Cigarettes are everywhere and apart of everything. Whether it is the advertisement, decorative box, appealing taste, or celebrity user, cigarettes remain to be an important and quite large part of human life. Tobacco in general has been a part of every war that has taken place on U.S. soil not to mention every other war in somewhat modern times. An important aspect of the sociology of smoking is what might be termed the iconography of smoking behavior, which the entertainment media, and particularly movies, have been instrumental in creating and disseminating. The clusters of visual stimuli illustrate the major roles that cigarettes play for various subgroups of smokers and include references to the diverse factors that motivate brand choices. Colorful cigarette ads fill our favorite magazines like jewelry, slick and enticing. No wonder we associates music, sports and youth culture with cigarettes--they fit so neatly, so coolly into the whole ambiance presented by Rolling Stone and other entertainment magazines. Not a single article dares to offer the slightest counterpoint to that message. The iconography of smoking is important because of what it represents in terms of the signals or messages that smokers wish to communicate about themselves.