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{{trope}}
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At one time pipes looked more "intellectual" than cigarettes, so a [[The Professor|professor]] or scientist, even quite a young one, would smoke a pipe, while policemen, soldiers and other men of action smoked cigarettes. Nowadays pipes denote old codgers or homages to [[Sherlock Holmes]].
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Compare [[Stealth Cigarette Commercial]], [[Smoking Is Glamorous]], and [[Cigar Chomper]]. See also [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]].
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* Over 80% of the cast in Samurai Deeper Kyo are seen with a smoking pipe. However, the award for coolest smoking badass go to Bontenmaru and Demon Eyes Kyo
* Kira Sakuya & Kato Yue from ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]''. True to the trope, their friend & ''[[The Messiah]]'' Setsuna Mudo is the only non-smoker of the delinquent trio.
* Prominent in ''[[
** Subverted, however, when Elmer startles Ronnie into swallowing his cigarette and he ends up hacking his lungs out for a good few minutes. Not very cool.
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' tries very hard to be cool, to the point where it's ambiguous whether it's a parody or not - and nearly the entire cast seems to chain-smoke as a result. It's notable in that the most intimate moment shared by the leads is an [[Indirect Kiss]] where the heroine chains her cigarette off the hero's.
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* [[Retired Badass|Retired Badasses]] Kurosaki Isshin and Ishida Ryuuken in ''[[Bleach]]''. Isshin is technically an ex-smoker, but he still smokes a cigarette every year in front of his wife's grave, because she once told him it made him look cool. [[Aloof Big Brother|Aloof Dad]] and [[Dr. Jerk]] Ryuuken seems to be something of a chain smoker, to the extent that he carries a portable ashtray with himself and has no qualms about lighting up in his hospital, right under a "No Smoking" sign.
** Then again, it's ''his'' hospital, so he can get away with it.
* Akio from ''[[
** {{spoiler|Then when Akio's daughter dies from said labor, her husband,}} Tomoya also picks up on the smoking habit, but it's deconstructed, as it shows how [[Heroic BSOD|screwed up]] he is {{spoiler|over Nagisa's death}}.
* The entire main cast of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', a bunch of bounty hunters, smoke heavily. Well, Ed the [[Playful Hacker]] doesn't, because she's a kid. And Ein doesn't, because he's a dog.
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* In ''[[DOGS Bullets and Carnage]]'', Badou Nails is a chainsmoker. It's shown that he's a goofy, clumsy, laid-back, and terminally unlucky but fairly nice guy with something of a cowardly streak when he has his smokes, but if he goes without one for more than a few moments, he becomes an [[Berserk Button|unstoppable killing machine]], to the point where his "friend" Haine will intentionally take his cigarettes away from him when he wants him to fight.
* Heiwajima Shizuo of ''[[Durarara]]'' almost always has a cigarette in his mouth, and makes a point of throwing it to the ground and stomping on it every time he gets ready to beat the ever loving shit out of somebody.
* Jean Havoc from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' constantly has a cigarette in his mouth. [[Serial Killer
** Pinako also smokes a pipe. She even had it back in the photo of her and Hohenheim.
* Saki of ''[[Genshiken]]'' is a [[Deadpan Snarker]] example. Notably, after accidentally committing arson, she gives it up from trauma (at least temporarily).
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* ''[[Yotsubato|Yotsuba&!]]'': Yotsuba asks Torako why she smokes. Torako replies: "It makes me look cool."
* Bunji in ''[[Gungrave]]'' is almost always seen smoking, in both the anime and games.
* Ban Midou from ''[[
* Kubota in ''[[Wild Adapter]]'' has a cigarette in his mouth most of the time. Weirdly, it doesn't always seem to be lit. This could be an artifact of the art style.
* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', the heavy smoking of the girls' landlady is generally depicted as something cool, despite her efforts to quit.
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* Let's admit it: [[Mushishi|Ginko]] wouldn't be nearly as cool without the constant drags from his cigarette.
