/SpiderRobinson's ''Stardance'', people smoke in space without consequence simply by wearing fans on their wrist to draw away the smoke. |
| 315 | * In ''Literature/TheMalteseFalcon'', Sam Spade was constantly rolling cigarettes, often using it as a means of exacerbating a pregnant pause. Creator/DashiellHammett described Sam's actions in such loving detail that the books doubles as a classic murder mystery and an instruction manual for hand-rolling cigarettes. |
| 316 | * Meursault in the Creator/AlbertCamus novel ''Literature/TheStranger''. He is often considered a badass existentialist AntiHero. Besides, smoking later becomes somewhat symbolic of the meaning of the novel. |
| 317 | * ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'': Roland, the baddest dude in the multiverse, is an avid smoker who rolls his own cigarettes. Jake, an 11-year-old boy, so emulates him as an adopted father that he takes up smoking, which Roland decides to allow. However, Stephen King's AuthorAvatar in the series is a chain smoker who is shown to be on a self-destructive path. |
| 318 | * In ''Literature/OperationChaos'', Steve notes that he prefers to smoke Philip Morris cigarettes, because they come with a little red smoke imp that can [[MundaneUtility mix you a drink]]. |
| 319 | * Gus and his pack of "metaphorically resonant" cigarettes from ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', although he just enjoys holding them in his mouth unlit (they're cancer survivors, not suicidal). Hazel calls him on it the first time she sees him do it. She's especially offended because she already has breathing problems and is on oxygen due to her lung tumors. |
| 320 | * ''{{Literature/Everworld}}'': In order to cement Everworld's very different cultural history, a Viking rolls himself a cigar when attacking an Aztec town. |
| 321 | * Embraced in libertarian ''Literature/{{Victoria}}''. Most of the military leaders on the "good" side are smokers, and various brands of cigars, pipe blends and so on are lovingly referenced, whereas the corrupt government that provides most of the villains is associated with health-nutty anti-tobacco policies. |
| 322 | * ''Literature/TheReunionWithTwelveFascinatingGoddesses'' has several characters who smoke, including [[CoolOldLady Tooi's grandmother]] and Gilfrain. The former was able to live to the age of 121 despite her habit. |
| 323 | * Oz from ''Literature/RaiseSomeHell'' smokes so much that when he gained the ability to summon a demon, he uses its ability to make fire to [[MundaneUtility light his cigarettes]] |
| 324 | * ''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'': Earl Harbinger, the leader of MHI and one of the biggest badasses in the series, smokes pretty heavily. [[spoiler:In his case, he doesn't have to worry about lung cancer since [[CursedWithAwesome his werewolf regeneration heals over any damage caused by the smoking]].]] Leads to an amusing moment in ''Alpha'' when Earl [[spoiler:[[BroughtDownToBadass having lost his werewolf curse and been made human again]]]] takes a bad draw of an offered cigarette and starts hacking, with the giver noting those things'll kill you. [[spoiler:Earl notes that, yeah, ''now'' they can. He gets his powers back near the end thanks to reinfection, so he doesn't have to worry about that anymore.]] |
| 325 | * Invoked in ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth''. Ianthe (scion of the hedonistic and power-hungry Third House, and a genius necromancer) admires her mentor's smoking habit and intends to cultivate one herself mainly because she loves what a power move it is to smoke on a ''space station''. (It also shows off his Lyctoral powers; part of the immortal super-necromancer package is an amazing healing factor.) |
| 326 | * In the Creator/RobertHeinlein novella "Literature/IfThisGoesOn" the protagonist, John Lyle (who is very naive at the beginning of the story and more than a bit of a goody two-shoes) expresses his disapproval at the smoking habit of his friend Zeb (who is considerably more cynical than him and also way cooler). By the end of the story, John Lyle has grown up considerably as far as naïveté goes, in the process becoming a heroic resistance fighter who plays a crucial role in overthrowing the corrupt theocracy of "the Prophet Incarnate". The very last page of the story has Lyle casually stop to light a cigarette (in the middle of a battle) before putting it out "after one soul-satisfying drag" and charging into the Big Bad's palace. |
| 327 | * ''Literature/TheMoomins'': |
| 328 | ** Snufkin has a tobacco-related MeaningfulName in the original Swedish, English, and many other translations. Because he's often WalkingTheEarth, he can't hold many possessions, but his pipe is one of the few things he'll keep with him at all times. He's also considered one of the coolest members of the cast, due to his stoic, mature personality and disdain for authority. That said, Snufkin's smoking is usually {{Bowdlerize}}d out of most adaptations, perhaps because despite his VagueAge, he's strongly implied to be underage. |
| 329 | ** In ''The Exploits of Moominpappa'', a corollary of this trope is brought up: the Hemulen Aunt is treated as a huge buzzkill who Moominpappa and his friends ditch at their earliest convenience. Because she's uncool, she's also anti-smoking, chastising Moominpappa for smoking his pipe. Yes, that's a bit of ValuesDissonance compared to how non-smokers are seen today... |
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| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 333 | !!!'''In General:''' |
| 334 | * Many TV series in the early-to-mid 1950s featured lead characters who smoked cigarettes. Mainly, these were adult-oriented sitcoms, although a few {{Dom Com}}s also had one or more lead characters who were into the habit. |
| 335 | ** One of the best-known examples to modern audiences is ''Series/ILoveLucy'', where each of the four leads (Ricky and Lucy Ricardo, and Fred and Ethel Mertz) regularly lit up on the set. One episode even featured Lucy and Ethel as dancing cigarette packages, mimicking a frequent early TV advertising tactic. The famous "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" episode (where she appears in a live TV commercial for Vitameatavegamin, a tonic that gets her very drunk) has Lucy pitching a cigarette brand to demonstrate to Ricky her acting abilities. |
| 336 | ** Another well-known example was ''I Married Joan'', but this series is not as widely distributed these days. |
| 337 | * Well-documented are the cigarette commercials, all of which portrayed smoking as "cool", "glamorous", "macho", etc. Many of the commercials depicted its models in various social, recreational and/or adventure settings, with young men and women puffing away in a carefree manner. The last commercials on U.S. television aired on January 2, 1971 ... snuffed out by federal mandate. |
| 338 | ** On the flip side, as anti-tobacco campaigns began ramping up in the 1990s, one of the more memorable commercials featured the "death of the Marlboro Man." Charles [=McLaren=], the brother of the late Wayne [=McLaren=] (one of many Marlboro men employed during the cigarette brand's "Marlboro Country" ad campaign), implored children not to smoke. The commercial opened with a shot of a young, vibrant Wayne [=McLaren=] in one of the Marlboro magazine ads, after which a picture appears of his withered, old-looking self hours before his death. |
| 339 | * Many celebrities who appeared on game shows (prior to the early 1980s) regularly lit up on the air. Several panelists smoked on the ''Series/MatchGame'', most famously, the three regulars (Brett Somers and Richard Dawson with cigarettes, and Charles Nelson Reiley with a pipe), while '50s rock star Fabian was seen puffing away on at least one episode of ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares''. The compedium "The Game Show Encyclopedia" featured a picture from a game called ''The Object Is'', where cigarettes in an ashtray could be easily seen in the picture next to several celebs; another picture in the same book shows Michael Landon taking a drag on the set of ''The Celebrity Game'' (a descendant to ''Hollywood Squares''). |
| 340 | ** On at least one episode of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', former model Anitra Ford (one of the few Barker-era models to leave the show on her own terms) was seen with a lighted cigarette during a Showcase skit (where she was playing a detective's buxom during a mystery-themed showcase); it was not clear if she inhaled or took a full drag. |
| 341 | ** Until the early 1980s, there were occasional prizes that were related to cigar and cigarette smoking, including (but not limited to) gold-plated lighters, table lighters, cedar cigar/cigarette boxes, humidors, and purse-type leather pouches (where women stashed their smokes, this item itself being part of a larger collection of a leather goods package). |
| 342 | *** As a [[ConsolationPrize parting gift]] on at least one episode of ''Series/ToTellTheTruth'', a threesome of boys (who tried to stump the panel about who was the real heroic Boy Scout) were given a Winston cigarettes gift package ("for their fathers"), while the other contestants were given the same gift package. This was on an episode sponsored by Winston. |
