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* '''Parodied''':
** Plants, inanimate objects, and ''robots'' smoke.
** The story mocks black people by making them smoke so much crack and weed that their lungs turn blacker than their skin.

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'''Parodied''': Plants, inanimate objects, and ''robots'' smoke.
** The story mocks black people by making them smoke so much crack and weed that their lungs turn blacker than their skin.
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* Plants, inanimate objects, and ''robots'' smoke.
* The story mocks black people by making them smoke so much crack and weed that their lungs turn blacker than their skin.

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* ** Plants, inanimate objects, and ''robots'' smoke.
* ** The story mocks black people by making them smoke so much crack and weed that their lungs turn blacker than their skin.

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* '''Parodied''': Plants, inanimate objects, and ''robots'' smoke.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Plants, inanimate objects, and ''robots'' smoke. smoke.
* The story mocks black people by making them smoke so much crack and weed that their lungs turn blacker than their skin.



* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': They all have one reason to smoke: [[GreenAesop to give carbondioxide to all the flora]].



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** Nobody smokes, due to people choosing to live healthier lifestyles, or a way other than smoking is developed to consume nicotine.

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** Nobody smokes, due to people [[OptOut choosing to live healthier lifestyles, lifestyles]], or [[TechnologyMarchesOn a way other than smoking is developed to consume nicotine.nicotine]].
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** As a plot point of all of the smokers trying to quit smoking and HilarityEnsues. This can also have very UnfortunateImplications.

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** As a plot point of all of the smokers trying to quit smoking and HilarityEnsues. This can also have very UnfortunateImplications.
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** To show [[UnfortunateImplications how backward and stupid]] the smokers are so a nonsmoking and "better" audience can laugh at them and their stupidity.

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** To show [[UnfortunateImplications how backward and stupid]] stupid the smokers are so a nonsmoking and "better" audience can laugh at them and their stupidity.

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* '''Averted''': A society or culture that exists pre-nicotine/tobacco, or long post it.
** A society where some people smoke but the great majority of people do not, and smoking is looked upon as stupid, dangerous, boorish behavior limited to the lower classes/outcasts/similar. Similar to Downplayed, above.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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A society or culture that exists pre-nicotine/tobacco, or long post it.
** A society where some people smoke but the great majority of people do not, and smoking is looked upon as stupid, dangerous, boorish behavior limited to the lower classes/outcasts/similar. Similar to Downplayed, above.
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** In anything attempting a realistic depiction of large numbers of or entirely set in the communities mentioned in the article: among others TV/Film actors and actresses, the HeavyMetal and VisualKei scenes to a point, active combat military units, and the mentally ill.

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** In anything attempting a realistic depiction of large numbers of of, or entirely set in the communities mentioned in the article: article, among others others: TV/Film actors and actresses, the HeavyMetal and VisualKei scenes to a point, active combat military units, and the mentally ill.
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** In anything attempting a realistic depiction of large numbers of or entirely set in the communities mentioned in the article: among others TV/Film actors and actresses, the Music/HeavyMetal and VisualKei scenes to a point, active combat military units, and the mentally ill.

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** In anything attempting a realistic depiction of large numbers of or entirely set in the communities mentioned in the article: among others TV/Film actors and actresses, the Music/HeavyMetal HeavyMetal and VisualKei scenes to a point, active combat military units, and the mentally ill.
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** In anything attempting a realistic depiction of large numbers of or entirely set in the communities mentioned in the article: among others TV/Film actors and actresses, the HeavyMetal and VisualKei scenes to a point, active combat military units, and the mentally ill.