** His smoking is justified, partially, in that the smoke from his cigarettes is used to drive away nearby Mushi and counteract his inherent ability to attract them.
* Matt from ''[[
* Michiko Malandro from ''[[Michiko to Hatchin]]'' has the "looking-awesome-with-a-cigarette" shtick down pat.
* Reki in ''[[Haibane Renmei]]'' is frequently seen smoking a cigarette, representative of her deep wells of ''angst''.
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* Lakshad, the genius weapons developer of ''[[Code Geass]]'', is never seen without her extremely long pipe in hand.
* Several characters in [[Nana]], but the award for coolest smoker ever goes to Yasu.
* Lyle Dylandy in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''.
* Borgoff Marcus from ''Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'' perpetually has a cigar in his mouth. [[Fridge Logic|Which is strange]], as he never seemed to actually smoke it.
* Yuuko Ichihara from ''[[
* Kou from ''Monochrome Factor'' is one of the [physically] strongest characters of the cast and is usually seen smoking.
* Hijikata from ''[[
* Yuki Eiri (or Uesegi Yuki) from ''[[Gravitation]]'' He's pretty much the resident badass in the series (having been known to beat up plenty of people before when they mess with Shuichi) and smokes like a fiend. There was even one scene when he lit an ENTIRE pack of cigarettes at once and smoked the whole thing because he was irritated.
** He was actually half asleep (irritated because Shuichi wouldn't shut up and let him sleep) and it was just a funny gag. He didn't even take the cigarettes out of the pack- the last panel of that scene shows a blaze going up from his ash tray (again, as a one off gag, so no actual harm was done).
* [[D
* Subverted in a manga chapter in ''[[Shaman King]]''. When a group of pseudo-witch girls, working for [[Big Bad|Hao]] attacks Yoh's father, the first thing he does when they meet each other is put out the leader's cigarette, telling her that smoking will be bad for her if she ever decides to have kids.
* Subverted also [[Kimagure Orange Road]], when Kyousuke loudly lectures Madoka and tells her pretty much the same that Mikihisa did to Hao's follower when he catches her smoking. She slaps him, but later quits.
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** And we can't forget Cuba with his famous Cuban cigars.
* Subverted in [[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 [[Broken Bird|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.
* Sven in ''[[Black Cat (
* Both [[The Hero]] and the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' smoke pretty constantly. Saiga the war photographer smokes the workin Joe regular cigarettes, which Suitengu smokes long and delicate cigarettes [[Money to Burn|rolled from 10k yen notes]].
* ''[[
* Is [[Black Butler|Bardroy]] ever seen ''without'' a cigarette in his mouth?
* The [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Bus Driver]] from ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' is never seen without a cigar. It's not clear how [[Badass]] he actually is, but the [[Ensemble Darkhorse|fandom]] generally sees him as an [[Almighty Janitor]].
* [[Toriko]] often smokes a cigar that's actually a ''tree branch''. And he lights it by ''snapping his fingers.''
* The reporter Yoshizawa in the anime version of ''[[The Idolmaster (
* Fujisawa-sensei from [[El Hazard]] chainsmokes. It isn't treated as cool though, as it actually hinders his powers. Like the rest of the cast that crossed over to Roshtaria, Fujisawa-sensei is granted a specific power: superhuman strength that draws from his withdrawal from cigarettes (although it's also from alcohol withdrawal since he is also a heavy drinker).
* Cruelly subverted in ''[[Oniisama
** "Lady Vampanella" Hoshino is a straighter example, but she does it when's she's not in school.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Hellblazer
* The [[Marvel Comics]] character [[Wolverine]] is well known for smoking cigars. It was once explained that because of his healing factor, he can smoke them without any damage. When he temporarily lost it, he couldn't smoke.
** Gambit used to smoke (and wear a longcoat, too).
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** However, [[Joe Quesada]] imposed a [[No Smoking]] policy when he became editor-in-chief.
