50 Best Country Songs About Cigarettes
Country Music That Leans Into Cigarette Smoke and Second Thoughts
There’s a certain kind of late-night silence that settles in when the ashtray’s full and the last beer’s warm. It’s not really peaceful. It’s restless and a little stale, with something sharp crawling up the back of your throat that isn’t quite regret. Cigarette songs sit right there. Not heroic, not tragic, not big dramatic gestures. Just a quiet lean into old habits that feel too familiar to quit. You’ve got a window cracked open and a half-lit smoke still burning in the tray and someone on the radio dragging a steel guitar across a wound that never quite closed.
Country songs don’t sidestep that feeling. They pull it in, let it hang out in the front seat of the truck, or settle into the passenger side of a motel room morning. These tracks never make smoking sound cool exactly, but they don’t try to clean it up either. They sit in the grime. Sometimes it’s tied to heartbreak. Sometimes it’s an old friend showing up again after you swore it was the last pack. These aren’t big anthems with stadium hooks. They’re closer to the half-spoken confession you tell no one but the bartender two hours before last call. A lot of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs lean on cigarettes as a metaphor, but country doesn’t bother with metaphor. It says what it means.
You don’t need to smoke to get it. You just need to have stayed too long in a conversation you should’ve walked away from, or watched someone flick a lighter the exact way someone else used to. These songs land in that flicker. They’re for long drives, blinking neon, and that too-honest hour of the night where the room’s gone quiet but your brain won’t. Here are the country tracks that take a drag and stay a while.
Top 10 Cigarette Songs
1. 'Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)'—Tex Williams
2. 'Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray'—Patsy Cline
3. 'Dim Lights Thick Smoke and Loud Loud Music'—Dwight Yoakam
4. 'Blowin' Smoke'—Kacey Musgraves
5. 'Smoke a Little Smoke'—Eric Church
6. 'Chain Smokin''—Morgan Wallen
7. 'Me and Your Cigarettes'—Miranda Lambert
8. 'I Quit Smokin''—Mae Estes
9. 'Smokin' and Drinkin''—Miranda Lambert feat. Little Big Town
10. 'Smoke Rings In The Dark'—Gary Allan
More Country Songs About Smoking #11—20
11. 'She Smoked in the House'—Brandy Clark
12. 'Last Cigarette'—Morgan Wade
13. 'Make Me Wanna Smoke'—Ella Langley
14. 'Camel Blues'—Lauren Watkins
15. 'Borrowed Cigarettes'—Justin Tyler
16. 'The Cigar Song'—Brad Paisley
17. 'I Still Smoked'—Jordan Davis
18. 'Cigarettes and Coffee Blues'—Lefty Frizzell
19. 'Gin Smoke Lies'—Turnpike Troubadours
20. 'I Wish I Still Smoked Cigarettes'—Ronnie Dunn
Smoking Songs In Country Music #21—30
21. 'Cigarettes'—Frankie Ballard
22. 'Back in This Cigarette'—Jason Aldean
23. 'Cheap Wine and Cigarettes'—Jess Moskaluke
24. 'She Only Smokes When She Drinks'—Joe Nichols
25. 'Bummin' Cigarettes'—Maren Morris
26. 'Smokin' Cigarettes'—Randall King
27. 'Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women'—Jim Croce
28. 'Looking For A Lighter'—Caylee Hammack
29. 'Cigarettes'—The Wreckers
30. 'Love Cold Beer Cheap Smoke'—Elvie Shane
Best Country Cigarette Songs #31—40
31. 'Long Green Cigarette'—Joshua Quimby
32. 'Your Love Is A Cigarette'—Hillside Outlaws feat. Aloma Steele
33. 'Cigarettes and Wine'—Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
34. 'Cigarette'—Noah Gundersen
35. 'Pall Mall Cigarettes'—Scott Lane
36. 'Cigarettes'—Josh Okeefe
37. 'Burn Out'—Midland
38. 'Smell Like Smoke'—Lainey Wilson
39. 'Cigarette Trees'—The Local Honeys
40. 'She Went Out For Cigarettes'—Chely Wright
Country Music Cigarette References #41—50
41. 'You Don't Want That Smoke'—Bailey Zimmerman
42. 'Smoke'—Florida Georgia Line
43. 'Secondhand Smoke'—Kelsea Ballerini
44. 'I Don't Smoke'—Lee Brice feat. Warren Haynes
45. 'When I Get to Heaven'—John Prine
46. 'Burn 'Em All'—Kameron Marlowe
47. '20 Cigarettes'—Morgan Wallen
48. 'We Don't Grow Tobacco'—Old Crow Medicine Show
49. 'Cigarettes'll Kill Ya'—Teddy Robb
50. 'Cigarettes and Sunsets'—Cady Groves
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