History Main / EverybodySmokes

* French sketch comedy show ''Series/VousLesFemmes'' takes this as a self-evident truth. This is France, after all.[[note France has the highest percentage of smokers in Western Europe, although shaded by every Balkan nation. France is the only Western European country where the percentage of smokers actually went ''up'' in the early 2020's. [[/note]]. Quite often, central actress Judith Siboni is seen nursing a cigarette.

** Spoofed in one episode that shows old Itchy and Scratchy cartoons with everyone smoking.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' is made of this trope throughout the series, whether it is set in the past or contemporary times, many of the characters are often seen grabbing and lighting up a cigarette in the middle of conversations. Smoking indoors is also not a problem to anyone in Japan, it seems.

* The ''Film/CharlieChan'' books and films have this as well, and again cigarettes and cigars can be part of the clues.

* ''Literature/DarknessVisible'' is fantasy, but it is set in 1895, so naturally this trope applies. Notably, the fact that Marsh has such a major smoking habit does double duty as a [[ChekhovsGun plot point]] and a clue to his [[AmbiguouslyGay sexual orientation]].
* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' the main character dedicates a paragraph or two of narration to lighting up every two to three pages until about two-thirds of the way through the book, when the general lack of supplies means he probably ran out.
* In the novels featuring the Russian Investigator Arkady Renko, beginning with ''Gorky Park'', Renko laments that an enemy could just drop cigarettes on the U.S.S.R. rather then bombs to kill everyone off. [[VodkaDrunkenski Everyone drinks, too]]. This is probably TruthInTelevision.
* Interesting variation in Creator/TomClancy's novels, particularly the ''Literature/JackRyan'' series. Many of the characters, including the titular protagonist, don't normally smoke, but they start lighting up their cigarettes after the tension levels ratchet upward.
* Creator/RichardKMorgan's ''[[Literature/TakeshiKovacs Altered Carbon]]'' subverts this trope. The genre is sci-fi detective noir where the main character is living in someone else's body. Although fulfilling many noir tropes, the main character is agitated to discover the body he is wearing is addicted to smoking. He spends most of the novel battling his addiction to cigarettes and only rarely embracing it.
* Flip open a Literature/PhiloVance novel, and odds are Vance will either be lighting up a Regie cigarette or in the middle of smoking one. It's enough to make one wonder if author S S Van Dine was getting a price break in recompense.
* Interesting use in ''Literature/LuckyJim'' by Kingsley Amis- not only is this trope in play, but even the book's maddeningly prudish, hysterically posturing 'feminine' character smokes as much as the hero. A little period knowledge explains why the hero is always fretting about how many cigarettes he has left to last the week- cigarettes were still rationed in Britain in 1951, as the import and manufacturing base recovered from UsefulNotes/WW2. It underlines the way that they're considered one of life's minor essentials in the period.
* In ''Literature/GaudyNight'' by Dorothy Sayers, heroine Harriet Vane offers a cigarette to cheer up a miserably drunk college girl who has sneaked into the dorm after curfew.
* Subverted in ''Literature/CityOfDevils'' and [[Literature/FiftyFeetOfTrouble its sequel]] whose hero has a complete inability to light a cigarette without disaster.
* In ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'' all the main characters smoke except for Bunny. The book being set in a liberal arts college in the eighties, everyone does drugs too.
* The ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' series has an interesting take, as TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture a ZombieApocalypse is caused by the merging of cures to the common cold and cancer. Despite the zombies, the two cures also did exactly what they were supposed to, and with no risk of ever getting cancer, smoking becomes a lot more popular. Although it's also noted that its current most serious side effect, emphysema, isn't something you want to be dealing with when a zombie is chasing you.
* Fitz Kreiner, from the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'', is from the 1960s. Naturally, he smokes. Also quite naturally, the Doctor and Fitz's more modern fellow companions hassle him about it, [[SoapboxSadie especially]] [[GranolaGirl Sam]]. He falls OffTheWagon every time he quits, although in one book, he has BloodFromTheMouth for [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse no particular reason]].
* In ''[[Literature/RiversOfLondon Whispers Under Ground]]'', Peter muses about how, in Inspector Seawoll's heyday, interrogating suspects was a lot easier thanks to this trope. Coppers would simply withhold cigarettes from whomever they were questioning until the suspect craved a smoke so badly that they'd confess just to get one.
* It's mentioned in ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' (which takes place in the 60s) that everyone in fourteen-year old Ponyboy's part of town smokes. He didn't even realize it was abnormal for a kid to smoke until a man told him so. One of his friends began smoking at age nine. They're all GreaserDelinquents from the WrongSideOfTheTracks. "Socs" seem to prefer drinking over smoking.
* In ''Literature/WatershipDown'', the rabbit depiction of humans almost always mentions the white sticks that they burn in their mouths. Humans are smoking even in the El-ahrairah myths set in the blurry distant past!