* Several characters from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' by [[Garth Ennis]], most notably the titular character and his girlfriend, often with the former's signature lighter.
* And while we're on the subject of Ennis, he takes this trope to the '''''extreme''''' with ALL of his characters. ''[[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]]'' is another example; it's a comic about a [[Badass]] hitman ([[Exactly What It Says
* Characters in ''[[Viz]]'' often smoke "tabs" or "fags" (cigarettes). They probably think this is cool, but it is part of the business of casting them as working-class chavs.
* In the [[DCU]], [[Batman]]'s ally Commissioner Gordon was seen smoking at least once per issue, especially after [[Frank Miller]]'s big '80s stories. A heart scare in the mid '90s put an end to that.
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* More or less inverted in various Disney comics. The only good guy who smokes in [[Mickey Mouse]] comics is the rather incompetent cop Detective Casey, while [[Psycho for Hire]] Pegleg Pete is just the most famous crook who is often seen with a cigar butt in his mouth. Meanwhile, on the Duck side, one of the few smokers is [[The Old Convict]] Grampa Beagle and his corncob pipe.
* Mongrol in ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' commonly has a lit cigar dangling from his mouth. Even though he's a robot.
* As in the TV section below, [[The
* Most of the characters in [[Sin City]] smoke. This is due to its [[Noir]] roots.
* Miss Misery of Out In The Cold smokes constantly; she is literally never seen without a cigarette. When she walks into a government building puffing away and a security guard tries to stop her, she says, "It's okay, I have a medical condition." This turns out to be, more or less, true: {{spoiler|her villain power is that the more evilly she behaves, the more she flourishes and the better she looks.}}
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* ''[[Zatoichi]]'' habitually smoked a pipe.
* Jimmy Conway ([[Robert De Niro]]) in ''[[Goodfellas]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49xZ7VcfqE&NR=1 Case in point].
* [[James Bond (
** The movie Bond smokes much less than the original. It should be noted that the campiest and suavest Bond, Roger Moore, smoked cigars while the more brooding and [[Badass]] Timothy Dalton version smoked cigarettes.
** One notable part is Bond's first line in ''[[
* In the ''[[Hitman]]'' movie, the Interpol agent pursuing 47 smokes cigarettes, because he's hard, but never gets to light them, because he's not a villain.
* ''[[Alien (
* In ''[[The Great Race]]'', The Great Leslie smokes a ''perfectly white'' pipe. While shaving. Of course, it's a comedy, so it's something of a send-up.
* Used as a plot point in ''[[Thank You for Smoking]]''; the advertising agency plans to make a film in which the stars smoke, making it look cool. Interestingly, no character is ever seen actually smoking on screen throughout ''Thank You For Smoking'' itself.
* Used with a raised eyebrow in the movie version of ''[[Children of Men]]'' - the protagonist smokes because he's in a dying world and wants, even if only subconsciously, to hasten his own demise.
* ''The Lady From Shanghai'' Elsa Bannister takes up smoking to prove her love to Michael O'Hara.
* [[Clint Eastwood]] amost always smokes cigarillos in his western films, and it has become an iconic part of his "Man with No Name" persona created in his collaborations with Sergio Leone. In ''[[The Good, the Bad
* [[Lee Van Cleef]] made smoking a pipe look very cool. He does the same thing with Col. Mortimer in ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' and as Angel Eyes in ''[[The Good, the Bad
* Smoking was big in film noir movies. In ''Sunset Blvd''. Norma Desmond smokes expensive cigarettes with a holder that is a strange piece of twisted wire that wraps around her index finger.
* [[Humphrey Bogart]] frequently has a lit cigarette in his hand in his starring roles. This is the source of the slang expression "don't bogart that joint."
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* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', including the famous slow-mo intro and [[Tim Roth]]'s character puffing out neat smoke rings in a flashback scene.
* 9-year-old Addie in ''[[Paper Moon]]''. Just see the page image.
