Of Course I Smoke: Difference between revisions

 

This, of course completely ruins the act. Most commonly done by teenagers [[Smoking Is Glamorous|trying to look cool]], but sometimes done in order to maintain [[The Masquerade]]. Compare [[Of Course I'm Not a Virgin]].

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* In ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', the 9-year-old Dieter tries to impress a bunch of men at a bar by entering smoking a cigarette, ordering a drink, slurping it up, and leaving the bar. Once outside, he rushes to an alley to cough and puke, wondering why adults do those things.

* In the 12th [[Detective Conan]] film ''Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure'', Takagi tricks a [[Genre Savvy]] suspect into giving him his fingerprint via asking him for a light and pocketing the matchbook the suspect hands him.

{{quote|'''Sato:''' Takagi, when did you start smoking?

'''Takagi:''' '''*HACKHACKCOUGHCOUGH*''' }}

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'', Millie does this to act casual outside of a Chinese opium den. [[Stuff Blowing Up|It didn't end well]].

{{quote|'''Armand:''' Are you all right?

'''Elana:''' Fine.

{{quote|'''Bandit:''' "I think you should give it up." (referring to the cigarette on which she's choking)

'''Frog:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|"But I enjoy it so much..."]] }}

 

== Literature ==

{{quote|"She made out that she smoked Sullivans, Like Raffles, but I knew this was just a gesture of emancipation, as cigarettes made her cough."}}

 

* Greg did this in ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''. Ironically, Barry Williams (who played Greg) had just quit when they did the episode, which made him start up again.

* The old ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV show used this when Robin/Dick was trying to infiltrate a gang of "[[Delinquent]]s".

* [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Picard]] in the season one episode "The Big Goodbye", during his first time on the holodeck as Dixon Hill. He takes a drag on a cigarette [[Smoking Is Cool|very suavely]], and then chokes and puts it down. He may have become more accustomed to smoking, though, because later on in the series he smokes as Hill again, with no trouble.

* In ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', [[Breaking Bad|Walter White]] bums a cigarette from [[Breaking Bad|Jesse Pinkman]] in an attempt at conviviality. It's obvious he's never smoked a cigarette in his life.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

** It should be noted that his mom knew this trope was coming and let Calvin smoke in order to teach him a lesson.

 

* [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2003-10-03/comic/meet-the-crew/syrus-the-virus/ Syrus "the Virus"] in ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' did it on the cast page. Discussed on the next page:

{{quote|''Harold''': You mean it was a lame attempt to look like a badass.

* [[Dominic Deegan]] does this to ''himself''. He lights his pipe, inhales, and... discovers that when his white mage brother Gregory healed him earlier, he also cured his smoking habit.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* In the Cleveland Show Tim the bear becomes an evil boss so Cleveland has to smoke to get a break.

 

 

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