Chain smoking

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 Mao Zedong, Walt Disney, Helmut Schmidt, John Wayne, Richard Burton, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante (has since stopped smoking altogether), Bill Hicks, Denis Leary, Humphrey Bogart, George Formby (Who smoked 40 Woodbines a day) John Lennon, Al Pacino, Louis Armstrong, Edward R. Murrow, Herb Kelleher, Yul Brynner and Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who all smoked five packs of cigarettes a day. 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. Another notable chain smoker was the eminent paleontologist, R. H. Flower, who is known for smoking in the shower. . Kate Moss, a British supermodel, is a notable female chain smoker, as she smokes four packs of Marlboro Lights per day and has been smoking since the age of twelve. Another notable chain smoker is Drew Barrymore, as she smokes two to three packs of Marlboro Reds per day since she was nine and a half. Lindsay Lohan also smokes relatively constantly. HM the Queen of Denmark, Margarethe II is also a notable chain smoker.