* Thin Man from ''[[
* ''[[Eastern Promises]]'': Nikolai has some pretty awesome moves with those cigarettes.
* Hilariously defied in ''[[Muppets
* The Dude smokes three joints over the course of ''[[The Big Lebowski]]''. Then again, The Dude is a loser. Before beginning a new scene, Jeff Bridges usually would ask Ethan or Joel Coen whether "the Dude just burned one." The Coens usually replied "yes," so Jeff would rub his eyes hoping they'd look a bit red. So...only three joints were '''more-visibly''' smoked, apparently.
* Hobbits, Dwarves, humans, as well as Gandalf and Saruman, smoke in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* In ''[[
{{quote| Federal Marshal Quigley: Either quit smoking or get a new lighter. }}
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels|Tyler Durden]] of ''[[Fight Club]]''. He's so cool that his loser friend picks up the habit as well. And don't forget Marla, who enters in a cloud of smoke ("Cancer, right?") and complains that her smoking doesn't go over well in the tuberculosis support group.
* Napoleon Wilson of ''[[Assault
* In Breathless (Godard), the main characters smoked. What made it kind of strange and hilarious was that the cigarettes were always the same length, and when they were done with them, they chucked them across the room. In restaurants, hotels, etc. Apparently, nothing catches fire in Paris.
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'', since it was a neo-noir.
* The second ''[[Hellboy (
* [[The Wild Geese]]: Roger Moore's character Sean Fynn, chomping on a cigar even as the mercenaries are infiltrating an enemy base.
* In ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', Keyzer Soze sports a cool gold lighter. Using a cigarette to light some gasoline is one of the few things we see him do before the end. {{spoiler|While in his loser Verbal persona, he cannot operate a lighter. When he transforms back into the cool crimelord, he deftly flicks the lighter open and strikes a pose lighting up as the real Kobayashi arrives to spirit him away}}.
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== Literature ==
* [[Oscar Wilde]] certainly thought so. [[Upper Class Wit|Lord Henry Wotton]], easily the coolest character in ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' is a prolific chain-smoker.
* Commander Samuel Vimes from the ''[[
** Occasionally, however, he uses his smoking for practical purposes like ruining an opponent's night-vision. Arguably, this makes his smoking habit even more badass.
** Even if smoking isn't cool, using a dragon as a lighter ''is'' ([[Our Dragons Are Different|even if it's a small dragon]]).
** Also from Discworld, Adora Belle Dearheart. Kissing her is apparently "like kissing an ashtray, but in a good way."
** Death's manservant Albert also smokes foul cigarettes that he rolls himself. He of course has no reason to worry about the ill effects of smoking. In the miniseries made of ''Hogfather'' it is a [[Running Gag]] that Albert constantly fails to roll his fag for various reasons. He finally succeeds at the end, grimaces at the taste and throws it away.
** In ''[[Discworld
* The most intellectual of detectives, [[Sherlock Holmes]], smoked a variety of pipes in his youth but went over to cigarettes as they came into fashion. [[Philip Marlowe]], father of all [[Badass Longcoat]] heroes, went the other way, smoking cigarettes in his youth but switching to a pipe as he grew older, more thoughtful, and less badass.
** Holmes also indulged in a 7% solution of cocaine. He was also depicted (once) in an [[Opium Den]], though he was trailing a suspect at the time and not actually indulging.
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**** That and even being near a smoker can harm your palate. Even back in the 30s gourmands tended not to smoke or, for that matter, drink cocktails/spirits.
