History Main / OfCourseISmoke

* In the 12th ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' film, ''Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure'', Takagi tricks a GenreSavvy suspect into giving him his fingerprint via asking him for a light and pocketing the matchbook the suspect hands him.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E17HomerVsPattyAndSelma Homer vs. Patty and Selma]]", Patty and Selma are caught smoking at work and are about to be fired when Homer, in an uncharacteristically gallant mood, claims the cigarettes are his and smokes them, claiming between coughs and gags that he is "in flavor country".

* {{Inverted}} on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}:''

-->'''Darlene: Oh, you're right, Mom. This is my first cigarette ever. ''(exhales)'' [[DeadpanSnarker Hey, look, smoke rings]].

* Averted in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' by Cronus Ampora, who constantly has a cigarette between his lips, despite never having it lit, merely because it looks "cool". Helps that he is almost fetishizes humans, and has gone to almost every length to resemble them.
* ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'': Lily's cousin carries lit cigs around without ever actually taking a drag merely to annoy people and because "trashy women all smoke, it's in the union rules".

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomer El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)]]", Marge (a nonsmoker) claims she "just felt like filling the house with the rich, satisfying smell of tobacco." She's trying to overwhelm the smell of the chili cookoff so Homer won't go to it.

Someone who doesn't smoke is, for whatever reason, trying to act like he does. He lights the cigarette, takes a big drag and...

* In the 12th ''Anime/DetectiveConan'' film, ''Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure'', Takagi tricks a GenreSavvy suspect into giving him his fingerprint via asking him for a light and pocketing the matchbook the suspect hands him.

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* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic attempts a moment of suave smoking during a parody of Franchise/TheTwilightZone, only to collapse in a coughing fit.
** But subverted and justified in his review of ''DoubleTeam'', where he lights up a cigarillo in celebration of the film's climax. Cigarillos are classed as less harmful than cigarettes, as you don't inhale; you just keep the smoke in your mouth and breathe out.
** ''{{WebVideo/Kickassia}}'' has a scene where as part of WebVideo/BennettTheSage' as Surgeon General's [[InsaneTrollLogic new health campaign]] several of the reviewers try smoke and immediately start coughing. Creator/BradJones' commentary points out that you can tell by the way he holds the cigarette that Creator/PawDugan is the only one who actually smokes in real life.
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* On ''{{Seinfeld}}'', George tried this to get out of the planned marriage with Susan. It doesn't work, either.
* In an episode of ''{{Friends}}'', Rachel tries to take up smoking because her boss and other assistant make all their decisions in the smoker's lounge. She is not successful.

* KatawaShoujo plays with this in Rin's route. She asks for cigarettes as inspiration [[spoiler:and winds up smoking in the studio with Hisao.]] She makes a note of never having smoked cigarettes before, but doesn't cough when she inhales [[FridgeBrilliance "Never having smoked cigarettes"]] may be ExactWords... [[spoiler:Hisao does though.]]

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic attempts a moment of suave smoking during a parody of TheTwilightZone, only to collapse in a coughing fit.

* An early example can be seen in the RankinBass ''Tales of the Wizard of Oz'' animated series episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDpEp5JFrZA "Get Out the Vote"]], when the [[TheDitz literally-brainless scarecrow]] [[IronicName Socrates]] tries smoking a cigar as part of his getting into politics. He figures "all politicians smoke cigars," and mentions he'd never smoked before, and then he takes a puff and immediately starts coughing and hacking, to the shock of the other Munchkin politicians.

* In ''Film/LegendOfZorro'', Elana gets rid of [[RomanticFalseLead Armand]] so she can talk to Alejandro by asking him to buy her a pipe. [[BrickJoke Much later]], after she and Armand have had dinner, a servant brings "her" pipe. Initially she says she needs her stomach to settle first, but when she needs an excuse to be out on the balcony, she's forced to light up.

* In ''Film/{{The Spirit of St Louis}}'', Charles Lindbergh is offered a cigar while meeting with prominent businessmen about obtaining funding for his flight. HilarityEnsues because he isn't sure how to light it.

* Happens with the female journalist {{Raffles}} hires to help run his sporting magazine in "The Raffles Bombshell" by Barry Perowne:

* ''Film/DesperatelySeekingSusan:'' Roberta, suffering from amnesia and finding some cigarettes among "her" stuff, decides she must be a smoker, and lights one up. Coughing ensues. (The tobacco company that had paid for the product placement asked for their money back.)

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* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin tries smoking a cigarette. At the end of the strip, Calvin comments that it was trusting parents that caused him to smoke and therefore damage his health.
** It should be noted that his mom knew this trope was coming and let Calvin smoke in order to teach him a lesson.

* KatawaShoujo plays with this in Rin's route. She asks for cigarettes as inspiration [[spoiler: and winds up smoking in the studio with Hisao.]] She makes a note of never having smoked cigarettes before, but doesn't cough when she inhales. [[spoiler:Hisao does though.]]
** FridgeBrilliance: "Never having smoked cigarettes" may be ExactWords...

* Webcomic/DominicDeegan does this to ''himself''. He lights his pipe, inhales, and... discovers that when his white mage brother Gregory healed him earlier, he also cured his smoking habit.

** In "Homer vs. Patty and Selma", Patty and Selma are caught smoking at work and are about to be fired when Homer, in an uncharacteristically gallant mood, claims the cigarettes are his and smokes them, claiming between coughs and gags that he is "in flavor country".
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomerTheMysteriousVoyageOfHomer "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"]], Marge (a nonsmoker) claims she "just felt like filling the house with the rich, satisfying smell of tobacco." She's trying to overwhelm the smell of the chili cookoff so Homer won't go to it.

* A variation occurs in FullHouse; Stephanie is offered a cigarette by her peers, and she declines, saying she's trying to quit.

* KatawaShoujo plays with this in Rin's route. She asks for cigarettes as inspiration [[spoiler: and winds up smoking in the studio with Hisao.]] She makes a note of never having smoked cigarettes before, but doesn't cough when she inhales. [[spoilers:Hisao does though.]]

* The plot of the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Secondhand Spoke" starts when peter tries to pick up smoking to get breaks at work.