Chain smoking
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Chain smoking is the practice of lighting a new cigarette for personal consumption immediately after one that is finished, sometimes using the finished cigarette to light the next one. The term is most often used more loosely to describe people who smoke relatively constantly, though not actually "chaining". Chain smoking is a term primarily applied to cigarette smoking, although it can be extended to cover cigar and pipe smoking as well.
Famous chain smokers include J. Robert Oppenheimer, Shahrukh Khan, Audrey Hepburn, Oscar Wilde, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michelle Collins, Lucille Ball, James Dean, L. Ron Hubbard (smoked Kool brand cigarettes), David Miscavige (smokes unfiltered Camel brand cigarettes), Pablo Picasso, Mao Zedong, Walt Disney, Helmut Schmidt (smokes Reyno Menthol brand cigarettes), John Wayne, Andy Keller, Richard Burton, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante (has since stopped smoking altogether), Kate Moss, Drew Barrymore, Slash, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Nat King Cole, Shawn O'Brien, Bill Hicks, Denis Leary, Humphrey Bogart (smoked Chesterfield brand cigarettes), George Formby (who smoked 40 Woodbines a day), John Lennon, Al Pacino, Louis Armstrong, Edward R. Murrow, Herb Kelleher, Yul Brynner, Ian Fleming (who smoked 70 unfiltered Morland & Co. brand cigarettes a day [1]) and Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Ashton Kutcher chain smoked since the age of 16, until he quit in 2005 to prepare for his role in The Guardian. Another notable chain smoker was the eminent paleontologist R. H. Flower, who is known for smoking in the shower.[1] HM the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, is also a notable chain smoker.
Two famous fictional chain smokers are Western comic characters Lucky Luke, always seen with a cigarette in his mouth until the anti-smoking lobby urged the author to make him quit, and John Constantine, whose chain smoking plays a pivotal role in the character's history. Other notable fictional chain smokers are Bender from the Futurama series, Wolverine from the X-Men comic book, J. Jonah Jameson from the Spider-Man comic book, Cigarette Smoking Man, the main villain of the 90's television sci-fi drama series The X-Files, and Sanji from the One Piece manga and anime, however in the 4Kids Entertainment dub he has a lollipop. Perry White chain-smoked until a late-1990s Superman storyline in which he developed lung cancer.
