History Main / NoSmoking

* For ''Film/TheBatman'', despite Creator/ColinFarrell's protests, Creator/WarnerBrothers forbid the Penguin for smoking a cigar, making it the few cases outside of the comics the Penguin isn't smoking (see the Western Animation tab in execptions below)

* ComicBook/ThePenguin was allowed to keep his iconic cigarette holder in the original run of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (possibly because the network executives were convinced kids wouldn't know what it was, anyway). The Season 4 revamp, however, played this trope straight by doing away with it, and even in later DC animated shows aimed for kids such as ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', ''WesternAnimation/Batwheels'', and ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'' (for obvious reasons as many of the characters are portrayed as high school students), the Penguin doesn't have his cigarette holder. However, in ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'', he does still have his cigarette holder (although ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkham have the Penguin smoke [[CigarChomper cigars]] instead).

* ComicBook/ThePenguin was allowed to keep his iconic cigarette holder in the original run of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (possibly because the network executives were convinced kids wouldn't know what it was, anyway). The Season 4 revamp, however, played this trope straight by doing away with it, and even in later DC animated shows such as ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', and ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'' (for obvious reasons as many of the characters are portrayed as high school students), the Penguin doesn't have his cigarette holder (although he mostly still has it in the comics).

* Bizzarely, there was a concern during the shooting of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' about studio vetoing the scenes of Gandalf smoking his pipe. LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition even shows filming of scenes in which Gandalf munches on some sort of candy instead. However, the studio never raised any objections and all characters went on to smoke their pipes on-screen.
* The LDS motion picture studios is notable for anti-smoking Mormon church films including ''As the Twig Is Bent'' (1957), where a father stuggles to quit smoking; ''Time Pulls the Trigger'' (1963), where the people review the dangers of cigarette smoking in the film room; ''Up in Smoke'', where a young man is pressured by the tobacco company boss to accept smoking which he refuses to accept and imagines the tobacco posters ads of the cigarettes having a negative effect on the people.

* ComicBook/ThePenguin was allowed to keep his iconic cigarette holder in the original run of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (possibly because the execs were convinced kids wouldn't know what it was, anyway). The Season 4 revamp, however, played this trope straight by doing away with it.

Modern U.S. law dictates in what instances cigarette smoking may appear, coming down hardest on animation or other programming intended for minors. For versions meant for broadcast before the {{Watershed}} in the U.S., this trope is mandated. This can also mean that DVD versions culled straight from the broadcast version also have this trope in effect. Strangely, the law is vaguer on cigar and pipe smoking; how much those are edited can vary (and to this day even G-rated icons like SantaClaus may be depicted with a pipe). Likewise, depictions of smoking pot seem to be all over the place; it's not uncommon for made-for-cable series (i.e. those not restricted by watershed and FCC rules) to show pot-smoking in abundance, but tobacco cigarettes are totally absent.

* In 2007, Disney banned smoking in all of its films. Even in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', Creator/TomHanks wasn't allowed to smoke on-screen, even though he was playing Creator/WaltDisney himself, who was known to be a heavy smoker in real life. (They do play with the trope a bit by showing Walt frantically snuffing out a cigarette, saying that he doesn't want to be seen smoking in public.) However, a few instances of smoking in Disney movies have occurred since then. For example, in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Absalom the Caterpillar is clearly shown smoking a hookah, and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', where we see several people smoke (though this is because it's set in 1969 and a collaboration with Creator/{{Paramount}}, who are more lenient, even if a little bit, with smoking).

