Over time, smoking cartoons have been used to illustrate just about every aspect of the smoking experience. From stop smoking cartoons to pictures of cartoon characters smoking to pot smoking cartoons, this particular medium seems to hit a nerve with just about everyone.

Some smoking cartoons were nothing more than advertisements that caught the attention of adults. Depicting images of adults, men and women might in the course of four to six panels extol the virtues of a particular brand of cigarettes. Smoking cartoon characters were a nice way to stretch the advertising budget now and then, so one did not have to pay live models for the ads. Using smoking cartoon characters was both an entertaining solution and a cost effective one.

Of rouse, this also meant that as time went on and the health hazards of smoking became more apparent, quit smoking cartoons came on the scene. Cartoon characters smoking would often be coerced by other characters to give up smoking based on what it did to the body. In six or so panels, you went from smoking cartoons to reformed cartoons who would never light up again.

Of course, not all cartoon characters smoking were engaging in the use of tobacco. Cartoons smoking weed were a big thing in the underground press for many years. A marijuana smoking cartoon might only be a panel or two and may or may not have a punch line. Sometimes these weed smoking cartoon characters were making a political statement and at other times a social or environmental remark or two. Cartoon characters smoking weed developed their own following in many an underground college newspaper, with many of them still fondly kept in storage.

Along with the weed smoking cartoon character, you would also find pipe smoking cartoons, and not all of them involving tobacco. There are not as many of these types of smoking cartoon ads left, since there were not that many produced. Compared to this type of smoking cartoons, the ones that featured pot smoking were almost mainstream.

Smoking cartoons still show up now and then in different publications. Anti smoking brochures will sometimes use cartoons to make their points. Editorials that deal with the current climate regarding smoking in public may use a political cartoon to get the point across as well. While perhaps not as prominent as it once was, smoking cartoons are alive and well, and will most likely be with us for many years to come.