Chain Smoking - in Culture

In Culture

Famous chain smokers include Patrick Swayze, Dean Martin, Alison Mosshart, Brian Wilson, Hilary Devey, Amy Winehouse, Sergio Marchionne, Mao Zedong, Walt Disney, Jim Varney, Christopher Hitchens, Paul Newman, Martin Amis, Will Self, Kurt Vonnegut, Benicio Del Toro, Russell Crowe (who has been smoking since he was 10 years old), Ian Fleming, Doug Stanhope, Ayn Rand, Jon Stewart (who has quit as of 2000), Irvine Welsh, Johnny Carson, Helmut Schmidt, John Wayne, Richard Burton, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante (who has since stopped smoking altogether), Kate Moss, Jack Nicholson, Frank Zappa, Keanu Reeves, Slash (musician), Drew Barrymore, Joni Mitchell (who is rarely seen giving interviews without her American Spirits), Johnny Depp, Winston Churchill, Josip Broz Tito, Princess Margaret, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, FDR, Willy Brandt, Colin Farrell, Lucille Ball, James Dean, Nat King Cole, Bill Hicks, Stompin' Tom Connors, Jim Leyland, Denis Leary, Humphrey Bogart, George Formby (who smoked 40 Woodbines a day), Bob Dylan, John Lennon, George Harrison, Al Pacino, Louis Armstrong, Edward R. Murrow, Herb Kelleher, John Mellencamp, Sammy Davis Jr, Joseph Goebbels, Jackie Gleason, Shaquille O'Neal, and Julie Goodyear.

Yul Brynner was another chain smoker who famously figured in a posthumous anti-smoking campaign by the American Cancer Society ("Just don't smoke"),

Ashton Kutcher chain smoked since the age of 16, until he quit in 2005 to prepare for his role in the 2006 film, The Guardian. Another notable chain smoker was the eminent paleontologist Sir Ralph Howard Fowler, who was known for smoking in the shower. HM the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, is also a notable chain smoker.

The British soap opera EastEnders character Dot Cotton is a fictional chain smoker. The prevalence of never being seen without a cigarette in hand, i.e. habitual or constant smoking, is highlighted in the TV series Mad Men depicts social mores of 1960s America.