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** In anything attempting a realistic depiction of large numbers of or entirely set in the communities mentioned in the article: among others TV/Film actors and actresses, the HeavyMetal Music/HeavyMetal and VisualKei scenes to a point, active combat military units, and the mentally ill.
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** It is a future or fantasy world, and the smokers are robots simply doing it to look cool (and can suffer no ill effects due to the lack of human physiology to be affected), or are immortal or have healing powers to the extent that cigarette smoke won't hurt them (e.g. they are some sort of supernatural beings, or the medicine/healing arts have so advanced that a night's sleep or a visit to the doctor/healer removes all traces of damage to the body from cigarettes)

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** It is a future or fantasy world, and the smokers are robots simply doing it to look cool (and can suffer no ill effects due to the lack of human physiology to be affected), or are immortal or have healing powers to the extent that cigarette smoke won't hurt them (e.g. they are some sort of supernatural beings, or the medicine/healing arts have so advanced that a night's sleep or a visit to the doctor/healer removes all traces of damage to the body from cigarettes) cigarettes, or the smoker is a video game/fantasy character who can just cast HealingMagic/use a HealingShiv on himself or herself)
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** In anything related to capnolagia (smoking {{Fetish}}).
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** As shorthand in parts of the world where smoking is seen as a form of stress relief, to show just ''how much'' stress everyone is under.

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** As shorthand in parts of the world where smoking is seen as a form of stress relief, to show just ''how much'' stress everyone is under. (A good example of this usage would be in the bunker in {{Film/Threads}} - EverybodySmokes despite it likely helping lead to their deaths from a much faster cause than cancer - loss of breathable air - but there ''is'' a nuclear war going on...)

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* '''Deconstructed''': The smokers are all dying of smoking-related illness but still smoke anyway.

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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
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The smokers are all dying of smoking-related illness but still smoke anyway.



* '''Played For Laughs''': To show [[UnfortunateImplications how backward and stupid]] the smokers are so a nonsmoking and "better" audience can laugh at them and their stupidity.

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To show [[UnfortunateImplications how backward and stupid]] the smokers are so a nonsmoking and "better" audience can laugh at them and their stupidity.
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** As a way of establishing that the characters don't really care about the long term impacts on their health of ''anything,'' and in some of the most depressing cases such as active combat forces, AIDS patients in TheEighties to early in TheNineties, or suicidally mentally ill people with no real prospect of recovery, because they may have [[AnyoneCanDie no reason to think they'll live.]]

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** As a way of establishing that the characters don't really care about the long term impacts on their health of ''anything,'' and in some of the most depressing cases such as active combat forces, AIDS patients in TheEighties to early in TheNineties, TheNineties or other terminally ill people, or suicidally mentally ill people with no real prospect of recovery, because they may have [[AnyoneCanDie no reason to think they'll live.]]
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** As a way of establishing that the characters don't really care about the long term impacts on their health of ''anything,'' and in some of the most depressing cases such as active combat forces or suicidally mentally ill people with no real prospect of recovery, because they may have [[AnyoneCanDie no reason to think they'll live.]]

