List of iconic smokers
This is a list of
famous people, for whom smoking is clearly a recognised part of their public image, and/or who act in a peculiar way about themselves smoking.
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Emmanuelle Béart - Award-winning French Actress (born August 14, 1963) Often seen smoking on screen and has made numerous publicity photos with cigarette in hand.
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Humphrey Bogart -
American actor who often appeared with a cigarette in his mouth, making
bogart a
slang verb meaning "holding on to a
joint instead of passing it on" among
cannabis smokers. He died of
esophageal cancer. (Deceased)
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Herman Brusselmans - Belgian author who claims that he smokes 'because he has the talent for it.' According to him, this talent is quite rare. Brusselmans is a heavy smoker of L&M cigarettes.
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Johnny Cash - :egendary American
country singer. Often photographed smoking a cigarette with a ponderous expression on his face. (Deceased)
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Nick Cave - Brooding
Australian singer/songwriter and leader of
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Insists that since he started smoking
Marlboro Lights, his record sales are going to go down.
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Andrew Dice Clay - Raunchy American stand-up comic, almost never seen with out a cigarette (even sometimes unlit due to smoking restrictions).
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Kurt Cobain - Member of the
American band
Nirvana, smoked offstage. (Deceased) (Suicide)
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Bette Davis - American
film actress who was never without a cigarette. She starred in
Now, Voyager (1942), which has the famous scene in which
Paul Henreid places two cigarettes in his mouth, lights them, and then passes one to Bette Davis. She died in 1989 after a long battle with
breast cancer and having suffered several
strokes. (Deceased)
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James Dean - American
actor and icon, who smoked 2 packs of
Chesterfield cigarettes a day. He died on a car accident. (Deceased)
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Johnny Depp - American actor, can often be seen in interviews smoking. On
Inside the Actor's Studio he apologized for poisoning himself with the cigarette, and then lit one up.
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Marlene Dietrich - Famed
German actress who smoked as part of her "Dietrich image." She died of old age. (Deceased)
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Bob Dylan - American singer song writer, attributed voice change on his album
Nashville Skyline to his quitting smoking, though this is disputed. Seen reading a paper in the 1967 documentary
Don't Look Back, where he quotes the journalist as saying he
"smokes eighty a day."*
Colin Farrell - Colin James Farrell, born May 31, 1976, is an
Irish actor. He is seldom seen off-screen in interviews without a cigarette. He is also a notorious drinker, and has been quoted as saying he smokes one carton per week (200 cigarettes). He is also said to have a bad smoker's cough.
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Kevin Federline - Kevin Federline (born March 21, 1978) is an American rapper/musician, and more famously known as the
chain smoking husband of
Britney Spears (also a heavy smoker). He is seldom seen without a cigarette, and was criticized in the media for continuing to smoke around his wife during her first pregnancy. He has also disclosed to have bronchitis, though he's only 28.
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Theo van Gogh - Dutch
film maker ever accompanied by a dark French cigarette. He was murdered. (Deceased)
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Audrey Hepburn - Iconic actress that often smoked several packs a day, immortalized first in the classic film
Roman Holiday where her character, Princess Anne, lights a cigarette for the very first time. She is most commonly associated smoking from a filter in
Breakfast at Tiffany's. She died of
colorectal cancer on 20 January 1993. (Deceased)
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Bill Hicks - American stand-up comedian, satirist, and social critic, with a reputation suffering from his
drug use. In 1988, he quit drugs, falling back to cigarette smoking, a theme that featured heavily in his performances. He died on February 26, 1994 of
pancreatic cancer. (Deceased)
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Saul Hudson (
Slash) - The cigarette has become a trademark for Slash along with his top hat. He is always seen playing his guitar with a cigarette in his mouth and was once saying that if he could have anything in the world, it would be a never-ending supply of
Marlboro cigarettes.
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James Hunt -
English Formula One driver. Was often seen smoking while not driving. He usually lit a cigarette on the victory podium, however he later quit. He died at the age of 45 of a
heart attack. (Deceased)
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Joe Jackson - Singer. Jackson moved from New York City to England as a result of the city's
smoking ban.
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Shahrukh Khan -
Bollywood top superstar, rarely seen without cigarettes off-screen, though he has vowed to reduce smoking from his 40th birthday.
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Denis Leary - A comedian incorporating smoking into his act.
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John Lennon - Former
Beatles singer and songwriter.
