History Main / GoodSmokingEvilSmoking

** This may be a case of WriterOnBoard; J.K. Rowling is an admitted ex-smoker. Compare this to a scene where Dumbledore is all too happy to give underage-Harry alcohol to drink.

* [[{{EighthMan}} 8 Man]] (AKA Tobor the Eighth Man) had to smoke (or maybe eat) cigarettes to keep his powers running. Later versions of the character had him shoot up drugs instead.

** [[TheNostalgiaCritic Big deal! Drew Barrymore was on that stuff half their age!]]

* A pipe is a Good Smoking indicator, usually reserved for grandfatherly gentlemen. If the character is younger, he is calm, collected and stoic, probably an intellectual, and probably a character in a period piece. A member of law enforcement, most often a detective (or Private Eye), is more likely to use a pipe in homage to [[SherlockHolmes a certain famous pipe-smocking detective]]. If they do, this also generally makes them a Good Smoker and not a DirtyCop. If a woman smokes a pipe, she is inevitably old enough to be a grandmother, working class or dirt-poor and from a rural area.

* A couple of servers in TeamFortress2 give the Soldier a huge Cuban cigar, for the express purpose of making him ''more'' badass, as the description for the thing says.

** Honest John, Pinocchio, Lampwick, and even Gideon from Disney/Pinocchio all smoked cigars.

* Sykes in ''OliverAndCompany'' smokes a cigar and wears a suit. Fagin is seen choking on the smoke in one scene.

* In ''TwinPeaks'', Benjamin Horne, a CorruptCorperateExecutive, smokes cigars. [[spoiler:He later quits after his HeelFaceTurn in the second season]].

* The hero from ''Space Adventure Cobra'' is a cigar smoker of the badass variety. It is very rare to see him without a cigar in the mouth (though not always lighted). Note that his cigars often contains bondesque gadgets (like some allowing ''water-breathing'').

* Characters who smoke lots of Cigars are either BadAss, JerkAss, or rich and bad. Generally, the CorruptCorporateExecutive and Rebel will smoke cigars. If the smoker is out of shape and well-dressed, then they're evil or at least a self-important jerk. If the smoker is muscle-bound and wearing rough clothing, they're generally either morally gray or heroic badasses. A woman [[FreudWasRight who smokes a cigar]] is usually a FemmeFatale.

** In ''{{Sandman}}'', Desire not only smokes all the time, but he/she is apparently just ''lighting'' her cigarettes ''constantly''.

* Cruella [=DeVil=] of ''OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' not only smoked, but for added evil, used a cigarette holder. Indeed, no animated film ever made smoking look more disgusting than this film with Cruella polluting the air with green smoke and putting out her cigarette in a pastry. In addition, the quick scene where Jasper Badun contemptuously flicks cigar ash onto Horace's sandwich bread is even more stomach churning. Cruella also had this habit in the live-action films. The sequel used her attitude towards smoking as an indicator of her "Ella" personality (who now hated it) and the return of "Cruella" (who loved it).

* Also an indicator of EvilSmoking is if they hold a cigarette in an unusual way. As Jim Jarmusch comments to Harvey Keitel in ''BlueInTheFace'':

* Everybody in ''AtlasShrugged'' smokes and one of the very many [[AuthorTract speeches]] in that novel is about how appropriate it is to smoke while thinking: this notorious "point of light" argument is one thing that Rand haters and Randroids both generally agree is a colossal WallBanger.