* In 2007, Disney banned smoking in all of its films. Even in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', Creator/TomHanks wasn't allowed to smoke on-screen, even though he was playing Creator/WaltDisney himself, who was known to be a heavy smoker in real life. (They do play with the trope a bit by showing Walt frantically snuffing out a cigarette, saying that he doesn't want to be seen smoking in public.) However, a few instances of smoking in Disney movies have occurred since then. For example, in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Absalom the Caterpillar is clearly shown smoking a hookah, and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', where we see several people smoke (though this is because it's set in 1969 and a collaboration with Creator/Paramount, who are a bit mor elenient with smoking).
* The movie version of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' cut out all instances of cigarette use (though the Comedian does still smoke, mostly cigars) , making Laurie look a bit stupid for randomly pressing the flame button on the Owl ship, though this was because the actress didn't want to smoke. In the extended edition, an agent does offer her a cigarette.

* In 2007, Disney banned smoking in all of its films. Even in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', Creator/TomHanks wasn't allowed to smoke on-screen, even though he was playing Creator/WaltDisney himself, who was known to be a heavy smoker in real life. (They do play with the trope a bit by showing Walt frantically snuffing out a cigarette, saying that he doesn't want to be seen smoking in public.) However, a few instances of smoking in Disney movies have occurred since then. For example, in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Absalom the Caterpillar is clearly shown smoking a hookah.
* The movie version of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' cut out all instances of cigarette use, making Laurie look a bit stupid for randomly pressing the flame button on the Owl ship, though this was because the actress didn't want to smoke. In the extended edition, an agent does offer her a cigarette.

* An anti-smoking 1951 Disney's Goofy cartoon, "No Smoking", tells about the history of Tobacco. George Geef, who is a heavy smoker, decides to quit smoking and says "There, that was easy," but then realizes how difficult it is to break the habit.[[labelnote:Sidenote]] Goofy's voice actor, Creator/PintoColvig, like Creator/WaltDisney, was also a heavy smoker, and was an advocate for adding warning labels to cigarette packs. He died of lung cancer in 1967, one year after Walt died of the same thing.[[/labelnote]]

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 [[OralFixation chewing something]].

The same can hold for under-age drinking, unless it's [[IntoxicationEnsues accidental]]. This gag used to be popular in the United States until {{Media Watchdog}}s cracked down on theatrical cartoons.

-->''Likin' Instagrams and playin' tons of sudoku...\\

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' used to have a cigarette in his mouth at almost all times, only to eventually replace it with a straw. The artist, Creator/{{Morris}}, ended up lauded by no less than the World Health Organization as a result.

* ''ComicBook/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.

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* Another lampshaded example is in the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode when Nanny occupies the babies during a power outage by having them listen to radio dramas from audio tapes on a battery-powered cassette player. When Bunson Honeydew and Beaker imagine themselves in a Sherlock Holmes radio drama, the former explains why he is blowing bubbles from his pipe when he imagines himself as the title character...

* In a Minerva Mink short on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Minerva's blind date turns out to be a [[GreaserDelinquents greaser]]. Since they weren't allowed to show him smoking, he shoves a lollipop in his mouth the second he first appears on screen and spends the rest of the short with the lollipop stick dangling cigarette-like from his mouth.

** While Sanji still smokes in the original anime, it's only mentioned in the manga that he started at the age of 10. Additionally, according to guidebooks related to the anime, they state that Sanji's official age is 20, one year older than in the manga, which is what the network defines as an "adult".
** The [[{{Macekre}} 4Kids dub]] infamously changed the cigarette to a lollipop. Ironically, its version of Sanji had a craggy, nasally voice that sounded like a life-long chain smoker. Meanwhile, Captain Smoker--[[DubNameChange now called 'Chaser']]--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.

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' ends with John quitting smoking after his cancer scare, whereas the ''Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}}'' "Dangerous Habits" arc it's based on ended with him triumphantly lighting up because he'd ''won'', and the cancer wasn't a problem any more.

* In the ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' light novels Victorique is an underaged smoker, and has a raspy voice as a result. In the anime version she's just seen holding, and occasionally sucking on an ornate pipe, but never lighting it up, since the Japanese censorship laws forbid showing underaged characters smoking or drinking alcohol in public television series.

