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Humphrey Bogart smoking

This is a list of famous people, for whom smoking is clearly a recognised part of their public image, or who are known for some unusual aspect of smoking.

[edit] Cigarette smokers

• Pat Nixon - Was a closet cigarette smoker, a fact that came out shortly after her death.
• Ryan Adams- Singer. Can often be seen with a cigarette--on and off stage and during interviews. Has been known to use a special ash tray clipped to the head of his guitar on stage. He is pictured with a cigarette in his mouth on the cover of his first solo album Heartbreaker (2000).
• Lucille Ball - Her image was used to advertise Philip Morris cigarettes from the 1950s until the 1970s. Her daughter, Lucie Arnaz, noted that both her mother and her father, Desi Arnaz, "smoked like chimneys" in a July 9, 2000, interview with The Mail on Sunday. In later years, Ball's voice deepened and took on a gravelly tone--due to her smoking. Had to quit in 1986, during the filming of Life with Lucy, due to unspecified "health reasons."^[1]
• Drew Barrymore of the famous Barrymore family smokes Marlboro Reds, about 2-3 packs a day. She started smoking cigarettes at age 9 1/2.
• 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. Died of complications from throat cancer.
• Anthony Bourdain - Celebrity chef. Can be seen lighting up frequently on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
• David Bowie - Several photos--both on stage and publicity shots-- depict Bowie smoking. According to the biography Strange Fascination, he smoked both Gitane and Marlboro cigarettes. Quit in early 2000s after a heart attack.
• June Brown - British actress who is famous for her role as Dot Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders; both Brown and her character are heavy smokers.
• Paul "Bear" Bryant - American college football coach for the University of Alabama who was known for smoking a Chesterfield under the goalpost before each game.
• Charles Bukowski - American poet and writer known to have smoked Pall Mall brand cigarettes all his life.
• Johnny Cash - Legendary American country singer. Often photographed smoking a cigarette with a ponderous expression on his face.
• Nick Cave - Brooding Australian singer/songwriter and leader of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Insists that since he started smoking Marlboro Lights, his record sales are going to go down. Has canceled concerts at venues which have a strict no-smoking policy.
• Andrew Dice Clay - Raunchy American stand-up comic, almost never seen without a cigarette (sometimes even unlit, due to smoking restrictions). However, when Clay appeared on Tom Green Live in November 2006, he stated that he had quit smoking a few years earlier, but still keeps an unlit cigarette in his hand at all times.
• Kurt Cobain- Late singer and guitarist of the band Nirvana. Often seen smoking in interviews and on stage.
• Chris Cornell - Lead singer for bands Soundgarden and Audioslave often seen smoking in interviews and on stage. Quit smoking prior to the recording for Audioslave's second album, Out of Exile.
• Ian Curtis - Lead singer of the band Joy Division; before his 1980 suicide, often seen smoking in photographs, including this iconic Anton Corbijn photo of himr<ef>http://www.controlthemovie.com/img/control_photo.gif</ref>.
• 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.
• Sammy Davis, Jr. - American singer/actor. Often seen smoking on stage and in interviews. Died of throat cancer in May 1990 at age 64.
• James Dean - American actor and icon; smoked 2 packs of Chesterfield cigarettes a day. He died in a car crash in 1955, aged 24.
• Deng Xiaoping - Smoked his favorite Panda Brand cigarettes until he was well over 90 years of age.
• 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. He smokes Bali Shag tobacco with licorice flavored Rizla rolling papers.
• Marlene Dietrich - Famed German actress who smoked as part of her "Dietrich image." Lived to age 90.
• Walt Disney - His years of chain-smoking led to his death of lung cancer at age 65.
• Pete Doherty- Of the band Babyshambles and formerly of The Libertines. Rarely seen without cigarette in press photos. Smokes on stage while singing and in interviews.
• Nick Drake- English Folk musicians known to to smoke French Gauloise cigarettes. Died of anti-depressant overdose at age 26
• Bob Dylan - American singer-songwriter, 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, Irish actor. He is seldom seen off screen in interviews without a cigarette. He gave up alcohol completely after therapy in 2005-2006, however has been quoted as saying that he smokes one carton per week (200 cigarettes).
• Serge Gainsbourg- The French chanteur smoked heavily and his attachment to cigarettes was a key part of his image.
• Noel Gallagher - British songwriter and guitarist for the band Oasis, named two of his cats after his favorite brand of cigarettes, "Benson" and "Hedges".
• Theo van Gogh - Dutch film maker ever accompanied by a dark French cigarette.
• George Harrison - Member of The Beatles who was famously seen smoking in the movies A Hard Days Night and Help!. His off-screen chain-smoking habit lead to his death from lung cancer in 2001.
• Audrey Hepburn - Iconic actress who 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 with smoking from a holder in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
• 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. Once jokingly claimed his cigarette habit was so bad that he was going through two lighters per day. In the final years of his life, his voice was noticeably different, presumably from the number of cigarettes he continued to smoke.
• David Hockney - The world-famous artist is well known for his cigarette smoking, and has said in the past that he would 'gladly die' from his habit.
• 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.
