History Main / SmokingIsCool

** The Webb-produced spinoffs -- ''Series/AdamTwelve'' and ''Series/{{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 [=McCall=] (Julie London, Webb's real-life ex-wife) can also be seen smoking in at least one episode.

* Borgoff Marcus from ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'' perpetually has a cigar in his mouth. [[FridgeLogic Which is strange]], as he never seemed to actually smoke it.

* The most intellectual of detectives, Franchise/SherlockHolmes, smoked a variety of pipes in his youth but went over to cigarettes as they came into fashion. Literature/PhilipMarlowe, father of all BadassLongcoat heroes, went the other way, smoking cigarettes in his youth but switching to a pipe as he grew older, more thoughtful, and less badass.

** Subversion: Literature/NeroWolfe not only did not smoke, but he also objected to smoking to the extent that he once sent a client who had just paid him a five-figure retainer out on the front stoop to smoke. (And this was written in the 1930s when smoking was socially acceptable.)
*** Maybe it's supposed to show how neurotic he is. Or, at least, fastidious and eccentric.
*** That and even being near a smoker can harm your palate. Even back in the 30s gourmands tended not to smoke or, for that matter, drink cocktails/spirits.
*** Interestingly, Wolfe's sidekick Archie Goodwin also didn't smoke, despite otherwise being a typical hardboiled detective.

* Inverted with Dante of the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series. He's as badass as you can get, but his creator intentionally made him a non-smoker, because he thinks it's cooler. Creator/NinjaTheory, the developer in charge of the [[VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry reboot]], showed the reboot Dante smoking in some early trailers, but he never smokes in the game proper.

** [[Characters/XMen90sMembers Gambit]] used to smoke (and wear a longcoat, too).
** [[Characters/ShieldDirectors Nick Fury]], Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the most BadassNormal in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse also smokes cigars. It was a RunningGag for a while that his connections meant he could get Cubans[[note]]Illegal in the United States since 1962.[[/note]], which he shared with Wolverine.

* Adam Jensen from ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' and ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided''. You don't see him smoke in game, but you find cigarettes in his apartment, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6JTvzrpBy0 this]] trailer has him lighting up, possibly to deal with the trauma of becoming an augment.

* Creator/BetteDavis was a famous chain smoker, often up to four packs a day. She took it up in her twenties to seem more sophisticated as an actress. Vanguards and Chesterfields were her brands of choice. Even for TV interviews, she couldn't abstain from smoking. “If I did not smoke a cigarette, they would not know who I was.”

** Parodying ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' cigarette commercials from its early years, the episode "Three Men and a Comic Book" features, as part of a back story, Radioactive Man (a superhero comic book character) advertising Laramie Cigarettes; acknowledging that the commercials helped entice children to smoke, Radioactive Man's sidekick Fallout Boy wonders if he too can smoke ("Not 'til you're 15!"). Another episode has ''[[WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy and Scratchy]]'' advertising Laramie cigarettes, with Itchy suffering from smoker's hack throughout the commercial.

** Venom Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' smokes an E-cigar, which dispenses vapours of wormwood to him. The hallucinatory effect advances time, handy for letting you do infiltrations of bases at night after scouting it out during the day.

** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is well known for smoking cigars. It was once explained that because of his HealingFactor, he can smoke them without any damage. When he temporarily lost it, he couldn't smoke.

* Lucia from ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' smokes, though only once in the anime. She's a badass [[ElegantGothicLolita gothic]] lolita, [[YoungerThanTheyLook fifteen]] year old girl [[TheGunslinger wielding a gun]] at ''all'' times, has one golden [[GlowingEyesofDoom glowing]] eye and has quite the [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship friendship]] with her best [[HoYay friend]]. And she '''smokes'''! Bonus points! However, she quits eventually.