* ''LightNovel/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'': In the light novels, Naomasa smokes a kiseru, a Japanese pipe. In the anime, she instead holds a hex key in her mouth like a pipe to highlight [[WrenchWench her role as a mechanic.]]

* In the ''Manga/Reborn2004'' manga, 15-year-old Gokudera is occasionally seen with cigarettes, and even uses them to light the fuses on his dynamite. Since the anime adaptation was to be aired at a time most younger viewers would catch it, this was written out entirely; as for the dynamite, it now ''lights itself''.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'' and its sequel Bulma's father Mr. Briefs is a chain smoker who takes a drag in nearly every scene he's in, naturally the English broadcast version removed every frame of his cigarettes.

* The televised version of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' takes this to new heights of absurdity, since the teenaged Jotaro's smoking is covered up with a CensorShadow, but it's not cut out completely because it's integral to the plot on several occasions, such as the battles with the Moon stand[[note]]Jotaro reveals the user's identity by claiming that cigarette smoke makes a vein stand out on Stand Users' noses, then watches to see who among the ship's crew reacts[[/note]] and [[TheGambler Daniel J. D'Arby]][[note]]Where Jotaro has [[FightingSpirit Star Platinum]] light his cigarette using SuperSpeed as part of his efforts to psych out D'Arby[[/note]]. People still talk about Jotaro smoking, and it's still blatantly obvious that that's what he's doing, but apparently a pitch-black shadow lazily draped over the lower half of his face (and nothing else) is enough to satisfy the censors. [[TooHotForTV The DVD and Blu-ray releases, naturally, are uncensored]].

* In ''[[ComicBook/XFactor MadroX: Multiple Choice]]'' limited series Jamie Madrox was supposed to be holding a cigarette in one panel, but that was removed. However, right after that a woman kisses him, then comments that he tastes like candy, to which Jamie responds that it was a chocolate cigarette. With the cigarette removed from the picture, this exchange of course makes little sense.

* In 2007, Disney essentially banned smoking in all of its films. Even in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', Creator/TomHanks wasn't allowed to smoke on-screen, even though he was playing Creator/WaltDisney himself, who was known to be a heavy smoker in real life. (They do play with the trope a bit by showing Walt frantically snuffing out a cigarette, saying that he doesn't want to be seen smoking in public.) However, a few instances of smoking in Disney movies have occurred since then. For example, in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Absalom the Caterpillar is clearly shown smoking a hookah.

** James was at first a "heavy" smoker (back when anyone who didn't smoke two 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'' (though that one may have been a joint).
** ''Film/LicenceToKill'' kept the smoking -- but, due to ProductPlacement, added a Surgeon General's Warning to the end credits.
** 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.

* One of Cruella de Vil's trademarks in ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' is her long cigarette holder. Guess what is nowhere to be seen when a live-action version of the character appeared in ''Series/OnceUponATime''? Ironically, while one politically incorrect aspect of the character was suppressed, her habit of wearing a fur coat ''made from her own dogs'' was retained.

* A scene where R-Truth smoked in the O2 Arena (as well as commentator Josh Matthews making references to it) was cut from the UK airing of a Wrestling/MondayNightRAW, probably due to smoking in public buildings being illegal there. However, they kept John Morrison's "good shape for someone who smokes" comments in. Of course, cutting the scene also meant cutting out the crowd's chants of "That's illegal!"

** In T-Rated ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cid Highwind smokes a cigarette; in fact, you can see a pack of cigarettes stuffed under his bandana on his character model, and he uses it to light a stick of dynamite in one of his Limit Breaks. In E-Rated ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' he chews a straw.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' zig-zag this. The games are littered with cigarettes by the pack and by the carton, and many other characters smoke... but the {{Player Character}}s are unable to light up themselves. Would be less weird if the games weren't ''also'' littered with a huge amount of other drugs both real and fictional (that are still harmful and addictive in-universe), including tobacco chew in ''New Vegas'', which the player ''can'' partake of.[[note]]There are, naturally, [[GameMod mods]] that rectify this.[[/note]]