• Peter Jennings - Journalist and former anchor of ABC World News Tonight. Died of lung cancer in 2005.
• Shahrukh Khan - Bollywood top superstar, rarely seen without cigarettes off screen, though he has vowed to reduce smoking on his 40th birthday.
• Jack Kerouac - American writer, known as the "Father of the Beat Generation". Most famous for his novel, On the Road.
• Anne Kirkbride - Playing Deirdre Barlow on the soap opera Coronation Street, Kirkbride is well known for her raspy voice (which intensified over the years), and has become one of her trademarks. Kirkbride is a chain smoker in real life, although her character no longer smokes. Diagnosed with lymphoma in 1993, and attempted to quit the following year; but admitted that she could not quit smoking completely.
• John Lennon - Former Beatles singer and songwriter. Prototypically portrayed with colored sunglasses and shaggy hair.
• C.S. Lewis - Believed that cigarette ashes were good for carpets.
• Jim Leyland - Baseball manager, managed the World Series Champion Florida Marlins in 1997, currently of the 2006 American League Champion Detroit Tigers, often known to smoke in the dugout during games. More recently, as smoking has been banned in many major league stadiums, he smokes on the ramp to the clubhouse between innings.
• Mao Zedong - Many people who followed him during the Chinese Civil War to Sino-Japanese War and to second phase of Chinese Civil War report seeing him chain smoking in the caves of Yenan, usually a lumpy homemade cigarette,
• Princess Margaret - Younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II; she took to a life of high-living and was a heavy cigarette smoker.
• Dean Martin - Used to smoke cigarettes on stage and sometimes on his shows. And was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in September 1993.^{[citation needed]}
• Margrethe II of Denmark - Queen of Denmark. A well-known chain smoker.
• Freddie Mercury - Former Queen vocalist. His heavy smoking led to a roughening of his voice during the 1980s, but he eventually gave up smoking towards the end of the decade after being diagnosed with HIV; he died of AIDS in 1991.
• 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.
• Kate Moss - Model; smokes four packs of Marlboro Lights per day and has been smoking cigarettes since the age of 12.
• Edward R. Murrow - A chain smoker, Murrow was seldom seen without a cigarette (usually Camels) in hand.
• Conor Oberst - Folk Musician. Smoker who is known to prefer Parliament cigarettes
• J. Robert Oppenheimer - Father of the atomic bomb; photographed often with a cigarette dangling from his mouth and known for his peculiar way of removing ash with the tip of a finger.
• Al Pacino - Iconic Academy Award-winning American stage and film actor. Suffered from a throat disorder in the mid-1980s which forced him to stop smoking cigarettes. In Sea of Love, he sounded noticeably different, featuring his now-famous dark, owly eyes and hoarse, deep voice.
• Jimmy Page - Guitarist of British rock band Led Zeppelin. Chain smoked on stage towards the final years of Led Zeppelin, reportedly to curb cravings for heroin.
• 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.^[2]
• 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.
• Ayn Rand - Prominent novelist and creator of the philosophy of Objectivism; was often seen with cigarette in hand. She discussed in her novel Atlas Shrugged how cigarettes are a profound symbol of man and his ability to tame nature: ". . . Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips . . . . When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is appropriate that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."
• Vanessa Redgrave - The English Actress and anti-war campaigner smokes Benson and Hedges cigarettes.
• Keith Richards - Guitarist of the Rolling Stones. Often seen smoking on stage and in interviews.
• Richard Pryor - was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Famously Pryor set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine
• 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). (Died of Polio)
• Axl Rose - Lead singer for Guns N' Roses. Often seen smoking cigarettes and cigars on and off stage, featured smoking in several music videos.
• Jean-Paul Sartre - French existentialist philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist. Well-known lover of Gauloise cigarettes.
• Tupac Amaru Shakur - Arguably the most famous rapper in history, also an actor and activist. Was usually seen smoking Newport cigarettes in most of his interviews. In his video "Hit em up" he has a cigarette in his mouth.
• Frank Sinatra - The singer and actor is said to have been buried with a pack of Camels and a Zippo lighter.
• Sócrates - Captain of the 1982 FIFA World Cup Brazilian football team.
• 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.
• Frank Zappa - American composer and musician who was renowned for his cigarette and coffee preferences, although he abstained from (and criticized) all other drugs. Said tobacco was his favourite "vegetable". 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 be found throughout his lyrics.
• Liam Gallagher - English singer and songwriter , brother of Noel Gallagher lead singer in Oasis, seen smoking in interviews and at the MTV Unplugged ,while heckeling his brother from the balcony.
• Ville Valo - Lead singer for the famous Finnish rock band HIM. Smoking is one of the things Valo is most known for next to his music. He is seen smoking nearly all the time, on stage, in interviews, television shows (most notably in episodes of Viva La Bam), as well as on the covers of HIM's second album Razorblade Romance, & the band's third album Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights. He has stated that he smokes 60 cigarettes a day, in order to make his voice sound the way he likes it to when he sings. Valo smokes an unbelievable 21,900 cigarettes a year, despite the fact that he is an asthmetic.