*** Interestingly, Wolfe's sidekick Archie Goodwin also didn't smoke, despite otherwise being a typical hardboiled detective.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' most of the members of the Fellowship smoke. In Middle-earth, smoking was invented by the Shire-Hobbits, and subsequently adopted by the people of Bree-land, and the Dwarves, and at least some of the Rangers of the North (including Aragorn); no other cultures have adopted it, and most places it is unknown. For the hobbits, it's one of their domestic comforts. Gandalf displays his magical nature by blowing special smoke rings. In the first film, Aragorn is introduced as a bad ass through his smoking, posed in the shadows with the light of the pipe illuminating his eyes. As part of Tolkien's [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]], he felt obliged to include an entire appendix explaining the history of smoking in his artificial pre-[[
** Probably because tobacco is an American plant, and the book is set in what will become Europe. Tolkien [[Handwaved]] it by explaining that it was brought to Middle-Earth by Numenorian explorers.
* One of the eventually solved mysteries in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' concerns a brand of cigarettes whose trademark is a dollar sign. (Remember the theme of ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'': $ = capitalism = good.) One character gives a speech on how "fire in a man's hands" makes him feel powerful.
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* In the ''[[Lensman]]'' books, nearly everyone smokes like a chimney. They also drink like fishes. Various other X like Y metaphors might also be deployed here. But ''illegal'' drugs, like "Thionite", are a scourge on mankind that must be met with hot lead justice, and are invariably a money-maker for the forces of evil. Put it down to the cultural mores of the time, I suppose...
* In the ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' series by Melissa Marr, smoking seems to be a general feature of the [[Dark Is Edgy|Dark court]]. Particular mention goes to Irial, who is simply that awesome, and Niall, who only starts smoking once he {{spoiler|Becomes dark king}}. Plus, it helps make their feelings for each other clearer- Irial reached into Niall's jacket to get his cigarettes, conveniently brushing his fingers over the other male's chest whilst doing so.
* Citizen Admiral Lester Tourville of the ''[[
** Also, while modern medicine means he will never develop cancer and that any staining effects on his teeth can be treated, there is still no cure for a nicotine addiction. [[Becoming the Mask|He finds himself unable to quit once he no longer needs the cigars.]]
* In ''[[Still Life With Woodpecker]]'' by [[Tom Robbins]], we get this:
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* ''[[The X-Files]]'' had its Cigarette Smoking Man.
** Plus he does it everywhere, whether allowed to or not, even in FBI headquarters.
*** One [[Expanded Universe]] novel, namely ''Antibodies'' by [[Kevin J. Anderson]], gave him a nasty cough.
*** The actor, however, hadn't smoked since the seventies - after a few episodes on regular cigarettes, he switched to Herbals for the rest of his tenure on the show.
* Hannibal Smith on ''[[
* [[The Master]] on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was very fond of cigars in his Delgado incarnation; but then he ''was'' the epitome of [[Evil Is Sexy]].
* Omar Little on ''[[The Wire]]'', who has a tendency to be filmed at least once every season lurking in the shadows of a back alley smoking a cigarette.
* Played with in Katherine Applegate's ''Making Out'' series. Nina 'smokes', but never lights her cigarettes. Somehow, she still manages to get through packs at quite a pace.
* Gomez, debonaire and worldly patriarch of ''[[
** Or is already lit. You reference the movie--in the original, live-action TV series, Morticia also smoked. She didn't use cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, she just... smoked.
*** Gomez and Morticia also occasionally shared a hookah.
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* In ''[[Mad Men]]'', [[Everybody Smokes]], and just about every one of them looks damn cool doing it. However, Don Draper definitely takes the cake.
** Notably, Pete, who most fans think of as an uptight jerkass, can't smoke without choking. Additionally, {{spoiler|Peggy starts smoking more often as her character becomes more assertive. She even smokes a joint in one episode}}.
* ''[[
* Many characters in ''[[Skins]]'' smoke freely and heavily (and a variety of substances, at that); Cook and Effy probably make it look the coolest. One notable exception is Katie, who does pretty much every drug that doesn't require syringes but doesn't smoke because of concerns about cancer. Until Effy teaches her how to smoke in one of the most [[Les Yay]]-laced scenes ''ever''.
* [[Ghoulardi]] frequently smoked on television. [[Scare'Em Straight|And he died of cancer in 1997]].