* In ''[[Pinball/WHODunnit WHO dunnit]],'' HardboiledDetective Nick Spade is often seen smoking a cigarette.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': Chris Redfield is shown smoking in the live-action intro of the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game]], though it was edited out in the American version only to be added back in the director's cut. If you get his worst ending, he smokes his last cigarette as he sits alone in the getaway chopper. In the intro for his campaign in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'', he's shown drinking and smoking heavily while going through a HeroicBSOD, the latter only implied by the ashtray that is completely ''stuffed'' with cigarette butts sitting next to him. With that, it can be assumed that he's the "smokes to calm his nerves" type, or having fallen back into old habits to help cope with [[MyGreatestFailure the loss of his team]]. He is also shown lighting up a cigarette after [[Ethan Winter's death]].

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': Chris Redfield is shown smoking in the live-action intro of the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game]], though it was edited out in the American version only to be added back in the director's cut. If you get his worst ending, he smokes his last cigarette as he sits alone in the getaway chopper. In the intro for his campaign in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'', he's shown drinking and smoking heavily while going through a HeroicBSOD, the latter only implied by the ashtray that is completely ''stuffed'' with cigarette butts sitting next to him. With that, it can be assumed that he's the "smokes to calm his nerves" type, or having fallen back into old habits to help cope with [[MyGreatestFailure the loss of his team]]. He is also shown lighting up a cigarette after ''[[Ethan Winter's death]]'' in ''ResidentEvil:Village.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': Chris Redfield is shown smoking in the live-action intro of the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game]], though it was edited out in the American version only to be added back in the director's cut. If you get his worst ending, he smokes his last cigarette as he sits alone in the getaway chopper. In the intro for his campaign in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'', he's shown drinking and smoking heavily while going through a HeroicBSOD, the latter only implied by the ashtray that is completely ''stuffed'' with cigarette butts sitting next to him. With that, it can be assumed that he's the "smokes to calm his nerves" type, or having fallen back into old habits to help cope with [[MyGreatestFailure the loss of his team]].

* Creator/KurtVonnegut, despite being a writer, had all the badassness you need: BadassMustache, Badass luck (he lived through the bombing of Dresden, one of the largest bomb raids during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]]) and smoked unfiltered Pall Malls all his adult life. What he said about his smoking habit? "It's a classy way to commit suicide". The irony in that he died of brain injury from the fall in his own apartment at the age of 84.

** Notably {{averted|Trope}}, [[JustifiedTrope and with good reasons]], with the new important characters in ''WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'': Rebecca Rossellini is from UsefulNotes/SanMarino, Nix is British and Robson is either British or American and between that and them spending most of their time in Italy they would have [[SmokingIsNotCool the typical European attitude toward smoking]], while [[spoiler:Leonardo Da Vinci]] doesn't smoke because [[spoiler:his mind is from before tobacco even came to Europe]].

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* The One Electronic, in ''WebComic/RiceBoy'', is a trench coat wearing ancient agent of God, who smokes. Never mind that he is a robot, and has ''no mouth''.

* The Pogs from ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' are probably the least badass race of science fiction history. They are a race of small lizard-likes who are allied with the humans, doing all the odd jobs we find too mundane or monotonous, but still need to be done by a sentient. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205519/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20090409 Smoking even makes them look badass.]]

* Strong Bad of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' sneaks in a cigar every once in a while. Humorously, he once [[YourHeadASplode tried to light a cigar while wearing gasoline as "lotion".]] Don't worry, [[DisneyDeath he recovered easily]].
* Mokou from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is frequently shown smoking to make her look badass in [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=fujiwara_no_mokou+smoking fanart]]. This trope is also used for her in the fan video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOankqFsRBo search & caved]].
* In ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'', three characters are confirmed smokers. Series/{{Barney|AndFriends}} constantly smokes because he thinks it's healthy. [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] smokes because he finds it fun. June started smoking when she was 14 (she started after ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' got canceled).
* Smoking fighter is the best part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3X75iJLogI this video]], despite the fact that he should probably be coughing up a lung.
* Website/TheAgonyBooth's Mr. Mendo is [[http://www.agonybooth.com/video_shows/Mr_Mendos_Hack_Attack/ almost never]] seen without a Black and Mild. A cigar even features prominently in his portrait...

* Onizuka in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is almost always seen smoking unless he's in the middle of teaching a class.

