History Main / SmokingIsCool

* Smoking was casually wide-spread in ''VideoGame/{{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 ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' 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}}-Heroes.
*** The antagonist Benny, who rolls with several 50's stereotypes of "coolness", is also a cigarette smoker. He is seen smoking in the game's opening and his lighter and some cigarette butts he left behind are important clues in one of the main quests.
** While the player character can't partake of any tobacco in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', several [=NPCs=] and many of your companion characters will light up and smoke a cigarette when standing idle. Private Eye Nick Valentine seemingly smokes for no other reason than the cool factor, as he's a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Generation 2 Synth]] who doesn't have any organic parts like lungs (which makes you wonder ''how'' he's even smoking them at all).

* Practically every protagonist of the ''Videogame/LikeADragon'' series (as well as it's spinoffs) is a smoker who always manages to make it look good. Kiryu in particular can not only light up a cigarette mid-fight as a taunt in certain games but also has a [[LimitBreak Heat Moves]] in which he spits the cigarette at an attacking foe to burn them and leave them open for a punch to the face.

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* Nicholas D. Wolfwood from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. Who in the manga is no older than eighteen and more probably about sixteen, despite his looks. But as with many examples on this page, he knew he was never going to live long enough to worry about lung cancer.

Compare StealthCigaretteCommercial, SmokingIsGlamorous, and CigarChomper. See also GoodSmokingEvilSmoking. Contrast SmokingIsNotCool, CigaretteOfAnxiety.

* Yami in ''Manga/BlackClover'' can usually be seen with a cigarette in his mouth and is easily one of the most popular supporting characters for being a powerful magic swordsman who wields Dark Magic.

* Hijikata from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' smokes all the time. There's a small, one-off arc in which Sougo, his mortal frenemy, successfully lobbies for a universal smoke ban in Edo which forces Hijikata to travel across planets to find somewhere he can finally smoke, only to give up in the end. Tsukuyo, who is portrayed as a cool, bad-ass and sexy [[tsundere]], also smokes with a kiseru (Japanese pipe) all the time. Ginpachi-sensei, an [[AlternateUniverse alternate universe]] version of the protagonist Gintoki is also shown to smoke in class in front of his students; it is revealed that he is actually [[OralFixation sucking on a huge-ass lollipop]] in the anime, almost certainly for [[NoSmoking TV censorship]].

** TheMaster was very fond of cigars in his Delgado incarnation; but then he ''was'' the epitome of EvilIsSexy. According to the special features on the DVD of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil "The Mind of Evil"]], the director insisted Delgado smoke a cigar in the story because it would look cool, even though Delgado was a non-smoker in real life who hated doing it. Delgado complained and was unhappy, but complied... and when he saw the finished episodes he praised the director for the idea, agreeing it made him look amazing.

* Brock Samson of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' (Useless Trivia Tidbit: Both "Brock" and "Samson" are name brands for loose leaf tobacco.) His habit has backfired on him occasionally, such as the time Brisby's bodyguard Mandalay spiked his cigarette with chloral hydrate.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoons have them smoking most of the time, especially when with friends.