| 343 | ** Game show legend Bill Cullen was also a pack-plus-a-day smoker throughout most of his adult life, although he rarely smoked on-camera. He had quit by 1987, the year he made his final game show appearances; in one of those final appearances, on ''The $25,000 Pyramid'', Dick Clark remarked to Bill about his recent kicking the habit for good. Ultimately, it was lung cancer (brought on by years of moderately heavy smoking) that killed Cullen in 1990, at the relatively young age of 70. |
| 344 | * Many situation comedies -- including but not limited to ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'', and so forth -- featured single episodes where a teen-aged or child character experiments with smoking but decides he doesn't like it. On ''The Brady Bunch'', Mike (the father, played by Robert Reed) admits he smoked in his younger days, while on ''Beaver'' the titular character steals his father's rare pipe to smoke it. Another episode of ''Beaver'' had Wally dating a woman who smoked. |
| 345 | ** Another situation comedy, ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'' graphically showed the negative effects of smoking. The father of Arnold's best friend admits to being a chronic smoker and needs a lung operation ... then, in a show of how addictive the habit can be, is shown lighting a cigarette as he leaves the Drummonds' apartment. |
| 346 | ** While not a situation comedy, another negative depiction of smoking is seen in one of the most famous episodes of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie''. In the set-up to the defining scene in the episode "May We Make Them Proud" (where a fire at the School for the Blind kills Alice Garvey, and the baby son of Adam and Mary Kendall), Albert and a friend sneak into the basement to smoke a pipe, but after being shooed from the basement, leave a burning pipe in a pile of blankets. |
| 347 | * Creator/ErnieAnderson frequently smoked on television as Ghoulardi. [[ScareEmStraight And he died of cancer in 1997]]. |
| 348 | !!!'''Series:''' |
| 349 | * Gomez, debonair and worldly patriarch of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' smoked cigars since early childhood, apparently at his mother's insistence. Indeed, whenever he takes one, it lights up on its own. |
| 350 | ** Or is already lit. You reference the movie--in the original, live-action TV series, Morticia also smoked. She didn't use cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, she just... smoked. |
| 351 | *** Gomez and Morticia also occasionally shared a hookah. |
| 352 | * ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'': Andy Taylor can be seen lighting up in several episodes. For example, after he finished lecturing Opie about lying in the episode "Mr. [=McBeevee=]". ([=McBeevee=] — unseen to Andy until the climactic scene — also smokes in the episode, as told by Opie: "He can make smoke come out of his ears.") Andy's smoking is more prominent in the earlier black-and-white episodes, and by the first color season, he had put away his pack for good. (Don Knotts was also a known smoker, although he never lit up on the show.) |
| 353 | * Hannibal Smith on ''Series/TheATeam''. Other characters did point it every now and then. |
| 354 | * Both Starbucks, in both versions of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'', have been seen smoking cigars; the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 modern version]] of Baltar was smoking a cheroot during his introduction, and Doc Cottle is almost never seen without a cigarette on the go. Yet it was Laura Roslin who got cancer; go figure. |
| 355 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Amy says "I recently trained a capuchin monkey to smoke cigarettes... He looks much cooler than the non-smoking monkeys. Although it's not much of a contest. The other monkeys just sit around and masturbate." |
| 356 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 357 | ** Spike's introduction was of him smoking, in a very badass way. |
| 358 | *** And he continues to do so. At one point he lights a cigarette [[TheUnfettered in a hospital]], ''right in front of'' a "no smoking" sign. |
| 359 | *** When he reappears on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Creator/JamesMarsters wanted to convey to fans that smoking is not cool, thus Spike gave up the habit. |
| 360 | ** Although BTVS started off with the convention that "Everyone that smokes is evil or doomed" (N.B. not necessarily dead - even the minor character in "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_%28Buffy_episode%29 Nightmares]]" who goes into the basement for a "smoke break" then gets assaulted by the monster, lives), this is well and truly subverted in later seasons. In "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Candy Band Candy]]", Giles and Joyce smoke. Giles gets off scot free, and it would be drawing a long bow to connect [[spoiler:Joyce's death two seasons later]] to this incident. Further, Faith doesn't smoke in Season 3 when she is evil, and does smoke in Season 7 when she's good (and not doomed). |
| 361 | ** The show even hung a lampshade on this trope when IneffectualSympatheticVillain[=/=]UnknownRival Harmony seeks "shelter" from the slayer in [[MagnificentBastard Spike's]] crypt, sparking up a cigarette. Parodied in that when she tries to do it, well, she looks like an idiot. |
| 362 | --->'''Spike:''' Taking up smoking, are we Harm?\ |
| 363 | '''Harmony:''' I am a villain, Spike. Hello. ''(takes one drag, coughs, splutters)'' |
| 364 | ** And who can forgot season 2, when Angel becomes Angelus? He bites into a prostitute (who is smoking) and when he comes up, he exhales the smoke. Not only badass, but frightening for fans used to the friendly, broody hunk they're used to. |
| 365 | ** Andrew looks like an idiot, in his opening "Storyteller" fantasy, when he has his big Meerschaum pipe. (Which he ''still'' hasn't got the hang of, when he pops up in ''Series/{{Angel}}''...No, not like that!) |
| 366 | %%* ''Series/{{Columbo}}''. |
| 367 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 368 | ** TheMaster was very fond of cigars in his Delgado incarnation; but then he ''was'' the epitome of sexy. According to the special features on the DVD of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil "The Mind of Evil"]], the director insisted Delgado smoke a cigar in the story because it would look cool, even though Delgado was a non-smoker in real life who hated doing it. Delgado complained and was unhappy, but complied... and when he saw the finished episodes he praised the director for the idea, agreeing it made him look amazing. |
| 369 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]] is set in a time period where there were plenty of smokers in Britain in RealLife, but the only character seen smoking is UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill. This is mainly to stay accurate, as Churchill was known for his cigar-smoking and brandy-drinking habits, the latter of which was not included, and it's considered one of the hallmarks of his wartime visage. |
| 370 | * ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'': Jack Webb was a heavy smoker in real life, and Sgt. Joe Friday was often seen puffing on a cigarette (frequently, these were in transitional scenes). |
| 371 | ** The Webb-produced spinoffs -- ''Series/Adam12'' and ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' -- also featured smoking, although it was seldom seen done by the lead characters. An early episode of ''Adam 12'' shows Officer Malloy (Martin Milner) putting out a cigarette, while in ''Emergency'', Nurse Dixie [=McCall=] (Julie London, Webb's real-life ex-wife) can also be seen smoking in at least one episode. |
| 372 | * Jayne from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is sometimes seen smoking a cigar. |
| 373 | * Invoked by Chandler in an early episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' when the others try to talk him into quitting: "I've had it with your cancer, and your emphysema, and your heart disease. The bottom line is, smoking is ''cool'', and you know it." |
| 374 | * ''Series/GoodTimes'': Wilnona is seen lighting up in at least one episode ("Florida's Night Out", where the gang takes Florida out for the first time since the tragic death of her husband). |
| 375 | * In ''Series/HaveGunWillTravel'', Paladin regularly smoked cigars. |
| 376 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' played this straight in its first seasons. The detectives smoked like chimneys, and Bayliss and Howard trying to quit smoking is treated as just another example of the unit's [[BunnyEarsLawyer general quirkiness]] and an annoyance to the other detectives. As societal attitudes changed, most of the detectives quit except for Pembleton, which was used to highlight [[SmokingIsNotCool his stubbornness]] more than anything. |
| 377 | * Harmon Rabb from ''Series/{{JAG}}'' used to smoke cigars until ”The Return of Jimmy Blackhorse” in the third season. |
