We watched the original Day of the Jackal the other night and grew more and more astounded at the prevalence of cigarettes. It seemed like every character lit one up multiple times in every scene.
This isn’t exactly what the OP is looking for, but it’s related (and the best I can do):
Lon Chaney’s only talkie “The Unholy Three (1930),” ends with somebody handing him some cigs as he boards the train to the Big House. I don’t recall whether or not Chaney smoked in this film, but he was already ill with some kind of respiratory cancer which killed him shortly after production wrapped.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned John Wayne, one of the most popular movie stars of the fifties. It would be hard to say how many movies he smoked in. He used to do commercials for cigarettes.
When he was dying of cancer he reversed his stance and did some well-remembered and poignant anti-smoking public announcements.
Not a movie character, but on Burn Notice, Sharon Gless chain-smokes. Almost makes me wonder if she is a chain-smoker in real life and had it written in to the script. I don’t understand how they can even film it, even if they are herbal.
I’m confused about this…
http://o.canada.com/entertainment/television/mad-men-actors-forced-to-smoke-herbal-cigarettes
It’s OK to smoke clove cigarettes indoors but not tobacco?
Other than the fact that Clove cigarettes have tobacco in them, what are you confused about? It’s illegal to smoke tobacco indoors at a place of employment in California. So the actors have to smoke something else, instead.
I assumed that it would be illegal to smoke anything indoors, not just tobacco.
I don’t think that the problem is any kind of smoke per se, but the smoke produced by a substance deemed a health hazard.
Burgess Meredith, the Penguin, Batman. Meredith had quit smoking by the time he accepted the role as Penguin. The Penguin’s squawking was a result of the cigarette smoke irritating Meredith’s throat and was an attempt to stifle his coughing.
Clove cigarettes are not the same thing as the herbal cigs used for filming. I think it’s been well established that clove cigs are if anything worse for you than regular ones. The herbal ones are not exactly healthy, but have no particular downside except that pulling smoke from any source into your lungs isn’t particulately good for you.
The original “Dominique” on Max Headroom was a heavy smoker (IRL and on the British pilots) who died from lung cancer about the time the US series started; the replacement (who’s still around) was an ardent anti-smoker who was one of the first to insist on using herbal substitutes.
She quit partway through the run of the show, I think because she was given a grandchild to take care of. They frequently showed her with a patch. Then, in the series finale, for reasons obvious if you’ve seen it, she smoked one last ciggie. I thought it was quite poignant.
How could we forget Patty and Selma Bouvier?
Didn’t Peter Stormare smoke a lot as Gaer Grimsud in Fargo? That scene where he sort of comes to life and chases down the police officer comes to mind.
The Carl Bernstein character in “All the President’s Men.”
Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) to Bernstein: “Is there anyplace you don’t smoke?”