History Main / EverybodySmokes

* ''Franchise/LupinIII''. With the exception of Goemon, everyone else smokes either on a regular basis (Lupin, Jigen) or occasionally (Zenigata, Fujiko), with the author even specifying their brands.[[note]]Gitanes Caporal for Lupin, Pall Mall superlong filter and/or Marlboro for Jigen, More Menthol for Fujiko, and Shinsei for Zenigata[[/note]]
** That characters light up becomes a plot point at times. In one particular sequence from the manga, Zenigata realizes Lupin is nearby because he sees that a spent cigarette is a Gitanes Caporal, an expensive import brand that only Lupin is known to smoke in Japan.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' everyone smokes, but to highlight how different the world in the story is, most smoke from a contraption that looks like a long cigarette holder with a spherical bowl at the end, that the smoker fills with loose tobacco.
** While this may be true for background characters, this is very much averted with the protagonists. Of the main characters, the only smokers are the Comedian and the second Silk Spectre. This is even a sort of ChekhovsGun. [[spoiler: Turns out she is his daughter.]]

* Seems you can't go anywhere in the world of ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' without finding some chain-smoking rich industrialists. The mystery behind a symbol on a cigarette box is even part of the plot.
** Only the 'good' industrialists who succeed on talent. The 'bad' ones, who live off government favours and crony capitalism, don't smoke. Creator/AynRand considered "fire at your fingertips" a positive symbol. In a real life Aesop, she developed lung cancer.

* Most of the people on ''Series/DeadliestCatch'' smoke, and of the few who ''don't'', most of those chew tobacco.

* Watch almost any cooking-based reality show that shows contestants during their breaks, and you'll see every single contestant smoking like a chimney. This is somewhat ironic, as pointed out by Gordon Ramsay (famous chef and host/judge of ''Series/HellsKitchen''). He does ''not'' smoke and has berated contestants for the habit, which deadens the sense of taste and actually makes them ''worse'' chefs than they would be otherwise.
** There is, however, a very good reason why smoking is so prevalent in the restaurant business: No chef will deny his staff the occasional break to smoke. However, taking a five-minute break without smoking will earn you a clip around the earhole and a yelling-at about manning up and not slacking off on the job. Cooks smoke because it's the only way they can get to take a breather during service.

* It's pretty hard, if not impossible, to think of main character from ''Series/{{Skins}}'' who doesn't smoke.
** Jal in series 1/2, Katie in series 3/4, although both succumbed to other drugs.
*** There's a scene in one episode where Katie has a drag of one of Effy's cigarettes.
* The shift of this trope across the years was pretty much the entire basis of short-lived British sitcom ''The Smoking Room'', set in the early 00s when these were a fairly common feature of large workplaces- smoking at one's desk or the general break room having become felt to be obnoxious by the majority, but the laws against actually smoking in a workplace building not being passed yet. The whole premise was that people now mixed in the smoking room from different areas and levels who wouldn't otherwise speak to each other (with a strong subtext that this meant all the best and most interesting interactions went on in there, as was the writer's conviction).

** Same thing in the episode ''Little Green Men'', Earth 1947. Once the story reaches Earth, it's a smoke-fest for the next 30 minutes. Every human who has more than 2 seconds of screen-time is seen smoking at least once. The trope is played straight with a vengeance as an homage to old "alien menace" movies, and as part of a TakeThat at smoking. The Ferengi talk about how humans willfully ingest poison simply because it's addictive, and Quark even tells a General that Humans should stop smoking because it would kill them.
*** One moment shows one of the characters lighting up ''two'' cigarettes so that he can pass one to his girlfriend.
*** When Nog tells Quark that people bought and used tobacco mainly because it was so addictive, he gets greedy and starts overestimating what easy marks humans must be.
---->'''Quark:''' If they'll buy poison, they'll buy anything!
*** One of the episode's writers regretted how it came off, and said that if he had to do it over again, he would have Quark come back home with a craving for a cigarette.

* Many members of the Ayashiro family in ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub The Missing Heir'', which is set in the [=1980s=], either regularly smoke or used to smoke in the past, but quit due to the town's doctor advising them against it. [[spoiler:Which becomes a plot point when it's revealed that the culprit used cyanide-laced tobacco to kill his victims and was forced to find other ways of disposing of the non-smokers.]]