* In ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', Franchise/JamesBond ends chapter one by lighting up his seventieth cigarette of the day.
* ''Literature/LastNightAtTheTelegraphClub'': Due to this being the 1950s, most adult characters and some teenagers too are described as smoking.

* In the Chilean series ''Los 80'', which tells the experiences of a very common Chilean family in, obviously, the decade of the '80s, everyone smokes, including parents in front of their children. That caused some indignant letters to the newspapers of people who believed that the series sent a bad message to families.

* 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 ''Hell's Kitchen''). 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.

* ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', a Creator/LucasArts adventure game, is heavily influenced by FilmNoir, and so everybody smokes like chimneys. The joke? It takes place in the Land of the Dead, so all the characters are already deceased. Walking, talking skeletons can't get lung cancer because they have no lungs.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' it's ubiquitous. Among the Terrans, at least. Not sure the Protoss even breathe, but they don't have mouths.

* The ad for truth serum cigarettes in the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day04_english.htm Spy update]] claims, "There is no one who does not like to smoke." Appropriate, since the [[AnachronismStew vague time period]] the game's set in most closely resembles TheSixties.
** Spy is not the only class to smoke. Here's what some of the other classes prefer:
--->Cigarettes (Demoman, Sniper, the Administrator)\\
Cigars (Soldier and Heavy, as well as ''the VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic'' Engineer)\\
Pipes (Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Medic, Sniper)
* ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur'', despite its cartoonish {{Dieselpunk}} aspect, actually stays true to the period as far as this trope goes. The player can even tap a button to have Sean light up if he's standing around doing nothing. One loading screen {{lampshades}} it, calling smoking one of Sean's least healthy habits (the man routinely climbs buildings, blows up buildings, crashes cars, and gets into gun fights, so that's saying something).

* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', most followers have a IdleAnimation of them smoking, and if you have a bar set up in any of your settlements, any settler has a chance of lighting up a cigarette in front of it.

* 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.]]

* In Jennifer Babcock's ''Webcomic/CestLaVie'', Mona (who is French) smokes as if daring the entire USA to physically prevent her.
* ''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.

* Although not in the show itself, ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' did commercials during the first two seasons of the original airing extolling the great taste of Winstons.

** The show itself went through this. In the first seasons, many characters smoked; apart from the chronic smokers Patty and Selma, so did Ms. Krabappel, Mr. Burns (cigars), Skinner, Krusty, Troy [=McClure=], Otto, and most of Moe's clients. Even Homer was seen smoking from time to time. This was downplayed as the series continued and smoking became less common (it should be remembered that The Simpsons have been going for 30 years) to the point that nowadays the only characters that are regular smokers are Patty, Selma, and Krusty.

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* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', but seeing as it's primarily set in 1930s America, this should come as no surprise...