[edit] Cigar smokers

Groucho Marx with a cigar, which had become an inseparable part of his image

• Thomas Edison - Supposedly had a 10 cigar a day habit.
• Red Auerbach - Legendary Boston Celtics coach. He would light a cigar in victory when he thought the game was over.
• Dirk Benedict - American actor. Seen on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007 almost constantly with a cigar. Told the show's producers, 'No cigars, no Benedict'.
• Ron Bennington - Radio personality. Whenever receiving a gift or care-package, he prefers cigars above anything else.
• Milton Berle - American comedian who was usually seen with a cigar.
• Art Buchwald - The political pundit and humorist smoked cigars while giving speeches.
• 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.
• 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].
• 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.
• Winston Churchill - Politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Was so fond of cigars, a cigar size was named in his honour.
• Ken Clarke - British politician, former Deputy Chairman of British American Tobacco.
• Bill Clinton - Politician and former U.S. President.
• Edward Cole - legendary business professor and editor of the magazine Cigar Aficionado
• Bill Cosby - American comedian; attributes his fondness for cigars to his idol Groucho Marx.
• 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. [4]
• Robert DeNiro - Movie star who always is smoking a cigar. [5]
• Bo Derek - Actress (10) who appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine smoking a cigar.
• Linda Evangelista - Model who appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine smoking a cigar.
• Pim Fortuyn - The Dutch politician was rarely seen without a Cuban cigar.
• 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.
• Kinky Friedman - Singer, comedian, and Texas gubernatorial candidate in 2006.
• Adolf Galland - World War Two German fighter ace; even installed a lighter in his cockpit.
• George Gershwin - American jazz and classical composer; often depicted smoking a cigar.
• Ulysses S. Grant - Union Army general (American Civil War) and then 18th President of the United States. Some historians say that he smoked 20 cigars a day. He began smoking cigars at Fort Donelson in 1862. When a reporter commented that Grant liked cigars, people sent him over 20,000. Died of throat cancer.
• Che Guevara - Argentinian revolutionary. Used to smoke cigars during meeting pauses.
• George Hamilton - American actor. Famously loves cigars--and even bought his own brand of cigars--made in the Dominican Republic.
• Daryl Hannah - American movie actress.
• Saddam Hussein Former President of Iraq.
• Samuel L Jackson - Actor: Titan.
• Rodrigo de Jerez - Probably the first European to smoke. On Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. In 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.
• Michael Jordan - Athlete and notorious cigar smoker; often seen with a cigar in the locker room during basketball championship celebrations.
• 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.
• Suge Knight - Head of Death Row Records. Suge is rarely seen without a cigar in his clutch. The cigar is part of his persona.
• Ernie Kovacs - Legendary actor and comic who often incorporated his cigars into his roles.
• Emeril Lagasse - TV chef.
• Andrew Lande - world traveler, international food and wine expert, and co-author of The Cigar Connoisseur.
• David Letterman - Late-night TV host. Reportedly has cut down his trademark cigars since his 2000 heart bypass surgery.
• Leo Levinson - Internationally known expert in home-furnishings advertising and marketing. Founder of www.ok2smoke.com.
• Rush Limbaugh - Conservative radio talk-show host.
• Marcello Lippi - Italian football coach; was widely seen smoking a cigar after Italy won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
• Susan Lucci - Daytime Emmy-winning actress most famous for playing Erica Kane on the long-running soap opera All My Children. Appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine smoking a cigar.
• Groucho Marx - Comedian and actor with trademark mustache and stumpy cigar.
• Demi Moore - Actress (Ghosts, Indecent Proposal) who appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine smoking a cigar.
• Pete Nice - Member of the old-school hip hop group 3rd Bass; often seen in music videos smoking cigars.
• P.J. O'Rourke - American political satirist, journalist, and writer. Said, "Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin and tonic is the way to save the planet."
• Diamond Dallas Page - Former professional wrestler and author. Cigar smoking was part of his ring character. He also likes to smoke them when not "in character".
• Brad Paisley - Country music singer.
• George Peppard - Played "Hannibal" on The A-Team. Smoked cigars on and off screen.
• Joe Pesci - Italian-American actor. Smokes cigars but not cigarettes.
• Pope St. Pius X - The saintly pontiff was known to enjoy cigars on occasion.
• Fidel Ramos - Politician, former President of the Philippines. He is frequently seen holding or smoking a cigar during cabinet meetings, political rallies, and speaking engagements.
• Charles Nelson Reilly - The actor and Match Game panelist smoked cigars while taping the game show.
• Rene Rivkin - Stock market guru from Australia, known for his flamboyant style, ever-present worry beads and cigar chain smoking. Said, "I smoke Cigars; I don't like the taste, but they clear a room faster than a Yoko Ono album." (Suicide.)
• Pete Rose - Former major league baseball player and manager; career hits champion.
• Terri Runnels - As "Marlena" (The Manager-Valet of Goldust) was often seen at ringside smoking a cigar. Like Diamond Dallas Page, seems to enjoy them.
• Babe Ruth - Hall of fame baseball player
• Antonio Saca - President of El Salvador.
• 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."
• Claudia Schiffer - Model who appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine smoking a cigar.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger - Austrian-born body-builder, movie star, and current Governor of California. Erected a smoking tent on the capitol lawn because smoking is banned in the buildings.
• Michael Schumacher - Seven-time Formula 1 racing champion (now retired). Usually seen in the paddock after a race with a cigar.
• William "Bill" Shatner - Canadian actor famous for playing James T. Kirk in Star Trek in the 1960s; can frequently be seen smoking cigars on the recent hit series Boston Legal alongside James Spader.
• Jean Sibelius - Finnish classical music composer.
• Jessica Simpson - The pop diva, actress, and model sometimes indulges in cigars.
• Will Smith - Actor and hip-hop star.
• Jimmy Smits - Actor.
• Charles Spurgeon - British Baptist preacher; known to many as the Prince of Preachers. 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. Paid by tobacco industry to smoke in movies.
• George Strait - Country music singer.
• Mark Twain - American author. Said he smoked whenever awake. Claimed to have smoked 24 cigars in one day. Said that quitting was easy--he had done it a thousand times.
• Jesse Ventura - American former wrestler, wrestling announcer, actor and Minnesota governor. Claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced him to cigars while filming the 1987 film Predator.
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - Brazilian 20th-Century classical composer. Often seen with a cigar in photos.
• Raquel Welch - Actress.
• Ron White - Comedian of Blue Collar fame; typically seen with a glass of scotch in one hand and a cigar in the other.
• Orson Welles - Constantly with cigar, especially later in life.

