I’m 49 so I don’t remember waaaay back, but the original black and white “Dragnet” and “I Love Lucy” reruns (originally from the 50’s & 60’s) I saw in the early 70’s as a kid stand out in my memory as shows where the actors were cigarette smoking machines.
Any others?
Hell, I don’t have to go back very far for Mad Men.
The Mike Wallace Interviews of 1957-'60 were sponsored by Philip Morris, on which brand Wallace puffed resolutely throughout each program.
In the 1950s, Edward R. Murrow hosted a show called Person to Person, in which celebrities were interviewed in their own homes. Murrow and most of the celebrities were constantly puffing away on cigarettes. Sometimes there was so much smoke in the air that you could barely see the celebrities.
Laugh In had a lot of smoking; Dan Rowan almost always came out with either a pipe or a cigarette.
The Tonight Show under Johnny Carson had a ton of smoking until- don’t know the date, but probably late 70s/early 80s or so, when guests stopped smoking on air but by several accounts lit up during commercials (studio employees would rush in with ashtrays and remove them before commercial ended).
Andy Griffith smoke fairly frequently in early episodes, but the actor himself quit soon after the show began and so it was dropped from the show as well.
Slight hijack, but the most irritating thing about smoking on shows are episodes where a character who has never picked up a cigarette before on the show is revealed to be a chain smoker who’s trying to quit. I’ve seen the plot several times, but the two that come to mind immediately are Vera from Alice and Fred from Sanford & Son.
When I think of Ernie Kovacs’ various shows of the fifties, I always envision Ernie with his ubiquitous cigar.
That reminds of an 70’s interview show with David Susskind that had a kind of minimalist set back-lit with spotlights, and he would smoke one cigarette after another, and the smoke would swirl into these huge plumes in the light. IIRC he had a lot of famous guests, and a somewhat sardonic style.
In Googling up David Susskind to make sure I remembered correctly there was this fascinating (purported) quote.
We’re watching Secret Agent (Danger Man) and in the middle ones, at least Drake and everyone else smoke all the time. Cigarettes, cigars, I think a pipe once too.
Lucky for him that it seems like smoking was banned in The Village. 
Bogie & Bacall. Sinatra.
Jimmy Stewart puffed it up in It’s A Wonderful Life.
And these were no nonsmokers. They knew how.
PBS just aired an episode of I’ve Got a Secret sponsored by Winston and not only was a picture of the package all over the set and a lovely animated ad for the brand, but when the guest, Desi Arnez, was seated with the host, a brief exchange about the brand was brought up and they lit up, smoking away.
The irony was at the end of the episode, Desi and Lucy (who was on the panel), was read a thank you letter for their efforts in touring the country to strike up awareness on heart disease.
Fred McMurray smoked a pipe on My Three Sons, and Don Adams ciggarettes on Get Smart.
Anything with Groucho Marx.
Anything with Bette Davis.
I just saw a MeTv commercial, the one with all the clips of people saying “me to.” Towards the end if you watch closely you can see cigarette smoke drifiting up through the shot.
I Love Lucy
The thing that always gets me is how often (more so in movies then TV) the character lights a cigarette and then either puts it out right away or takes one puff and then puts it out. Who put’s out a cigeratte just becuase the door bell rang or the someone is calling on the phone?
One of the few things Friends did right was Chandler’s cigarette smoking. He was revealed to be an ex-smoker, he had a legitimate reason to do it again (showing Joey how to smoke for a role he was auditioning for) and he kept at it for a while before quitting again.
Can you picture George Burns without that cigar?
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The Addams Family: Gomez’s cigar and Morticia’s “Do you mind if I smoke?”
This isn’t exactly on topic, but there’s a great clip on YouTube of a very young Tom Waits on the Mike Douglas Show in the early 70s, and Waits is chainsmoking like a lunatic and stubbing out cigarettes into an ashtray between his feet. It struck me as odd not only because no one would smoke on a talk show these days, but it was such flagrant smoking. (And it didn’t hurt his voice one tiny bit! Smoke up, kids!)
It’s here. I was surprised at what a good job Douglas did here of making sense out of Waits.
[Steve Martin]“No, do you mind if I fart? It’s one of my habits.”[/Steve Martin]
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His hand and foot prints at Graumans Chinese theater includes an imprint of a cigar. (He’s who I came in to mention)
No mention of Match Game? For shame!
Funny, those are exactly the first two shows that popped into my head!
So I guess I’ll mention Tom Snyder, who always seemed to have one lit up on the “Tomorrow” show.