* In the original Japanese version of ''Videogame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' (known in Japan as ''MOTHER''), the battle sprites of the Crow and [[GangBangers B.B. Gang]] enemies depict them smoking cigarettes. The English version slightly edited both sprites [[{{Bowdlerise}} to remove the cigarettes]]. Notably, game creator Creator/ShigesatoItoi approved of the change, and the subsequent Japanese releases of the game retained the edited sprites; Itoi himself had quit smoking around the time of the CompilationRerelease ''MOTHER 1+2'' and wanted to reflect it in the game.

* The cigarette ad in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' shows Fred and Barney smoking a cigarette called Winston and says "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." This would not air on TV today due to smoking causing cancer and causing health problems.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[ItMakesSenseInContext A Wax version of Groucho Marx questions why he's not holding anything after making a Groucho-style witty comment]], whereas the real Groucho Marx often had a cigar in hand during such moments.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanYearOne'' DTV eliminated all the smoking in the original story (being a CityNoir, pretty much all the good guys smoke except Batman himself).

* Despite the fact that other characters could occasionally be seen smoking in some episodes, in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special", when Plucky does a performance of The Little Drummer Boy with William Shatner, throughout the performance Shatner holds a pencil the way someone would hold a cigar; at one point he can be seen sucking on it as if to take a puff.

* In a Minerva Mink short on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Minerva's blind date turned out to be a [[GreaserDelinquents greaser]]. Since they weren't allowed to show him smoking, they had him shove a lollipop in his mouth the second he first appeared on screen and spent the rest of the short with the lollipop stick dangling cigarette-like from his mouth.
* InUniverse owner of {{WesternAnimation/Skatoony}} Eagle-Eyes Tony/[[DubNameChange Charles La Puck]] has a sausage in his mouth in place of a cigarette.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'''s Professor Stein can be seen smoking in just about every episode he's in, which is a lot considering he's a main character. [[ChainsawGood Giriko]] is a heavy drinker AND smoker. Some of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]] are seen smoking, too.

* Midou Ban from both the manga and anime of ''Manga/GetBackers'' -- while they toned down his LovableSexManiac tendencies heavily for the anime, they certainly kept the smoking. Not to mention he's specifically underage in the manga (18; Japan's legal age on drinking/smoking/voting is 20).
* See that guy in the picture over on the SmokingIsCool page? His name is [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel]]. Say hi.

** Jigen 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.
** As mentioned above, Lupin, his gang and Zenigata still smoke even in ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'', and a one-shot ''Italian'' character did so too in spite of the series having been partially produced in Italy. {{Justified}}, as smoking (and even the specific brands) are an inherent part of the original ''Lupin III'' characters and the one Italian smoker is a delinquent student who does it to rebel (he's underage). Some background characters are also shown smoking. After all, Italians ''still'' have many smokers...

* ''Series/{{Constantine}}'', being a network show, originally was unable to have the main character smoking. They worked rather cleverly around it, by showing him stubbing a burned-out cigarette into an ashtray full of them, putting a cigarette into his mouth only to be interrupted and even smoking with his back to the camera. As the series progressed though, he started smoking on-screen openly.

* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Yamaki is frequently shown carrying a lighter, and at one point we see an ashtray full of cigarettes. We never actually see him smoke.

