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4	[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smoking_selma.png]]]]
5	[[caption-width-right:350:[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E13SelmasChoice "Ugh! Back to the Loch with you, Nessie!"]]]]
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7	->'''Luis:''' Okay, I just have one ''very'' important question: you got a smoke?\
8	'''Leon:''' Got gum.
9	-->-- ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''
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11	You think that SmokingIsCool, don't you? That smoking will always automatically make you a badass?
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13	Not necessarily. Plenty of characters are perfectly capable of being tough or cool without lighting up. In fact, to emphasize this point even further, characters can be made more unlikeable or unattractive by having them smoke. This can happen by having them taunt a non-smoker into lighting up, because otherwise he's a "wimp." Or by blowing SecondFaceSmoke in his face. Or just by having an ugly, obese, badly dressed, lazy, or otherwise degrading character light up a cigarette or a cigar. Or just out and out try to ScareEmStraight, by having the smoker display all the negative symptoms of life-long smoking: respiratory problems, bad skin, yellowing teeth, and maybe even cancer, even if the person in question couldn't realistically have been a smoker for long enough for these problems to occur.
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15	TruthInTelevision, since tobacco smoke really smells repulsive when you're a non-smoker. Also, smoke coming out of someone's mouth can really account as a GrossUpCloseUp when you really look at it. And, more seriously, exposure to secondhand smoke can be seriously detrimental to infants, children, and anyone with even a slightly dodgy respiratory system (e.g. asthmatics).
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17	A character who doesn't smoke may be TheTeetotaler (if they also aren't an alcoholic).
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19	See also DoNotDoThisCoolThing and GoodSmokingEvilSmoking. Sub-trope of DrugsAreBad. NoSmoking is this trope as a censorship application. Compare SmokingIsEdgy, which is when smoking is not portrayed as "good" in the traditional sense but still has edgy and cynical associations.
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26	[[folder: Advertising]]
27	* ''Advertising/SupermanVsNickOTeen'' teaches that smoking is dangerous and damages your body, and Nick O'Teen, who tries to convince others to smoke, is a low-down villain.
28	* Creator/YulBrynner, dying of lung cancer due to his smoking, arranged a PublicServiceAnnouncement with the American Cancer Society to tell the public not to repeat his folly.
29	* In the Philippines, a [=90s=] anti-smoking campaign by the Department of Health gave birth to the mascot Yosi Kadiri (literally Smoke Disgusting), who indeed looks disgusting to hammer down the message. The mascot proved to be so popular and memorable that he was revived in the 2010s.
30	* The Truth Initiative has a series of ads campaigning against smoking and vaping:
31	** Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex9VJv0_XFM "It's A Trap"]] ad, which uses live-action versions of memes from the 2000s to dissuade teens and young adults from cigarette smoking and/or vaping. The ad was released in 2016, which makes those memes dated.
32	** Their anti-vaping ads feature puppets that talk about the subject. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcoaHBd6wYE One particular ad]] has two puppets about to kiss when [[MomentKiller one of them barfs up cloth upon the other]], saying that vaping weakens your immune system.
33	** Their "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyY6op9Bbk Twinkle, Twinkle Little Dick]]" ad, which suggests that [[TheLoinsSleepTonight smoking causes impotence in young men]] and possibly makes men go out with other men.
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36	[[folder: Anime and Manga]]
37	* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': [[CloudCuckooLander Samejima Mamimi]] is the only character in the show who smokes, but it's not seen as a positive thing by the other characters and Mamimi herself is a little too [[BrokenBird damaged]] to carry off the look. Additionally, whenever she starts chain-smoking, it's usually a sign that her mental state is on a downward curve.
38	* ''Manga/ShadowStar'':
39	** Shiina's estranged and emotionally abusive mother Misono is a smoker.
40	** [[spoiler:Shiina]] takes up smoking after [[spoiler:she and Mamiko go WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds and pretty much destroy humanity together. When Mamiko finds out, she scolds Shiina since the two of them are pregnant and the toxins could hurt Shiina's baby.]]