| 378 | * In ''Series/MadMen'', EverybodySmokes, and just about every one of them looks damn cool doing it. However, Don Draper definitely takes the cake. At one point he even smokes while pitching an ''anti-smoking'' campaign. Notably, Pete, who most fans think of as an uptight jerkass, can't smoke without choking. Additionally, [[spoiler: Peggy starts smoking more often as her character becomes more assertive. She even smokes a joint in one episode]]. |
| 379 | * Played with in Katherine Applegate's ''Making Out'' series. Nina 'smokes', but never lights her cigarettes. Somehow, she still manages to get through packs at quite a pace. |
| 380 | * Badass cop Zheglov in ''Series/TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged''. |
| 381 | * In ''Series/MiamiVice'', Crockett smokes like a chimney throughout the first season, although he quietly drops the habit early in the second. |
| 382 | * In the ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' webisode [[Recap/TheOfficeUSSWE5SubtleSexuality "Subtle Sexuality"]] Kelly and Erin record a video for their girl group. In rehearsal, Kelly tries to invoke this trope by smoking and putting out her cigarette with her shoe. Since she has no experience smoking, she ends up coughing and spitting phlegm, losing all the cool points. The smoking scene does not end up in the video's final version. |
| 383 | * Believe it or not, this trope actually appeared in ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. Well...sort of. Obviously the writers were never going to get away with having a ranger actually light up, so instead, they had the Black RPM Ranger suck on a lollipop. It's...more badass than it sounds, really. |
| 384 | %%* Brian Kinney in ''Series/QueerAsFolkUS''. |
| 385 | * Many characters in ''Series/{{Skins}}'' smoke freely and heavily (and a variety of substances, at that); Cook and Effy probably make it look the coolest. One notable exception is Katie, who does pretty much every drug that doesn't require syringes but doesn't smoke because of concerns about cancer. Until Effy teaches her how to smoke in one of the most LesYay-laced scenes ''ever''. |
| 386 | * The eponymous bikers in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' all smoke like chimneys. Club president Clay Morrow goes one better and smokes big fat cigars, but that's because he's played by Creator/RonPerlman. |
| 387 | * Both of the main characters from ''Series/TheSweeney'', just so you know they're double-hard bastards. |
| 388 | * ''Series/That70sShow'' An episode had Donna revealing she smokes. When Eric points out that smoking causes cancer, Donna replies that it makes her look cool, so it's an even trade. |
| 389 | * ''Series/TheTonightShow'': Prior to the early 1980s, numerous guests brought their cigarettes with them, frequently resulting in the set being fogged over in cigarette smoke. Sometimes, five or more people had lighted cigarettes in hand at any one time, and ashtrays were liberally placed between the chairs. Johnny Carson was a smoker, and to a lesser extent so was Ed [=McMahon=], although both stopped lighting up on the set in the early 1980s as the habit became less socially acceptable. ([=McMahon=] ultimately quit, while some sources said that Carson continued his pack-plus-a-day habit for most of the rest of his life, ultimately dying in 2005 of respiratory failure brought on by emphysema.) |
| 390 | * Jennifer Paterson of ''Two Fat Ladies'' was rarely seen outside the kitchen without a cigarette. Of course, she also died of lung cancer. |
| 391 | * This trope is one of the ways that you can tell Daryl Dixon is a badass amongst badasses in ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Of course, with the all the ravenous undead and living sociopaths running around, lung cancer is maybe the least of his worries. |
| 392 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] once on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' where the performers are told to look cool while doing something uncool. Colin steps out, mimes smoking a cigarette...and picks his nose. |
| 393 | * Omar Little on ''Series/TheWire'', who has a tendency to be filmed at least once every season lurking in the shadows of a back alley smoking a cigarette. |
| 394 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'' had its Cigarette Smoking Man. However, the other characters consider it a bad habit, and he later develops lung cancer. |
| 395 | ** Plus he does it everywhere, whether allowed to or not, even in FBI headquarters. |
| 396 | *** One ExpandedUniverse novel, namely ''Antibodies'' by Creator/KevinJAnderson, gave him a nasty cough. |
| 397 | *** The actor, however, hadn't smoked since the seventies - after a few episodes on regular cigarettes, he switched to Herbals for the rest of his tenure on the show. |
| 398 | * ''You Again'', starring veteran actor Jack Klugman and then-newcomer John Stamos, in a sitcom where a boy in his late teens (Stamos) comes to live with his estranged father. Stamos' character lights up in one early episode, but (after Klugman's character puts the cigarette out) is never seen smoking again. |
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| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 402 | * Numerous album covers of virtually any genre -- far too many to be reasonably listed -- had the artists, actors, models, etc., with lighted cigarettes in hand or nearby ... implying they smoked. Just the same, countless publicity photos featured the artists with cigarettes, cigarette packs, etc. in hand. |
| 403 | * "Smoke Break" by Music/CarrieUnderwood. Make no mistake -- Carrie is a non-smoker. But she raised a few eyebrows in 2015 when she released the song as the lead track of her album ''Storyteller'', with some critics claiming it promoted smoking as an acceptable habit. Underwood defended the song and said that was not her intent: "The song itself is just kind of one of those story songs that I feel like everybody can relate to, about how life is so hectic and it’s so nice when, if and when, you actually get to kind of step away for a second." She went on to say the song was not a pro-cigarette anthem but "a tribute to sneaking away from your responsibilities and taking a minute to breathe." |
| 404 | * "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)," a western swing-blues song from 1947, written by Merle Travis and Tex Williams, and became one of the first songs to go No. 1 on both the ''Billboard'' magazine country and pop charts in its version by Williams and His Western Caravan; Phil Harris also had a major pop hit with his cover version, also in 1947. Williams recorded an updated version in 1968, with references to the Surgeon General's report. |
| 405 | * "Harry Rag" from Music/TheKinks' ''Music/SomethingElseByTheKinks'' is all about the joys of lighting up. "Harry rag" is Cockney rhyming slang for "fag". |
| 406 | * Music/KurtCobain of Music/{{Nirvana}} was a smoker through and through, but he urged a young British fan to not pick up the habit as seen in the end of ''Live at Reading''. As he gave an autograph, he happened to have a lit cigarette in one hand, and emphatically told the boy, "[[DoNotDoThisCoolThing Don't smoke.]]" |
| 407 | * A Music/WillSmith song mentions him having a Cuban cigar but "I bite it/It's for the look/I don't light it." |
| 408 | * Downplayed in John Prine's semi-autobiographical song "Grandpa Was a Carpenter". In the chorus, Prine mentions that his grandfather, among other things for American carpenters to be proud of back in the '50s, "chain-smoked Camel cigarettes". |
| 409 | [[/folder]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 412 | * In ''Pinball/WhoDunnit1995'', HardboiledDetective Nick Spade is often seen smoking a cigarette. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 416 | ''(Just like every other profession, including athletics, many professional wrestlers smoke to varying degrees in RealLife. However, this list depicts only those instances where smoking was seen on-camera (usually as part of storylines or gimmicks) or documented cases where wrestlers were known smokers.)'' |
| 417 | |
| 418 | * During a ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} III'' press conference, normally genial announcer Wrestling/MeanGeneOkerlund once famously shot to one journalist, "Put that cigarette out!" (although the offending reporter was never seen on camera). Okerlund was a non-smoker. (Although, in a comedy skit aired as part of ''Tuesday Night Titans'' three years earlier, Okerlund can be seen puffing on a cigar while eating breakfast. [[note]]The skit featured Okerlund training with Wrestling/HulkHogan for an upcoming match against Wrestling/MrFuji and Wrestling/GeorgeSteele[[/note]]). |
| 419 | * During his run in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, [[Wrestling/BigShow The Giant (Paul Wight)]] -- had a short-lived gimmick called "The Smoking Giant." Wight's character would show such great disdain for his opponents (usually jobbers, or wrestlers paid to lose) that he would light a cigarette, take a drag or two during the match and then finish off the cigarette after pummeling his opponent into submission. On the June 18, 1998, ''WCW Thunder'' [[Wrestling/GlennGilbertti Disco Inferno]], in all apparent seriousness, asked if he was afraid that the smoking would stunt his growth. |
