Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Difference between revisions

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[[File:basilratigansmoking2.jpg|link=The Great Mouse Detective|frame|Smoking [[Foe Yay|might be]] the only interest they both share.]]

{{quote|'''Spike:''' Taking up smoking, are you?

'''Harmony:''' I ''am'' a villain, Spike. Helloooo? [then coughs, ruining the whole thing]|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''}}

Smoking is generally considered bad for you. Thus, smoking is portrayed by the villain, so as to drive home the [[Anvilicious]] [[An Aesop|Aesop]] that [[Drugs Are Bad]].

It is almost never portrayed as '[[Smoking Is Cool|cool]]' in today's media, and even the [[Badass]] seems to be quitting the habit. In children's cartoons, it's perfectly acceptable for a villain to smoke, especially if they blow it in somebody's face, but the hero thinks it's a disgusting habit, or they may be trying to quit. Alternatively, a heavy smoker may be shown as extremely affected by the smoke to show how bad it is.

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* The smoker is [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|French]], and somebody wants to be stereotypical.

* The smoker is Native American, and only [[Memetic Mutation|"smokum peace pipe"]] as a cultural gesture.

* The smoker isn't ''really'' smoking, but rather blowing bubbles from a [[Bubble Pipe]] or something like that.

Also, what and how one smokes determines Good Smoking from Evil Smoking.

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* Clove cigarettes are cool smoking. Alternately, they may be the sign of a pretentious hipster douchebag. Kind of like the [[Emo Kid]] version of [[Beard of Evil]].

* The character is [[The Stoner]], and smoking is a part of their character. Of course in a lot of films with Stoners, [[The Stoner]] gets killed so smoking is very, very bad for you indeed...

* [[Cigar Chomper|Characters who smoke lots of Cigars]] are either [[Badass]], [[Jerkass]], or rich and bad. Generally, the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and Rebel will smoke cigars. If the smoker is out of shape and well-dressed, then they're evil or at least a self-important jerk (unless they're [[Winston Churchill]]). If the smoker is muscle-bound and wearing rough clothing, they're generally either morally gray or heroic badasses. A woman [[Freud Was Right|who smokes a cigar]] is usually [[The Vamp]].

* Cigarillos are usually sleazy, low-level evil with a tendency to droop. Of course, there is [[Clint Eastwood]].

* Also an indicator of Evil Smoking is if they hold a cigarette in an unusual way. As Jim Jarmusch comments to Harvey Keitel in ''[[Blue In The Face]]'':

{{quote|Nazis in movies. Why do they always smoke in some weird way like this? (puts cigarette between middle and ring fingers and speaking in German accent) "Ve have vays of making you talk!" Or this (holds cigarette with thumb and index finger) "Jah, we have seen vhat you've done!"}}

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* Asuma from ''[[Naruto]]'' met every condition for the suspension, he was even going to be a father soon. {{spoiler|Shikamaru however didn't quite make the cut and thus, his smoking had to be censored in the anime. He carried a lighter with him that he turned on and off in the deceased Asuma's memory instead.}}

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

* The three main characters of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' frequently smoke cigarettes, with all of them leaning towards good. This is never mentioned by anyone in the show, giving the audience the impression that smoking instead became more commonplace in the future. The aesthetics of the show come from 1970's. Smoking is a part of the image.

** Lampshaded in an Adult Swim bumper that theorized that in the ''Cowboy Bebop'' universe, tobacco is classified as a food group.

* Stein from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' is almost certainly a "badass" exception for good smoking. On the other hand, his addiction to cigarettes is also used as a metaphor for [[The Corruption|his insanity]]. So it's a mix of Evil Smoking and [[Evil Is Cool]].

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* We haven't seen her smoke it yet, but ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'''s [[Hot Witch|Beatrice]] habitually carries a long, old-fashioned pipe, similar to a cigarette holder, using it as a [[Magic Wand]].

* Yuuko of ''[[xxxHolic]]'' smokes a great part of her time at home.

* Hijikata Toshirou of ''[[Gintama]]'' is known for his chain cigarette smoking, and falls under both the sexy and [[Badass]] exceptions. The mayonnaise bottle lighter ruins the effect somewhat. Or enhances it, whatever works for you. Quite a few characters in the series smoke, including Otose who smokes almost as much as Hijikata. The main villain Takasugi Shinsuke however smokes a long pipe. Tsukuyo also smokes a pipe, but though she was introduced as a villain she soon became one of the good guys.