41	* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'' has Kyousuke getting ''very'' angry at Madoka when he sees her smoking. She slaps him in return.
42	* In ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'', Nobita's father, Nobisuke (redubbed as Toby in Viz's English dub), is a smoker, and tries to quit several times but always fails.
43	* ''Manga/DearBrother'': Rei Asaka AKA "Hana no Saint-Juste". While she's one of the three [[SchoolIdol most admired girls at school]] and she does smoke on a regular basis, her smoking is ''not'' portrayed as cool, as it is a sign of her BrokenBird personality and her self-destructive behaviour to show how ''really'' messed up she is.
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47	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Longtime supporting character Commissioner Gordon was shown with an alternating fondness for cigarettes and [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe a pipe]] and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' character Perry White was a CigarChomper--until the 1990s, when it bit them in the ass in the form of, respectively, a heart attack and lung cancer. While both men recovered, they also gave up smoking--at least [[DependingOnTheWriter for a while]].
48	* ''ComicBook/IdeesNoires'': One gag has people scolding a smoker about the dangers of his habit. [[spoiler:He eventually gets so scared of what they tell them him that he finally commits suicide. The others' comment: "Another victim of tobacco."]]
49	* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'': In ''De come-back van Dédé'' ("The comeback of Dédé") the vicious criminal Dédé La Canaille escapes with the aid of his chain smoking friend Jim Menace who has developed a smoker's cough that causes him to cough all throughout the album. The police are eventually able to trace Dédé and Jim because they discover his cigarette butts lying around.
50	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': Back in the 80s, Marvel produced a VerySpecialEpisode team-up comic of Spider-Man, Luke Cage (who was still going by Power Man at the time), and Storm where they had to confront a supervillain called Smokescreen whose EvilPlan was to hook a track star on cigarettes so that he could make money betting against the kid when all that smoking started affecting his performance. Smokescreen had the power to generate clouds of cigarette smoke that he could blow at people and make them choke, allowing him to somehow overcome Storm. And then after he was defeated, Spider-Man delivered an {{Anvilicious}} talk about how awful smoking is and how you should never, ever do it to the reader. [[FridgeLogic This was when Wolverine, Ben Grimm, Nick Fury, and other heroes were still shown smoking in almost every appearance]].
51	* ''ComicBook/TheQuestion'': ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' shows the ramifications of Vic Sage's smoking habit. The lung cancer he had contracted killed him off, allowing Renee Montoya to take over his title.
52	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
53	** Smoking big, smelly cigars is one of the most annoying habits of [[DaEditor J. Jonah Jameson]], Peter's MeanBoss at the ''Daily Bugle''. Employees often call him "Chimney Lungs" behind his back, and often wonder if the habit contributes to his HairTriggerTemper.
54	** Peter's former wife ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson smoked as a teenager to "look cool" and quit later, but when ComicBook/{{Carnage}} first appeared, she started smoking out of stress, which only got worse when Peter's long-thought-dead parents showed up. After several arcs where she tried to "cope" using them, Peter used some "shock therapy" taking her to visit his one-time foil Nick Katzenberg, who was in the hospital with terminal lung cancer. (Having lost weight to the point of being gaunt, lost most of his hair due to chemo, coughing up blood -- very typical of a cancer patient.) It was enough for her to quit cold turkey.
55	* ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'': ComicBook/LoisLane takes up smoking in 1939, claiming it to be as harmless as eating breakfast in the morning. By 1969, however, Lois is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and tells her daughter Kara Kent that smoking is what also ended up killing Perry White. By 1979, Lois is in the hospital and on death's door. Thankfully, that wonderful [[SignificantAnagram Dr. Holurt]] has taken over her treatment.
56	* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Toad lights up a lot, and that doesn't add to his already disgusting aspect.