* In ''Anime/TheWindRises'', quite a few characters are seen smoking. Somewhat egregious considering [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory the real Jiro Horikoshi was a non-smoker]] (director Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, [[AuthorAppeal however]], [[WriteWhatYouKnow smokes like a chimney]])
* ''Manga/Golgo13'' has always been a smoker. In the 1983 movie ''[[Anime/Golgo13 The Professional: Golgo 13]]'', his brand is shown to be Parliaments. However, in the 2008-09 series, Duke Togo is never seen to light up.
* ''Manga/InitialD'': Has a lot of smokers, but the most notable one certainly has to be Takumi's father, Bunta Fujiwara, who can be seen smoking or lighting one up in practically every scene he is in. [[spoiler:He's even done it in the middle of a drift!]] And Bunta is probably the only one that never smoked less (or stopped smoking) for the entire duration of the series.
* ''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.
** Goemon is sometimes shown smoking a pipe, like in his debut chapter [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdna0pZnGZ1rl8q4fo1_1280.png of the manga.]]
** Jigen's cigarettes are ''always'' bent out of shape (usually because it happens naturally with Pall Mall superlong filters when the package is treated too harshly, but he's been seen ''bending a straight cigarette'' before lighting it), [[MemeticMutation to the point that in Italy bent cigarettes are known as "Jigen-style cigarettes"]].

* In the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' series, pretty much everyone smokes save the title character and a couple of his close companions.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' characters tend to smoke as per the series' FilmNoir roots.
* Smoking was very common in Creator/MarvelComics for decades, until the early 90s when it was phased out. For example, it was common to see ComicBook/TheThing, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}}, and ComicBook/WonderMan sitting together in the Baxter Building smoking while playing cards.

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** In ''Film/DarkVictory'' (1939), Creator/BetteDavis smokes in her hospital bed, while awaiting surgery for brain cancer.
** ''Film/FourDaughters'' (1938) does even better than that. Mickey (John Garfield) is in the hospital, dying of injuries suffered in a car accident. His distraught wife Ann ''offers him a cigarette''. And the doctor ''lets her''. Mickey croaks at the exact instant that Ann is getting the cigarette lit.

* On the distant mining planet of ''Film/{{Screamers}}'', anti-radiation medication is delivered via red-colored cigarettes. When radiation levels get too high, an announcement instructs all personnel to smoke their "radiation reds" This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d at one point, with a character commenting on how ironic it is that he has to smoke a cigarette to keep harmful toxins out of his lungs.
* ''Film/TheExorcist'': A number of the adults in the film smoke, including Chris [=MacNeil=] and Father Karras. Ash trays are lot more prevalent, with the conference room at the Archdiocesan headquarters featuring a whole series of ash trays on the conference table.
* ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', in the retro future variant.

* ''No one'' is seen smoking in ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'', [[InformedAttribute even though smoking is what]] [[WriterOnBoard the entire movie is about.]] The trope is referenced when discussing a possible space movie that would try to make smoking appealing:
-->'''Nick:''' But wouldn't [the cigarettes] blow up in an all-oxygen atmosphere?\\
'''Jeff:''' ... Probably. But, you know, it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue: "Thank god we invented the, you know, whatever device."
* In 19th century UsefulNotes/{{France}} (as portrayed in ''WesternAnimation/LovingVincent''), everyone smokes. Armand, the Gachets, and others all smoke cigarettes. Vincent and Theo van Gogh smoke pipes.
* ''Nowhere Boy''. Seems that every other scene pretty much every character has a ciggy hanging from their mouth.

* In ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' there is rarely a scene, in the first half of the movie in particular, where the main character isn't lighting/smoking or putting out a cigarette. Several other characters are seen to smoke quite regularly throughout the film, but the lead is the most notable. His assistant even lights one up before he gets to the office, and gives it to him- along with a cup of coffee- straight from her mouth, before he goes into a meeting.
* Most [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam war]] movies, like ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', and especially ''Film/{{Platoon}}''.
* All of the main characters in ''Film/{{Smoke}}'', of course.
* Everyone in ''Film/RealityBites.'' But ironically, of course, like little hipster chimneys.
* Pretty much every single flight controller in ''{{Film/Apollo 13}}''. This is much like real life, apparently, especially in the Mission Control of the 60s and 70s.