* Gilbert in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' could fall under sexy smoking. In an omake, however, the other characters make fun of him for smoking. Then they make fun of him for trying to quit (eight times now, in fact). Then they make fun of him for failing to quit (...eight times). [[Butt Monkey|He gets a lot of abuse for everyone's entertainment]].

* Choji Suitengu of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' does not just smoke long cigarettes. He smoked using rolled up [[Money to Burn|10,000 yen bills]].

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** [[Unlucky Everydude]] Jean Havoc is always smoking a cigarette, and is definitely a good guy. However the real reason the author made him a smoker was {{spoiler|just so he could throw Mustang a lighter in that ONE SCENE.}}

** Pinako Rockbell, the Elric brothers' surrogate grandmother, smokes a pipe. As someone wise and grandmotherly, she is allowed.

* In her original incarnation, [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Jupiter]] was to be the leader of a gang of female [[Delinquents]], which included smoking. When the idea of her being a ''sukeban'' was scrapped, so was the idea of her smoking.

* Lots of characters in ''[[Saiyuki]]'' smoke (and indeed in Minekura's other works). Sanzo, Gojyo, Tenpou, Kenren and Koumyo smoke or smoked, and are all good guys. Dr Nii is however evil and also smokes {{spoiler|(infact all the Sanzo priest's we've seen so far do)}} [[Shizo Tech|this is despite the fact they are in ancient China.]]

* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''

** At least one person per antagonistic unit smokes (with the exception of the Hiruma Brothers and Woo Heishin/the Su-shin).

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*** [[Wolverine]] used to smoke cigars, but eventually gave up the habit, specifically directly after losing his adamantium to [[Magneto]]'s cruelty; his healing power got extremely taxed during that incident, which may have something to do with it (in-universe, at least). Paraphrasing:

{{quote|'''Wolverine:''' Time I gave those nasty things up, anyway.}}

*** Gambit was also known to smoke in his early appearances in the 90s.

** Mob boss Kingpin originally had a cigarette holder, but switched to villainous cigars after they went out of style.

** J. Jonah Jameson chomps on a cigar. He's a blowhard, but a good guy. [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Kinda.]]

** [[Howard the Duck (comics)|Howard the Duck]] also had a cigar.

** In reprints of the original 1940's [[Captain America]], Steve Rogers can be seen smoking a pipe. This gets the "correct to the era" exemption (probably why Marvel didn't photoshop the pipe out).

** In reprints of the original 1940's [[Captain America (comics)]], Steve Rogers can be seen smoking a pipe. This gets the "correct to the era" exemption (probably why Marvel didn't photoshop the pipe out).

** Dr. Stephen Strange, the man who eventually became [[Doctor Strange]], is shown lighting a cigarette ''in the operating room'' immediately after performing a surgery. In context, it indicates how self-centered he was.

** On the evil side of the equation, Bullseye was often seen lighting up cigarettes before Marvel banned them.

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** In the earlier days of the company, nearly every heroic character who was "respectable" (IE - Businessmen like Bruce Wayne or alien scientists from the future like Brainiac 5) was shown smoking pipes constantly.

** In ''[[Sandman]]'', Desire not only smokes all the time, but he/she is apparently just ''lighting'' its cigarettes ''constantly''. This is possibly a subtle [[Shout-Out]] to [[Oscar Wilde]]: "''A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.''" A perfect habit for the incarnation of desire.

** [[The Authority|Jenny Sparks]] is a chainsmoker. It gets to the point where she is seen with a cigarette almost 3/4 of the time.

** Jenny Quantum picks up the habit.

** When it was revealed that [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Terra]] was [[The Mole]], she took to smoking. In this case, however, it was to provide a more mature look to the rather immature looking character.

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* In ''[[Watchmen]]'', The Comedian smokes cigars, while Laurie and other side characters smoke cigarettes, though they look vastly different from what we would know them to be, given the divergent technology. Technically, they're actually ''pipes''.

* [[Transmetropolitan]]: Spider Jerusalem forces his non-smoking assistant to ''start''. He's the hero. To be fair, he seems to keep a good supply of "anti-cancer traits" on hand, and always tells the new assistant where they are just after telling them to start smoking; so, at least within The City, smoking isn't particularly harmful. According to a flashback, {{spoiler|his ex-wife}} smoked from an octodecuple (that's ''eighteen'') cigarette holder.