57	* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': Wolverine could well have been the poster boy for [[SmokingIsCool the opposite Trope]] most of his career, rarely seen without a cigarette or occasionally a cigar; his mutant HealingFactor let him smoke without it hurting him. However, in one 80s story arc, he lost the healing factor for a short time, and trying to light up almost made him sick. It was enough to convince him to quit. In an '80s issue of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', Wolverine and Kitty are sitting on the steps of Kitty's college, talking over the problem of the issue. Wolvie has a cigar that is constantly making Kitty cough. Finally having had enough of it, she snaps, takes the stogie from Wolvie's mouth shouting "GIVE ME THAT!" Wolverine replies "Your funeral, Pun'kin," as she takes a puff to spite him. She breaks out in a coughing fit and gets sick to her stomach. Wolverine merely replies "Warned you." She asks how he could tolerate something like that, and he says it's an acquired taste, along with his healing factor protecting him from the harmful effects, reminding Kitty that she doesn't have either of those. She says "No fear of that. This is one vice ''I'll'' skip... Assuming I live..."
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61	* ''FanFic/BecomingFemale'' features RonTheDeathEater becoming "Ron Raper", apparently a parody of Don Draper from ''Series/MadMen''. As part of the parody, "Ron Raper" is always smoking an "unhealthy cigarette" because "he was too dumb to know smoking was bad for you".
62	* In ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'', the protagonist Estermann likes to smoke, but even he admits he can only do it because he has a deathwish and because '[[DeadpanSnarker he's not pregnant]]'. Also Lyra Heartstrings, despite [[ForeignCultureFetish her best efforts to like it]], doesn't.
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65	[[folder: Film -- Animated]]
66	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Cruella [=DeVil=], an incredibly [[LeanAndMean thin and unsympathetic]] fur enthusiast, is shown smoking from a cigarette holder and being thoroughly disgusting with it. Jasper Badum is equally repellent with his cigar.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' sees mob boss Sal Valestra smoking in the time shortly before Bruce Wayne became Batman. During the present, set during ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', his health has gone down the crapper, needing an oxygen tank to breath at times and even has an IncurableCoughOfDeath. [[spoiler:That said, his death is the result of pissing off the Joker, a former hitman of his, while trying to get help to deal with Batman, not his smoking.]]
68	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': Lampwick, who is already being portrayed as a cocksure idiot, taunts Pinocchio for not smoking properly. In an example of ScareEmStraight, he then literally transforms into a donkey. Pinocchio [[NoMoreForMe immediately throws his cigar away]].
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71	[[folder: Film -- Live-Action]]
72	* ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'': The rat character is seen smoking a cigarette at times.
73	* ''Film/{{Flodder}}'': Mum Flodder is a middle-aged, obese, grouchy woman who smokes cigars.
74	* ''Film/MurielsWedding'': One of Muriel's sisters is an obese cigarette-smoking couch potato who often scolds her.
75	* Being an anti-smoking special, 1996's ''Film/SmokeAlarmTheUnfilteredTruthAboutCigarettes'' puts an emphasis on cigarettes being gross and unhealthy.
76	* While the original comic book showcases GoodSmokingEvilSmoking, ExecutiveMeddling reportedly [[EnforcedTrope insisted on]] this trope in the film adaptation of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''. Hence, Laurie's smoking is cut, but the repulsive Comedian remains a CigarChomper, and Moloch is still smoking as he faces imminent grisly death from lung cancer.
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79	[[folder: Literature]]
80	* In ''Literature/{{Blubber}}'' by Creator/JudyBlume, the main character, Jill, pressures her mother into quitting smoking by pointing out the health risks every chance she gets. In the same author's ''Literature/ThenAgainMaybeIWont'', the main character, Tony, gets his crush, Lisa, to give up smoking by relating the story of his grandmother, who had her larynx removed due to throat cancer (although he neglects to mention that his grandmother never smoked at all and that her cancer was just one of those freak things).
