Your Help Appreciated (The LHB Update)

As a sort of farewell to a longtime companion, I'm trying to put together a music compilation full of songs about cigarettes, but with my brain still fried by the need for nicotine (though it is starting to ease somewhat three days removed from my last smoke) I'm having a hard time coming up with much to put on there.  So far, I can think of only two songs: Dramarama's "Last Cigarette" and The Smithereens "Cigarette".  I guess I could extend this to smoking in general, such as "Smoking in the Boy's Room." 

So, if you need some homework for this weekend, give me a few suggestions.  It doesn't have to be in the title or the main theme of the song, just a nice mention of cigarettes or smoking or quitting.  I'll post the results and possibly the compilation once I've put it together.

UPDATE:  Moving the songs up from the comments section and adding some songs I remember or have searched out:

"Last Cigarette", Dramarama
"Cigarette", Smithereens
"Another Puff," Jerry Reed (Bonnie)
Quitting Smoking Song," Princess Superstar (Bonnie)
"Nicotine and Alcohol," Mark W. Winchester (Bonnie)
"Stop Smoking," Rich Medina (Bonnie)
"The First Time I Quit Smoking," Tommy Mandel (Bonnie)
"You Cannot Quit Smoking," Nathan Asher & the Infantry (Bonnie)
"One Cigarette Away," the Supersuckers (Vargas)
"Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray", Patsy Cline
"Love Is Like a Cigarette", kd lang
"Crooked Cigarette", Rev. Horton Heat
"Smokin'", Joni Mitchell
"Another Puff", Jerry Reed
"Good Year for the Roses", Elvis Costello (Jenny)
"I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You," Tom Waits (Cynthia)
"A Day in the Life," The Beatles (Cynthia)
"Cigarettes Will Kill You," Ben Lee
"Smelling Cigarettes," Fiery Furnaces
"Cigarettes," Greg Dulli
"Dead Man's Cigarettes," I Am Kloot
"Cigarettes and Alcohol," Oasis
"Cigarettes and Coffee," Otis Redding
"More Cigarettes," The Replacements (how could I have forgetten this one???)
"Deckchairs and Cigarettes," The Thrills
"Red Vines," Aimee Mann (Carolyn)
"The Hymn for the Cigarettes," Hefner (Carolyn)
"Ashtray Monument," Jawbreaker (Scott)
"Chesterfield King," Jawbreaker (Scott)
"Rock and Roll Suicide," David Bowie (Levi)
"Cigarette," Lael Alderman (Lauren)
"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)," Tex Williams (Jim)
"Can't Hardly Wait," the Replacements (Matt)
Lambchop's entire album, How I Quit Smoking (Joel)
"Last Cigarette," Boo Hewerdine (Craig)
"Jesus Etc." Wilco (Sami)
"Cigarette," Ben Folds Five (Sami)
"What She Said", The Smiths (Ear Farm)
"Cigarette Dangles", The Pursuit Of Happiness (Lalitree)
"Cancer," Joe Jackson (Kurt)
"Little Jimmy," The Who (JS)
"Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk", Rufus Wainright (Susanne)
"Cigarettes, Whiskey, and Wild, Wild Women", Buck Owens (Susanne)
"Asshole", Dennis Leary (Susanne)
"Cigarette In Your Bed," My Bloody Valentine (Aaron)
"Nicotine Bomb," Mission of Burma (Aaron)
"Cigarette Sandwich," The Scud Mountain Boys (Rolfster)

Comments

[Bonnie]

"Another Puff," Jerry Reed: "Said to myself, 'this ain't gonna be so tough!' With that little bit of insurance, I took another puff (cough!)"

"Quitting Smoking Song," Princess Superstar: "This is the tenth time you said you'd quit!" I like this one.

"Nicotine and Alcohol," Mark W. Winchester: "try to quit them they get mean, alcohol and nicotine."

"Stop Smoking," Rich Medina. Kind of a Max Headroom kind of a song.

"The First Time I Quit Smoking," Tommy Mandel.

"You Cannot Quit Smoking," Nathan Asher & the Infantry. All the excuses.

There was a really good oldies tune that included the line, "my old friends, "Nic O'Tine and Al Cohol," but I couldn't find it anywhere. I think that one was from the 50s or the 60s. I wish I could remember the artist.