* All the teen characters in ''Film/{{Heathers}}'', especially Veronica and JD, are constantly smoking.
* Creator/IanMcKellen's 1995 film adaptation of ''Film/RichardIII'' updates the setting to a quasi-fascist alternate 1930s Britain, and all of the characters smoke accordingly. Richard himself prefers Abdulla herbal cigarettes, and even though they were no longer being made in 1995, the production crew was able to track down the six remaining packets and buy one for the movie.
* ''Film/TheCriminal'' is a 1960 film about working class British criminals, with half the action taking place in {{prison}}, so almost everyone smokes. The opening scene is of three convicts playing poker for cigarettes.
* In one scene in ''{{Film/Them}}'' you can barely see the characters for all the cigarette smoke in the room.
* In Israeli film ''Film/{{Ushpizin}}'' all the main characters smoke. TruthInTelevision as many Israelis are smokers.
* ''Film/TheyShallNotGrowOld'' features archive footage of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne British soldiers, almost all of whom are seen smoking during their downtime. One sequence focuses on how much stock the soldiers put in finding quality cigarettes.
* ''Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck'' Features most characters chain smoking throughout the film, while at their jobs in all aspects of the 1950s broadcast industry.
* Inverted for comedy in ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'' which is about a tobacco industry lobbyist, but no one is ever shown smoking. At the end, an anti-smoking congressman is lobbying to digitally replace cigarettes in old films with [[FrothyMugsOfWater steaming cups of coffee, drumsticks and lollipops]]

* Literature/SherlockHolmes is one of the most famous tobacco users. He customarily smokes a pipe, and has made several in-depth studies of different kinds of tobacco and its uses. Tobacco and/or cigarettes are a clue in several original Conan Doyle stories and in the films. In ''Sherlock Holmes in Washington'', one of the Rathbone-Bruce series, a matchbook or match folder is one of the keys.
* Agatha Christie, oh so much. To the point where characters don't look down on other characters for not smoking...they look down on them for smoking ''different types of cigarette''.
* The Film/CharlieChan books and films have this as well, and again cigarettes and cigars can be part of the clues.
* Robert Heinlein's 1941 serial/1958 novel ''Methuselah's Children'' is full of characters who smoke constantly. To make it worse, many of them are over a hundred years old. They're not some kind of immortals, protected from cancer, they're just naturally long-lived thanks to a long-running eugenics project. This was [[RetCon Ret Conned]] a few decades later in ''The Number of the Beast'', where a character explains to visitors that they discovered an alternative to tobacco-based cigarettes which are non-addictive and non-cancerous.
* 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.
* In the TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture novel ''Ghost From The Grand Banks'', one of the characters makes a living out of ''retroactively'' subverting this trope: his company digitally edits vintage films and TV programs, erasing any evidence of smoking from scenes, so they'll be marketable to post-tobacco audiences.

* In the early seasons of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', the cast smoked like chimneys and scenes set in the squad room were practically hazy with cigarette smoke. A subplot in one episode focused on Bayliss and Howard's attempt to quit causing strife amongst the detectives because they asked for accommodations (like a non-smoking section) that Giardello was unable and unwilling to make. As societal attitudes towards smoking changed, it gradually became less of a feature.

* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': Not only did all four of the series leads smoke regularly (at least during the first five years of the show), many of the guest stars lit up.

* Most of the characters in ''Series/TwinPeaks'' smoke because it's a * Most of the characters in ''Series/TwinPeaks'' smoke, since it's a Fifties throwback. throwback.

* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': Not only did all four of the series leads smoke regularly (at least during the first five years of the show), many of the guest stars lit up.
* ''Series/TheTonightShow'': Especially during the Jack Parr and to a somewhat lesser extent the first 15-20 years of the Creator/JohnnyCarson era, a large number of the guests smoked on-camera, without restriction. Even Parr, Carson and -- to a lesser extent -- Ed [=McMahon=], smoked on-camera, although by 1980 or so, Carson and [=McMahon=] eventually stopped lighting up on the set.
* ''Series/MadMen'': {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} packaging which resembles a giant Zippo lighter. Of course, it's not ''literally'' everyone. A few characters (Pete Campbell being the most notable) don't smoke. WordOfGod states that the non-smoking characters are the ones whose actors were never smokers in RealLife; even though the cigarettes are herbal, this is apparently important to them.
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** The episode ''Far Beyond The Stars'' is set in the 1950s, where everyone... well, guess.
** 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.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' is somewhat notable for averting this. The network ''wanted'' to use this trope, but Creator/GeneRoddenberry refused, on the grounds that given the known health risks of smoking, people would have stopped doing it that far into the future. This was particularly grating on Creator/DeForestKelley (most of the cast smoked - Creator/WilliamShatner actually quit during the show's run - but he was the heaviest smoker) who pleaded with Roddenberry that they be allowed to smoke futuristic "space-erettes". Smoke from Kelley's cigarette (obscured by a large surgical apparatus his character is using) can be seen in the OR scenes in "Journey to Babel".
* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': Even at crime scenes and morgues. And in hospitals. [[TruthInTelevision Weirdly]], it was totally OK to smoke in hospitals in the UK back then - they even came round with a trolley selling them!

* ''Series/Teachers2001'' has many of the main cast smoking, not only at the pub but also illicitly in the school toilets and in maintenance areas of the school grounds. As with many of the above examples, even the legal smoking areas depicted stand out to [=UK=] viewers, who have been unable to smoke in workplaces and public buildings (including pubs) since 2006.

* Most of the characters in ''Series/TwinPeaks'' smoke, since it's a Fifties throwback.

** In the most recent season, one captain (Keith of the F/V Wizard) is trying to quit chewing tobacco at the guilt trip/urging of his daughter. And, while it's somewhat understandable people in a high-mortality profession like crab fishing view long-term risks like smoking differently, there's some indication Captain Sig of the Northwestern has changed his tune after [[spoiler:Captain Phil of the Cornelia Marie suffers a pulmonary embolism one season, then a massive stroke and finally dies of a second embolism.]] Sig reacts to the news by throwing his pack of cigarettes across the wheelhouse.
* 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 Hell's Kitchen). 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.

* 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. Though both succumbed to other drugs.
*** There's a scene in one episode where Katie has a drag of one of Effy's cigarettes.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** The main characters are rarely shown smoking. This is notable because the series was filmed during a time when smoking was common and takes place in a time before anyone thought smoking was bad for your health. However, every major male character was seen smoking at some time in the series; Col. Potter confessed to enjoying 5 cigars a day for decades. Even Radar during the first and second seasons was seen smoking (and drinking whisky).
** Camp Chef Igor can be seen with an actual cigarette in one episode. Also, there's a lot of smoking in the movie.
* In ''Series/UFO1970'', the characters regularly smoke in computer rooms, medical areas, SHADO's underground headquarters, the Skydiver submarines and even on Moonbase! Averted in "Sub Smash" where a nurse tells Commander Straker he can't smoke inside a hospital room.
* Since it's set in the fifties, nearly everyone in the BBC series ''Series/TheHour'' smokes.
* In the show ''Series/UndercoverBoss'' many of the workers and a few bosses smoke. The biggest example is when the boss buys an ashtray for a lady who goes into the parking garage to smoke and throws the cigarettes on the ground.

* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' is a spoof of 1960s Thriller SpyDrama fiction, and consequently, literally everyone in each scene smokes. PlayedForLaughs, of course. The second series, set in the 80s, replaces the ubiquitous smoking with [[HookersAndBlow ubiquitous cocaine]].

* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', which makes sense as the show is set in the early 1920's. In fact, the only characters of significance who ''doesn't'' smoke (that's old enough to, anyway) are Margaret, Richard who is physically incapable due to his war injuries, and [[StraightEdgeEvil Arnold Rothstein]]. Everyone else is almost always using one or preparing to light one.
* ''Series/DancingOnTheEdge'', a mini-series set in London in the 1930s has everyone smoking except the two [[TheIngenue Ingenues]].
* 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.)
* Except for Willie (played by bodybuilder Peter Lupus), all the original cast of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' smoked, Cinnamon and Rollin especially. Became a plot point a couple of times, when doctored cigarettes were used to make marks more pliable.
* In ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', set in the East End of London in the late 50s, most of the characters - including pregnant mothers! - have a casual smoke every so often. It's even a bonding moment for [[TheMedic Dr Turner]] and Sister Bernadette, who share a Henley cigarette after a particularly difficult delivery. He ''does'' seem a bit surprised when she takes him up on his lighthearted offer, but it's likely that's only because he's never seen her smoke before; the nuns are just about the only characters who aren't constantly lighting up.
* The revived ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'', set in the 1930s, had a ''Series/MadMen''-like amount of smoking going on.
* ''Series/OurFriendsInTheNorth'' is set before the UK's smoking ban went nationwide, and it shows.
* Averted in ''Series/DoctorWho'', even though a huge chunk of it was made in the 60s and 70s, because the cast and crew were worried about setting a bad influence to children. The ubiquity of smoking at the time is still visible in the set designs occasionally; note the pub in "The Android Invasion", where the Doctor starts picking through ashtrays to examine the cigarette butts.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Literature/MikeHammer Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer]]'' in which Stacey Keach played the title character, who always dressed like a 1950's PrivateDetective in fedora and trenchcoat with a permanent cigarette in his mouth, despite living in the 1980's where everyone kept telling him to stop smoking.

* ''Series/CableGirls'' is set in Madrid in TheRoaringTwenties and all the characters smoke.
* In the Chilean series ''Los 80'', which tells the experiences of a very common Chilean family in, obviously, the decade of the 80s, everyone smokes, including parents in front of their children. That caused some indignant letters to the newspapers of people who believed that the series sent a bad message to families.
* In an episode of ''Series/TheXFiles '' we see a scene in the 50s, where a man smokes ''in a hospital'' (the character who lights the cigarette is known as Cigarette-Smoking Man, so we should not be surprised)
* In ''Series/TheKnowledge'', many characters are seen smoking indoors, as was typical in the 1970s.
* ''Series/{{Narcos}}'' takes place mostly in UsefulNotes/TheEighties, so as is appropriate for the time, nearly every adult character is shown smoking at least once. Félix Gallardo in particular from ''Narcos: Mexico'' is either lighting up or smoking in almost every scene, which [[Creator/DiegoLuna his actor]] had to find some workarounds for so he could save his lungs.
* In ''Series/{{Shtisel}}'', Shulem, Akiva, Lippe, and Nuchem all smoke, but hardly any of the female characters do. The negative effects of smoking are seen in Shulem, whose doctor tells him to quit if he wants to avoid a heart attack.
* Smoking is really prevalent among the main characters in ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'' taking place in AlternateHistory 1960s America.
* In the early seasons of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', the cast smoked like chimneys and scenes set in the squad room were practically hazy with cigarette smoke. A subplot in one episode focused on Bayliss and Howard's attempt to quit causing strife amongst the detectives because they asked for accommodations (like a non-smoking section) that Giardello was unable and unwilling to make. As societal attitudes towards smoking changed, it gradually became less of a feature.
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** Because most of the past scenes are set in the early 20th century, the main characters Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt are heavy smokers, alongside supporting characters like [[CigarChomper Tom Anderson]], [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe Alderman Fenwick]], and [[SmokingIsGlamorous Antoinette Brown]], plus countless background extras. Doris works as a cigarette girl at the Azalea in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]" and "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]", and Tom boasts about the high pile of money he made supplying the military camps with cigarettes.
** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]": In 1973, a 20-year-old Daniel Molloy lights up a cigarette in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the gay bar Polynesian Mary's is very smoky because many of its patrons are puffing for their nicotine fix (and presumably marijuana as well -- Daniel did say it was a good place to score drugs).
* Like the ''Homicide'' example above, [[Series/TheWire]] started out with nearly every character being a smoker. By the time season 5 came around, the number of characters who regularly visibly smoked was much smaller.