** Historically "The Word of Wisdom" was not heavily enforced through-out Mormonism until the early 1900's. Although there was lots of encouragement to follow it through-out the 1800's (with Brigham Young notably giving up tobacco) it wasn't ''explicitly'' required either (Joseph Smith himself did continue to drink alcohol until his death, and the Mormon Pioneers in Utah established whiskey distilleries, drank coffee and smoked/chewed tobacco as well). This results in some ValuesDissonance where modern Latter-Day Saints are often surprised by mentions of smoking in historical works regarding the faith in the 1800s.[[note]]Some values dissonance occurred even in the late 1800's though as drinking wine for sacrament service was still commonplace in the faith even as alcohol was beginning to be shunned elsewhere. This lead to people humorously asking then church president John Taylor (and a survivor of the 1844 mob assassination which had killed Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum) if the reason Joseph had wine with him in Carthage Jail was to perform a final sacrament. To which John Taylor [[GallowsHumor bluntly pointed]] out that ''there was an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob coming to murder him]]'' and the men were drinking the wine to get drunk to dull the pain from the hail of bullets they were expecting to endure.[[/note]] The advent of the Prohibition movement in the 1900's was what finally pushed the modern practice of a hard stance on no-smoking & no-drinking in the faith to becoming standard, when under Heber C. Kimball the decision to make living the Word of Wisdom a prerequisite to entering the faith's temples was made.

** Historically "The Word of Wisdom" was not heavily enforced through-out Mormonism until the early 1900's. Although there was lots of encouragement to follow it through-out the 1800's (with Brigham Young notably giving up tobacco) it wasn't ''explicitly'' required either (Joseph Smith himself did continue to drink alcohol until his death, and the Mormon Pioneers in Utah established whiskey distilleries, drank coffee and smoked/chewed tobacco as well). This results in some ValuesDissonance where modern Latter-Day Saints are often surprised by mentions of smoking in historical works regarding the faith in the 1800s.[[note]]Some values dissonance occurred even in the late 1800's though as drinking wine for sacrament service was still commonplace in the faith even as alcohol was beginning to be shunned elsewhere. This lead to people humorously asking then church president John Taylor (and a survivor of the 1844 mob assassination which had killed Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum) if the reason Joseph had wine with him in Carthage Jail was to perform a final sacrament. To which John Taylor [[GallowsHumor bluntly pointed]] out that ''there was an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob coming to murder him]]'' and the men were drinking the wine to get drunk to dull the pain from the hail of bullets they were expecting to endure.[[/note]] The advent of the Prohibition movement in the 1900's was what finally pushed the modern practice of a hard stance on no-smoking & no-drinking in the faith to becoming standard, with living the Word of Wisdom becoming a prerequisite to entering the faith's temples.

* UsefulNotes/SouthKorea does not permit smoking to be shown on television, so any films or television shows -- both domestic and foreign -- with characters smoking are always broadcast with a mosaic blurring that pops up and covers the cigarette/cigar/pipe whenever it's in a character's mouth. But the mosaic blurring is skipped on any unlit cigarette/cigar/pipe in a mouth.

* UsefulNotes/SouthKorea does not permit any cigarette smoking to be shown on television, so any films or television shows -- both domestic and foreign -- with characters smoking are always broadcast with mosaic blurring covering the cigarette whenever it's in or brought up to the character's mouth. There seems to be a loophole for cigars and pipes, as these aren't always covered up on broadcasts. The mosaic blurring seems also skipped on unlit cigarettes in the mouth.

* UsefulNotes/SouthKorea does not permit any cigarette smoking to be shown on television, so any films or television shows -- both domestic and foreign -- with characters smoking are always broadcast with mosaic blurring covering the cigarette whenever it's in or brought up to the character's mouth. There seems to be a loophole for cigars and pipes, as these aren't always covered up on broadcasts.

* UsefulNotes/SouthKorea does not permit cigarettes to be shown on television, so any films or television shows -- both domestic and foreign -- with either characters smoking or just cigarettes onscreen are broadcast with mosaic blurring covering the cigarettes, even when smoke drifting around the character makes clear what's covered by the mosaic. There seems to be a loophole for cigars and pipes, as these aren't always covered up on broadcasts.