Prototypically portrayed with colored sunglasses and shag.
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René Lévesque - former and first
indépendantiste premier of
Québec. Almost never in public seen without his trademark Players cigarette. He died of a massive heart attack in 1987 at the age of 65. (Deceased)
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Margrethe II of Denmark - Queen of
Denmark. A well known
chain smoker.
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Golda Meir - Fourth Prime Minister of
the State of Israel. She was diagnosed with
lymphoma at the age of 65 but lived to the grand old age of 80. (Deceased)
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Freddie Mercury - Former
Queen vocalist. His heavy smoking led to a roughening of his voice during the 1980s. He died of
AIDS. (Deceased)
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Joni Mitchell - Canadian musician and painter. Started smoking at age nine; claims to have fallen in love with smoking from the first puff. Her self-portrait on the cover of her 2000 album
Both Sides Now depicts her with a cigarette in her hand.
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Brian Molko - Musician of
Placebo, often seen smoking in promotional shots and during concerts.
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Edward R. Murrow - A chain smoker, Murrow was seldom seen without a cigarette in hand. A lifetime of heavy smoking took its toll in 1965, when he died of
lung cancer two days after his 57th birthday. (Deceased)
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Jack Nicholson - A videotape of Jack Nicholson shows him screaming at a
paparazzo for flashing cameras at his son. He had a cigarette in his right hand.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - A life-long smoker; photographed by
paparazzo leaving a
New York restaurant with two packs of Marlboro Regulars in her hand. She died in 1994 (aged, 64) of
lymphoma - most likely caused by years of smoking, even though she was a religious fitness fanatic.
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Lee Radziwill - the only sister of
Jacqueline Onassis, the former
First Lady. Mrs. Radziwill, like her older sister, was a life-long smoker who gave it up some time ago. There are several photographs of a young Mrs. Radziwill smoking. She is 73, and lives in
Paris at last report.
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Kiefer Sutherland - Award-winning actor most noted for his portrayal of Jack Bauer in the hit TV series
24 has conducted many interviews and appearances with cigarette in hand. His trademark rough, husky voice is a result of chain smoking.
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Sean Penn - American actor, frequently photographed off-camera with a lit American Spirit cigarette. Though he has attempted to quit several times, he reportedly has a four-pack a day habit.
* Joaquin Phoenix - American actor and chain smoker. Portrayed fellow smoker Johnny Cash in Walk the Line (2005).
* Georges Pompidou - Former French president, often pictured with a cigarette in his mouth. He died from Kahler's disease in 1974. (Deceased)
* Super Star Rajinikanth - a stylish smoker and great Tamil cinema hero who entered into cinema because of his style of smoking. Now he decides to avoid smoking scenes.
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd President of the United States, who was featured in photographs smiling with his face turned up and with a cigarette in his mouth (with the cigarette actually not touching his lips, but in a cigarette holder–one of the few people to use one). He died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. (Deceased)
* Keith Richards Guitarist for the Rolling Stones. A frequent smoker on stage and in interviews.
* Rod Serling - Often had a cigarette in hand when introducing episodes of the The Twilight Zone. He died of a heart attack at age 50. (Deceased)
* Jean-Paul Sartre - French existentialist philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist. Well-known lover of Gauloise cigarettes. Died of an edema of the lung in 1980. (Deceased)
* Frank Sinatra - Said to have been buried with a pack of Camels and a Zippo lighter. Fans noticed his voice became deeper as his smoking gradually affected his health and he died of a heart attack. (Deceased)
* Terry Thomas - English comic known for his seven inch long cigarette holders. He died at the age of 78, of natural causes. (Deceased)
* Hunter S. Thompson - American writer, creator of gonzo journalism and counter-culture icon. Best known for his books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972. The quintessential image of Thompson includes a cigarette in a cigarette holder/filter. (Deceased) (Suicide)
*Judy Baar Topinka - First female State Treasurer in Illinois, and currently the only elected Republican statewide official (born January 16, 1944), has a distinctively raspy smoker's voice and is unapologetic about her cigarette habit.
* Ville Valo - Founder and lead vocalist of the Finnish Goth-Rock band HIM. Is rarely seen without a cigarette perched between his lips. Rumours spread that the wearing of his signature hat was due to chemotherapy for lung cancer as a result of his excessive smoking.
* Kurt Vonnegut - American author and a Pall Mall smoker. During an interview at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he remarked that he was angry his smoking had yet to kill him.