* Brian Kinney in ''[[Queer
* Jennifer Paterson of ''Two Fat Ladies'' was rarely seen outside the kitchen without a cigarette. Of course, she also died of lung cancer.
* ''[[
* Many situation comedies -- including but not limited to ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'', and so forth -- featured single episodes where a teen-aged or child character experiments with smoking but decides he doesn't like it. On ''The Brady Bunch'', Mike (the father, played by Robert Reed) admits he smoked in his younger days, while on ''Beaver'' the titular character steals his father's rare pipe to smoke it. Another episode of ''Beaver'' had Wally dating a woman who smoked.
** Another situation comedy, ''[[
** While not a situation comedy, another negative depiction of smoking is seen in one of the most famous episodes of ''[[Little House
* ''[[Good Times]]'': Wilnona is seen lighting up in at least one episode (the episode "Florida's Night Out," where the gang takes Florida out for the first time since the tragic death of her husband).
* ''[[Big Bang Theory]]'': Amy says "Today, I trained a monkey to smoke. It is cooler than the other monkeys, they just sit there, playing with their genitals."
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== Video Games ==
* Adam Jensen from ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
** {{spoiler|Bob Page}} is a smoker as well, possibility to give him more of a evil look. Pritchard is also a smoker, which can be seen by the pack of cigarettes on his desk.
* Ryotaro Dojima from ''[[Persona 4]]'' has this look in effect in his Social Link status window, and it does nicely complement his gritty badass detective look.
* Solid Snake from ''[[
** And to see how big his addiction is, at least in ''[[
*** Funnily enough, this detail was overlooked in the [[Novelization]]: Instead Snake simply steals a pack of cheap cigarettes on-site, and spends the rest of the book complaining about their terrible flavour.
** In the prequels, Naked Snake/Big Boss, Solid Snake's clone-father, is shown to be fond of cigars, and carries them around similarly during the game. So it's apparently a genetic trait. He claims to have picked the habit up from his mentor, The Boss. Ocelot, who became so fond of him, even learned to embrace this trope, too, especially in ''MGS4''.
** By ''MGS4'' it's being used very clearly to show how much of a [[Jerk
** The kind of cigarettes smoked by Snake at any one point in the timeline pretty much entirely express his character [[Character Development|at that point]]. In ''[[
*** Just to be super nit-picky, Snake's cigarettes in MGS4 are actually filtered, take a look at them in the item inventory.
** There's two ''Metal Gear'' games in which he doesn't smoke, both non-canon. One is ''[[
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'''s Cid Highwind chain-smokes like a maniac and still spears random monsters on a par with the [[Super Soldier]] who runs the team. He even lights a stick of dynamite with his cigarette in one of his [[Limit Break|Limit Breaks]]. His later appearances in canon (''[[Advent Children]]'' and ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'') seem at first to imply he's given it up, since he doesn't smoke at all in the former, and his new character design doesn't have the pack hooked in his goggles any more. But then toward the end of ''Cerberus'', he indulges in a victory smoke after blowing up one of the Midgar reactors.
* Sergeant Johnson from ''[[Halo]]''.
** Helps that by the time the games takes place smoking is not only harmless but cancer is so rare (and easy to treat) most people don't even know what's cancer is anymore.
* Sasha Nein from ''[[
** As for Tim Shafer games: [[Brutal Legend|Eddie Riggs ]] deserves mentioning, even though he doesn't seem to get to smoke any of the cigarettes he lights...
* Many characters in ''[[
** Indeed, you can grab both cigars and cigarettes from the environment and smoke them, for a small boost to your EVE - costing you only an equally-small price in Health.
* Smoking was casually wide-spread in ''[[Fallout]] 3'' wasteland settlements, and there didn't seem to be any character consistency behind it. A look through the G.E.C.K. revealed why: almost every NPC who wanders will cross an idle-point where they will run an idle animation for smoking. It's interesting that these were all placed outside, which is why the Vault dwellers and Enclave are never seen smoking, neither are Moira or the Doc, since they never go outside. Some players believe that Jericho smokes more if given cigarettes, but he cycles through the idle anim at random, though not as often as he randomly complains about there not being enough cigarettes around.