81	* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: The Ugly Truth'', Greg discusses how, during his health class the previous year, there was an anti-smoking unit. The teacher's choice of wording (that anyone could try to give you a cigarette, including your best friend) made Rowley too paranoid to walk with Greg to school for a month, and Greg notes that the lesson didn't do too much for him because he'd already been put off of smoking after walking in on his grandpa doing it in the bathroom.
82	* This trope is the entire premise of another young adult novel, ''Give It Up, Mom'' (1989) by Mary Robinson. Assigned a school project with the aim of making a difference in the world, middle-schooler Rayne decides her project will be to help her mother, Laura, quit smoking. Rayne is so enthusiastic about the idea that she goes so far as to hand out fliers with pictures of her mother on them to local store clerks, asking them not to sell Laura cigarettes (which naturally does not go over well with Rayne's mother). Despite the rocky ride she's in for, with her mother's constant grouchiness and having to deal with several relapses, Rayne is determined to stay on her mother's back for as long as it takes.
83	* ''Literature/NightShift'': In ''Quitters, Inc.'', the main character has a serious smoking problem, and becomes a client of the titular company that helps people quit. It is really telling something that in spite of the extremely cruel methods used by the company (such as electrocuting the protagonist's wife when they caught him smoking), the wife was eventually ''grateful'' to them because they finally managed to make her husband quit.
84	* ''Literature/ThisSideOfParadise'': Myra is not at all pleased with Amory's smoking habit when he tells her about it, giving her an unpleasant image of Amory suffering from the negative side effects of smoking. She insists Amory drop the habit, telling him that it'll stunt his growth. Amory tells her that he doesn't care and that he had seen some horrible things. Later on, Myra still tells him to stop smoking and that she cares after Amory responds that nobody cares about smoking.
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88	* ''Faux Pause'', a Creator/GameShowNetwork-produced ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' knockoff where the hosts ripped (mainly short-lived) game shows. One of the most infamous episodes mocked ''Series/HotPotato'', hosted by Creator/BillCullen, and the steam-spewing sign, the hosts saying (more or less) the steam was the result of someone smoking a bunch of cigarettes at once and then exhaling. A DudeNotFunny moment as Cullen died of lung cancer as the result of heavy smoking almost his entire adult life.
89	* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': "Where There's Smoke," where Carol is part of an anti-smoking committee at Greg's school at the same time he is seen experimenting with smoking due to peer pressure. Greg ultimately decides he doesn't like it, but when another parent sees him with a pack of cigarettes (from a buddy's coat, which he took by mistake), things look bad.
90	* ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'': In a Season 6 episode, Arnold and his buddy, Dudley, experiment with cigarettes until Dudley's adopted father reveals that he is a chronic smoker and is about to undergo a lung transplant ... and that might not even help to save his life.
91	* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'':
92	** Pembleton's smoking is treated as one of just another quirk, but he's frequently chided for it by other characters. He's eventually forced to quit after having a stroke.
93	** Kellerman's introductory season established he had recently quit smoking. Once he TookALevelInJerkass and became a more unlikable character, he started smoking again.
94	* ''Series/SisterSister'': One episode had a girl taunting one of the twins because she didn't smoke, but near the end of the episode, the bully eventually got her comeuppance.
95	* ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'': Onslow's couch potato appearance is made even more degrading by the fact that he drinks and smokes in front of the TV.
96	* ''Series/TheRoyleFamily'': The entire family looks downright disgusting, not least because some of them are seen smoking.
97	* ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'': Patsy and Edna are two middle-aged cynical women who still try to look young and are both heavy smokers.
98	* ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' dealt with the topic of smoking in two episodes, which, while they focused at length on the health risks and "grossness" of the habit, did so in the show's typical satirical fashion. The first episode, made in 1981, is arguably the better-written and more intelligent of the two and even features the show's man of many characters, Les Lye, coming out of character at the end of the episode to deliver an anti-smoking message. The second of the two smoking-themed episodes (made in 1989) posited the theory that the show's trademark green slime is actually mucus scraped from smokers' lungs.
99	* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': Smoking is a huge turn-off to Elaine; she ends her romantic relationship with baseball hall-of-famer Keith Hernandez after discovering that he's a smoker.