* ''[[Fables]]'' has a [[Big Badass Wolf]] who smokes cigars to {{spoiler|mask the scent of his One True Love}}. He's a heroic badass example, but unusual in that he has a specific reason for smoking.

* Miss Misery in ''Sleeper''. For her to stay perfectly healthy, she has to do bad things, which is why she's always seen smoking.

* [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]].

* [[Batman]] has been seen smoking a pipe, while in his Bruce Wayne identity as late as 1980 in an issue of New Teen Titans. He was addressing Robin in a fatherly way while relaxing in his armchair.

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''. Jesse smokes constantly, even pausing to light up mid fight on more than one occasion.

* [[Superman/Characters|Manchester Black]]

* [[Lucky Luke]] used to smoke until he quit and switched to a ''piece of straw'' circa 1983.

* '''Other Comics'''

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** Neither [[The Hero|Wallace nor John Hartigan]] smoke and they're the nicest "heroes" in Sin City.

* The Phantom's enemies often smoked to indicate they were evil. Whereas cigarettes and cigars were often prominent, cigarette holders were reserved for the incredibly pompous, egotistical blowhards, such as General Tara, a self-centered dictator who brandished one easily a foot in length. It was an effective touch by artist Sy Barry as the accessory was obviously intended to affect a superior, haughty air, and when used by a fat, barbaric paramilitary type, very effete. When he was feeling his most smug and content, he blew smoke rings, often while anticipating some sadistic act, such as torturing the Phantom's fiancée, Diana Palmer in "The Tyrant of Tarakimo." In the story's sequel, he huffs lazy smoke rings from a massively ornate throne to indicate his satisfaction after his henchmen successfully kidnap Diana, presenting her to him in harem outfit.

* In ''[[Blake and Mortimer]]'', the two heroes are often seen smoking pipe. Olrik, their [[Arch Enemy]], is often shown with a cigarette holder.

== [[Commercials]] ==

* An old Airwick commercial commented on "The Old Fogie Stogie", featuring an old man who laughingly blew cigar smoke at the viewer.

* Before the climate changed against smoking, Marlboro had a series of ads featuring The Marlboro Man, a cowboy who would invite viewers to "come to where the flavor is". Marlboro cigarettes were ''so'' popular that there was a billboard of the Marlboro Man ''blowing smoke rings'' on Times Square in New York until the late [[The Eighties|80s.]]

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''

** Cruella DeVil not only smokes, but for added evil, uses a cigarette holder. Indeed, no animated film ever made smoking look more disgusting than this film with Cruella polluting the air with green smoke and putting out her cigarette in a pastry. In addition, the quick scene where Jasper Badun contemptuously flicks cigar ash onto Horace's sandwich bread is even more stomach churning. Cruella also has this habit in the live-action films. The sequel, ''102 Dalmatians'' uses her attitude towards smoking as an indicator of her "Ella" personality (who now hated it) and the return of "Cruella" (who loved it). Disney released quit-smoking ads on their DVDs featuring clips of Cruella and her ''greeeeeen'' smoke.

** Roger smokes as well, but he smokes a pipe.

* In ''[[Song of the South]]'', [[Magical Negro|Uncle Remus]] smokes a pipe. Along with one of the animated frogs. [[Old Shame|Disney's already tried to cover up THAT film]] for [[Fair for Its Day|entirely]] [[Unfortunate Implications|different]] [[Moral Guardians|reasons]]...

* Jim Dear in ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' also smokes a pipe.

* Practically everyone smokes in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', including the hero, but seeing how the movie is set in the Victorian Era, it shouldn't really be a surprise.'

* Disney:

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* In ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]] '', Santa Claus is depicted smoking a pipe in many scenes before being kidnapped by martians.

* A subversion and a straight example feature at the same time in ''[[Chicago]]''. "The Cell Block Tango" Velma Kelly being very sexy and smoking. But she's an incarcerated murderess who sings "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" about the victim, so she's also evil.

** So the smoking makes her more evil than all the non-smokers with [[Implausible Deniability]].

* Helena's [[Evil Twin]] in ''[[Mirror Mask]]'' smokes (and snogs goth boys! Ick!), though never on screen. Even the commentary admits that this is a bit odd.

* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''

** The Comedian chomps cigars, lighting one with the torch of his flamethrower, to show that he's a [[Badass]] as well as a [[Jerkass]].