** Cass and Boone in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' don't just idle on smoking, it's their full-time job from which they break from only to kill things. These are the two most Badass and jaded [[Anti-Hero|Anti Heros]].
** This troper owns the French version of New Vegas and has never seen any character smoking. [[Bowdlerization|Could it be ?]]
* The Spy from ''[[
* Due to its film noir roots, almost everyone in ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' smokes. Brilliantly lampshaded in the manual: "If you are offended by the amount of smoking in the game, remember that everyone who smokes is ''dead''. Think about it."
* Bill from ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' is always smoking. When he dies, the cigarette is still in his mouth, but the fire on the end goes out.
* Inverted with Dante of the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' series. He's as badass as you can get, but his creator intentionally made him a non-smoker, because he thinks it's cooler.
** Ninja Theory, the developer in charge of the [[
* Baron Flynt in ''[[
* ''[[
** In the original, uncut ''[[Resident Evil (
** Leon's earliest character treatments from ''[[What Could Have Been|Resident Evil 1.5]]'' had him as a smoker as well. You can even find a character sketch of him lighting up with some of the other S.T.A.R.S. members.
* Subverted in ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations
* No one looks cooler with a cig in his mouth than [[Deadly Premonition|Special Agent Francis York Morgan]].
** It also makes time move faster in-game. So York literally just stands around for an hour, looking cool while smoking a cigarette.
* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', John Marston can be seen lighting up occasionally.
* Sam Gideon from ''[[Vanquish]]'' smokes cigarettes, often at improbably awesome times (like when he's hanging from a ledge over an endless drop by one hand), and can even use them in combat - smoking a cig and then throwing it out from behind cover will draw the heat- and motion-sensors of the [[Mecha
** The cybernetically-enhanced [[Colonel Badass]], Robert Burns, also smokes heavily, and can be seen lighting one up whenever you leave him idling at the end of a section for more than a few seconds.
* Kiryu Kazuma, the badass [[Yakuza]] protagonist of the ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku
** In ''Yakuza 4'', the tradition is proudly maintained - all four (badass) protagonists are smokers, though exactly how heavily they smoke varies. Interestingly, it even seems like the more badass of the protagonists, are also the ones that smoke the most...
* Slayer from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' smokes a pipe and just to show how [[Badass]] he is he blocks with the smoke.
** Baiken is seen smoking a pipe in her pre-battle animation as well.
* Duke Nukem is now smoking as evidenced in the cover art and trailers for ''[[
* The Illusive Man in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' chain smokes. A lot. Fortunately, cancer has been cured by the 22nd century.
* Captain Price from the ''[[Call of Duty]]'' (and ''[[Modern Warfare]]'') series. Even though he smokes cigars often, the most prominent point is that the first playable mission in ''Modern Warfare'', "Crew Expendable", begins with him smoking as the SAS prepare to board the cargo ship, while the {{spoiler|final mission, "Dust To Dust"}}, of ''Modern Warfare 3'' has him {{spoiler|light one up right after he survives a helicopter crash and hangs Makarov}}.
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* The One Electronic, in the webcomic ''Rice Boy'', is a trench coat wearing ancient agent of God, who smokes. Never mind that he is a robot, and has ''no mouth''.
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' completely subverts this - the start of Dave Davenport's long, hard voyage towards being something more than "an awkward nerd" is marked by him dropping the habit of smoking, despite having always been ([[Time Travel|or not. It's complicated]]) such a compulsive smoker that ''if you took the cigarette out of his mouth a new one instantaneously materialized''.
