In Popular Culture
- Woodbines are mentioned several times in the play Dancing at Lughnasa.
- In the film Telstar: The Joe Meek Story, the drummer of The Tornados stashes his Woodbines in the kick drum.
- Bert Baxter, a character in the famous Adrian Mole series, often smokes a Woodbine cigarette.
- Jennifer Paterson, celebrity chef of the "Two Fat Ladies", was seen smoking Woodbine in several episodes of the show.
- Frank McCourt mentions Woodbine cigarettes as his mother's favourite in his autobiography Angela's Ashes.
- Van Morrison mentions buying five Woodbines at the shop on the corner on his lunch break in his song "Cleaning Windows".
- Singer/Songwriter Lucinda Williams sings of "choking on woodbine" in the song "Factory Girls" on Flogging Molly's 2004 album Within a Mile of Home.
- In James Herriot's books, his veterinary partner, Siegfried Farnon's (Donald Sinclair's) brother, Tristan (Brian Sinclair), smokes Woodbines.
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