History Main / CigaretteBurns

* A 1986 Australian thriller ''The Big Hurt'' had an IntrepidReporter investigating why several people tortured themselves to death, including a woman dubbed the "human ashtray". Turns out a GovernmentConspiracy to develop MindControl drugs has GoneHorriblyWrong.

* A 1986 Australian thriller ''The Big Hurt'' had an IntrepidReporter investigating why several people tortured themselves to death, including a woman dubbed the "human ashtray".

* ''Hoffa'' (1992). Bobby Ciaro has burns on his fingers because he's [[NoOshaCompliance forced to drive long hours by his employers]], and so holds a lit cigarette between his fingers in case he falls asleep at the wheel.

* Anticipating the ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' example above under Film, in 1968 Creator/LarryNiven wrote a short story called "The Deadlier Weapon" in which the narrator taunts a carjacker by threatening to crash the car and burns his nose with the cigarette lighter.

-->--''Film/{{Deadpool}}''

* In an extreme example of DyeingForYourArt, when filming FearAndLoathingInLasVegas Benicio del Toro put real cigarette burns on his arm to match the ones Oscar Zeta Acosta (the basis for his character Doctor Gonzo) had. He wound up getting blood poisoning as a result.

* ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover'': Helena tests her recently discovered ability to transmit her mind control powers through a camera signal by recording a tape to force her lover to put out a cigar on his hand. When Alex (another "scanner") later sees the tape, he almost does the same thing.

* Deadpool in ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' pushes this one step higher by using not a cigarette but the car lighter against a mook, first by burning his forehead, and then by tossing it into his mouth.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "The Devil's Share", John Reese is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and Team Machine come across the body of a lawyer who's been tortured this way. Shaw (whose ComedicSociopathy is a RunningGag) protests that Reese could not have done this...as he doesn't smoke. "He would have just used a lighter. This is theatrical, amateur hour."

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* ''Series/{{House}}'': In the episode "Distractions," House discovers that a patient has a cigarette burn on his wrist.

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Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person. Sometimes this is used as an improvised weapon in desperate situations, but other times, it is used as a form of torture or abuse, such as a BadBoss towards an underling. It can also be as a sign that the character doing the putting out is a {{Jerkass}} or outright bastard. There is also the possibility that it is a form of MachoMasochism or SelfHarm if this is done to oneself.

* ''OnePiece'': Ben Beckman, Shanks' first mate, starts his attack on Higuma's goons by poking his cigarette to the closest goon.

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': When the T-800 demands the clothing from a biker in a packed road bar, the unimpressed biker puts out his cigar on the terminator's torso. The T-800 (who [[FeelNoPain can't feel pain]]) doesn't even flinch, confusing the biker.

Simply put, a smoker decides to put their cigarette or cigar out... on another living person. Sometimes this is used as an improvised weapon in desperate situations, but other times, it is used as a form of torture or abuse, as a sign that the character doing the putting out is a {{Jerkass}} or outright bastard, or as a form of MachoMasochism or SelfHarm if this is done to oneself.

* In the episode "The Magdalen Martyrs" of ''Series/JackTaylor'', there is a diary that recounts the author's years as a young woman in one of Ireland's infamous Magdalene laundries, in which she and the rest of the "fallen women" sent to work off their sins and repent were tortured by a particularly sadistic nun. In one of the entries, her best friend was leaving the laundry to get married, and the nun, whom all the girls called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Lucifer]], walked in. Lucifer told the friend that it's a shame she doesn't have a leaving present, but would think of something, and thereafter lit cigarettes for the two of them, gives her a HannibalLecture about how memories of the laundry, and especially of Lucifer herself, would never go away, and then proceeds to give one of [[CigaretteBurns these]] as her farewell present.