* Ron Wood - British guitarist and member of the Rolling Stones. Once an even heavier smoker than his band-mate Keith Richards, Wood has attempted to curb his cigarette consumption after being diagnosed with emphysema in 2004.
*Frank Zappa' - American composer and musician who was renowned for his cigarette and coffee preferences, although he abstained from all other drugs. Said tobacco was his favourite 'food'. Cigarettes are referenced in the titles of two of his instrumentals, It Must Be a Camel
and Twenty Small Cigars'', and mentions of smoking can also be found throughout his lyrics. Died in 1993 from
Prostate Cancer. (Deceased)
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Groucho Marx with a cigar, which had become an inseparable part of his image |
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Red Auerbach - legendary
Boston Celtics coach. He would light a cigar in victory, when he thought the game was over.
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Milton Berle - American comedian, who was usually seen with a cigar. (Deceased)
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Anthony Burgess - novelist and critic, author of
A Clockwork Orange and
Earthly Powers - smoked up to 80 cigars, panatellas, cigarillos, cheroots and/or cigarettes per day. His preferred smoke was the Schimmelpenninck slim cigar. Died of
lung cancer.
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George Burns - American comedian whose quip on happiness was, "A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."[
1] He was also given a tribute by
Cigar Aficionado magazine.[
2].
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Fidel Castro -
President of Cuba - his father introduced him to cigars when he was 15 years old.
"I used to be with a cigar in my mouth all the time." [
3] He quit when he was about 59.
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Winston Churchill - politician, former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Ken Clarke - British politician, once Deputy Chairman of
British American Tobacco, lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets.
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Bill Clinton - politician and former U.S. President, notable for an alternate usage of cigars (see
Lewinsky scandal). See also
cannabis below.
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Bill Cosby - American comedian, attributes his fondness for cigars to his idol
Groucho Marx.
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Tom DeLay - American politician who has long been known as a strong supporter of the
trade embargo against
Cuba. In a photo, published in
2005 by
Time Magazine, DeLay is seen smoking a Cuban
cigar. [
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Robert de Niro - movie star who always is smoking a cigar. [
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Linda Evangelista -
Canadian supermodel.
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Sigmund Freud - prototypically smokes while his patients lie on the
couch. He remarked "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar", regarding the
phallic symbolism of cigars. Suffered from
oral cancer.
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George Gershwin - American
jazz/
classical composer, often depicted smoking a cigar.
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Che Guevara - Argentinian revolutionary. Used to smoke cigars on meeting pauses.
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Ulysses S. Grant- 18th President of the United States and American Civil War hero. Some Historians say that he smoked 20 cigars a day. He began smoking cigars at Fort Adelson in 1862. When a reporter commented that Grant liked cigars, people began sending him cigars. He received over 20,000.
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Geri Halliwell - British singer and former member of the
Spice Girls.
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Daryl Hannah - American movie actress
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Saddam Hussein - former
President of Iraq, obsessed with smoking the Havanas that his eldest daughter
Raghad Hussein personally sends him regularly. The cigars are delivered to Saddam's prison by the
Red Cross.
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Rodrigo de Jerez - Probably the first European to smoke. He participated in
Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. On
Cuba he encountered the custom to
inhale the smoke of herbs wrapped in a leaf, probably tobacco. In his native
Spain his smoking was seen as a
diabolical habit. According to oral tradition he was sentenced to seven years confinement by the
Inquisition (Deceased)
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Michael Jordan - Notorious cigar smoker, often seen with a cigar in the locker room during championship celebrations.
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John F. Kennedy -
President of the United States. When Kennedy imposed a trade embargo on Cuba, the night before issuing the
executive order authorizing the embargo, he supposedly ordered
Pierre Salinger to obtain 1,000 Cuban cigars.
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Suge Knight - Head of
Death Row Records. Suge is rarely seen without a cigar in his clutch. The cigar is part of his
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Ernie Kovacs - legendary actor and comic, who often incorporated his cigars into the roles he played.
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Rush Limbaugh - Talk radio host.
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Groucho Marx - comedian and actor with trademark moustache and stumpy cigar. (Deceased)
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P. J. O'Rourke - American political
satirist, journalist, and writer. Said "Personally, I believe a rocking
hammock, a good cigar, and a tall
gin & tonic is the way to save the planet."