** Silhouette uses a cigarette holder as she does in the comics.

* [[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]] is a heroic badass and smokes cigars. The [[Hellboy (film)|first film]] even has a scene near the end which illustrates Hellboy's and Director Manning's grudging respect of each other with them bonding over cigars. By the second film, Hellboy's loose adherence to the rules has reduced Manning to bribing him with Cuban cigars. ''[[Hellboy II]]'' actually has a disclaimer at the end of the credits (next to "this is a work of fiction" and "no animals were harmed") explicitly stating that the film's depictions of smoking are for dramatic purposes only and should not be taken to imply anything positive about smoking in real life.

* In ''[[Independence Day]]'', Steve only smokes cigars at the end of any aerial dogfight he wins, because he's the hero. David, on the other hand, spends the whole movie as an over the top green type. He berated his father for smoking cigarettes. But after he and Steve have saved the world (and they light up Victory Cigars together), he cheerfully tells his father, "Oh, I could get used to it."

* In ''[[The Core]]'', Zimsky was the self-serving [[Jerkass]] through the entire movie, and had been denied his cigs by the rest of the cast. Due to the tendency of [[Disaster Movie|Disaster Movies]] to off the cast one member at a time, he finally ends up alone with his cigs, just in time for a [[Redemption Equals Death]] soliloquy.

* Snake Plissken, tough guy [[Badass]] from ''[[Escape from New York]]'', smokes through that movie, and actually got the final shot with a [[Power Walk]] and a cigarette. In ''[[Escape From L.A.]]'' he doesn't have access to cigarettes until the end, in which he illuminates his face purely with the light of his match. In fact, the film is supportive of smoking rights. John Carpenter himself is a chain smoker.

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* John McClane lights up a cig in the limo in the first five minutes of ''[[Die Hard]]''. He is proven to be a [[Badass]].

* In the 1970s ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' [[Lois Lane]] not only smoked, but she smoked Marlboros. Because Marlboros are thought to be a manly cigarette, this was probably characterization for Lois Lane as a [[Tomboy]]. Superman does warn her about the dangers of smoking as she does so, and in the distant sequel ''[[Superman Returns]]'', actually blows out her matches before she can light them. As a sign of changing times, Lois smoking is treated as a slightly bigger deal in ''Returns''.

* In ''[[Space Jam]]'', [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Swackhammer smokes cigars.

* In the first of the ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movies, Eric Knox and the Thin Man both smoke.

* The entire cast of ''[[Event Horizon]]'' shares a cigarette early in the film, which works as kind of a "Three on a match" callback. Thing is, that includes both good and evil characters.

* In ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'', Raoul Duke (an amoral character, at best, when he's away from his typewriter) constantly smokes cigarettes from a cigarette holder (which Depp stole from the real HST, after he followed him around to get his characterization down), just like the real Hunter S. Thompson. Several critics complained that the cigarette holder always clenched between [[Johnny Depp]]'s teeth made some of his dialogue unintelligible.

* Subverted in ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'', where the heroine uses a cigarette holder although she is neither rich nor a bitch.

* In ''[[Oldboy]]'', when the protagonist smokes his first cigarette after 15 years of imprisonment (during which he [[Took a Level In Badass|has become quite the badass]]), he [[This Means War|takes it away from a gang member's mouth]].

* In ''[[Kill Bill]]'' Elle Driver smokes, and it is definitely evil smoking.

* ''[[Constantine]]''

** Papa Midnite subverts the cigarillo trope by being a good/neutral witch-doctor turned bartender.

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* The ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' smoke in the first film. It's not necessarily ''[[Smoking Is Cool|cool]]'', but it does help ground the heroes as working-class stiffs.

* The first sign of Henry's evil in ''[[The Good Son]]'' is that he smokes. And gets Mark to smoke too.

* The evil Smokers in ''[[Waterworld]]'' not only rely on smoke-spewing gasoline engines, but also seem to have an unlimited source of cigarettes.

* In the 1997 version of ''[[The Borrowers]]'', Mr. Potter smoked a cigar while wearing a suit and being played by overweight actor John Goodman. Guess what his alignment was.

* As noted in the comics section above, actors portraying the ''Batman'' villain Penguin have appeared with a long cigarette-holder in their mouths or hands, in order to play up the character's snobbery and moral degeneracy. Ironically, both actors who played this character in live action - Burgess Meredith and [[Batman Returns|Danny De Vito]] were nonsmokers at the time. Rumor has it that Meredith's distinctive "waugh waugh waaaaugh" laugh was to cover up the cough that the herbal cigarettes caused.

* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] makes his big-screen debut with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth. Good guys and bad guys alike smoke a variety of cigars and cigarettes throughout the series (although this has declined in recent decades).

* The era-appropriate exemption is played with in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', as Eddie Valiant either borrows or buys some cigarettes from some people he met on the Red Line trolley. The exemption is also thrown into sharper relief by the fact that it's a ''bunch of kids'' that supplied them.

* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'': SS officer Hans Landa's [[Faux Affably Evil]] personality is embellished by his huge and cartoonishly extravagant calabash pipe.

* In ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'', [[Louis Cypher|Mr. Nick]] is usually seen with a cigarette holder in his mouth.

* The movie: ''[[Thank You for Smoking]]'' featured this prominently, pointing out the idea of Hollywood getting paid to advertise smoking, as Big Tobacco (set in the early '90s) was trying to find a mass market appeal again while facing allegations that cigarettes cause cancer. For extra irony, the film never actually shows anyone smoking.

* This trope is invoked in the film version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''; even though only good guys smoke in the movies, Aragorn is made to look sinister in his first appearance by having him smoke in the shadows, with the fire glinting off his eyes.

* In the 1961 version of ''[[Cape Fear]]'', villain Cady smokes Scummy Bastard cigars, while heroic Bowden does not smoke.

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== [[Literature]] ==

* In the famous Christmas poem ''Twas The Night Before Christmas'', [[Santa Claus]] smokes, and the smoke encircles his head like a wreath.

* In one of the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' books, one of the characters smokes, and Alex specifically comments that he thought he would take better care of himself. He turns out to {{spoiler|be [[The Mole]]}}.

* [[Sherlock Holmes]] also smokes a pipe in the adaptations of his story. Probably because the screechy violin and the fact that he did cocaine in the book made it a case of choosing the lesser evil. He also smokes cigarettes in the original stories, but that detail rarely makes it into other adaptations, probably at least in part because of the prominence of this trope.

* [[Discworld]]

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* In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', one of [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Elminster_Aumar Elminster's] "trademarks" is pipe spewing vile blue or green smoke. [[Justified Trope]]: magic in FR requires material components (burning pipe provides several) and Elminster is immune to mundane ailments like smoker's cough (...or some poisons, or need to sleep). Pipe itself holds lots of enchantments (e.g. it's able to follow owner, teleporting when necessary) and is activation key to some others.

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', smoking is not an indicator of good or evil but of culture, as smoking is not universally known or done. Smoking is practised by the hobbits and men of the Shire and Bree-land, and by the Dwarves and Northern Dúnedain who adapted it from them. Elves do not smoke, and in the Southern human lands it is unknown. The actual smoking is done by pipe, and in the recreational-at-rest rather than the chain-smoking way.

** Saruman is also a smoker, secretly picking it up after having seen Gandalf smoke, although in the open he ridiculed him for it. In the movie he makes a wonderfully suggestive snarky comment about it to Gandalf: "Your love of the halflings' leaf has clearly slowed your mind."

** Amusingly, in ''[[Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth|Unfinished Talesof Numenor and Middleearth]]'', the scene where Saruman berates Gandalf's smoking indicates that Saruman the Wise couldn't figure out the function or purpose of smoking without being explained; he assumed that it was a toy Gandalf had invented to make funny shapes with smoke. The idea of soothing herbs completely missed him.

** The Balrog smokes too. Okay, that's because he's on ''fire.''

* In ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', Roland smokes. [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|He thinks it's healthy.]] Given that he lives in an alternate world, it may very well be.

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* The only smoker in the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' novels is Mundungus Fletcher, [[Pet Rat|Dumbledore's ear to the underground]] and a [[Con Man|dealer in goods of questionable provenance]].

** Not the only one, Professor Grubbly-Plank smokes as well

** This may be a case of [[Writer on Board]]; [[J. K. Rowling]] is an admitted ex-smoker.

* Fitz Kreiner from the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] smokes a lot -- he once admitted to smoking thirty a day. But he's from the 1960s and [[Anti-Hero|not altogether]] [[Chivalrous Pervert|a paragon]] [[Cowardly Lion|of morality]], anyway. The writers go so far in [[An Aesop|demonstrating its ill effects on his health]] as to have him cough up [[Blood From the Mouth]] at one point<ref>[[What Happened to the Mouse?|it's never brought up again, though]]</ref>, and other characters often tell him off for it<ref>he rarely smokes in the TARDIS because the Doctor disapproves</ref>, but whenever he tries to quit he falls [[Off the Wagon]].