| 420 | * In a parody of ''Film/BasicInstinct'', aired as part of WWE's promotion of ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 21'' (tagline: "[=WrestleMania=] Goes Hollywood"), WWE Diva Wrestling/StacyKeibler -- taking the role of Sharon Stone's Catherine Tramell -- can be seen smoking during the interrogation scene. It is not known to what extent, or if, Keibler is/was a smoker. |
| 421 | * During the early days of [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], "Wildcat" Chris Harris was smoking during a backstage promo. |
| 422 | * [[Wrestling/JimFullington The Sandman]], who has worked in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, WCW, WWE, and TNA, once went through a gimmick where he would smoke a cigarette prior to his matches. In one case, his habit backfired on him when, during a match with bitter rival Wrestling/TommyDreamer, a lit cigarette was pushed into his eye. |
| 423 | * During their run in the WWE, Wrestling/RonSimmons and Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield were "The APA," more often seen in comedy skits smoking cigars and playing poker, rather than beating down bad guys. This was prior to Layfield's transition into his "evil millionaire" gimmick as "JBL," which reflected his real-life financial trading career. Layfield continued his cigar-chomping ways during his JBL run. |
| 424 | * Ex-Minnesota Gov. Wrestling/JesseVentura -- most famous for his time as a shamelessly pro-heel commentator in the WWF -- smoked cigars after he got into politics, although it is not known whether he smoked or chewed (or to what extent) during his wrestling career. |
| 425 | * In his autobiography ''To Be the Man'', legendary wrestler Wrestling/RicFlair (believed to be a non-smoker) wrote that Wrestling/KenPatera -- the former Olympic weightlifter-turned-wrestler -- was a regular smoker. Flair asked Patera once about his decision to smoke, to which Patera replied that he didn't need aerobic conditioning to lift weights. |
| 426 | * Freebird Buddy Roberts smoked and developed throat cancer as a result. He required surgery and used a voice transmitter in order to speak. He died in 2012 from pneumonia. |
| 427 | * Many times, a heel wrestler (or manager) will use a lighted cigarette or cigar as a weapon – often, rubbing the burning tip into the eyes – against his opponent to set up a finish and gain a cheap win. The most common example is The Dream Team's win over the team of Wrestling/BarryWindham and Wrestling/MikeRotunda to win the WWF Tag Team Titles in 1985; the Dream Team's manager, Johnny Valiant, began chomping on a cigar during the bout and, when it came time for the finish, handed the lighted cigar to [[Wrestling/GregValentine Greg "the Hammer" Valentine]] to rub into Windham's face, setting him up for an easy pin by Valentine's partner, Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake. |
| 428 | * Parodied in Wrestling/RingOfHonor where Jay Briscoe cut a promo out in the cold wearing nothing but a tank top to hide the fact it was his breath rather than smoke you were seeing. Mark and Papa weren't impressed. That said, Jay isn't afraid to light a roll, he's just afraid of smoking the good cigars that belong to his father. |
| 429 | [[/folder]] |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 432 | * Zig-Zagged by ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG''. There are a number of badass characters who smoke, including Jim "Spy" Covalent and Clint Wayne, thus playing this trope straight. However, the trope is {{defied|Trope}} by a strict "no smoking" policy in Dino Attack Headquarters, and because a cigarette burned her home to the ground when she was only a child, [[SubvertedTrope Smoking is]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[SubvertedTrope Cool]] in Amanda's eyes. |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
| 434 | |
| 435 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 436 | * The archwizard Elminster Aumar from the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting smokes an ornate pipe that is enchanted to never run out of tobacco. Presumably, he can afford to smoke seeing as how he's [[TheAgeless immortal]]. (Some rumors have said that Elminster is more senile than many believe, and thinks his pipe is a living being, claiming to have seen him talking to it; in truth, he often uses it as a focus for spells to speak to other powerful wizards like the Simbul over long distances.) |
| 437 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': While some humans are known to smoke, the Orks are no slouches at it, adding to their already ridiculously long list of awesomeness tropes. Just about every Burna Boy has a noxious cigar to chomp on, and a fluff piece on [[SpacePirates Kaptin Baddrukk]] even notes that he was "badly wounded and out of cigars", without telling which one he considered the more urgent issue. |
| 438 | * Zig-zagged or subverted in ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'': A character can use Lho-sticks, the tobacco (or stronger, depending on author) equivalent of the far future.to grant a morale bonus for being seen as "cool", but the only friendly characters who will benefit from this boost, looking up to the smoker as an inspirational tough guy/gal, are those with a low intelligence score... |
| 439 | * In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', vampires often smoke despite getting nothing out of because it looks cool. Also, since vampires are intrinsically terrified of fire (even a candle flame may trigger Rötschreck, or the Red Fear, a state of uncontrollable panic), a habit that involves using a lighter right in front of your face on the regular demonstrates a certain level of toughness. |
| 440 | [[/folder]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 443 | * In ''[[Theatre/CompanySondheim Company]]'', Joanne states that smoking is "the best". In the DVD of the 2011 concert version where she is played by Patti [=LuPone=], you can see that she's smoking Pall Malls, which fits with [[LadyDrunk the sort of]] [[DeadpanSnarker character she is]]. |
| 444 | [[/folder]] |
| 445 | |
| 446 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 447 | * Adam Jensen from ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' and ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided''. You don't see him smoke in game, but you find cigarettes in his apartment, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq5KWLqUewc this]] trailer has him lighting up, possibly to deal with the trauma of becoming an augment. |
| 448 | ** The accompanying comic makes this a subversion, as Jensen states that he picked up the habit because his newly augmented lung negates all the ill effects. |
| 449 | ** The announcement [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYaQwyG9uI0 trailer]] for Mankind Divided has Adam puffing on a cigarette before mopping the floor with some brutal riot cops. |
| 450 | ** [[spoiler: Bob Page]] is a smoker as well, possibly to give him more of an evil look. Pritchard is also a smoker, which can be seen by the pack of cigarettes on his desk. |
| 451 | * Ryotaro Dojima from ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has this look in effect in his Social Link status window, and it does nicely complement his gritty badass detective look. |
| 452 | * Solid Snake from ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' was notable in that, back in his HeroicMime days, the only way you knew he was a badass was because he had a pack of cigarettes in his inventory. In later games they drain his health as they're used, which would make them a subversion - if not for the fact that he smokes one after each boss fight in the first game, which boosts his maximum health and (inexplicably) item capacity. He also gets nagged by his sidekick about it, but with the mild subversion that he seems to get some masochistic pleasure out of the nagging. |
| 453 | ** And to see how big his addiction is, at least in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Snake got his cigarettes by swallowing the pack and later regurgitating it (since he was not only stripped naked right before the mission started, but also injected with serums that temporarily stopped his stomach acids. This was a side effect of what they were actually supposed to do, but it did mean he could still, you know, smoke the things once he got there). |
| 454 | *** Funnily enough, this detail was overlooked in the {{novelization}}: Instead Snake simply steals a pack of cheap cigarettes on-site and spends the rest of the book complaining about their terrible flavour. |
| 455 | ** In the prequels, Naked Snake/Big Boss, Solid Snake's clone-father, is shown to be fond of cigars, and carries them around similarly during the game. So it's apparently a genetic trait. He claims to have picked the habit up from his mentor, The Boss. Ocelot, who became so fond of him, even learned to embrace this trope, too, especially in ''[=MGS4=]''. |