[edit] Pipe smokers

Graham Chapman was rarely seen off screen without his pipe.

• Nolan Bushnell - American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain.
• Macdonald Carey - Seen smoking his pipe in many early episodes of Days of our Lives, in which he played Dr. Tom Horton. Quit smoking in September 1991 after having a cancerous tumor removed from his lung. Died of lung cancer March 1994.
• Pablo Casals - Spanish cellist.
• Graham Chapman - Monty Python member, often seen both on and off screen with a pipe.
• Kevin Costner - American actor. Often seen both on and off screen with a pipe.
• Bing Crosby - American actor and singer. Often photographed with pipe and frequently smoked in films.
• Aleister Crowley - British occultist & poet. Often photographed with a pipe; smoked straight perique soaked in rum.
• Jacques Derrida - French deconstructionist philosopher, often pictured smoking or gesturing with a pipe.
• Albert Einstein - Scientist; often shown pensively with a pipe in his hand.
• William Faulkner - Nobel Prize winning author. Favored English briars as well as the all-American corncob
• Millicent Fenwick - Former Republican congresswoman from New Jersey.
• Gerald Ford - The only US President to pardon a US President (both deceased) The last Chief Executive to use tobacco on a regular basis.
• John Forsythe - American actor. Stopped in 1982 on orders of his physician.
• Stephen Fry - English comedian, author, actor, and director - was the last person ever awarded the title of Pipe Smoker of the Year--before the British tobacco advertising ban.
• Paul Gauguin - Painter. Several self-portraits and portraits by artists such as Van Gogh present the post-impressionist smoking a pipe.
• Mitch Hedberg - Comedian. Drew on his pipe to indicate the punchline.
• Hugh Hefner - Creator of Playboy Magazine. Was often seen and pictured in a dressing gown and smoking a pipe.
• Bob Hope - American comedian was an avid pipe smoker, along with his actor-singer buddy Bing Crosby.
• Edwin Hubble - Showed that the universe is expanding, most famous pictures of him are at the museum at the Kennedy Space Center.
• Howard Hughes - Aviator, inventor and entrepreneur was a persistent pipe smoker early in his career.
• Burl Ives - American folk singer and actor.
• Andrew Jackson - Military leader and U.S. President smoked corncob pipes.
• Carl Jung - Psychologist and writer.
• Albert King - Blues guitarist; known to smoke his pipe during his performances.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Painted many self portraits with a pipe.
• C.S. Lewis - Author of The Chronicles of Narnia, Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity; also smoked cigarettes.
• Douglas MacArthur - Five-star United States General of the Army; often shown with a corncob pipe in his mouth.
• Subcomandante Marcos - Spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation; often shown wearing a balaclava and smoking a pipe.
• Piet Mondrian - Kertesz photographed this famous artist's pipe.
• Claude Monet - Renoir painted famous portrait of Monet with his pipe.
• Henry Moore - Famous English modern sculptor was rarely seen without his pipe full of English tobacco.
• Eric Morecambe - Comedian. Pipe Smoker of the Year in 1970.
• Harry Mulisch - Dutch writer; in self-styled arrogance employed the pipe to elevate himself above the masses.
• Robert Oppenheimer - Scientist; often photographed smoking a pipe or cigarette.
• Sandro Pertini - Italian President. Often seen smoking a pipe.
• Oscar Peterson - Jazz pianist know for amazing technical phrasing in his prime.
• Jean Piaget - Famous for his theory of cognitive development; almost always seen with a pipe.
• Sir Walter Raleigh - The military leader and sailor in service to Her Majesty's navy was a strong advocate of tobacco and, in particular, pipe-smoking. A 17th-Century print shows Sir Walter stretched out in a chair, smoking a four-foot-long (122 cm) pipe--being lit by a servant boy.
• George Lincoln Rockwell - Founder of the American Nazi Party. He was often seen smoking a corncob pipe.
• Norman Rockwell - Painter. He smoked a pipe, and his paintings feature a lot of pipes.
• Bertrand Russell - Influential British philosopher, mathematician, and logician.
• Eero Saarinen - Modern architect of Washington Dulles International Airport, the Gateway Arch, and others.
• George Sand - Pseudonym of (female) French writer Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin (later Baroness Dudevant).
• Georges Simenon - French novelist. Almost never photographed without a pipe. Owned a massive pipe collection. His most famous creation Inspector Maigret was a constant pipe smoker as well.
• Guus Snijkers - Musician from Belgium.
• Joseph Stalin - Former leader of the Soviet Union.
• J.R.R. Tolkien - His literary works feature a lot of pipes, such as the pipe-weed from The Lord of the Rings. He started smoking a pipe when very young, frequently smoked in pubs, smoked with C.S. Lewis, and was sometimes photographed with a pipe.
• Vincent van Gogh - Painter. Several of his self-portraits feature the pipe.
• Billy Vaughn - Musician, band leader, composer. Often photographed with a pipe.
• Irving Wallace - Writer. Photographed smoking a Dunhill pipe on the jacket of nearly all of his novels
• Orson Welles - Director and actor. Very often seen with pipe in hand.
• Kaiser Wilhelm - Prussian leader.
• Harold Wilson - British prime minister. Even his painted portrait shows him proudly smoking a pipe.

Lee Van Cleef - Actor. Often smoked a meerschaum on camera.