Hang in there, you're doing great! Three days... that's the hardest. Just stick with it and you'll be free of the demon weed.

P.S. Not really a song, but a comedy routine: "Quit Smoking," Jay Hewlett. Jay quits smoking with a rather, um, disgusting method. But hey! He said it works!

[Varg]

There is "One Cigarette" by the Supersuckers.

[Jenny D]

Elvis Costello, "Good Year For the Roses" is a nice cigarette song, and suitably mournful. Good luck with this!

[Cynthia Closkey]

"Cigarette," The Clarks (local Pittsbugh band, http://www.clarksonline.com/disco/lovegone.html)

For mentions of cigarettes:
"I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You," Tom Waits
"A Day in the Life," The Beatles
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" ("maybe just a cigarette more")

And of course:
"Smoking," Steve Martin, "Let's Get Small" ("Do you mind if I smoke? No, do you mind if I fart? It's one of my habits.")

[Carolyn]

"Red Vines" by Aimee Mann (all you've got / are cigarettes and red vines)
"The Hymn for the Cigarettes" by Hefner (Lucky Strikes remind me of my friends out on the West Coast / Camel Lights remind me of my ex-girlfriend at Christmastime)

[scott]

"ashtray monument" jawbreaker. off of 24 hr. revenge therapy.

[scott]

also "chesterfield king" by jawbreaker.

[Levi]

David Bowie's "Rock and Roll Suicide" ("Time takes a cigarette ...")

[Lauren Cerand]

What a brilliant idea, Jeff! This reminds me of my brief stint in a coffeeshop, during which I couldn't even stand to hear someone say the word "coffee" outside of work, I got so sick of it!

There is an amazingly underrated song on the Permanent Midnight soundtrack, Cigarette by Lael Alderman. A clip of it is here.

[Jim]

Here's a vote for "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)," the 1947 Western swing hit that Merle Travis wrote for Tex Williams (a two-pack a day smoker who later died of lung cancer). It's actually a pretty entertaining novelty tune.

[Matt]

Can't Hardly Wait - Replacements - "Jesus rides beside me, he never buys any smokes/Hurry up, hurry up, ain't you had enough of this stuff/Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes"

[joel]

what about lambchop's entire "how i quit smoking" album?

[craig]

also last cigarette byt Boo Hewerdine (ex The Bible)

[sami]

wilco's "Jesus Etc." has the amazing lyric, "Last cigarettes are all you can get/Turning your orbit around"

also ben folds five, "Cigarette" off of "Whatever and Ever Amen"

[hellosteffi]

Deckchairs And Cigarettes
by the Thrills

[EAR FARM]

"What She Said" by The Smiths because of the line:
"What she said...I smoke cos I'm hoping for an early death,
and I need to cling to something..."

Hang in there, it gets easier by the day. Before you know it you'll have your sense of smell back and you'll feel great.

[kyle]

"Nothing Compares 2 U" By Sinead O'Connor (written by Prince) is dedicated to Prince's last cigarette, apparently.

[lalitree]

I can't believe I remember this, but: "Cigarette Dangles" by The Pursuit Of Happiness

[Kurt]

Joe Jackson's "Cancer" mentions nicotine among many other dangerous habits, including piano playing.

Good luck.

[js]

The Who's "Little Jimmy" was Pete Townshend's attempt to write a commercial for the American Cancer Society. It's funny and awful--like so much Who--and the Society was having none of it.

[susanne]

"cigarettes and chocolate milk"- rufus wainright
"cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women"- buck owens
"asshole"-dennis leary

[aaron]

Cigarette In Your Bed, My Bloody Valentine
Nicotine Bomb, Mission of Burma

[Simen]

its not a song, but try listening to Bill Hicks talking about smoking...don't think it will help you quit, but god damnit...it's really funny!

[Rolfster]

Cigarette Sandwich by The Scud Mountain Boys from the Massachusetts album.

[evan]

"elegant transaction" by loose fur (And don't strike a conversation with a cigarette
Like an old flame
Burned up
And out of breath)

"a day in the life" - beatles (on the way upstairs i had a smoke, somebody spoke...)

"asshole" - beck (the cigarettes were smoking by themselves)

"notorious thugs" - notorious BIG & bone thugs: '7am woke in the morning with henny caffeine and green and nicotine'

sorry about that last one.