* [[Kinky Friedman]] smokes cigars but [[Badass]] may not be the best way to describe him.

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* [[The Addams Family]]

** Morticia Addams subverted it. She'd ask, "Do you mind if I smoke?" then began randomly emitting smoke.

** Gomez, on the other hand, smoked cigars.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'': Angelus smokes twice over the course of both series--once after he's just killed a prostitute and sucked the smoke directly out of her neck, and once a few seconds before he sets his ex-girlfriends on fire.

** That second time it's Angel, not Angelus. It's kinda a plot point. The first time it's definitely Angelus.

** He also smokes in season 2 during a flashback, as Angel.

** Nearly every character seen smoking in the Buffyverse is evil, doomed, or under a spell.

*** Faith survived sharing a cigarette with Spike in season 7. Oddly, she smoked as an [[Anti-Hero]] but never as a full-on villain.

*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Maybe it's to help with the extreme stress of allying with those who would be happy to see her dead, as well as, y'know, the saving the world thing]].

*** In the episode [[wikipedia:Band Candy|''Band Candy'']], both Joyce and Giles smoke. Joyce lives for another two seasons, and Giles {{spoiler|is killed in Season 8.}}

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* ''[[My Own Worst Enemy]]'' has an interesting example: {{spoiler|The main character has been given a split personality. Ordinary nice guy family man Henry doesn't smoke. [[Badass Normal]] spy guy Edward does.}}

* ''[[Mad Men]]''. ''Everyone'' smokes at some point, usually cigarettes. Regardless of moral status, actually. The main exceptions are Pete Campbell (it seems that Vincent Kartheiser has never been a smoker, and one of the rules of ''Mad Men'' is that [[Real Life Writes the Plot|only smokers or ex-smokers are permitted to smoke in the show]], even though the cigarettes are herbal) and Bert Cooper (where it fits in to his rather eccentric personality, which also includes being a bachelor into old age and decorating his office in the Japanese fashion and requiring visitors to it to remove their shoes--all quite weird in early '60s America).

* In the BBC series, ''[[Life On Mars]]'', everyone in the police station smoked (in 1973). Future boy Sam, with his unending morals and 21st century views, was the only one not to smoke, except for one time when it served to aid him in some way. An obvious reference to real seventies cop shows, especially [[The Sweeney]].

* [[The Nth Doctor|The Roger Delgado version]] of the Master smoked cigars on ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

** And here's some bar trivia: [[Badass Grandpa|The First Doctor]] lights up a pipe in his first story, which turns out to be an important plot point. The Fourth Doctor has a Turkish hookah in the TARDIS, although considering how much other stuff he picked up over the centuries, it doesn't imply he used it recently.

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* ''[[7th Heaven]]'' had a one episode villain who smoked, and ended up accidentally burning down a house. Her response? "You have insurance." The message is "smoking is evil and you should never be friends with smokers"

* The second season of ''[[Blackadder]]'' omitted the ubiquitous smoking of the Elizabethan Era (except in the first episode, [[Smoking Hot Sex|shortly after Edmund learnt "Bob" was a girl]]), but the fourth season showed Lt. George smoking cigarettes and Cpt. Blackadder with a pipe.

* Clove cigarettes are a sign that Kochanski's ex is a pretentious douchebag in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', at least according to Lister. Then again, Lister also thinks the silly white hat he wears is a sign he's a pretentious douchebag, rather than a sign he's a chef.

* ''[[American Dreams]] '' play this straight at first with only characters like [[Good Bad Girl]] Roxanne and troubled cop Pete being smokers but later subverts it with Helen the shows moral compass being revealed as secret a smoker

* None of the main characters on ''[[Frasier]]'' is a regular smoker, and Frasier and Niles usually come down against cigarettes - they are doctors, after all. Their intolerance apparently does not extend to ''cigars'', however, which Niles, Daphne, and Martin all enjoy puffing on in "Adventures in Paradise, Pt. 1".

