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phr. A phrase used in notices indicating that the smoke of cigarettes, etc., is not permitted in the surrounding area.
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No smoking may refer to:
- Smoking ban
- No Smoking (1951 film), a Disney cartoon featuring Goofy
- No Smoking (1955 film), a British comedy film
- No Smoking (2007 film), an Indian psychological thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring John Abraham
- No Smoking (Cow and Chicken episode)
- No Smoking, one segment of the 1993 film Smoking/No Smoking directed by Alain Resnais
- No symbol, which with a cigarette added becomes an international symbol for "no smoking"
- H. Vernon Watson (1886–1952), better known as Nosmo King, popular English variety artist.
No Smoking is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1951, featuring Goofy. This cartoon is another episode of the "Goofy the Everyman" series of the 1950s. This cartoon begins by tracing the brief history of smoking, including how Christopher Columbus brought tobacco to Europe from the Native Americans, and then moves on to Goofy, as "George Geef" in this cartoon, trying unsuccessfully to drop the smoking habit.
This cartoon, because of its content, including depictions of a firing squad, was kept off from TV broadcasts. It was eventually included as one of the cartoons featured in A Salute to Father (later renamed Goofy's Salute to Father), a 1961 episode of the Walt Disney anthology series, but the ending was changed to include an extra announcement with Goofy announcing that he quits smoking for good.
Finally, the short was included on DVD with the original ending, as part of the Walt Disney Treasures line.
This cartoon was released two years after The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), a year after Cinderella (1950; a 50s film to star a Disney Princess), on the same year as Alice in Wonderland (1951), two years before Peter Pan (1953), four years before Lady and the Tramp (1955), and eight years before Sleeping Beauty (1959; another 50s film to star a Disney Princess).
No Smoking is a 2007 Indian neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and Kumar Mangat. The filim stars John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Ranvir Shorey and Paresh Rawal in the lead roles, while Bipasha Basu appears in an Item number. The film is loosely based upon the short story Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King, which was previously adapted as one of three segments featured in Hollywood anthology film, Cat's Eye (1985). It became the first Indian film to be adapted from a Stephen King short story. The story follows K ( Abraham) a self-obsessed, narcissist chain smoker who agrees to kick his habit to save his marriage and visits a rehabilitation centre, but is caught in a labyrinth game by Baba Bengali ( Rawal), the man who guarantees he will make him quit.
The film released worldwide on 26 October 2007, but was met with a lukewarm response from Indian critics and mixed response from overseas critics. The film did not perform well at the box office either, becoming one of the major disasters of the year. According to Kashyap, the film failed because, it was considered much ahead of its time, courtesy of its dark and unusual storyline comprising with elements of surrealism, fantasy, dream, reality, horror and dark humour which left critics and the cinema-goers baffled, this was frowned upon by Indian audiences, as it was unconventional, pretentious and they had never seen anything like it.
No Smoking was nominated at several award ceremonies in 2008, primarily for the technical aspects of the film, including 3 Filmfare award nominations. Before a full cinematic release in India, the film was invited to be screened at the Rome Film Festival where it won huge appreciation from the audience and critics alike. In 2011 the film was played at several film festivals in India and China, receiving unanimous applause and praise, as well as winning a number of awards.
No Smoking is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Henry Cass and starring Reg Dixon, Peter Martyn, Belinda Lee and Lionel Jeffries. It was based on a play by George Moresby-White.