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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.
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== 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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