History Main / MustHaveNicotine

* Ccreator/BillEngvall used to smoke, and some of his stand-up material involves him being in situations where he desperately needs a cigarette. This includes the acupuncture session that's meant to cure him of his addiction.

He also gets points for the cutscene where he first meets Naomi in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''. He's constantly trying to light it, fumbling it, dropping it, having to find it again, failing to light it, having it stolen by Naomi, and so on and so forth, for the whole scene, and Naomi doesn't even pause expositing at him about how he's going to die, horribly.

* In ''Literature/{{Stray}}'', Pufftail tells his grandson how he once came across a bunch of smoking-addicted lab rats.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': In one flashback, Molotov Cocktease ties Brock to a bed and then sets the room on fire. But what really pisses him off is that she took all the cigarettes.

->''"If I don't smoke there's gonna be secondhand bullets coming your way, lady."''

Tobacco smoking is addictive. Therefore, characters who smoke will sometimes find themselves in scenes where they are desperately searching for a cigarette, or a means to light it, or (more recently) a place where they can light up.

* ''Manga/FutabaKunChange'' had a lingerie salesclerk so addicted to smoking that the white undies in her area had turned yellowish. She later sneaks off for a smoke break and accidentally sets the store on fire.
* Sasamoto-sensei in ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'' looks completely miserable when she hadn't smoked for two hours. There's a reason why she usually avoids working in the faculty room or told Usami-sensei that she doesn't mind paying Usami to buy her a ''carton'' of cigarettes.

** There's a much more epic arc when Steve Dallas is forced to quit. He goes AxCrazy and forces Opus to hide in the toilet while calling the police.

* ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'': Gandalf gets increasingly irritable in Moria since he doesn't dare to smoke there in fear that the resident orcs might catch a whiff. He finally caves in on the last night of the underground journey, after Pippin already had dropped a rock in the well, presumably figuring that damage had already been done.

* Averted in ''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''. Smiley relates how he left a packet of cigarettes and his lighter (a gift from his wife) with KGB spymaster Karla during his interrogation. Even though Karla is a chain smoker, and under great stress as he's facing possible execution back in the Soviet Union, he returns the packet to Smiley the next morning unopened. However Karla holds onto the lighter, and [[MagnificentBastard uses it to cast suspicion on Smiley years later]].

* "Meine letzte Zigarette" (OneLastSmoke...only that the singer wasn't in momentary death peril...even if she coughs like incoming lung cancer...so that's the wrong trope) is a German fun song about the impossibility to quit smoking by [[PunnyName Ruth Händel]].

** Solid Snake only really counts by the fact he went to extremes to get his nicotine fix; while he always had a pack on him on every game, since he was strip-searched before ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', he ''swallowed'' the pack and somehow got it out of his stomach. In the novelization of the game, he steals a pack from the first guard he knocks out and spent quite some time complaining that they taste like crap.\\

* ''Series/DeadliestCatch'''s Capt. Sig starts feeling mysterious chest pains and, knowing that his family has a history of heart problems, decides to quit smoking for a while. The [[EverybodySmokes other crew members]] are incredulous, and sure enough, Sig grabs a [[IncrediblyLamePun cig]] about an hour later.

* Badou of ''Manga/DogsBulletsAndCarnage'' is generally a somewhat useless and good-humoured one-eyed chain-smoking PI with bad luck, but when deprived of a smoke for about three minutes at a time he goes AxCrazy and becomes completely unstoppable in search of a smoke/punishing the reason he doesn't have a smoke. Several antagonists deny his last request for a puff and never do anything ever again. He takes this problem of his in stride. So do all his friends, except when he trashes their bar. It seems to be viewed in-universe as a sort of (kind of stupid) special ability and is played for drama and comedy at the same time.
* Fujisawa-sensei from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''. Earlier it's discovered he has SuperStrength when he doesn't drink alcohol. It's discovered he's even ''stronger'' when he doesn't smoke either.

* Ritsuko from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Despite the fact she is rarely ever actually smoking when on-screen, it is very evident that she is a bit of a chain-smoker, as several shots of the ashtray in her office reveal, seeing how it is always shown to be filled to the brim with cigarette butts stained with her lipstick.

* The ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' manga had a chapter which involved Nobue attempting to give up smoking. She substituted it for Pocky. [[spoiler:After she realized she was gaining weight, she went back to smoking]].