* Grifter the badass longcoat of the ComicBook/WildCATs smokes. A lot. In very inappropriate situations (such as free falling a few hundred metres).

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* ''[[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} Constantine]]'' from the comic and [[Film/{{Constantine}} the movie of the same name]] subverts this - badass or not, he still gets lung cancer. Of course, he's still [[MagnificentBastard badass enough]] to find a way not to die of it, either. [[spoiler:However, in the movie at least, the experience is enough to get him to quit. In the comics, Constantine went back to smoking pretty much instantly and never stopped.]]

** ComicBook/{{Gambit}} used to smoke (and wear a longcoat, too).
** ComicBook/NickFury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the most BadassNormal in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse also smokes cigars. It was a RunningGag for a while that his connections meant he could get Cubans[[note]]Illegal in the United States since 1962.[[/note]], which he shared with Wolverine.
** In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', [[ComicBook/TheThing Benjamin Grimm]], the working-class morose [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], likes his cigars, while [[ComicBook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]], the upper-class academic [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]], likes his pipe - or at least ''used to'', back when they started.

* And while we're on the subject of Ennis, he takes this trope to the '''''extreme''''' with ALL of his characters. ''Comicbook/{{Hitman}}'' is another example; it's a comic about a badass hitman ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Duh]]) who kills people and looks cool while doing it by smoking cigarettes. It should also be pointed out that the aforementioned Constantine and Nick Fury got their reputations of being badass smokers while under Ennis' pen. Nick Fury showed up repeatedly in the Ennis-written ''Punisher MAX'', '''always''' with a cigar in his mouth - in spite of Quesada's smoking ban. Whenever a character asked Fury to stop smoking he would have a very clever reply, like "Run along now, sonny boy" or "Son, you just made my day." And then he'd continue puffing away as though nothing had happened.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': While some humans are known to smoke, the Orks are no slouches at it, adding to their already ridiculously long list of awesomeness tropes. Just about every Burna Boy has a noxious cigar to chomp on, and a fluff piece on [[SpacePirate Kaptin Baddrukk]] even notes that he was "badly wounded and out of cigars", without telling which one he considered the more urgent issue.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', the only character who even smokes in fanon is Mokou, a {{Mystical White Hair}}ed girl 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 and can't be in anything but perfect health. The older characters are more prone to be seen smoking Japanese pipes, especially Mamizou and Yukari.
** In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', Mamizou is shown smoking.
* No one looks cooler with a cig in his mouth than [[VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition Special Agent Francis York Morgan]].
** It also makes time move faster in-game. So York literally just stands around for an hour, looking cool while smoking a cigarette.

* Mokou from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' is frequently shown smoking to make her look badass in [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=fujiwara_no_mokou+smoking fanart]]. This trope is also used for her in the fan video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOankqFsRBo search & caved]].

* WordOfGod says a deleted scene from the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Truth Hurts" had Kim say this at a school assembly:

* [[Series/TheMortonDowneyJrShow Morton Downey Jr.]]: [[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/13/lkl.00.html "My fear was that I had spawned a generation of kids to think it was cool to smoke a cigarette."]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': While some humans are known to smoke, the Orks are no slouches at it, adding to their already ridiculously long list of awesomeness tropes. Just about every Burna Boy has a noxious cigar to chomp on, and one special character even notes that he was "badly wounded and out of cigars", without telling which one he considered the more urgent issue.

* Music/KurtCobain of Music/{{Nirvana}} was a smoker through and through, but he urged a young British fan to not pick up the habit as seen in the end of ''Live at Reading''. As he gave an autograph, he happened to have a lit cigarette in one hand, and emphatically told the boy, "Don't smoke."

* Downplayed in John Prine's semi-autobiographical song "Grandpa Was a Carpenter". In the Prine mentions that his grandfather, among other things for American carpenters to be proud of back in the '50s, "chain-smoked Camel cigarettes".

* Series/MontyPython's Creator/GrahamChapman took up pipe smoking at age 15. His characters on Python were often seen pipe smoking as well.