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** As a way of establishing that the characters don't really care about the long term impacts on their health of ''anything,'' and in some of the most depressing cases such as active combat forces forces, AIDS patients in TheEighties to early in TheNineties, or suicidally mentally ill people with no real prospect of recovery, because they may have [[AnyoneCanDie no reason to think they'll live.]]
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'''Basic Trope''': Everyone or almost everyone in a particular setting smokes cigarettes.
* '''Straight''': All or almost all adults (and possibly teenagers) in the setting of the story or its world smoke cigarettes.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Smoking is promoted everywhere as healthy and normal adult behavior.
** Even babies, small children, and ''animals'' smoke.
** Humans or humanoid aliens in the setting breathe cigarette smoke instead of oxygen.
* '''Downplayed''': The overwhelming amount of smokers turns out to be just one small part of a world where smoking is generally frowned upon, much like RealLife after around TheNineties where certain countries, cultures, subcultures, and societal groups have an outsize amount of smokers but the general population has fairly low smoking rates.
* '''Justified''':
** Anything set in TheFifties in the US or Europe or set in Russia or Japan (as a couple of examples) until around TheNineties.
** Something set in a society/culture/setting where people tend to smoke more than average.
* '''Inverted''':
** Nobody smokes, due to people choosing to live healthier lifestyles, or a way other than smoking is developed to consume nicotine.
** Nobody smokes, due to smokers being punished on the spot with [[DisproportionateRetribution the death penalty]] and cigarettes being highly illegal to the degree that heroin is in most of modern society.
* '''Subverted''': The smokers are all continually smoking something other than tobacco.
* '''Double Subverted''': The thing other than tobacco being smoked continually is ''actually somehow even worse than tobacco'' (e.g. methamphetamine, or a FantasticDrug with worse effects) and people are equally addicted to it as they would be to cigarettes.
* '''Parodied''': Plants, inanimate objects, and ''robots'' smoke.
* '''Zig Zagged''': EverybodySmokes, but everybody also repeatedly tries to quit and acknowledges how unhealthy smoking is, but then they're also failing repeatedly, and this becomes a major point of discussion or even a plot point.
* '''Averted''': A society or culture that exists pre-nicotine/tobacco, or long post it.
** A society where some people smoke but the great majority of people do not, and smoking is looked upon as stupid, dangerous, boorish behavior limited to the lower classes/outcasts/similar. Similar to Downplayed, above.
* '''Enforced''':
** Anything set from TheForties to either TheEighties or TheNineties in most of the developed world, and in TheFifties specifically in the US.
** In most FilmNoir.
** In many interpretations of TheWestern.
** In anything attempting a realistic depiction of large numbers of or entirely set in the communities mentioned in the article: among others TV/Film actors and actresses, the HeavyMetal and VisualKei scenes to a point, active combat military units, and the mentally ill.
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "My god, don't these people realize how bad smoking is?"
** "Who ''doesn't'' smoke around here?"
** A character starts coughing, choking, tearing up, and falls to their knees when exposed to the sheer amount of cigarette smoke around.
* '''Invoked''':
** A shot of a wide group of people is shown and most are smoking.
** Cigarette advertising is not limited to the places it traditionally is after TheNineties in most of the world.
** Most of the on-screen cast is smoking at one point or another.
* '''Exploited''':
** ProductPlacement by tobacco companies.
** As shorthand in parts of the world where smoking is seen as a form of stress relief, to show just ''how much'' stress everyone is under.
** Because someone who is writing the setting thinks SmokingIsCool.
** As a way of establishing that the characters don't really care about the long term impacts on their health of ''anything,'' and in some of the most depressing cases such as active combat forces or suicidally mentally ill people with no real prospect of recovery, because they may have [[AnyoneCanDie no reason to think they'll live.]]
* '''Defied''': InAWorld where EverybodySmokes, someone decides to quit or never picked up the addiction - and this becomes somehow important to the story.
* '''Discussed''':
** Someone complains about the amount of smokers.
** Inversely, in a world where EverybodySmokes but this is beginning to change, the smokers complain about why they all have to go outside since they all smoke.
* '''Conversed''': "You know, we all smoke too much around here." "What, are you kidding?" ''lights cigarette''
* '''Implied''': Nearly everyone is shown smoking, there is ubiquitous cigarette advertising, people randomly ask for matches or lights...
* '''Deconstructed''': The smokers are all dying of smoking-related illness but still smoke anyway.
** As in Exploited, the smoking is used to partially establish that no one in the world/scene/whatever ''expects'' to live to the age that smoking-related illness usually sets in.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** It is a future world, and the most health-damaging properties of tobacco have been genetically engineered out, or the smokers are vaporizing it rather than burning it, and/or a relatively cheap and painless way to heal the effects of cigarette smoke on lungs is available to all.
** It is a future or fantasy world, and the smokers are robots simply doing it to look cool (and can suffer no ill effects due to the lack of human physiology to be affected), or are immortal or have healing powers to the extent that cigarette smoke won't hurt them (e.g. they are some sort of supernatural beings, or the medicine/healing arts have so advanced that a night's sleep or a visit to the doctor/healer removes all traces of damage to the body from cigarettes)
* '''Played For Laughs''': To show [[UnfortunateImplications how backward and stupid]] the smokers are so a nonsmoking and "better" audience can laugh at them and their stupidity.
** As a plot point of all of the smokers trying to quit smoking and HilarityEnsues. This can also have very UnfortunateImplications.
* '''Played For Drama''':
** The smokers begin to get cancer/heart disease/emphysema/other illnesses related to smoking and die.
** The smokers are trying to quit, but find themselves facing a difficult battle against addiction.
** In a combination of Exploited, Deconstructed, and this, the smokers are a population of people so disadvantaged, stressed, and/or whose lives are under such immediate threat that they cannot see themselves alive in 20 years, and/or that they don't care if they die years later.
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