100	** Kramer, who is normally portrayed as being all but [[KavorkaMan irresistible]] in-universe, becomes "hideous" after he turns his apartment into a smoking lounge, with his face becoming leathery and his teeth turning brown. He ends up working with lawyer Jackie Chiles to take tobacco companies to court for destroying his looks.
101	--->'''Jackie Chiles''': The man's a goblin. He's only been exposed to smoke for four days. By the time this case gets to trial, he'll be nothing more than a shrunken head.
102	** When George is trying to get out of his engagement with Susan, he tries to take up smoking to get her to break up with him. Susan is disgusted, just as planned - unfortunately, George is just as disgusted, and he is unable to keep up the habit convincingly.
103	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has Quark, his brother Rom, and his nephew Nog discuss this in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E08LittleGreenMen Little Green Men]]", while they are being held captive by the US government in 1947.
104	-->'''Quark:''' What's that disgusting smell?\
105	'''Nog:''' I think it's called "tobacco". It's a deadly drug. When used frequently, it destroys the internal organs.\
106	'''Quark:''' If it's so deadly, then why do they use it?\
107	'''Nog:''' It's also highly addictive.\
108	'''Rom:''' How do they get their hands on it?\
109	'''Nog:''' They buy it in stores.\
110	'''Quark:''' They ''buy'' it? [[HumansAreMorons If they'll buy poison, they'll buy anything!]]
111	* ''Series/{{Thanks}}'': When relatives from Jamestown introduce Plymouth to tobacco, it's portrayed as a disgusting habit. When their supply runs out, all the smokers suffer from withdrawal and storm the Winthrop house in anger.
112	* PlayedForLaughs, of a very BlackComedy kind, in ''Series/ChewinTheFat''. A whole family of smokers has had to get themselves fitted with electronic voice boxes because of their throat cancer. Their postman also has a voice box!
113	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E11LastCigaretteEver Last Cigarette Ever]]" reveals that [[CompressedVice all five main characters are former smokers]], but Ted kept this from his children out of embarrassment. The episode shows how smoking negatively affects them all: Lily's throat gets so bad she sounds like Creator/HarveyFierstein, Ted struggles to climb a few flights of stairs, Barney burns a hole in his beloved tie, and Marshall's boss (with whom he started smoking to impress) has a heart attack. They all try to quit, suffering drastic withdrawal, and the episode ends with Ted explaining how they all quit eventually, with Ted's last cigarette being two weeks after he started dating his future wife.
114	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Chandler was confirmed to have been a chain smoker when he was younger, and in the earlier seasons several episodes featured the rest of the gang trying to make him quit smoking, making it a point to tell him how gross it is. After he quit smoking, he picked up the habit again when the stress of being caught in the middle of Ross's and Rachel's nasty breakup became too much too handle, much to the chagrin of the rest of the gang.
115	* Horrifically PlayedStraight with two heavy smokers in ''Series/TheSopranos'', Johnny Sack and Bobby Bacala Sr.
116	** Bobby Bacala Sr. is dying from lung cancer after decades of smoking, and every scene he's in has him coughing his lungs out and struggling to speak. His OneLastSmoke isn't satisfying or cool, it just looks ''painful'', and he can barely even inhale. It ends up killing him.
117	** Johnny Sack being a chain-smoker is one of his defining traits, and even he knows it's not good. This is implied to be one of the reasons why he accepts [[MoralityPet Ginny's]] obesity because he also has a self-destructive habit that's hard to break. But still, [[spoiler: he ends up getting terminal lung cancer in season six, and his death is one of the saddest moments in the series]].
118	* ''Series/HalloAusBerlin'': More like "Underage Smoking is Not Cool"[[note]]Before 2007, the smoking age in Germany was 16[[/note]]; In "Schule", Arno (who is 14) is caught smoking in the school bathroom and [[AfterSchoolCleaningDuty has to sweep the smoking corner as punishment]].