[edit] Cannabis smokers

• At the Drive-In - The American post-Hardcore band admitted that during the recording of their debut album Acrobatic Tenement they were under the influence of marijuana and rumours also surfaced that members Cedric Bixler Zavala's and Omar Rodriguez Lopez's heavy drug use was behind the band's break up^{[citation needed]}.
• Louis Armstrong - a steady user and arrested in March 1931 for possession, according tohis 1971 autobiography. Said to have been fond of 'muggles' all through his long career.
• Billie Joe Armstrong-Vocalist and Guitarist of the band Green Day. Has written songs about using marijuana (i.e. Longview). Back in high school, he sold joints for two dollars each, thus earning him the nickname "Two-Dollar Bill".
• The Beatles - symbols of sixties drug use.
• 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. [6]
• Manu Chao - World Music Icon, promotes the legalization of marijuana, he often sings Lalo Guerrero's song 'Marijuana Boogie' on his concerts.
• 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.
• Tommy Chong - famous alongside Cheech Marin as the infamous stoner duo Cheech and Chong for the "cannabis culture" films. Still smoking today.
• Bill Clinton - Politician and former U.S. President (even though he "never inhaled").
• George Clinton - Leader of the legendary funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, and a long time legalization activist
• Kurt Cobain-used cannabis among other drugs.
• Joe Cocker - arrested in 1976 in Australia for possession of cannabis.
• Tre Cool-drummer for the band Green Day. Supports the legalization of marijuana.
• Cypress Hill- the group is known for their pro-cannabis songs.
• Mitch Daniels current Governor of Indiana and former head of the Office of Management and Budget for US President George W. Bush - arrested in 1971 for possession of cannabis while a student at Princeton University.
• Bob Denver - actor best known for playing the role of Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. Spent the later years of his life using cannabis and raising goldfish.[7]
• 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 after 4 months.
• 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, hey, smoke weed every day."
• The Game - Rapper who can be seen smoking marijuana in the studio. He has also made many references to the drug in various songs
• 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 #12 and 35, 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, the latter after a joint was found in his car.
• Allen Ginsberg - American Beat poet. He formed a bridge between the Beat movement of the 1950s and the hippies. Said "Pot is fun!" and "I smoke marijuana every chance I get."
• Gary Hall Jr. - American World Class and Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer. Tested positive for cannabis during the opening days of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics. He avoided a punishment because at the time THC was not on the list of banned substances. After another positive test in 1998, he received a three-month suspension from competition. During the 2000 Olympics however, he said he was clean, and would never smoke again.
• Woody Harrelson - Pro-hemp activist known for his frequent smoking habits. Smokes the drug for both recreational and meditative purposes. Narrated Grass, a film about the history of marijuana. Is a member of NORML.
• Prince Harry - member of the British Royal family. Experienced some controversy with cannabis and was persuaded to stop.
• Jimi Hendrix - Famous guitar player. Was known for smoking cannabis on stage and in his limousine.
• Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - famous 1969 bust, defended by The Times in an editorial.
• Fela Kuti - Nigerian musician, bandleader and activist, founder of Afrobeat. Swallowed a joint that police planted on him. In response, the police took him into custody and waited to examine his feces. Fela enlisted the help of his prison mates and gave the police someone else's feces. He was freed and recounted this tale in his album Expensive Shit.
• Timothy Leary - American writer and psychologist. 1960s counterculture icon and campaigner for psychedelic drug research and use. Gave up smoking later in life for medical reasons, but continued cannabis use via eating in the form of what has been called the Leary Biscut
• Ludacris - Rapper from Atlanta known for his claims to smoke a large amount of the drug. Released "Blueberry Yum Yum," an ode to a particular strain of cannabis. Its video features Ludacris touring a greenhouse in Amsterdam and smoking two "mega joints."
• Bill Maher - Comedian and satirist. Member of NORML's Advisory Board. Makes frequent allusions to his pot smoking habit on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher.
• 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.
• Matthew McConaughey - actor/humanitarian, found in his home by the police playing bongos nude with a bong visible.
• Rosa Meriläinen - Finnish politician. In an interview she confessed to having used cannabis during her career as a representative.
• George Michael - pop icon claims to smoke too much cannabis.
• Robert Mitchum - American actor and singer. He used cannabis in the late 1940s and was the first Hollywood actor arrested for possession of cannabis[8]. Smoked cigarettes as well.
• Mo Mowlam - Popular UK politician, said (parodying Bill Clinton) that she tried it and inhaled.
• Willie Nelson - A member of NORML, they call him "America's most beloved marijuana smoker". 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. [9]
• Ed O'Brien - Guitarist in British rock band Radiohead. He has admitted to being stoned while recording tracks for their seminal 1995 album The Bends.