| 456 | ** By ''[=MGS4=]'' it's being used very clearly to show how much of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold Snake is and how little he cares about living; and, for the first time, he acts like an addict, getting moody when he can't smoke. And yet, by the end of his final mission... he [[spoiler: quits smoking. He even says "those things can kill you". He now wants to live as much of his life as he can]]. |
| 457 | ** The kind of cigarettes smoked by Snake at any one point in the timeline pretty much entirely express his character [[CharacterDevelopment at that point]]. In ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'', he smokes a BlandNameProduct version of Lucky Strikes, stereotypical soldier's tobacco. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' he smokes a fictional brand (Moslems) designed to leave no taste or smell and almost no second-hand smoke. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', they're still smokeless, but change to a real-life brand (Hope). In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' he smokes another fictional brand (The Boss) of hand-rolled cigarettes with 26mg tar each which he stores in a little box and stubs out in a neat portable ashtray, and, symbolically, cigar smoke is shown to make him cough. He smokes with the cigarette between his thumb and forefinger in ''2'' and ''4'', and between his third and fourth fingers in ''1''. |
| 458 | ** Raiden himself used to smoke, though he quit prior to ''Sons of Liberty''. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential That doesn't mean the player can't make him smoke the cigarette pack that Snake gives him.]] |
| 459 | ** There's two ''Metal Gear'' games in which he doesn't smoke, both non-canon. One is ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge'', an initial attempt to make a Western-aimed sequel to ''Metal Gear'' for the NES that preceded the other sequels (where Snake was characterized as a heavy smoker). The other is ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'', where he instead [[{{Bowdlerise}} starts the game with a 'Fogger']], described by the Item box as a "Device that lights up and emits smoke". |
| 460 | ** Almost every unique character who joins MSF in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' smokes, or otherwise uses tobacco products. Even {{Chi|ldSoldiers}}co would have smoked if Snake hadn't taken the cigar away from him (he only gave it to the kid because he didn't have a lighter, anyway). Ironically, there is no usable cigarette option in-game. |
| 461 | ** Venom Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' smokes an E-cigar, which dispenses vapours of wormwood to him. The hallucinatory effect advances time, handy for letting you do infiltrations of bases at night after scouting it out during the day. [[spoiler:Would you have guessed it foreshadows his [[BodyDouble true nature]]?]] |
| 462 | ** Who's the one character seen smoking in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' (and it's a ''[[CigarChomper cigar]]'', no less)? Why, none other than the ultra-badass BigBad [[spoiler: Senator Steven Armstrong]]! |
| 463 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': Chris Redfield is shown smoking in the live-action intro of the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game]], though it was edited out in the American version only to be added back in the director's cut. If you get his worst ending, he smokes his last cigarette as he sits alone in the getaway chopper. In the intro for his campaign in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'', he's shown drinking and smoking heavily while going through a HeroicBSOD, the latter only implied by the ashtray that is completely ''stuffed'' with cigarette butts sitting next to him. With that, it can be assumed that he's the "smokes to calm his nerves" type, or having fallen back into old habits to help cope with [[MyGreatestFailure the loss of his team]]. He is also shown lighting up a cigarette after the events of the next game. |
| 464 | ** Leon's earliest character treatments from ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen Resident Evil 1.5]]'' had him as a smoker as well. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130908131457/http://gamedepiction.com/media2/re2-misc05.jpg This website has a sketch of him lighting up with some of the other S.T.A.R.S. members]] (He's the second from the right). By ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' onward, he notably doesn't smoke, refusing a pack in the intro to ''4'' and when asked for a cigarette by Luis, offers gum instead. |
| 465 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Cid Highwind chain-smokes like a maniac and still spears random monsters on a par with the SuperSoldier who runs the team. He even lights a stick of dynamite with his cigarette in one of his {{Limit Break}}s. His later appearances in canon (''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' and ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'') seem at first to imply he's given it up, since he doesn't smoke at all in the former, and his new character design doesn't have the pack hooked in his goggles any more. But then toward the end of ''Cerberus'', he indulges in a victory smoke after blowing up one of the Midgar reactors. |
| 466 | * Sergeant Johnson from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. Helps that by the time the games takes place smoking is not only harmless but cancer is so rare (and easy to treat) most people don't even know what cancer is anymore. |
| 467 | * Creator/TimSchafer games: |
| 468 | ** Sasha Nein from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' goes as far using his finely tuned psychic abilities to [[MundaneUtility light his cigarette]] in his introduction. |
| 469 | ** ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': Eddie Riggs deserves mentioning, even though he doesn't seem to get to smoke any of the cigarettes he lights... |
| 470 | * Many characters in ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock|1}}'', in deference to both its Ayn Rand influence and its time period. The main character is smoking on an airplane in the opening sequence, and given the look of the air so is everyone else, totally in-line with 1960. There are cigarettes and cigars everywhere on Rapture, where personal freedom trumps the fact that it's a closed environment with no ready access to fresh air. |
| 471 | ** Indeed, you can grab both cigars and cigarettes from the environment and smoke them, for a small boost to your EVE - costing you only an equally-small price in Health. |
| 472 | ** The in-game advertising for the [[KillItWithFire Incinerate!]] plasmid seems to geared towards using it to light a cigarette as much as burning your enemies alive. |
| 473 | ** Ditto for ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''. Everyone smoked in the 1910s, and Booker's no exception. Elizabeth also picked up smoking by the time at ''[[BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea Burial at Sea]]''. |
| 474 | * Smoking was casually wide-spread in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' wasteland settlements, and there didn't seem to be any character consistency behind it. A look through the G.E.C.K. revealed why: almost every NPC who wanders will cross an idle-point where they will run an idle animation for smoking. It's interesting that these were all placed outside, which is why the Vault dwellers and Enclave are never seen smoking, neither are Moira or the Doc since they never go outside. Some players believe that Jericho smokes more if given cigarettes, but he cycles through the idle anim at random, though not as often as he randomly complains about there not being enough cigarettes around. |
| 475 | ** Cass and Boone in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' don't just idle on smoking, it's their full-time job from which they break from only to kill things. These are the two most Badass and jaded {{Anti|Hero}}-Heroes. |
| 476 | *** The antagonist Benny, who rolls with several 50's stereotypes of "coolness", is also a cigarette smoker. He is seen smoking in the game's opening and his lighter and some cigarette butts he left behind are important clues in one of the main quests. |
| 477 | ** While the player character can't partake of any tobacco in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', several [=NPCs=] and many of your companion characters will light up and smoke a cigarette when standing idle. Private Eye Nick Valentine seemingly smokes for no other reason than the cool factor, as he's a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Generation 2 Synth]] who doesn't have any organic parts like lungs (which makes you wonder ''how'' he's even smoking them at all). |
| 478 | * The Spy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' carries around a cigarette case (that doubles as a disguise kit) and is often shown smoking in official videos, artwork, etc. However, as a result of his smoking, he ''snorts'' when he laughs, intentionally decreasing the cool factor. |