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122	* "Pimper's Paradise" from Music/BobMarley's ''Music/{{Uprising}}''
123	--> ''She loves to smoke, sometimes shifting coke''
124	--> ''She be laughing when there ain't no joke''
125	--> ''A pimper's paradise... that's all she was now''
126	** Given that second line, it might not have been ''tobacco'' she was smoking.
127	* The music video of Music/{{Eminem}}'s "My Name Is" had two low-life partners watching television when Eminem first appears on TV. The man is an obese couch potato, while his equally unattractive female partner has messy hair and smokes a cigarette. In one GrossUpCloseUp, she's even seen blowing smoke at the camera.
128	* Mike Shinoda's Music/FortMinor has a song called "Cigarettes", which compares the lies told in the rap game to the lies told by tobacco companies to consumers.
129	* In Music/RelientK's song "Deathbed", the singer starts [[TheAlcoholic drinking]] and smoking cigarettes at 14. His alcoholism and habitual drinking lead to a lot of misery, cultivating in lung cancer. It ends on a BittersweetEnding, however, as he became Christian and went to Heaven in the end.
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133	* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] once asked his mom if he could try smoking. Much to his surprise, she agreed to it without argument and even told him where to find some cigarettes around the house. Naturally, when Calvin lights up outside and tries taking a nice big pull on it, he finds himself choking and coughing up the smoke. His mom then steps out and asks [[ScareEmStraight if he learned his lesson.]] Calvin takes away that trusting his parents can be hazardous to his health.
134	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'', the only time Curtis's dad's smoking is ever mentioned is when Curtis is trying to convince him to stop.
135	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' a tobacco lobbyist talks about wanting to spread the image of sex appeal that smoking brings while she herself is a withered husk in a suit.
136	* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' had this come up to [[AnthropomorphicVice Mr. Butts]], the sycophantic mascot of the tobacco industry of all characters. As part of a promotion, Butts comes up behind a guy who exudes coolness and asks if he smokes. The guy, never turning around to see who is asking, simply replies, "No, smoking is for idiots."
137	* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': Stephen Pastis is a non-smoker in real life but his AuthorAvatar in the comic is a heavy smoker in order to, [[WordOfGod in Pastis's words]], make him look more like a "[[SelfDeprecation degenerate loser]]".
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141	* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the North American version, Traveling Matt encounters people smoking cigarettes and cigars, which he thinks are tubes they use to light fires inside their mouths. He notes that, judging from the way they cough, it can't be healthy. Matt throws a pitcher of water on a man smoking a cigar to keep the "fire in the man's mouth" from getting "out of control."
142	* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'': In the GrandFinale "Closing Up Shop", some of the characters convince Seymour Polutski [[spoiler: not to buy out NODDY's]] by telling him that smoking is bad.
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146	* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', the Penguin has had to attach a voice box to his neck because of all that smoking he does.
147	* ''VideoGame/BloodwingsPumpkinheadsRevenge'': There's a JokeItem in the first level, a pack of cigarettes, which if you try to use them ''will kill you''.
148	* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/DeathwishEnforcers'' with Diana, when she enters doors with rapid-fire power-ups. While her fellow ActionGirl Cleo lives up to the SmokingIsCool ideal as per [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the game's 1960s setting]], Diana smokes until she's green in the face, clearly showing that she has no experience with this.
149	* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
150	** Dante was explicitly designed with this in mind, WordOfGod declaring that he's "too cool to smoke." His ContinuityReboot counterpart in ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' was initially shown smoking in the first trailer, but again, Word of God states that he ''did'' smoke before but has kicked the habit.
151	** In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', Nero dislikes Nico's smoking habit, though he'll light a cigarette for her. V shows he dislikes it too by fanning away the smoke. The game also has a message in the intro/Mission 1 cutscene stating that the game does not promote smoking.
