For as long as tobacco has been smoked, there have been individuals that exemplify the craft. Like ducks take to water, these men and women take to their cigarettes, pipes and cigars. They are musicians, world leaders, poets, actors, writers and great thinkers; smoking didn’t make them famous, but they helped make smoking famous. Here we list the greatest smokers of all time:
Mark Twain
Groucho Marx
Bob Dylan
Monica Bellucci
Raymond Carver
Allen Ginsberg
Marlene Dietrich
Humphrey Bogart
Joe Strummer
Winston Churchill
Audrey Hepburn
Hunter S. Thompson
Al Capone
Albert Einstein
Nina Simone
Nat King Cole
Oscar Wilde
David Bowie
Fidel Castro
Lana Del Rey
Johnny Carson
Kurt Vonnegut
James Dean
Keith Richards
Steve McQueen
John Wayne
Madonna
Jimmy Hendrix
John Waters
Sean Connery
Marilyn Monroe
Che Guevara
John Lennon
René Lévesque
Mary Astor
Marlon Brando
Jack Kerouac
Clark Gable
Dylan Thomas
Roger Moore
Leonard Cohen
Alfred Hitchcock
Elizabeth Taylor
Vincent Price
Kurt Cobain
Charles Bukowski
Jack Nicholson
Edie Sedgwick
Larry King
Vincent van Gogh
Sigmund Freud
Lucille Ball
Sammy Davis Jr.
William S. Burroughs
Faye Dunaway
If you can think of any other great smokers we’ve missed, please add them in the comments below.