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Fidel Ramos -
Philippine president frequently seen holding or smoking a cigar during cabinet meetings, political rallies, and speaking engagements.
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Rene Rivkin -
stock market guru from
Australia, known for his flamboyant style, ever-present worry beads and chain cigar smoking. Was quoted as saying "I smoke Cigars, I don't like the taste but they clear a room faster than a Yoko Ono album" (Deceased) (Suicide)
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Pete Rose - former Major League Baseball player and manager; MLB's all-time career hits leader.
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Sir Jimmy Savile - British TV personality and former professional wrestler. Buys two sizes of cigars - regular ones to smoke and larger ones
"for the cameras."*
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Austrian-born movie star and current
Governor of California. Avid cigar smoker.
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Jessica Simpson - Pop Diva sometimes indulges in cigars
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Charles Spurgeon - Famous British Baptist preacher, known to many as the
Prince of Preachers. Once remarked,
"When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." *
Sylvester Stallone - actor, screenwriter, film director
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Mark Twain - American author. Said he smoked whenever awake and once claimed to have smoked 24 cigars in one day. Once commented that quitting was easy; he had done it a thousand times.
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Jesse Ventura - American former wrestler, wrestling announcer, actor and politician. Once claimed that
Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced him to cigars while filming the
1987 film,
Predator.
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Raquel Welch - actress.
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Ron White- Comedian of
Blue Collar fame typically seen with a glass of scotch in one hand and a cigar in the other.
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Diamond Dallas Page- Former Professional
Wrestler and Author. Known to use Cigar Smoking as part of his Ring Character. He legitimately does like to smoke them when not "in character".
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Terri Runnels- As "Marlena" (The
Manager/
Valet of
Goldust.) was often seen at ringside smoking a cigar. Like Diamond Dallas Page, actually does enjoy them.
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Graham Chapman -
Monty Python member, often seen both on and off screen with a pipe. (Deceased)
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Bing Crosby - American actor and singer. Often photographed with pipe and frequently smoked in films.
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Jacques Derrida - French deconstructionist philosopher, often pictured smoking or gesturing with a pipe.
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Clint Eastwood - Known to be a consistent user of tobacco products, especially during his earlier films.
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Albert Einstein - scientist, often shown pensively with a pipe in his hand.
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Millicent Fenwick - former Republican Congresswoman from New Jersey
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Gerald Ford - The last US president to use tobacco on a regular basis
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John Forsythe - American actor. Stopped in 1982 when ordered to by his physician.
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Stephen Fry - English comedian, author, actor, and director - was the last ever person awarded the title of
Pipe Smoker of the Year before the British tobacco advertising ban.
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Vincent van Gogh - painter. Several of his self-portraits feature the pipe.
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Hugh Hefner - creator of
Playboy Magazine. Was often seen in a
dressing gown and smoking a pipe.
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Edwin Hubble-showed that the universe is expanding, most famous pictures of him are at
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - painted many self portraits with a pipe
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Douglas MacArthur - five-star
United States General of the Army, often shown brazenly with a
corncob pipe in his mouth.
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Subcomandante Marcos - spokesperson for the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation, often seen wearing a
balaclava and smoking a pipe.
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Piet Mondriaan- Kertesz photographed this famous artists pipe.
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Claude Monet - Renoir painted famous portrait of Monet with his pipe.
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Eric Morecambe - comedian.
Pipe Smoker of the Year in 1970.
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Harry Mulisch - Dutch writer, in self-styled arrogance employing the pipe to elevate himself above the masses.
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Robert Oppenheimer-scientist, often photographed smoking a pipe or cigarette.
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Jean Piaget-famous for his theory of cognitive development, almost always seen with a pipe.
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Norman Rockwell - painter. His paintings feature a lot of pipes as well.
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Bertrand Russell - influential British philosopher, mathematician, logician.
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George Sand -
pseudonym of French writer
Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin (later
Baroness Dudevant)
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Joseph Stalin - former leader of the
Soviet Union.
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J.R.R. Tolkien - his literary works feature a lot of pipes as well. For instance the
pipe-weed from
The Lord of the Rings.
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Orson Welles-Director and actor. Very often seen with pipe in hand.
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Harold Wilson - British Prime Minister. Even his portrait-painting shows him prestigiously smoking the pipe.
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Virginia Woolf - British writer
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Louis Armstrong - a steady user and arrested in March 1931 for possession, according to his 1971 autobiography. Said to have been fond of 'muggles' all through his long career.
