"Match me, Sidney."

For those who haven't seen it, the title references to a famous line uttered by Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success, a movie I can now say is a favorite of mine.

We see it all the time. Celebrities looking cool and/or sexy with a cigarette dangling from their mouths or suave with a cigar or a pipe. It usually makes people want to smoke so they'll be like their favorite actors, so much so they'd be willing to get cancer just to be like an actor. To me, that's just sad.

So what was I saying? Oh yeah, the post. This will be more of a photo essay, so to speak, of actors smoking and looking good doing it.

Lauren Bacall

Humphrey Bogart

Montgomery Clift

Gary Cooper

Tony Curtis

Bette Davis

James Dean

Johnny Depp

Marlene Dietrich

Errol Flynn

Clark Gable

Cary Grant

Paul Newman

Apologies to the guys if I'm setting a bad example for you.