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2[[caption-width-right:260:A cigarette girl.]]
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4->''"Lucky Strikes Means Fine Tobacco"''
5-->-- A phrase so well known in the US in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, it could actually [[BluffTheImpostor be used to spot spies]].
6
7Tropes about smoking cigars, cigarettes, pipes and other things.
8
9Compare HardDrinkingTropes for an extra classy evening.
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11''Please note [[{{Irony}} there is no smoking allowed in The Smoking Section]].''
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13!!Tropes:
14[[index]]
15* AnthropomorphicVice: Anthropomorphized cigarettes are usually named "Nick O' Teen" or something similar.
16* BlowingSmokeRings: Putting a little artistry in your exhaling fumes of smoke.
17* BubblePipe: When instead of smoking a pipe is used for the purpose of blowing bubbles.
18* CigarChomper: A popular character or figure who's always got that stogie in his mouth.
19* CigaretteBurns: Using a human body to put out your cigarette, indicating torture or toughness.
20* CigaretteOfAnxiety: When things go really bad, you just need to light one up!
21* CigarFuseLighting: When you all have is a lit stogie to get the wick blazing.
22* CouldntFindALighter: Finding cool but inefficient ways to light up your smoke.
23* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: The kind of pipe that the rich and influential use to distinguish themselves from the common folk.
24* EverybodySmokes: Works where most or all of the main characters smoke.
25* ExplosiveCigar: You'll really get a BANG! out of this smoke.
26* FingerSnapLighter: Who needs a Bic when you can just summon fire with a flick of your fingers?
27* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: The difference between how good characters smoke and how evil characters smoke.
28* InstantDogEnd: Cigarettes are always bent.
29* ItsCuban: That cigar that has been banned in America is a real treat to smoke.
30* LastUnsmokedCigarette: The cigarette that's left as a memento or a reminder of your quitting smoking.
31* MarijuanaIsLSD: Effects of marijuana are exaggerated for the sake of comedy or drama.
32* MouthFullOfSmokes: Smoking up to a whole pack of cigarettes ''all at once'', usually by stuffing them into a person's mouth.
33* MustHaveNicotine: A person can't live without that next hit of ground tobacco (or nicotine patch or gum).
34* NailedToTheWagon: A person is forced to quit smoking by having their cigarettes and smoking stuff taken away.
35* NoSmoking: Works where cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia are edited out or disguised as something else.
36* OfCourseISmoke: A person who doesn't smoke tries to make it look like they do -- and fail miserably.
37* OneLastSmoke: When it's your last day of being alive, you might as well light one up.
38* OnlyALighter: That "gun" that a person pulls on you turns out to only be this, usually for the purpose of lighting a cigarette.
39* OralFixation: A person's got to put something in his mouth, even when a cigarette isn't an option.
40* PeacePipe: A common staple when it comes to Native Americans and smoking.
41* ProudPapaPassesOutTheCigars: It was an old custom for someone to smoke in celebration of a newborn baby.
42* RadishCure: When the cure for underage smoking is to make a kid smoke cigarettes until they're sick
43* RandomSmokingScene: A smoking scene comes out of nowhere in a story.
44* SecondFaceSmoke: When someone gets a face full of somebody else's cigarette smoke.
45* SmokingHotSex: When passion is followed by two lovers lighting one up.
46* SmokingIsCool: When smoking makes you look like a total badass.
47* SmokingIsEdgy: When smoking makes you look edgy or cynical.
48* SmokingIsNotCool: When smoking makes you look like a total ass.
49* SmokingIsGlamorous: When smoking makes you look like one of the beautiful people from Hollywood.
50* SmokyGentlemensClub: Where the rich and influential go to enjoy a smoke.
51* SmokyVoice: A person has a really raspy voice, like they've smoked cigarettes their whole life.
52* StealthCigaretteCommercial: Sneaky advertising practices to get you to do what they're telling you not to do.
53* TaintedTobacco: When somebody's tampered with somebody else's smoking herbs.
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