* ''[[
* The Pogs from ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'' are probably the least [[Badass]] race of science fiction history. They are a race of small lizard-likes who are allied with the humans, doing all the odd jobs we find too mundane or monotonous, but still need to be done by a sentient. Smoking even makes them look [[Badass]]. [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20090409 See attached]
* Three of the four main cast, and the vast majority of the secondary cast of ''[[Cry Havoc]]'' smoke, nearly all are battle hardened mercenaries so they tend to prefer cigarettes.
* ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' fancomic ''[[
* In ''[[Silent Hill Promise]]'' the protagonist, Vanessa Sunderland, smokes Lucky Strikes. The supposed cool factor is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', [[Femme Fatale|Snowman]] smokes from a cigarette holder - [[Good Bad Bugs|which is also sometimes a lance.]]
* Used very briefly in ''[[
* ''[[Elf Blood]]'' has a few smoking characters, generally to the point of [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]. Shanna and Carlita are both competent roguish fistfighters, while Gipsy is a malevolent, manipulative bitch.
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* Mokou from ''[[Touhou Project]]'' is frequently shown smoking to make her look badass in [http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=fujiwara_no_mokou+smoking fanart].
** This trope is also used for her in the fan video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOankqFsRBo search & caved].
* In ''[[Pokemon Squad]]'', three characters are confirmed smokers. [[
* Smoking fighter is the best part of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3X75iJLogI this video], despite the fact that he should probably be coughing up a lung.
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* Brock Samson of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. (Useless Trivia Tidbit: Both "Brock" and "Samson" are name brands for loose leaf tobacco.)
* Parodied in ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' with Nick, who is first shown sucking a lollipop in a fashion reminiscent of smoking a cigarette.
* Subverted in ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]''. During flashbacks, mob boss Salvatore Valestra is shown smoking like the Badass gangster he is. Fast forward to the present, where he wheezes and coughs, forever slave to oxygen tanks.
* [[The Amazing Screw On Head|Emperor Zombie]] takes this to the extreme when he happily smokes ''a professor of ancient evil texts'' (after vaporizing him) in a giant hookah.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has TONS of smoking in it. Homer has often been seen smoking a cigar or pipe to try and be "cool," Marge used to smoke when she was a teen (she only bought one pack), Bart wants to smoke when he grows up, and Lisa once got addicted to inhaling secondhand smoke so she could concentrate more on her ballet lessons. Aunts Patty and Selma simply can't LIVE without their Laramie Cigarettes (although they're about as ''far'' from cool as you can get), Krusty the Clown often smokes when he's not on screen (unless a skit on his show calls for it), Bart's teacher Mrs. Krabappel smokes when not teaching.. in fact, practically half or two-thirds of the cast on the show smokes!
** Parodying ''[[The Flintstones]]'' cigarette commercials from its early years, the ''Simpsons'' episode "Three Men and a Comic Book" features, as part of a back story, Radioactive Man (a superhero comic book character) advertising Laramie Cigarettes; in that parody's acknowledgement that the commercials helped entice children to smoke, Radioactive Man's sidekick, Fallout Boy, wonders if he, too, can smoke ("Not 'til you're 15!"). Another episode has ''[[The Itchy and Scratchy Show|Itchy and Scratchy]]'' (the cat-and-mouse duo who are a takeoff of [[
* [[Word of God]] says a deleted scene from the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Truth Hurts" had Kim say this at a school assembly:
{{quote| '''Kim''': Smoking makes you ''look cool''. Yeah, it rots your lungs and stuff, but it ''looks'' cool.}}
* ''[[
* In one of the later episodes of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' one of the reasons Luanne thinks Lucky is "cool" is because he smokes, but you have to consider back in season one an entire episode was dedicated to Luanne forcing Hank, Peggy, and Bobby to quit smoking because she doesn't want them to end up like her mother.
* Subverted in ''[[South Park]]''. After seeing an incredibly dorky school assembly on how "cool" not smoking is, the boys all take it up.
* All of the [[Looney Tunes]] characters have done it or tried it.
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