* John Constantine in ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''. This is a man who went to the trouble of {{Out Gambitt|ed}}ing three incredibly powerful demons so he could be free of his lung-cancer...and then kept chain smoking.

* Taken to the extreme in ''WesternAnimation/{{Boogie}}'', where the titular AntiHero smokes in almost every scene he's in. A line of dialogue have him claiming he smokes ten packs a day.
* Several characters in ''Anime/TheWindRises''. One of them even lighting up a cigarette butt from the ashtray when neither he nor the hero has one.

* Chris from ''Film/GetOut2017'' is a smoker, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend's family. He mentions that he's trying to quit, and his girlfriend's mother offers to ''hypnotize'' him to help him break his habit. [[spoiler:Given that the family plans to auction off Chris' body for someone else to [[GrandTheftMe take over]], it's implied that part of the reason they don't approve of him being a smoker is because they want the "merchandise" to be in perfect condition.]]

-->What Cutwell wanted was what any normal wizard wanted at a time like this, which was a smoke. He'd have killed for a cigar and would have gone as far as a flesh wound for a squashed dog-end.

* ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'': Gandalf gets increasingly irritable in Moria since he doesn't dare to smoke there in fear that the resident orcs might catch a whiff. He finally caves in the last night of the underground journey, after Pippin already had dropped a rock in the well, presumably figuring that damage had already been done.

* Averted in ''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''. Smiley relates how he left a packet of cigarettes and his lighter (a gift from his wife) with KGB spymaster Karla during his interrogation. Even though Karla is a chain-smoker, and under great stress as he's facing possible execution back in the Soviet Union, he returns the packet to Smiley the next morning unopened. However Karla holds onto the lighter, and [[MagnificentBastard uses it to cast suspicion on Smiley years later]].

* George Freeman of ''Series/{{Underbelly}}'' to the point he suffered a curiously non-violent death because of it. He smokes all the time, in hospitals, at funerals, on the defibrillator, once he is shot in the face and the next time we see him he is ''swimming, head above water with his face bandaged, and smoking mid stroke.''

** In ''Peace Walker'', Big Boss gets locked in a cell for a relatively short time - not more than a day or so. As soon as he's freed, he starts coughing and complaining that his 'lungs taste like charcoal' from how little smoking he's been doing. Thing is, Big Boss smokes ''cigars''. In the same game, Huey and Strangelove also express sadness about how they can't smoke cigarettes due to their job as engineers (smoke damages electronic equipment) and found workarounds to get their fix ; Huey built himself an electronic cigarette and Strangelove uses snuff[[note]]Tobacco dried and grounded into a fine powder that is inhaled by the nose[[/note]].

* ''Website/JollyRogerTelephoneCompany'' is a company that provides bots which are designed to waste the time of telemarketers.

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} in the cartoon ''No Smoking (1951)'' is shown to smoke from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed (as pictured above). He then decides to quit, but ends up running from his office while screaming in search of a cigarette after only a minute.

* One short arc of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' had Binkley's father going through withdrawal when Binkley hides his cigarettes. Collected in ''Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things'' (1985).
** There's a much more epic arc when Steve Dallas is forced to quit. He goes AxCrazy and forces Opus to hide in the toilet while calling the police.

* ''Film/AWedding1978'': Janet, Nettie Sloan's nurse, constantly needs cigarettes, especially when she's dealing with the stress of her patient dying.
* In his non-fiction book ''Defending the Guilty'', Barrister Alex [=McBride=] mentions a prisoner in police custody who kept [[UseYourHead banging his head on the cell door]], demanding a cigarette. As new security regulations prevented lawyers from handing out cigarettes to their clients, [=McBride=] asks if the custody sergeant could give him one, only to be told it was against occupation health and safety regulations as well.

* Music/BobRivers spoofed {{Music/RingoStarr}}'s "No No Song" with a [[https://youtu.be/JsdddUDXr5E tune about widespread smoking bans.]] The first verse is about an office worker who shrieks when told she can't light up on the job. The second verse is a guy who lights up in a Chinese restaurant; the waiter snuffs out the cigarette in the food, insults him in Chinese, and throws him out. The third verse is about a guy who can't wait until the plane lands, so he gets arrested for smoking in the airliner's bathroom.

* ''[[VideoGame/DejaVu Déjà Vu II]]'': Carrying around the empty cigarette pack will cause the narrator to mention that you crave nicotine, but lack anything to smoke.