• Carl Sagan- Carl Sagan was an avid user of marijuana, although he never admitted this publicly during his life. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he wrote an essay concerning cannabis smoking in the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered, whose editor was Lester Grinspoon.[7] In his essay, Sagan commented that marijuana encouraged some of his works and enhanced experiences. After Sagan's death, Grinspoon disclosed this to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. When the biography, entitled Carl Sagan: A Life, was published in 1999, the marijuana exposure stirred some media attention. Carl Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan is also a member of the board of directors for NORML and an advocate of cannabis decriminalization
• Arnold Schwarzenegger- Seen to smoke a blunt after winning the Mr Olympia title in his 1976 movie documentary Pumping Iron.
• Sarah Silverman- claims to smoke cannabis at least four days a week.
• Howard Stern- Has said to have smoked pot during all of his high school years
• Hunter S. Thompson - Well-known user of cannabis and other drugs. Wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a drug-filled book that's very popular in cannabis culture. Pioneer of gonzo journalism.
• Peter Tosh - Rastafari musician, wrote Legalise It, famous for smoking on stage and getting beaten up by the police as a result.
• Montel Williams - Advocate for the use of medicinal cannabis, which he uses to treat multiple sclerosis.
• Sean Paul - Made a song with Busta Rhymes, called Gimme the Light, in which he sings about smoking cannabis.
• Method Man and Redman - References to smoking weed abound in their lyrics. Method is a member of the revolutionary hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan who with the exception of Ghostface, who recently stopped, all smoke marijuana as well. Red and Meth, who have both released critically-acclaimed solo records, appeared in a mid-'90s commercial for St. Ide's and later hooked up on their light-hearted duet Blackout!. Then in late 2001, they released their comedic stoner flick How High. They also stared in a short lived sitcom, Method & Red. As of 2006, Redman is co-hosting the High Times Stony Awards in October, while Meth just released a new solo album (which has cameos from Redman) aptly titled 4:21...The Day After.
• Ian Brown, singer, former frontman of The Stone Roses, stated to have regularly smoked cannabis before appearing on stage.
• Whitney Houston, an American singer, has been known to smoke weed and was arrested for possession of weed and other drugs many times.
• Cameron Diaz In 2007 pictures surfaced of Diaz and Drew Barrymore smoking a joint while sun bathing.

[edit] Fictional characters

Col. John "Hannibal" Smith of The A-Team often smokes cigars.

