50 Best Rock Songs About Cigarettes
Best Rock Tracks on Smoking and Cigarettes
There’s a peculiar haze that lingers in songs tied to smoking. It isn’t celebration, not exactly condemnation either, but a gray area filled with late nights, foggy parking lots, and lyrics that hang like smoke rings over the beat. Some tracks lean into rebellion, others trace the drag of loneliness through the act. You can find plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that circle the cigarette image, even when they aren’t literally talking about it, because the symbol sticks. It’s shorthand for mood, for defiance, for a shaky sense of cool.
The energy is messy. One track might paint smoking as a slow burn in a motel room at 3 a.m., another might kick up with raw guitars that sound like the scrape of a lighter. Sometimes it’s an excuse to linger outside with strangers, sometimes it’s nothing more than a prop in the story. A lot of artists slip into that space where the cigarette is less about nicotine and more about what hangs in the silence after. Even when the song doesn’t name it outright, you hear it in the pacing, the rasp of the voice, the way the drums feel like a flick and a spark.
These songs aren’t glossy portraits of smoke curling perfectly into the night. They’re awkward, gritty, sometimes oddly beautiful in the way they capture a moment that is both fleeting and heavy. They slide between cool detachment and restless nerves, carrying that strange blend of charm and ache. Some may not literally fixate on the act but still live in the haze it creates. Here are the best rock songs on cigarettes.
Top 10 Rock Songs
1. 'Cigarettes & Alcohol' by Oasis
2. 'Cigarette Daydreams' by Cage the Elephant
3. 'Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room' by Brownsville Station
4. 'Jealous of Your Cigarette' by Hawksley Workman
5. 'Last Cigarette' by Dramarama
6. 'Pink Cigarette' by Mr. Bungle
7. 'Jesus, Etc.' by Wilco
8. 'Have a Cigar' by Pink Floyd
9. 'Roll Another Number (for the Road)' by Neil Young
10. 'Cigarettes Will Kill You' by Ben Lee
Popular Songs About Smoking #11 to 20
11. 'Cigarettes and Coffee' by Otis Redding
12. 'Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray' by Patsy Cline
13. 'Cigarette' by Lucky Boys Confusion
14. 'Don’t Smoke In Bed' by k.d. lang
15. 'Sweet Leaf' by Black Sabbath
16. 'The Hymn for the Cigarettes' by Hefner
17. 'You Burn Me Up I’m a Cigarette' by Daryl Hall
18. 'Cigarette Dangles' by The Pursuit of Happiness
19. 'A Small Cigar' by Jethro Tull
20. 'Cigarette' by Fort Minor
Top Rock Music About Cigarettes #21 to 30
21. 'Cigarettes and Suitcases' by Something For Kate
22. 'Smoko' by The Chats
23. 'Rock n’ Roll Suicide' by David Bowie
24. 'Nicotine' by Panic! At The Disco
25. 'Last Cigarette' by Dramarama
26. 'Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk' by Rufus Wainwright
27. 'Been Smoking Too Long' by Nick Drake
28. 'Smoking 100s Alone' by Bottle Rockets
29. 'I’m So Tired' by The Beatles
30. 'Turn the Page' by Bob Seger
Great Smoking Rock Songs #31 to 40
31. 'The Pot Smoker’s Song' by Neil Diamond
32. 'Don’t Bogart Me' by Fraternity of Man
33. 'Cigarette' by Carlie Hanson
34. 'Dracula’s Cigarette' by The Fall
35. 'Smoke a Little Smoke' by Eric Church
36. 'A Cigarette' by Gavin Adcock
37. 'Caffeine Nicotine Benzedrine' by Gary Stewart
38. 'The Cigar Song' by Brad Paisley
39. 'Waltz #2 (XO)' by Elliott Smith
40. 'My Little Japanese Cigarette Case' by Spoon
Top Music About Smoking and Cigars #41 to 50
41. 'Blabber n Smoke' by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
42. 'Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)' by Tex Williams
43. 'Lost in Hollywood' by The Misfits
44. 'Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again' by Bob Dylan
45. 'Jealous of Your Cigarette' by The Misfits
46. 'Who Needs the Peace Corps?' by Frank Zappa
47. 'Two Cigarettes' by Jack & Jack
48. 'Cigarette Smoke' by Arctic Monkeys
49. 'Cigarettes and Whiskey' by The Kinks
50. 'No Cigar' by Millencolin
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