** Historically "The Word of Wisdom" was not heavily enforced through-out Mormonism until the early 1900's. Although there was lots of encouragement to follow it through-out the 1800's (with Brigham Young notably giving up tobacco) it wasn't ''explicitly'' required either (Smith himself did continue to drink alcohol until his death, and the Mormon Pioneers in Utah established whiskey distilleries, drank coffee and smoked/chewed tobacco as well). This results in some ValuesDissonance where modern Latter-Day Saints are often surprised by mentions of smoking in historical works regarding the faith in the 1800s.[[note]]Some values dissonance occurred even in the late 1800's though as drinking wine for sacrament service was still commonplace in the faith even as alcohol was beginning to be shunned elsewhere. This lead to people humorously asking then church president John Taylor (and a survivor of the 1844 mob assassination which had killed Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum) if the reason Joseph had wine with him in Carthage Jail was to perform a final sacrament. To which John Taylor [[GallowsHumor bluntly pointed]] out that ''there was an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob coming to murder him]]'' and the men were drinking the wine to get drunk to dull the pain from the hail of bullets they were expecting to endure.[[/note]] The advent of the Prohibition movement in the 1900's was what finally pushed the modern practice of a hard stance on no-smoking & no-drinking in the faith to becoming standard, with living the Word of Wisdom becoming a prerequisite to entering the faith's temples.

** Historically "The Word of Wisdom" was not heavily enforced through-out Mormonism until the early 1900's. Although there was lots of encouragement to follow it through-out the 1800's (with Brigham Young notably giving up tobacco) it wasn't ''explicitly'' required either (Smith himself did continue to drink alcohol until his death, and the Mormon Pioneers in Utah established whiskey distilleries, drank coffee and smoked/chewed tobacco as well). This results in some ValuesDissonance where modern Latter-Day Saints are often surprised by mentions of smoking in historical works regarding the faith in the 1800s.[[note]]Some values dissonance occurred even in the late 1800's though as drinking wine for sacrament service was still commonplace in the faith even as alcohol was beginning to be shunned elsewhere. This lead to people humorously asking then church president John Taylor (and a survivor of the 1844 mob assassination which had killed Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum) if the reason Joseph had wine with him in Carthage Jail was to perform a final sacrament. To which John Taylor bluntly pointed out that ''there was an angry mob coming to murder him'' and the men were drinking the wine to get drunk to dull the pain from the hail of bullets they were expecting to endure.[[/note]] The advent of the Prohibition movement in the 1900's was what finally pushed the modern practice of a hard stance on no-smoking & no-drinking in the faith to becoming standard, with living the Word of Wisdom becoming a prerequisite to entering the faith's temples.

** Historically "The Word of Wisdom" was not heavily enforced through-out Mormonism until the early 1900's. Although there was lots of encouragement to follow it through-out the 1800's (with Brigham Young notably giving up tobacco) it wasn't ''explicitly'' required either (Smith himself did continue to drink alcohol until his death, and the Mormon Pioneers in Utah established whiskey distilleries, drank coffee and smoked/chewed tobacco as well). This results in some ValuesDissonance where modern Latter-Day Saints are often surprised by mentions of smoking in historical works regarding the faith in the 1800s.[[note]]Some values dissonance occurred even in the late 1800's though as drinking wine for sacrament service was still commonplace in the faith even as alcohol was beginning to be shunned elsewhere. This lead to somewhat humorously people asking then church president John Taylor (and a survivor of the mob assassination which had killed Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum) if the reason Joseph had wine with him in Carthage Jail was to perform a final sacrament. To which John Taylor bluntly pointed out that ''there was an angry mob coming to murder him'' and the men were drinking the wine to get drunk to dull the pain from the hail of bullets they were expecting to endure.[[/note]] The advent of the Prohibition movement in the 1900's was what finally pushed the modern practice of a hard stance on no-smoking & no-drinking in the faith to becoming standard, with living the Word of Wisdom becoming a prerequisite to entering the faith's temples.

* In ''The Book of Mormon'' featuring the "Doctrine and Covenants" Section 89 verses 1-9 asks church members to keep the word of Wisdom stating that tobacco is not for the body or belly but is used as a herb for bruises and for all sick cattle.