152	* The Detective in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' thinks SmokingIsCool (and during his youth, it perhaps was), but it's wrecked his lungs, aged him from [[IWasQuiteALooker the strikingly handsome Precinct 'rock star' he was in his 30s]] to a sad, bloated old man, and turned his fingers brown. Klaasje chain-smokes menthol cigarettes, and it's slowly ruining her [[SlidingScaleOfBeauty movie-star good looks]] (the Detective notes that Klaasje's glittery disco catsuit, close-up, is covered with burn marks from the cigarette ash). The Deserter smokes and it's part of his overall [[FunHatingVillain joyless, miserable old age]]; and while Kim smokes, in part because he loves the cool image of it (and Harry praises how cool he looks while doing so), he is also ashamed of himself for falling for the affectation, notes how unhealthy and pointless it is, and limits himself to exactly one cigarette a day.
153	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': Solid Snake and Naked Snake/Big Boss will inevitably get [[WhatTheHellHero criticized]] by at least one member of their supporting teams for their smoking habit. {{Averted\|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', in which just about every member of Big Boss' MSF smokes or otherwise uses tobacco. Most of the series relies on DoNotDoThisCoolThing to get this trope across, but ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' plays this painfully straight as Old Snake keeps losing his cigarettes or getting them confiscated and, at one point, is coughing away with an oxygen mask and ''still'' asks for a smoke. It's a powerful moment when he decides to give it up after learning he no longer has to fight.
154	* The news reporter in ''VideoGame/PerfectVermin'' is seen smoking cigarettes off-screen between levels as indicated by his ashtray. His {{Jerkass}} behavior, {{Gonk}}ish appearance, and discolored yellow and rotting teeth do not paint a cool image of him. [[spoiler:He's also dying of lung cancer as a result of his addiction.]]
155	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
156	** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]] with Chris. He smokes in the uncut intro of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 the first game]]; no mention is made of it for years afterwards, but circumstances lead to him chain-smoking in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''. Piers is quick to call him out on it.
157	** Leon Kennedy takes measures to follow this. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', he turns down a smoke when offered, and, as shown in the page quote, offers Luis Sera gum when he asks for a smoke. His early character concepts from ''2'' did depict him as a smoker (with the only evidence in the final game being that his personal item is a Zippo lighter), so he presumably quit at some point.
158	* ''Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}''-esque shooter in the form of an EdutainmentGame that eliminates the tobacco-induced ailments from a dying smoker's body to teach him (and us) that smoking is bad.
159	* ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider'': Ana is dying of terminal lung cancer, and even this doesn't stop her from smoking cigarettes. [[spoiler:Ultimately, what kills her is not cancer but Trinity deciding YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and sending a sniper to shoot her.]]
160	* ''VideoGame/SamAndMax'', Sam and Max need to defeat Jurgen by destroying his reputation in front of his zombie army. One of the methods is to turn the VerySpecialEpisode of [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Midtown Cowboys]] into an [[StealthCigaretteCommercial ad for Garlic Clove Cigarettes.]] The result is Jurgen smoking a cigarette only to end up in a coughing fit.
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164	* ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'': Cass picks up on a goon being a smoker from his stained teeth, then uses his reduced lung capacity against him in a curbstomp fight.
165	* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Grace gives Mao a pack of cigarettes. After [[FingerSnapLighter lighting one up]], he [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-6-page-48/ immediately looks disgusted and starts coughing]].
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169	* This is the subject of the "[[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Sonic Sez]]" segment at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode, "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E30FullTiltTails Full-Tilt Tails]]", wherein Grounder smokes a cigarette and makes Tails do the same. As Grounder ends up choking on his cigarette and turning a pale green, Sonic explains to the viewers that smoking is bad for your health and stains your teeth.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' rams this message down your throat. BigBad Tex Hex had a toadying lickspittle named Scuzz who smokes cigars and is always coughing and hacking up a storm. The other villains despise him, and in one KnowingIsHalfTheBattle segment, even he admits that he regrets having started the habit in the first place.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The entire plot of the episode "Secondhand Smoke" revolves around this. Peter takes up smoking to have an excuse to quit working, and quickly becomes addicted; the episode does not pull any punches on how much havoc Peter's wreaking on his body and health by doing so. Eventually, the episode ends [[spoiler: with Peter wondering how things will turn back to normal for him. Lois tells him the effects of smoking can't be overturned. Peter just asks for a {{cutaway gag}}, but when it returns to him, he is still in the same worse shape, causing him to say: "Oh, crap!". Cue the end credits.]]