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The Beatles - symbols of sixties drug use.
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Jack Black - Actor, member of the band
Tenacious D, promotes the legalization of marijuana, even referring to those who wish to keep it banned as "old fucking shrivs" in the song, "City Hall". Nominated for
High Times' "Stoner of the Year" in 2003. [
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Dave Chappelle - Wrote and starred in the stoner film
Half Baked, performed various weed-related skits on
Chappelle's Show, and has openly admitted to the use of the drug in his personal life.
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Tommy Chong - famous alongside
Cheech Marin for the "cannabis culture" films. Still smoking today.
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Joe Cocker - arrested in 1976 in Australia for possession of marijuana.
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Bob Denver - actor best known for playing the role of Gilligan on
Gilligan's Island. Spent the later years of his life getting high and raising goldfish.[
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Snoop Dogg -
Rapper, Known weed smoker. Often seen smoking on stage, in his car, and on various TV appearances. It was revealed that he has a room in his home specifically for
weed smoking known as the
Green Room. He claimed to have quit smoking in
2003, only to relapse later in the year.
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Dr. Dre - Rapper famous for the release of the hit album
The Chronic, which got its name from a slang term for cannabis. Also released the single "
The Next Episode," which popularized the phrase "Hey, hey, hey, smoke weed every day."
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Bob Dylan - famous singer/songwriter who was known to smoke marijuana. Dylan is often considered responsible for influencing the early drug use of the Beatles. Wrote the song
Rainy Day Women, the chorus of which is a jubilant
"But I would not feel so all alone/ Everybody must get stoned"*
Art Garfunkel - Busted twice in 2004 and 2005 for possession after a joint was found in his car.
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Allen Ginsberg - American
Beat poet. He formed a bridge between the Beat movement of the
1950s and the
hippies. Said "Pot is fun!" (Deceased)
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George Harrison - Dubbed "the quiet
Beatle " by the media, yet still had massive intake of cannabis. (Deceased)
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Prince Harry - member of the British Royal family. Experienced some controversy with marijuana and was forced to desist.
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Jimi Hendrix - Famous
guitar player. Was known for smoking
cannabis on stage and in his limosine. (Deceased)
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Mick Jagger - famous
'69 bust, defended by
The Times in an editorial.
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Timothy Leary - American writer and psychologist. 1960s
counterculture icon and campaigner for
psychedelic drug research and use. (Deceased)
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Bob Marley - as a
Rastafari, Bob Marley was a great defender of
cannabis, which he used as a
sacrament. It is mentioned in many of his songs and on the cover of
Catch a Fire he is seen smoking a large
spliff. (Deceased)
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Paul McCartney - A member of
The Beatles. He was caught in a
Japanese airport with a pound. Wrote the song "
Got to Get You into My Life" as a tribute to the plant.
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Rosa Meriläinen - Finnish politician. In an interview she confessed to having used cannabis during her career as a representative.
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George Michael - pop icon claims to smoke too much pot.
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Robert Mitchum - American actor and singer. He used cannabis in the late 1940s and was the first Hollywood actor arrested for possession of marijuana[
8]. Smoked cigarettes as well. (Deceased)
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Willie Nelson - A member of the
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (United States), they call him
"America's most beloved marijuana smoker" and a friend. Those that have been on his tour bus have described seeing an ashtray with several joints, live cannabis plants, and garbage bags full of the drugs. [
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Stefan Raab - A German entertainer popular for his marijuana-themed songs and music videos.
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Carl Sagan - Frequent cannabis smoker who wrote an essay on marijuana use under the pseudonym "Mr. X," which he credits as inspiring much of his intellectual work (although this was not known until after his death). His illustrious career is often considered a testament to the idea that smoking marijuana does not necessarily make people unambitious and lazy.
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Ringo Starr - First of
The Beatles to smoke.
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Peter Tosh -
Rastafari, wrote
Legalise It, famous for smoking on stage and getting beaten up by the
police as a result. (Deceased)
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Montel Williams - Advocate for the use of medicinal marijuana, which he uses to treat
multiple sclerosis.
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Hannibal Smith as The Aquamaniac. Face will even offer cigars to the empty suit. |
See also: List of fictional people who smoke*
Krusty the Klown on
The Simpsons - A chain smoking clown that can be seen even smoking on the children's program that he hosts.