* ''Series/{{Teachers}}'' has many of the main cast smoking, not only at the pub but also illicitly in the school toilets and in maintenance areas of the school grounds. As with many of the above examples, even the legal smoking areas depicted stand out to [=UK=] viewers, who have been unable to smoke in workplaces and public buildings (including pubs) since 2006.

* Smoking was very common in Creator/MarvelComics for decades, until the early 90s when it was phased out. For example, it was common to see [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Thing]], ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[ComicBook/XMen the Beast]], and [[ComicBook/{{Avengers}} Wonder Man]] sitting together in the Baxter Building smoking while playing cards.

* Inverted for comedy in ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'' which is about a tobacco industry lobbyist, but no one is ever shown smoking. At the end, an anti-smoking congressman is lobbying to digitally replace cigarettes in old films with [[FrostyMugsOfWater steaming cups of coffee, drumsticks and lollipops]]

** Because most of the past scenes are set in the early 20th century, the main characters Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt are heavy smokers, alongside supporting characters like [[CigarChomper Tom Anderson]], [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe Alderman Fenwick]], and [[SmokingIsGlamorous Antoinette Brown]], plus countless background extras. Doris works as a cigarette girl at the Azalea in episodes 2 and 3, and Tom boasts about the high pile of money he made supplying the military camps with cigarettes.
** In 1973, a 20-year-old Daniel Molloy lights up a cigarette in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the gay bar Polynesian Mary's is very smoky because many of its patrons are puffing for their nicotine fix (and presumably marijuana as well -- Daniel did say it was a good place to score drugs).

** Because most of the past scenes are set in the early 20th century, the main characters Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt are heavy smokers, alongside supporting characters like [[CigarChomper Tom Anderson]], [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe Alderman Fenwick]], and [[SmokingIsGlamorous Antoinette Brown]], plus countless background extras. Doris works as a cigarette girl at the Azalea in episodes 2 and 3.

** Because most of the past scenes are set in the early 20th century, the main characters Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt are heavy smokers, alongside supporting characters like [[CigarChomper Tom Anderson]], [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe Alderman Fenwick]], and Antoinette Brown, plus countless background extras. Doris works as a cigarette girl at the Azalea in episodes 2 and 3.

* In ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' there is rarely a scene, in the first half of the movie in particular, where the main character isn't lighting/smoking or putting out a cigarette. Several other characters are seen to smoke quite regularly throughout the film, but the lead is the most notable. His assistant even lights one up before he gets to the office, and gives it to him -along with a cup of coffee- straight from her mouth, before he goes into a meeting.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', but seeing as it's primarily set in 1930s America, this should come as no surprise...

* ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'' has always been a smoker. In the 1983 movie ''The Professional: Golgo 13'', his brand is shown to be Parliaments. However, in the 2008-09 series, Duke Togo is never seen to light up.

->''"I'm so sorry to trouble you--but tobacco is the one drug every doctor forbids his patients and prescribes for himself."''

* In ''Series/{{UFO}}'' the characters regularly smoke in computer rooms, medical areas, SHADO's underground headquarters, the Skydiver submarines and even on Moonbase! Averted in "Sub Smash" where a nurse tells Commander Straker he can't smoke inside a hospital room.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''