• The Marlboro Man, fictional character portrayed in old Marlboro ads to increase cigarette sales of filtered cigarettes.
• Bender Bending Rodriguez, fictional Robot character in Matt Groening's Futurama.
• Chandler Bing, Friends - Seen smoking in earlier seasons, gave up smoking later on but still occasionally smokes in secret (e.g. before his wedding to Monica Geller).
• James Bond - In the novels Bond smokes Morland Specials, made of 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 and Timothy Dalton's Bonds smoked cigarettes while the Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan versions smoked cigars.
• Patty and Selma Bouvier on The Simpsons - Marge's chain smoking sisters.
• 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 can go 24 hours without a cigar.
• Caterpillar from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - smokes a water pipe, capable of some tricks.
• The Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files - is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and is usually surrounded by clouds of smoke. * Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye - constantly smoking cigarettes throughout the novel. Says that he has smoked a carton since he left Pencey Prep.
• Almost all the characters of The Lord of the Rings - pipe-weed is commonly smoked throughout the tale, especially with Hobbits. JRR Tolkien insisted that this substance was like tobacco.
• 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.
• John Constantine on Hellblazer - A British street magician created by Alan Moore for the Swamp Thing comic book series; later had his own series and a movie. He's almost never seen without a Silk Cut cigarette. Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer but managed to recover.
• Lt. Columbo - Peter Falk was always seen with a cigar during Columbo!
• J.R. "Bob" Dobbs - Iconic pipe-smoking symbol of the Church of the SubGenius; smoked the Tibetan herb 'frop'.
• 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.
• 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.
• Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli - A rebellious figure from America's hit 1970s television show Happy Days. He was seldom seen without a pack of unfiltered Lucky Strike cigarettes rolled in his sleeve, while riding his "hog".
• Nick Fury - cigar-chomping leader of an elite army unit in World War II, featured in Marvel Comics.
• James Gordon on Batman - Most often depicted as a pipe smoker. He is occasionally shown as trying to quit.
• Dale Gribble, King Of The Hill - One of Hank Hill's best friends is almost always smoking a cigarette. Although recently, it has been mentioned on the show that he has quit.
• J. Jonah Jameson - cigar-chewing newspaper editor and constant foe of Spider-Man.
• Sonny Crockett - Frequently smoked cigarettes during the first seasons of Miami Vice. Abruptly stops smoking during the series.
• Captain Haddock - The belligerent companion of Hergé's popular Tintin, frequently seen smoking his pipe.
• Boss Hogg, Evil Mayor of Hazzard County from The Dukes of Hazzard - always smoking a cigar.
• Sherlock Holmes - detective, smoked a pipe or cigarettes.
• Spider Jerusalem, gonzo journalist and vigilante from the Transmetropolitan comic series. Smokes Carcinoma Angels brand cigarettes and insists on his two long-suffering assistants smoking as well.
• Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld - Has been known to smoke both cigars and pipes. There has even been storylines involving his use of tobacco.
• Krusty the Klown on The Simpsons - A chain smoking clown that can be seen even smoking on the children's program that he hosts.
• 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.
• Tony Montana - the protagonist in the 1983 movie Scarface, was an avid cigar smoker.
• Maigret - French detective created by Georges Simenon, often smoking his pipe while seeking inspiration.
• Steven McCroskey - air traffic controller from Airplane!, who picked the wrong day to quit smoking (and drinking, and taking amphetamines, and sniffing glue).
• The Penguin, Batman villain - Is often depicted smoking a cigarette on the end of a foot long holder.
• Popeye - sailor smoking a corncob pipe.
• Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy was often seen with a cigarette in his mouth. Desi Arnaz was a life-long smoker.