| 479 | * Due to its film noir roots, almost everyone in ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' smokes. Lampshaded in the manual: "If you are offended by the amount of smoking in the game, remember that everyone who smokes is ''dead''. Think about it." |
| 480 | * Bill from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' is always smoking. When he dies, the cigarette is still in his mouth, but the fire on the end goes out. |
| 481 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': |
| 482 | ** Inverted with Dante. He's as badass as you can get, but his [[Creator/HidekiKamiya creator]] intentionally made him a [[SmokingIsNotCool non-smoker]], because he thinks it's cooler. |
| 483 | ** Creator/NinjaTheory, the developer in charge of ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'', showed Dante smoking in some early trailers, but he never smokes in the game proper. |
| 484 | ** Zigzagged and played for laughs in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5''. Nico rids herself of a demon crawling in through the window by stabbing it in the head with the burning end of a cigarette and then--[[MakesSenseInContext while in a van doing a barrel roll]]--snatches another cigarette with only her mouth, which Nero lights for her afterwards. Nero then waves away the smoke and sticks his head out the window for fresh air and the game flashes a disclaimer indicating it does not endorse or promote cigarettes. |
| 485 | * Baron Flynt in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' has a doobie. It's medicinal. |
| 486 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Mafia II}}'', Vito Scaletta is shown lighting up in several cutscenes, as well as the other characters and various encountered non-player characters. One of the chapters involves a stolen cigarette truck. |
| 487 | * In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', the only character who even smokes in fanon is Mokou, a {{Mystical White Hair}}ed girl who plays with fire. [[EpilepticTrees For some reason]], this smoking habit is derived from her mentioning tobacco in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', and fans took this as her smoking [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=24340429 IS HOT]]. Not that this would affect her since she's immortal and can't be in anything but perfect health. The older characters are more prone to be seen smoking Japanese pipes, especially Mamizou and Yukari. In ''[[VideoGame/TouhouShinkirouHopelessMasquerade Hopeless Masquerade]]'', Mamizou is shown smoking. |
| 488 | * No one looks cooler with a cig in his mouth than [[VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition Special Agent Francis York Morgan]]. It also makes time move faster in-game. So York literally just stands around for an hour, looking cool while smoking a cigarette. |
| 489 | * In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', John Marston can be seen lighting up occasionally. |
| 490 | * Likewise, in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Arthur Morgan also smokes. This goes beyond being cosmetic, as smoking a cigar is one way that he can recharge his Deadeye Core, albeit with the side effect of slightly damaging his Stamina Core. |
| 491 | * ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'': |
| 492 | ** Sam Gideon smokes cigarettes, often at improbably awesome times (like when he's hanging from a ledge over an endless drop by one hand), and can even use them in combat - smoking a cig and then throwing it out from behind cover will draw the heat- and motion-sensors of the MechaMooks, letting you get in a free shot or two. |
| 493 | ** The cybernetically-enhanced ColonelBadass, Robert Burns, also smokes heavily and can be seen lighting one up whenever you leave him idling at the end of a section for more than a few seconds. |
| 494 | * Practically every protagonist of the ''Videogame/LikeADragon'' series (as well as it's spinoffs) is a smoker who always manages to make it look good. Kiryu in particular can not only light up a cigarette mid-fight as a taunt in certain games but also has a [[LimitBreak Heat Moves]] in which he spits the cigarette at an attacking foe to burn them and leave them open for a punch to the face. |
| 495 | * ''Videogame/LostJudgment'' has a variation on this with Jin Kuwana, who vapes rather than smoke a regular cigarette but is still no less badass than the typical ''Like a Dragon'' character. Played with in the Kaito Files DLC however, where while Kaito himself is a smoker he's also opposed to the underaged Jun Sadamoto smoking and angrily snatches the cigarette out of his mouth. |
| 496 | * Lindow Amamiya from ''VideoGame/GodEater'' is basically a super-soldier who is often seen with a cigarette in his mouth, especially in the anime. |
| 497 | * Slayer from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' smokes a pipe and just to show how badass he is, he blocks with the smoke. |
| 498 | ** Baiken is seen smoking a pipe in her pre-battle animation as well. |
| 499 | ** Don't forget Sol Badguy, who is often seen smoking cigarettes in promotional material. Well, the guy ''is'' a walking reference to TheEighties, so... |
| 500 | * Duke Nukem is now smoking as evidenced in the cover art and trailers for ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''. |
| 501 | * Some of the HECU grunts in ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' are shown chewing on cigars at all times, and in the expansion pack, ''Opposing Force'', Engineers light their cutting torches with them. |
| 502 | * The Illusive Man in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' chain smokes. A lot. Fortunately, by the 2180s, cigarettes have been modified to remove all harmful substances. Illusive Man and anyone else who smokes in Mass Effect literally only does it for effect. [[BlackComedy Hilariously]] averted in one of Zaeed Massani's anecdotes: |
| 503 | --> '''Zaeed:''' You smoke, Shepard? Don't. That stuff'll kill you. Knew a kid once, half your age. Smoked too close to a cache of explosives. Tossed a butt, blew himself sky-high. |
| 504 | * Captain Price from the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' (and ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'') series. Even though he smokes cigars often, the most prominent point is that the first playable mission in ''Modern Warfare'', "Crew Expendable", begins with him smoking as the SAS prepare to board the cargo ship, while the [[spoiler:final mission, "Dust To Dust"]], of ''Modern Warfare 3'' has him [[spoiler:light one up right after he survives a helicopter crash and hangs Makarov]]. Soap has a cigar in "Modern Warfare 2" during "Cliffhanger", and the cover to his comic series shows Ghost lighting up too. |
| 505 | * In ''VideoGame/LANoire'', every character smokes extensively (both cigarettes and cigars), except the protagonist Cole Phelps. If you stand around doing nothing, your partner will light up a cigarette. Of course, they're all members of the LAPD in 1947, so Phelps is the odd bird for not smoking. |
| 506 | * Parodied in ''Steve Van Helsing: Process Server'' where the title character is a non-smoker but lights a cigarette at "particularly cool moments." He also wears a leather jacket practically all the time, even in ''Egypt''. |
| 507 | * It's never seen in the games game, but [[WordOfGod Yu Suzuki]] envisioned Sarah Bryant of ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' as a smoker. |
| 508 | * The protagonist of ''VideoGame/SluggishMorss'' likes to puff on some sort of cigarette-type thing, apparently. |
| 509 | * ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'': Jim Raynor, Matt Horner, and Tychus Findlay all smoke big manly cigars, but Jim is seen to smoke cigarettes as well. He even has a pack in his shirt sleeve as part of his cutscene model. In [[VideoGame/StarCraft the first game]], Firebats smoked ''inside'' their helmets. |
| 510 | * In the PC Engine CD port of ''VideoGame/MadStalkerFullMetalForce'', Chico Rodrigues, the pilot of Hound Dog, is seen smoking during the intro and has a cigarette in his hand in his character select portrait. |
| 511 | * Hojo Ujiyasu from ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' is regularly seen smoking a clay pipe in cutscenes and is widely seen as a badass CoolOldGuy in the vein of [[VideoGame/MetalGear Big Boss]]. |
| 512 | * Jack Cayman from ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' has a cigarette seemingly permanently attached to his mouth. It stays planted firmly in his lips through all the [[TheJoysOfTorturingMooks back-breaking, decapitating, limb-severing, impaling, and frying that he does to all his enemies.]] In ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'', ''[=MadWorld=]'''s SpiritualSuccessor, Jack ''used'' to smoke, but he stopped out of a request from his daughter and his idle animation is him taking out a lighter and cigar before shaking his head and putting them away. [[spoiler:He continues to not smoke ever since she was accidentally killed.]] |
