History Main / NoSmoking

** Purposefully used in ''Investigations''. That little white cylinder in hardboiled detective Tyrell Badd's mouth is a lollipop stick. Those odd pauses in his dialogue are apparently when he sucks on it.

* ''{{Bejeweled}} 3'''s "zen mode" was apparently originally intended to help players quit smoking, but was changed to helping get rid of bad habits in general, because any reference ''at all'' to smoking would have given it a high Entertainment Software Rating Board rating.

* Purposefully used in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney''. That little white cylinder in hardboiled detective Tyrell Badd's mouth is [[spoiler: a lollipop stick.]] Those odd pauses in his dialogue are apparently when he sucks on it.

* ''LuckyLuke'' used to have a cigarette in his mouth at almost all times, only to eventually replace it with ''a piece of straw''. The artist ended up receiving an award from the World Health Organization as a result.

* A version of the music video for PaulaAbdul's ''Opposites Attract'' censor out the scene in which Skat Kat smokes (but not the lyrics that talk about smoking).

* In ''VideoGame/Pokémon'' Gold and Silver, the original fisherman sprites had cigarettes in their mouths. It was removed in international versions.

* In ''Franchise/Pokémon'' Gold and Silver, the original fisherman sprites had cigarettes in their mouths. It was removed in international versions.

* In ''Franchise/Pokemon'' Gold and Silver, the original fisherman sprites had cigarettes in their mouths. It was removed in international versions.

* In ''MonsterRancher 2,'' the Kato monster species was {{Bowdlerized}} from drinking lots of sake to having an obsession with drinking... olive oil. However, many monsters in that game can request that you buy them an item unique to their species... and the Kato's is still cigarettes.

* Jigen from ''Manga/LupinIII'' is a chain smoker. Other characters including Lupin himself and Inspector Zenigata are partial to the occasional cigarette. Fujiko also occasionally lights up, and often does the requisite sexy pose. And a number of villains have been seen smoking nasty cigars.

* Bill in ''Left4Dead'' smokes a cigarette even when he's kicking some zombie ass. Even if he gets killed in the game, the cigarette never leaves his mouth, although it doesn't stay lit when he dies. In the No Mercy campaign, Bill will say "That's a crock of shit!" when he spots a no smoking sign. The teaser trailer for The Sacrifice DLC shows Bill lighting up a cigarette and offers Zoey some. In the comic version of The Sacrifice, Bill is seen lighting up a molotov with his cigarette to take down a Tank that is aproaching the bridge.

Censors come off as pretty lax when it comes to anything that isn't excessively gruesome or explicit. One notable exception is broadcasters seeming squeamish about showing under-age characters smoking tobacco (even delinquents) especially if the show is aimed at a school-age audience. Occasionally this is changed to [[OralFixationFixation chewing something]].

* Averted in the recent DVD release for ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. While other Disney animated films have censored smoking scenes in recent releases, Pinocchio has probably the most smoking in a Disney film, with nearly all the characters, with the exceptions of Jimminy Cricket, Figaro, Cleo, Monstro, and the Blue Fairy smoking at least once; this is probably because it's more or less portrayed in a bad light.

* In the movie ''ThankYouForSmoking'', though we see a few smoke-filled rooms, we ''never actually see anyone smoke'', even though the protagonist's life is ironically ''saved'' by his hardcore habit. His high tolerance saved him from what would have otherwise been a lethal dose of nicotine patches at the hands of a WellIntentionedExtremist.

* Averted in the recent DVD release for ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. While other Disney animated films have censored smoking scenes in recent releases, Pinocchio has probably the most smoking in a Disney film, all the characters with the exceptions of Jimminy Cricket, Figaro, Cleo, Monstro, and the Blue Fairy smoke at least once, this is probably because it's more or less portrayed in a bad light.
** It should be noted that Disney may not censor all smoking scenes in classic animated films. However, they do often put in PSAs before the film in which movie footage is edited and reused as part of a short anti-smoking PSA. Two Examples (starring 101Dalmatians and Pinocchio can be found [[http://disney.go.com/crreport/products/content/smokinginfilms.html here.]]

** Played with in episode #83, "Web of Danger", where the web master's cigarette was a (smokeable) gadget in disguise.

* When ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' was translated to ''G-Force: Guardians of Space'', several instances of Evil Smoking.

* Despite its undeserved reputation as a bowlderised anime, there were numerous scenes of characters lighting up in ''{{Robotech}}''. Captain Gloval, Roy Fokker, Admiral Hayes, Rolf Emerson, and Lunk are main characters who have all lit up onscreen. In one Macross Saga episode, a Zentraedi was explicitly seen enjoying a Zentraedi sized cigarette commenting: "Hmmm....You Micronians live well.". 1985 was clearly a time when the No tobacco/alchohol rule was observed by American cartoons so the fact that these scenes were left intact was miraculous.

* The ''Film/JamesBond'' franchise. James was at first a "heavy" smoker (back when anyone who didn't smoke 2 packs a day of unfiltered Camels was considered a girly-man). He hasn't smoked a cigarette on-camera in over a decade and even mentioned it as a bad habit in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.

** One of the post-''Film/Goldeneye'' revival novels by John Gardner gave a nod to this by mentioning in passing that Bond has started to cut down on them, and the booze for that matter; despite still having a deliberately VagueAge, he's explicitly not as young as he was and having to put some effort into passing his physical-fitness assessments.

* While Sanji still smokes in the original anime of ''Manga/OnePiece'', it's only mentioned in the manga that he started at the age of 10. Additionally, the anime changes his official age from 19 to 20, which is what the network defines as an "adult". The [[{{Macekre}} 4Kids dub]] infamously changed it to a lollipop, which lead the joke that it was a "nicotine lollipop" due to the voice actor sounding like someone who smoked and was in his forties. One Flash animation parodies this--Sanji takes his lollipop out of his mouth to reveal copious amounts of smoke leaking from it. Meanwhile, the broadcast version of the Funimation dub just removed it and it's still there on the DVD.
** Then there's what they did to Captain [[strike:Smoker]] 'Chaser', who had all of his cigars digitally removed despite originally carrying so many that it looked like he had cigar ''[[BadassBandolier ammo belts]]''.
*** Made even more painful by the fact that he never fully closes his mouth, with his teeth chomping down on his cigar. Without the cigar, it looks like he's got a nasty case of lockjaw.

* In the anime version of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Yusuke Urameshi still skips school, has bad grades and gets into a lot of fights. But unlike in the manga, he doesn't smoke, drink or gamble (or at least is never seen doing these things). In both manga and anime, he wins a fight in pitch darkness by sneaking a cigarette onto his enemy's belt and aiming for it with his [[KiAttacks Spirit Gun]]; it's his cigarette in the manga and OldMaster Genkai's in the anime (who isn't seen smoking at any other point).

** In the manga when Yusuke starts back trackking through his day we see him smoking on the roof and later he lights up when leaving school grounds. These instances are replaced by him eating some sort of chip snack.

* Tyki Mikk and Cross Marian in ''D.Gray-man'' are both chain smokers. Tyki's a villain, but Cross is at least partially heroic.

* In the anime version of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Yusuke Urameshi still skips school, has bad grades and gets into a lot of fights. But unlike in the manga, he doesn't smoke, drink or gamble (or at least is never seen doing these things). In both manga and anime, he wins a fight in pitch darkness by sneaking a cigarette onto his enemy's belt and aiming for it with his [[KiAttacks Spirit Gun]]; it's his cigarette in the manga and OldMaster Genkai's in the anime.