• Brock Samson on The Venture Bros.- A hyper-macho (and oftentimes downright psychotic) bodyguard, frequently seen smoking a cigarette. Voiced by Patrick Warburton.
• Dylan Sanders from Charlie's Angels. Seen smoking in a high school bathroom in her introduction when she was a teenager to the song "I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett while flipping the security camera her middle finger in an act of teenage rebellion. She quits in 1996 but retains a raspy voice as a result of past smoking.^{[citation needed]} She keeps her trusty American flag Zippo lighter as a good luck charm.
• Santa Claus is often pictured smoking a pipe.
• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, commander of The A-Team - even when fighting, Hannibal smokes the cigars that Face has to supply him with.
• 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. Their leader, the Deacon (played by Dennis Hopper) often deals out smokes to keep the morale favorable towards himself.
• 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 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and uses them to burn off leeches that have attached to his body.
• Lieutenant Starbuck and Kara Thrace from the 1970s and 2000s versions of Battlestar Galactica respectively.
• Patsy Stone, Absolutely Fabulous - chain smoking tart who wakes up with the last cigarette from the previous day still in her mouth. When not smoking she frequently uses heavier things.
• Wolverine - the cigar-chomping mutant from the X-Men comic books, movies, and cartoons.
• Sam Spade - private eye from Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon is constantly said to be rolling cigarettes.
• Sanji - Cook from the Pirate anime One Piece. Sanji is almost constantly smoking a cigarette.
• Dean Learner - fictional producer and co-star of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Leaner is seen smoking cuban cigars several times in the series - has smoked cigars since he was 12, according to one interview.
• Turtle - A popular character from HBO's Entourage. In almost every episode, he, along with the rest of Vince and the gang can be seen smoking marijuana in more than one scene.
• Faith Lehane Faith the Vampire Slayer from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel 'The dark slayer' seems to have picked up her smoking habit from her two-year stay in a Californian women's prison. Like Spike the vampire, the other smoker in this Fox universe, she smokes 'Morleys' like the 'cigarette smoking man' in The X-Files.
• Paddlehombre - Hispanic ping-pong character who smoked cigars during matches.
• Spike Spiegel, as well as Faye Valentine and Jet Black of Cowboy Bebop, regularly seen smoking cigarettes. Despite consistent lack of money, the trio always seem to have a huge supply of cigarettes.
• Alan Shore, (played by James Spader) on ABC's Boston Legal, ends nearly every episode smoking a cigar with:
• Denny Crane, (played by William Shatner), named partner at Crane, Poole, and Schmidt on Boston Legal
• Police Captain Hank Quinlan, played by Orson Welles in the film Touch of Evil was seen smoking a cigar throughout.
• Huckleberry Finn Appeared as a major character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was the main character for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both written by Mark Twain. While not prolific, Huckleberry Finn quite often smokes a pipe and in the former book, teaches two other boys to smoke as well. This wasn't unusual for the time.
• Margot Tenenbaum in the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums secretly smoked cigarettes for twenty-two years, since she was twelve. The role was played by Gwyneth Paltrow, who is a fairly heavy smoker herself.
• Hellboy of Dark Horse Comics is quite fond of a victory cigar after defeating a demon ememy.
• Towelie A "smart towel" with arms and legs from the animated series South Park is famous for smoking weed and wanting to get "high".

[edit] References

• R.C. Hacker, The ultimate cigar book (2003, 3rd Ed.) ISBN 0-931253-14-4.

[edit] See also

• Nicotine users and former users, List of
• Nicotine
• Tobacco

[edit] External links

• How to Smoke a Cigar
• (More) Famous Pipe Smokers
• (More) Famous Cannabis Smokers
• Female Celebrity Smoking List
• "SeeThruTheSmoke.com" The Washington State Health Department's Tobacco Prevention and Control Program