| 513 | * Sheriff [[TheBigBadWolf Bigby Wolf]] from ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' smokes like a chimney. In fact, so do most other people; smoking is a major motif in the game, with many DialogueTree options revolving around it (e.g., lighting someone's cigarette to show kindness or affection, blowing smoke in someone's face to show defiance, etc). A major RunningGag is Bigby's habit of smoking [[{{Pun}} Huff 'n Puffs]], a cheap and notoriously crappy brand of cigarettes; he's apparently "the only one who smokes that crap brand." As explained in ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'', the comic series it's based on, Bigby smokes to dull his otherwise intrusively sensitive sense of smell. |
| 514 | * ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Patricia 'Peacock' Watson. She smokes cigars an awful lot for a 13-year-old (though to be fair she is completely mad). She's a huge homage to the Golden Age of Animation (see the Western Animation tab further down) who operates completely on CartoonPhysics and the RuleOfCool. Like Discworld Death (see Literature), she blows smoke out of her empty eye sockets in her victory pose, complete with a BondOneLiner. As for the health effects, the cigars apparently aren't the real thing; she just does it because it looks badass. |
| 515 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': As a part of his spaghetti western design motif, Malcolm Graves The Outlaw smokes cigars. |
| 516 | * ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' has a pack of cigarettes as an active item that increases the player's coolness stat, while decreasing their health. |
| 517 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Return of the Obra Dinn}}'', we have [[spoiler:Russian seaman Aleksei Toporov, who is usually seen but not [=IDed=]... except for two things: The only way he can be [=IDed=] is by the leather tobacco sack hanging by the hammock behind him that matches his ID number on the crew manifest, and when he does smoke with his trademark DistinguishedGentlemansPipe on one rare occasion]]. |
| 518 | * Victor Sullivan from the ''[[VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune Uncharted]]'' series is a textbook example, being a CoolOldGuy with a charm, completed when he lights up a cigar. |
| 519 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Wadanohara}}'', Orca is such a badass that he is able to ''smoke underwater''. |
| 520 | * All the yankee delinquents in ''VideoGame/TheFriendsOfRingoIshikawa'' smoke whenever possible. If you have a cigarette and Ringo uses it while next to another delinquent, he'll automatically light up the cigarette. Note that in most parts of the school, Ringo won't do it and instead, just flip a coin. |
| 521 | * ''VideoGame/AtelierAyeshaTheAlchemistOfDusk'' has Keithgriff, your mentor and an experienced travelling alchemist who is often seen smoking in order to calm his nerves. He even takes a smoke break ''in the middle of his LimitBreak'' before throwing the cigarette at the enemy through a portal, resulting in StuffBlowingUp while he does an UnflinchingWalk. |
| 522 | * ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': |
| 523 | ** Your player character ''thinks'' smoking is cool, associating it with the CowboyCop fantasy. However, from the perspective of the player, it's obvious he's an [[AddledAddict addict]] clinging on to the idea of smoking being cool to prevent him facing up to the fact that he has wrecked his health with his various substance abuse issues and ought to quit - his first encounter with cigarettes is experiencing an intense urge to smoke a discarded one right out of an ashtray. |
| 524 | *** Cigarettes also seem to be linked to the PlayerCharacter's libido, towards both women and men. The discarded butt in the intro belongs to Klaasje, who the player character is overwhelmed with lust for. [[AmbiguouslyBi After seeing Kim smoking for the first time, he gushes internally about how cool Kim is, and his crush on the Smoker on the Balcony seems to be based on the smoking]]. One of the Ancient Reptillian Brain's comments about the woman who broke the player character's heart is that there's nothing he can do to bring her back - "it won't put smoke back in her mouth again". |
| 525 | ** Your player character's Volition points out, after learning that Kim only smokes a single cigarette a day, that giving up would be easier than that. Your player character's Composure might respond that Kim only remains a smoker due to a desire to protect his own coolness. |
| 526 | ** Klaasje fits the look of the FemmeFatale, complete with being permanently seen smoking. However, just like your player character, she has a massive range of destructive substance abuse issues, of which the cigarette is just another one. |
| 527 | * ''VideoGame/TurboOverkill'': Johnny Turbo, protagonist of the game, frequently smokes a cigarette. Most commonly during cutscenes where he eliminates a regular enemy. |
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| 529 | |
| 530 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 531 | * Subverted in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' with hard-boiled veteran detective Tyrell Badd, who looks like he has a cigarette in his mouth... until he takes it out and it's really a lollipop. |
| 532 | * [[CoolOldLady Old *Mute]] of ''VisualNovel/HatePlus'' can't actually smoke, being an AI, but the thin cigars her avatar smokes certainly make her ''look'' badass. |
| 533 | * Fitting with his image of a shady but effective informant, Ban from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' is found smoking when he meets Akira at the Moon Tower for a second time. |
| 534 | * Played for laughs in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. While none of the main or supporting cast smoke much if at all, there's one exception: The parody skits. In them, a crudely drawn SuperDeformed Tohsaka is always depicted chilling out with a cigarette in her mouth and is portrayed as the coolest thing ever. She even has her own equally crudely drawn cool car. The real girl doesn't actually smoke given that she's still a student and trying to maintain an honor student facade. |
| 535 | [[/folder]] |
| 536 | |
| 537 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 538 | * Strong Bad of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' sneaks in a cigar every once in a while. Humorously, he once [[YourHeadASplode tried to light a cigar while wearing gasoline as "lotion".]] Don't worry, [[DisneyDeath he recovered easily]]. |
| 539 | [[/folder]] |
| 540 | |
| 541 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 542 | * ''Webcomic/ThirtyTwoKickUp'' Helvetia has only taken a cigarette out of her mouth ONCE, for a single panel. |
| 543 | * ''Webcomic/{{Mokepon}}'' features Atticus Brent, a normal teenager living in the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} world and generally being confused by all the insane people and logic within it. He is also a chain smoker who survives mainly on a diet of cheap jerky and ''cigarettes''. This is not an understatement, when he finishes a cigarette, he pops it into his mouth, chews the still smoking butt and swallows it. |
| 544 | * Captain Jordan Lee from ''Webcomic/{{Skins}}'' is shown almost always smoking. She casually lights up in the Director's office (possibly as a sign of contempt when her boss questions one of Jordan's military decisions) and ignores a Non-smoking sign in a hospital ward and continues smoking around her comatose boyfriend. To be fair, he is a werewolf so presumably, it takes a little bit more than mere cigarette smoke to harm him. |
| 545 | * The One Electronic, in ''Webcomic/RiceBoy'', is a trench coat wearing ancient agent of God, who smokes. Never mind that he is a robot, and has ''no mouth''. |
| 546 | * ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' completely subverts this - the start of Dave Davenport's long, hard voyage towards being something more than "an awkward nerd" is marked by him dropping the habit of smoking, despite having always been ([[TimeTravel or not. It's complicated]]) such a compulsive smoker that ''if you took the cigarette out of his mouth a new one instantaneously materialized''. |
| 547 | * ''Webcomic/MandatoryRollerCoaster'' explicitly states that "teenagers are right" and smoking is cool. |
| 548 | * ''Webcomic/RoninGalaxy'': Giancarlo doesn’t just smoke or chain smoke, he chain smokes cigars. Probably leading him to look OlderThanTheyThink. Taylor points this out. |
| 549 | * Three of the four main cast, and the vast majority of the secondary cast of ''Webcomic/CryHavoc'' smoke, nearly all are battle-hardened mercenaries so they tend to prefer cigarettes. |
| 550 | * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' fancomic ''Webcomic/DoubleK'' pictures Kamina with a cigarette in his mouth any panel he isn't actively doing something awesome. |
| 551 | * In ''Webcomic/SilentHillPromise'' the protagonist, Vanessa Sunderland, smokes Lucky Strikes. The supposed cool factor is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d. |
