We , ve all seen it...

a Hollywood hotshot - complete with leather jacket, perfectly slicked hair and a devilish grin - waltzes into the scene.

Without care, they reach for the box of Marlboros tucked snuggly in their pocket, bring a cigarette to their lips, light it and take a long draw, all before delivering a killer ‘one liner’.

For decades leading heroes like this have acted almost as walking, talking tobacco adverts, inspiring wide-eyed viewers to pick up the deadly habit with an onscreen blend of finesse and badassery.

Luckily, the landscape of cinema and television has started to change and smoking is increasingly being removed from the – motion - picture.

Characters who would have traditionally been depicted with an unhealthy love for cigarettes are instead smokefree…or at the very least are shown using less harmful alternatives like vaping.

This shift has even found its way to the Oscars, with a number of this year’s nominated movies featuring the reduced risk cessation tool rather than tobacco.

And while nobody wants film and TV to wrongfully promote vaping to non-smokers, it’s presence does show cigaretteusers that there are better this whodunit caper follows detective Benoit Blanc as he unravels a web of conspiracy, bribery and – of course –murder.

Driven by his mystery-solving instincts, the southern sleuth – played by Daniel Craig – joins an eclectic group of ‘disruptors’ on a private island belonging to their tech billionaire friend.

But the tropical jaunt quickly turns sour when it’s revealed someone has more nefarious intentions than stealing prime sunbathing spots and working on their tan.

During the Oscar-nominated flick, we see two characters vaping, with one puffing on what looks like a disposable and the other packing a more complex mod.

At least while they’re dodging a malicious, shadowy murderer, the cast of Glass Onion doesn’t have to worry about one of the world’s biggest killers… cigarettes.

Everything Everywhere All At Once

This high-concept, genrebending adventure sees Chinese immigrant Evelyn Quan unwillingly dragged into a battle for the future of the multiverse.

When we first meet the dissatisfied laundromat owner, she is facing an audit from the IRS, her relationship with her daughter is at a breaking point and her husband of two decades is moving for a divorce.

In short, her life is falling apart.

But when her husband’s body is overtaken by an alternative version during a critical meeting with blunt IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre and she learns parallel though she is unfortunately seen using a cigarette herself as well.

Between a divorce, her son’s tragic suicide and a custody battle for her now fatherless grandson, police detective Marianne ‘Mare’ Sheehan suffers immense personal trauma during this dark limited series.

And as if all that wasn’t enough, she’s also trying to piece together the harrowing murder of a teenage mother and is facing criticism over a troubling missing persons case she has yet to solve.

There is also a noticeable lack of vaping in the final episode of the show, which is reportedly intended to demonstrate the

Words: Oliver Smith

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