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Patty and Selma Bouvier on
The Simpsons - Marge's
chain smoking sisters.
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Carrie Bradshaw - Sex And The City main character often seen with a Marlboro light cigarette.
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Caterpillar from
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - smokes a
water pipe, capable of some tricks.
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Lt. Columbo - Peter Falk was alwas seen with a cigar during
Columbo!*
The Cigarette Smoking Man on
The X-Files - is almost always seen chain-smoking
Morley cigarettes, and is usually surrounded by clouds of smoke. The irony of this character is that the actor is actually a non-smoker, smoking herbal cigarettes.
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Alistair Crane on
Passions - is usually seen smoking cigars. The cigars were treated as a trademark of the character, as finding a cigar butt, or smelling the smoke would indicate that Alistair was in an area.
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Duc de Richleau and his friends
Simon Aaron,
Rex Van Ryn and
Richard Eaton featured in many
Dennis Wheatley novels, one time even went as far as using their last moments of freedom to smoke their last
Hoyo de Monterrey cigars.
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Sybil Fawlty on
Fawlty Towers - always smoking while on the phone. She also might be responsible for her husband
Basil's frequent inability to obtain fire for his cigarettes.
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Nick Fury - cigar-chomping leader of an elite army unit in World War II, featured in
Marvel Comics.
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Dale Gribble,
King Of The Hill - One of Hank Hills best friends who is almost always smoking a cigarette.
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J. Jonah Jameson - cigar-chewing newspaper
editor and constant foe of
Spider-Man.
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Captain Haddock - The belligerent companion of Hergé's popular
Tintin, frequently seen smoking his pipe.
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Boss Hogg, bad guy from
The Dukes of Hazzard - always smoking a cigar.
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Sherlock Holmes - detective,
iconically shown smoking the pipe when not playing the
violin.
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Lucky Luke - Belgian
comics character with a cigarette constantly at his lips, in a parody of abundant cigarette usage in
Westerns. In 1983 the author,
Morris, was praised by the
World Health Organization for replacing the cigarette with a piece of straw.
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Tony Montana - the protagonist in the 1983 movie Scarface, was an avid cigar smoker.
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Maigret - French detective created by
Georges Simenon, often smoking his pipe while seeking inspiration.
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Steven McCroskey -
air traffic controller from
Airplane!, who picked the wrong day to quit smoking (and drinking, and taking
amphetamines, and
sniffing glue).
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Popeye -
sailor smoking a
corncob pipe.
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Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, commander of
The A-Team - even when fighting, Hannibal smokes the cigars that Face has to supply him with.
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The Smokers -
Waterworld. Every one and all of these
pirates is a smoker. Cigarettes are amongst the most heavily sought after treasure for these people.
The Deacon - their leader - often deals out smokes to keep the morale favorable towards himself.
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Solid Snake - main protagonist from the
Metal Gear video game series, perpetually carrying a pack of cigarettes. Snake continues to smoke, despite other characters reminding him of the dangers. He can also use cigarette smoke to reveal
laser tripwires in some games. Similarly,
Big Boss smokes cigars in
Snake Eater and uses them to burn off leeches that have attached to his body.
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Lieutenant Starbuck and
Kara Thrace from the 1970s and 2000s versions of
Battlestar Galactica respectively.
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Patsy Stone,
Absolutely Fabulous -
chain smoking tart who wakes up with her previous cigarette still in her mouth. When she doesn't smoke she's probably on some
heavier stuff.
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Wolverine - the cigar-chomping mutant from the
X-Men comic books, movies, and cartoons.
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James Bond - In the novels Bond smokes Morland Specials, a mixture of Turkish and Balkan tobacco which he has specially made for him by a Mayfair tobacconist. His consumption can run to as many as sixty a day, though in the novel
Thunderball he switches to an unspecified low-tar brand. In the movies, what Bond smoked depended on who was portraying him.
Sean Connery's Bond smoked cigarettes while the
Roger Moore and
Pierce Brosnan versions smoked Cigars.
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Archie Bunker,
All In The Family - Is often seen smoking a cigar. There is even an episode where he has a
bet with
Michael Stivic on whether he cam go 24 hours without a cigar.
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The Penguin,
Batman Villain - Is often depicted smoking a cigarette on the end of a foot long holder.
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Cosmo Kramer,
Seinfeld - Has been known to smoke both cigars and pipes. There has even been storylines involving his use of tobacco.
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