'No one is shown smoking a cigarette throughout the entire movie.'

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When Nick wakes up in hospital after being kidnapped The Captain is shown on a TV in his own hospital bed with a big cigar in his mouth. Not quite a cigarette, but still, it takes away from the 'no smoking in the movie' angle.

I noticed this too. I expected them to show someone, if anyone, smoking a cigarette.

I think just as many people would say that smoking throughout the movie would have been predictable and lame.

Isn't there a guy smoking in the war movie that the main character is watching (this is the moment where he got the idea of using smokers in hollywood)

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Now that you mention it..

...well, to be honest, I DID notice that Nick (as in the devil?) is never shown smoking, but he's supposedly a smoker, but then he's devastated when he's told he can't smoke anymore, and yet we have never even SEEN (show, don't tell) him smoking.

I thought I was missing something, I missed some scene, or it's just bad moviemaking or something. I didn't realize it might've been made on purpose that way - to make a movie about cigarettes and yet no one ever smokes one.

It kinda throws you off, it's hard to believe these people are smokers, when they are never shown smoking. It's also interesting and maybe self-referential, that this _IS_ a movie, and they talk about putting cigarette-smoking people in movies, so they had the perfect opportunity to do just that by lighting one when the cameras were rolling.

Of course the characters don't know they're in a movie, so for them, the cameras aren't rolling, but.. agh, one could go crazy thinking about this.

It might be predictable and 'lame', too, but would it really be less predictable or less lame to have cigarette smoke curling at every scene seductively, embracing the camera and flirting with it, like in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", where Cruella DeVil's cigarette smoke is almost like an extra character in the movie..?