| 552 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[FemmeFatale Snowman]] smokes from a cigarette holder - [[GoodBadBugs which is also sometimes a lance.]] See also Cronus Ampora, who keeps a cigarette on his lips at all times as part of his {{Greaser Delinquent|s}} shtick. However, despite that, it's made clear cigarettes are not something his species is familiar with, and he doesn't understand why you would light one on fire. |
| 553 | * Used very briefly in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Mr. Verres smokes for two strips to establish his badassery then the cigarette disappears for the rest of the scene and is only seen once after that. |
| 554 | * ''Webcomic/ElfBlood'' has a few smoking characters, generally to the point of OralFixation. Shanna and Carlita are both competent roguish fistfighters, while Gipsy is a malevolent, manipulative bitch. |
| 555 | * In ''Webcomic/WizardSchool'' Graham cuts class to smoke cigarettes - and then puts them to good use on snobby children who make fun of his magical scar. |
| 556 | * In ''Webcomic/MoonCrest24'' Chris smokes, but not to be cool. In fact, he says he hates it. |
| 557 | * In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', the princess. Though Mimic points out that [[spoiler:monsters hunt by smell]]. |
| 558 | * After ''Webcomic/{{minus}}'' brings the JerkAss [[FieryRedhead red-head ghost]] BackFromTheDead, she[[note]]the now ex-ghost, not minus[[/note]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080419230434/http://www.kiwisbybeat.com:80/minus117.html takes up smoking.]] |
| 559 | * Mona Montrois in ''Webcomic/CestLaVie'' is a French exile in Los Angeles. She sees no reason to give up smoking just because her American hosts abominate it, and this has led to clashes between her fierce French birthright - the right to smoke - and various annoyed Americans. Being French, her smoking makes her cool and ''louche''. |
| 560 | * Asa of ''{{Webcomic/Hotblood}}'' smokes. |
| 561 | * Wylie in ''Webcomic/UndeadFriend'' is often seen smoking despite only being 17. |
| 562 | * There's a lot of smokers in ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'', but Black Monday Blues is definitely one of the coolest out there. He even [[ImprovisedWeapon weaponizes]] [[http://www.deadwinter.cc/page/86 a cigarette]]! |
| 563 | * ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}'': Harriet Barber, the no-nonsense, rifle-wielding BountyHunter who HatesWearingDresses is never seen without her pipe. |
| 564 | * ''Webcomic/{{Avania}}'': Much of the cast smoke, be it cigarettes, pipes, or cigars. Not that surprising considering the comic is based in a 1940s-ish setting full of military personnel. Captain Schmutzesser in particular is seen lighting one or more cigarettes per chapter, and early on lights a cigarette from the stub of his last cigarette. Major [=MacIntyre=] is also seldom seen without a big cigar in hand. |
| 565 | * ''Webcomic/LastPlaceComics'': |
| 566 | ** [[https://lastplacecomics.com/smoking-too-cool/ "Smoking Too Cool"]] parodies this, since the man smoking doesn't actually know how to smoke properly, but a woman still thinks he looks cool. |
| 567 | ** [[https://lastplacecomics.com/cool-ranch/ "Cool Ranch"]] features a rather bizarre example: a vaping pig. |
| 568 | |
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| 570 | |
| 571 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 572 | * [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the narrator in ''Literature/NextBreedOfThief''. |
| 573 | -->Everyone assumed I smoked, but honestly, with one and a half cybertronic lungs, I couldn’t risk it. |
| 574 | * ''Website/TheOnion'': [[https://www.theonion.com/secondhand-smoke-linked-to-secondhand-coolness-1819564071 Secondhand Smoke Linked To Secondhand Coolness]] |
| 575 | [[/folder]] |
| 576 | |
| 577 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 578 | * Website/TheAgonyBooth's Mr. Mendo is [[http://www.agonybooth.com/video_shows/Mr_Mendos_Hack_Attack/ almost never]] seen without a Black and Mild. A cigar even features prominently in his portrait... |
| 579 | * Smoking fighter is the best part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3X75iJLogI this video]], despite the fact that he should probably be coughing up a lung. |
| 580 | * The [=YouTube=] channel "leathersmokemi" was devoted to a man smoking cigarettes and [[CigarChomper cigars]] in various outlandish ways, using various bizarre devices. Sadly, but inevitably, Dave (the man doing the smoking) visibly deteriorates over the course of the five years the channel lasted; the video descriptions eventually state outright that he developed oral cancer, which would finally kill him in 2011. |
| 581 | [[/folder]] |
| 582 | |
| 583 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 584 | * The first two seasons of the 1960s animated TV series ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes. Commercials were produced featuring the four lead characters (Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and Barney and Betty Rubble) demonstrating the virtues of the cigarettes. Starting with the 1962-1963 season, the primary sponsor was changed to Welch's (grape juice and jellies), and the characters -- except for the occasional villain -- were never seen lighting up again. |
| 585 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 586 | ** Bender smokes cigars. Lacking lungs or any organic material, he gets no negative nor positive effects from doing so. He admits he just does it to look cool. |
| 587 | ** Zapp Brannigan also thinks it's cool because "teenagers all smoke; they seem pretty on the ball!" |
| 588 | * A few select first season episodes of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' had the Vietnamese neighbor Mr. Hyunh holding a pipe (but never smoking it, for obvious reasons). This trait was dropped in the rest of the series for the same reasons. |
| 589 | * Brock Samson of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' (Useless Trivia Tidbit: Both "Brock" and "Samson" are name brands for loose leaf tobacco). His habit has backfired on him occasionally, such as the time Brisby's bodyguard Mandalay spiked his cigarette with chloral hydrate. |
| 590 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' with Nick, who is first shown sucking a lollipop in a fashion reminiscent of smoking a cigarette. |
| 591 | * ''ComicBook/TheAmazingScrewOnHead'': Emperor Zombie takes this to the extreme when he happily smokes ''a professor of ancient evil texts'' (after vaporizing him) in a giant hookah. |
| 592 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 593 | ** Homer occasionally smokes a cigar or pipe trying to be "cool", Marge tried smoking like her sisters when she was a teen (she only bought one pack), Bart wants to smoke when he grows up, and Lisa once got addicted to secondhand smoke to help her concentrate on her ballet lessons. |
| 594 | ** Parodying ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' cigarette commercials from its early years, the episode "Three Men and a Comic Book" features, as part of a back story, Radioactive Man (a superhero comic book character) advertising Laramie Cigarettes; acknowledging that the commercials helped entice children to smoke, Radioactive Man's sidekick Fallout Boy wonders if he too can smoke ("Not 'til you're 15!"). Another episode has ''[[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy and Scratchy]]'' advertising Laramie cigarettes, with Itchy suffering from smoker's hack throughout the commercial. |
| 595 | * WordOfGod says a deleted scene from the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "[[CannotTellALie Truth Hurts]]" had Kim say this at a school assembly: |
| 596 | -->'''Kim''': Smoking makes you ''look cool''. Yeah, it rots your lungs and stuff, but it ''looks'' cool. |
| 597 | * In one of the later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' one of the reasons Luanne thinks Lucky is "cool" is because he smokes, but you have to consider back in season one an entire episode was dedicated to Luanne forcing Hank, Peggy, and Bobby to quit smoking because she doesn't want them to end up like her mother. |
| 598 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. After seeing an incredibly dorky school assembly on how "cool" not smoking is, the boys all take it up. |
| 599 | ** Played straight with the goth kids, who see the vampire kids as posers for not smoking. |
| 600 | * All of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters have done it or tried it. |
| 601 | * The ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' cartoons have them smoking most of the time, especially when with friends. |
| 602 | * Roderick and Rhubella Rat from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' used to smoke for this reason alone. |
| 603 | * Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', when Sonic [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle warns the audience not to smoke]]. |
| 604 | -->'''Sonic''': It's bad for your health, and it stains your teeth! So don't be a fool; smoking isn't cool. |
| 605 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Many secondary/background characters, mostly in the first season, are shown smoking. |
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