History Main / SmokingIsCool

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'' has Kiritsugu Emiya, smokes,and temporarily stopped for 9 years in regard to his wife and child, but picks up the habit again during the start of the Holy Grail War.

* {{FateZero}} has Kiritsugu Emiya, smokes,and temporarily stopped for 9 years in regard to his wife and child, but picks up the habit again during the start of the Holy Grail War.

* In VideoGame/{{Touhou}}, the only character who even smokes in fanon is Mokou, a WhiteHairedPrettyGirl who plays with fire. [[EpilepticTrees For some reason]], this smoking habit is derived from her mentioning tobacco in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', and fans took this as her smoking [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=24340429 IS HOT]]. Not that this would affect her, since she's immortal.

* In the {{DCU}}, {{Batman}}'s ally Commissioner Gordon was seen smoking at least once per issue, especially after FrankMiller's big '80s stories. A heart scare in the mid '90s put an end to that.

* During his run in {{WCW}}, Paul Wight -- today, known as TheBigShow in the WWE -- had a short-lived gimmick called "The Smoking Giant." Wight's character would show such great disdain for his opponents (usually jobbers, or wrestlers paid to lose) that he would light a cigarette, take a drag or two during the match and then finish off the cigarette after pummeling his opponent into submission.
* In a parody of ''BasicInstinct'', aired as part of the WWE's promotion of WrestleMania 21 (tagline: "[=WrestleMania=] Goes Hollywood"), WWE Diva Stacy Kiebler -- taking the role of Sharon Stone's Catherine Tramell -- can be seen smoking during the interrogation scene. It is not known to what extent, or if, Kiebler is/was a smoker.
* During the early days of {{TNA}}, "Wildcat" Chris Harris was smoking during a backstage promo.
* The Sandman, who has worked in {{ECW}}, WCW, WWE, and TNA, once went through a gimmick where he would smoke a cigarette prior to his matches. In one case, his habit backfired on him when, during a match with bitter rival Tommy Dreamer, a lit cigarette was pushed into his eye.
* During their run in the WWE, RonSimmons and JohnBradshawLayfield were "The APA," more often seen in comedy skits smoking cigars and playing poker, rather than beating down bad guys.

* Ex-Minnesota Gov. JesseVentura -- most famous for his time as shamelessly pro-heel commentator in the WWF -- smoked cigars after he got into politics, although it is not known whether he smoked or chewed (or to what extent) during his wrestling career.
* In his autobiography ''To Be the Man'', legendary wrestler RicFlair (believed to be a non-smoker) wrote that Ken Patera -- the former Olympic weightlifter-turned-wrestler -- was a regular smoker. Flair asked Patera once about his decision to smoke, to which Patera replied that he didn't need aerobic conditioning to lift weights.

* According to the commenters of SixBillionSecrets, if you don't smoke or do drugs (and are proud of that fact) you're a "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Special Snowflake]]" or a prude.

* In ''PokemonSquad'', three characters are confirmed smokers. Series/{{Barney|AndFriends}} constantly smokes because he thinks [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop it's healthy]]. [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] smokes because he finds it fun. June started smoking when she was 14 (she started after ''KaBlam'' got canceled).

* Due to its film noir roots, almost everyone in ''GrimFandango'' 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."

* Invoked by Chandler in an early episode of ''{{Friends}}'' when the others try to talk him into quitting: "I've had it with your cancer, and your emphysema, and your heart disease. The bottom line is, smoking is ''cool'', and you know it."

* ''{{Dragnet}}'': Jack Webb was a heavy smoker in real life, and Sgt. Joe Friday often seen puffing on a cigarette (frequently, these were in transitional scenes).
** The Webb-produced spinoffs -- ''Adam12'' and ''Emergency'' -- also featured smoking, although it was seldom seen done by the lead characters. An early episode of ''Adam 12'' shows Officer Malloy (Martin Milner) putting out a cigarette, while in ''Emergency'', Nurse Dixie Mc Call (Julie London, Webb's real-life ex-wife) can also be seen smoking in at least one episode.

* Kubota in ''WildAdapter'' 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.

* {{Retired Badass}}es Kurosaki Isshin and Ishida Ryuuken in ''Manga/{{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. [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Dad]] and DrJerk 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.
** Urahara may be a smoker as well, based on the cover for chapter 36. [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/bleach/v05/c036/2.html]]

* Napoleon Wilson of ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct13'' repeatedly asks the other characters, "Got a smoke?" throughout the film.

* Cruelly subverted in ''OniisamaE'' with Rei Asaka AKA "Hana no Saint-Juste". She does smoke, but her smoking is ''not'' portrayed as cool, as it is a sign of her BrokenBird personality and her self-destructive behaviour to show how ''really'' messed up she is.

* Subverted in ''IchigoMashimaro'', where [[CoolBigSis Nobue]] gets berated a lot for smoking by her little sister and the little girl gang she hangs out with.

*** Averted starting with GoldenEye. PierceBrosnan made a conscious decision to make Bond a non-smoker, a sentiment followed up by Daniel Craig even though both have smoked before (Brosnan did a series of Larks commercials in Japan, in the eighties. Craig gave up smoking to play Bond.) Of course, Brosnan still smokes a cigar in DieAnotherDay.

There may be a pragmatic element to this trope, given the predicted lifespans of most people in {{Badass}} professions. The prospect of dying of lung cancer in twenty years loses much of its sting when there's a real chance of dying of high-velocity lead poisoning tomorrow. This is one of the reasons smoking is still popular in high-risk professions, like the military, or convenience store cashiers.[[note]]Zing![[/note]]

* In ''{{Saiyuki}}'', Gojyo and Sanzo both smoke like chimneys (Sanzo goes from only occasionally being shown with a cigarette early in the manga to his current near-chainsmoker status. Gojyo has consistently chainsmoked). For Sanzo, it's revealed that he [[spoiler:got into smoking at the encouragement of a monk who gave his life to protect him when he was a teenager, and helped him come to terms with having to kill to survive]]. Interestingly, in the ''Gaiden'' manga/anime arc, it's revealed that in their [[spoiler:past lives as Gods]], Sanzo didn't smoke at all, but TeamMom Hakkai was a chainsmoker who would remark fondly on his love of cigarettes.
** Sanzo's increased use of cigarettes can probably be attributed to stress of the journey... and company

* Lyle Dylandy in ''{{Gundam 00}}''.

* HumphreyBogart 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."

** 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.

* Creator/ClintEastwood almost 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 ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', he even uses his cigar to light a cannon and knock Tuco off a horse. Eastwood made the choice to smoke as part of his character, but hated the cigars. This is part of the reason why he's so often doing a ClintSquint.

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* ''TheDarkTower'': Roland, the baddest dude in the multiverse, is an avid smoker who rolls his own cigarettes. Jake, an 11 year old boy, so emulates him as an adopted father that he takes up smoking, which Roland decides to allow. However, Stephen King's AuthorAvatar in the series is a chain smoker who is shown to be on a self-destructive path.

* In keeping with its tendency to be DarkerAndEdgier than [[LEGODinoAttack its source material]], Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG often showed a number of characters smoking.