172	* As early as 1938 (when most of the world would reject this trope) WesternAnimation/PorkyPig starred in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' commercial called ''WesternAnimation/WhollySmoke'' that emphasized the dangers of smoking and made the habit look about as "cool" as self-mutilation.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': In the VerySpecialEpisode "Inherit the Wheeze", Brain gets addicted to smoking after being used for {{animal testing}} of the effects of nicotine, and Pinky starts to worry his friend has a [[{{Malaproper}} "monkey in his pants"]]. Brain's latest scheme to TakeOverTheWorld involves becoming the Joe Cool-esque mascot for a tobacco company, and all the executives at the company are shown as sleazebags with terrible smoker's coughs. Hell, the company president is a wheelchair-bound invalid who [[YoungerThanTheyLook looks like he's pushing a hundred even though he's only in his forties]]. Brain gives up on the scheme and vows to kick the habit [[EveryoneHasStandards when he sees the execs plan to use him to market cigarettes to kids]].
174	* A ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch involves several famous cartoon characters being treated for lung cancer in a hospital. These include Franchise/ThePinkPanther, the caterpillar from ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', [[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} Olive Oyl]] (who suffered from secondhand pipe smoke from Popeye, who ironically [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity built up an immunity to lung cancer from the antioxidants in his spinach]]), and [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]] (who speaks through an electrolarynx as a result of smoking too many Winston cigarettes).
175	* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'': The Multiplication Rock song "Naughty Number Nine" is about a cigar-smoking FatCat who plays pool with an unwilling mouse as the cue ball. The people behind the show had to fight the censor to get the cigar on the air to show how "Naughty" the character was. In ''The Official Guide'', they admitted that in modern times, the cat would probably take his stogie outside to smoke.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
177	** Patty and Selma, who are already very ugly and downright unpleasant company, smoke heavily. In fact, a {{flashback}} in "Three Men and a Comic Book" suggested they [[UsedToBeASweetKid used to be nicer and their voices were far more feminine]] until they took up smoking.
178	** Krusty the Clown, an egotistical and careless entertainer, is so addicted to tobacco that even being covered in nicotine patches doesn't prevent him from licking a patch on his elbow.
179	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E4LisaTheBeautyQueen Lisa the Beauty Queen]]", when Lisa feels depressed about her appearance, Homer enters her in a BeautyContest sponsored by Laramie, a cigarette multinational that bald-facedly admits [[StealthCigaretteCommercial it only sponsors events for the intent of advertising its product on TV]], which Lisa ends up winning after the first-place winner gets struck by lightning. When Lisa realizes she is being exploited by the company, she immediately rebels against them and uses her influence to provide more socially admirable messages, such as making a stance that government money could be used for better education instead of spending it in sports (which caused a football team to be chased out by angry nerds).
180	* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Life in the 90s" had a segment called "Butt Out", which was a seven-minute long anti-smoking PSA. Babs attempts to enjoy her carrot cake, but is constantly bothered by Roderick and Rubella Rat from Perfecto Prep who are smoking cigarettes despite being in the non-smoking section of the restaurant. She tries to be nice, but when they refuse, of course, y'know, ThisMeansWar
181	* Probably the only unattractive thing about Dr. Girlfriend in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' is [[VocalDissonance her masculine, gravelly voice]]. After a few seasons (and [[AmbiguousGender some transphobic jokes]]), the show settled on the idea that this just came from smoking a lot.
182	-->'''Jefferson Twilight:''' Do you smoke cigarettes or do you ''eat'' them?
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