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*** Even the Boss tells Snake off for smoking cigars in the middle of a mission, even though Snake counters that [[Hypocritical Humor|she used to smoke them]]. The whole exchange comes off like a mother telling off her son.

** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' Snake's smoking habit gets a much more prominent role. His failing health is mostly caused by other factors and he seems to smoke a lot to relieve the pain he is in. Otacon and Sunny do not approve and in one scene Snake is seen secretly smoking next to the kitchen's exhaust fan. In later parts of the games, cigarettes seem to make things only worse, but when Snake gets too weak and shaky to light his cigarette, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Otacon picks up the lighter and help him]].

*** On a related note: the installing screens. Which would explain why Snake's health is so bad. Smoking for half an hour straight can do that to a man.

* The Glukkons from the ''[[Oddworld]]'' series all smoke cigars, due to being a race of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives]].

* In the Japanese version of ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'', resident [[Badass Longcoat]] Gilder smokes a cigar. It's even on his flag; this was, in fact, the lone relic of smoking left in the localization. Vyse's generally badass father also has a cigar in the Japanese version.

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* Tenenbaum of ''[[Bioshock]]'' can be seen smoking in her safehouse, and the protagonist is seen smoking in the first cutscene of the game, ON A PLANE! Remember that this all takes place decades ago, where such things were acceptable.

** In gameplay, smoking a pack of cigarettes restores a little EVE (magic points) at the expense of a an equal amount of health. Drinking booze does the opposite.

* Captain Price in ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' is shown smoking a cigar before the mission Crew Expendable. In in the sequel, Soap, who served under him, smokes a cigar before the mission Cliffhanger.

** Big Bad {{spoiler|General Shepherd}} in ''[[Modern Warfare 2]]'' is not only an excellent case of evil smoking. After he {{spoiler|shoots Roach and Ghost and dumps them into a ditch soaked with gasoline, he steps up to the dying Roach}} and [[Wham! Episode|throws his burning cigar at them]].

** Price also lights up a few times in ''MW3'', most notably after he {{spoiler|hangs Makarov from the ceiling of the Hotel Oasis.}}

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* ''[[Champions Online]]'', despite the immense wealth of other costume part choices, does not have any form of cigar, cigarette, pipe, or anything else as a costume part - for either heroes OR villains.

** ''[[City of Heroes]]'' does have a Cigar costume piece.

* Some characters in ''[[~~Conkers~~ Bad Fur Day]]'', including mobster Don Weaso as well as Conker during the It's War segment were seen smoking cigars. The fire imp in Bat's Tower, however, was smoking a cigarette.

* Some characters in ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]'', including mobster Don Weaso as well as Conker during the It's War segment were seen smoking cigars. The fire imp in Bat's Tower, however, was smoking a cigarette.

* Mr. Leland in ''[[Alpha Protocol]]'' is chewing a big, fat cigar throughout his debriefing with Mike, {{spoiler|and if Mike accepts his offer and joins Halbech at the end, Leland gives him a cigar to seal the deal at the end of the game, signifying his [[Face Heel Turn]]}}.

* [[The Spock|Sasha]] [[The Stoic|Nein]] of ''[[Psychonauts]]'' chain-smokes constantly. He's good--he smokes through the European (he's [[Germanic Depressives]]) and [[Badass]] exceptions. It also helps with his image as a fifties-esque super spy and G-Man.

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** ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' shows they are holding true to that edict. In "Last Train To Bustville", we see Glenda the engineer with a pipe. It's a bubble pipe.

* [[Tom and Jerry|Tom Cat]] occasionally smoked when he was trying to impress a female, which makes it a very early example of "only big dummies smoke".

* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'''

** Dr. Girlfriend gets the "sexy" rule suspension...almost. She has a gravely mannish voice from years of smoking.

** Brock Sampson almost always has a cigarette in his mouth, and has the bad-ass exception ''in spades''.

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* Paw Rugg from [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s "The Hillbilly Bears" smokes a corncob pipe. So does his wife, Maw.

* Cyril Sneer from ''[[The Raccoons]]''

* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'',

** Dale Gribble is a chain smoker; having done it since the third grade because he doesn't know what to do with his hands. Cotton Hill smokes cigars when he celebrates. Hank Hill smokes rarely and it's typically when he's under a lot of stress.

** One episode had a big anti-smoking message, where even his wife and SON wound up addicted to it, so it was up to his non-smoker niece to smooth things over, even taking drastic measures by locking them in a room.