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{{quote|''"Ahh, there's nothing better than a cigarette... unless it's a cigarette lit with a $100 bill!"''
A [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], or another kind of (usually) unpleasant character, sets alight a high-denomination dollar bill, and uses it to light his cigar or his cigarette.
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Not to be confused with [[Conspicuous Consumption]], which is what this phrase refers to in real life.
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲== Anime ==
* In ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', Suitengu smokes cigarettes wrapped in 10,000 Yen bills.
** [[Egregious|Even worse]], he crushes them underfoot after no more than four drags, then lights another in less than a minute. If that's not enough, at one point he nonchalantly sets fire to a whole briefcase worth of the bills.
* One episode of ''[[C
* In ''[[The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal]]'', the wealthy jerk bourgeois fish is told on at least 2 occasions it was too dark to travel and he responded that it's fine, he'd just light his way by burning his money.
== Film ==
* ''[[A Better Tomorrow]]'': Chow Yun-Fat's Mark Gor does this with a counterfeit bill in one of the opening shots of [[John Woo]]'s classic action film.
* In the 1985A scene of ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'', The Pleasure Paradise logo has an image of Biff Tannen smoking a dollar bill.
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== Literature ==
* In [[Agatha Christie]]'s short story "The Soul of the Croupier", the Countess does this to the high denomination bill that the croupier arranged for her to win, because she will not accept his charity. {{spoiler|He is her long-estranged husband.}}
* ''[[American Psycho]]'': One of Pat Bateman's friends teases a homeless guy with a dollar bill and then lights his cigar with it. Pat thinks he's a jerk (but it's not worth killing him over—he likes the homeless even less).
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* At the beginning of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s pre-''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Strata]]'', protagonist Kin Arad is uninterested in Jago Jalo's claims of an uncharted world where thought becomes matter, until he takes out a couple hundred thousand years worth of the life-extension tickets that function as the setting's currency and casually tosses them all into a trash disintegrator.
* In [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]’s ''[[The Idiot]]'', Natasya Filipponva heard that Gavrila Ardalionovich would “crawl to Vassilievsky Island for three roubles”. She tests Gavrila by throwing a packet of ten thousand roubles into a fire, and telling him that if he reaches in with his bare hands, he can keep whatever he grabs.
* Lazarus Long does this to a big bill in [[Time Enough for Love]] after his bank gets nationalized. He's trying to teach the mayor that money is a fiction and he shouldn't get too attached to the notes themselves. Lazarus then comments that that's what he usually does when the safe starts to get too full. Then he writes down the serial number so he can keep track of the currency in the system. This more than anything else convinces the mayor that he has no idea how an economy works.
== Live Action TV ==▼
* In the shortlived sitcom ''[[Paris]]'', one character does this, saying, "What's fifty francs to a man like me?". When told it's a one-hundred note, he promptly stamps it out, complaining that no one had told him.
* Jonathan did this during his supervillain period on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. It heralded his eventual death of course, since everyone on the show who smokes ends up dead.
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* When Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney character appeared on [[Comic Relief]], he sold someone a red nose for £5 (at the time the retail price was 50p), then blew his nose with the fiver and threw it away. [[Laser-Guided Karma|He immediately got hit by a car]].
* One of the "bonus rounds" in the UK version of ''[[Distraction]]'' awards the contestant £5000 for winning the game - then for every question he gets wrong in this round, he must throw £1000 of it onto a wildly burning fire, where it must stay until the end of the round. A similar game is played with the money in toasters.
* One episode of ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' involves a gang who broke into the US Treasury in order to literally print money. At the end of the episode, James West uses a handful of the gang's $100 bills to light a cigar.
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