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[![Fake Takenouchi smoking some strange blue
blob](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Orad8.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Orad8.jpg)

Something has been bothering me lately and I don't know how quite to put it. I
know **Cromartie High School** is known for its absurdist, non sequitur humor
but does anyone know exactly what students at Cromartie smoke? Is it jello? I
must find out.


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What's He Smokin'?


As @JonLin mentioned, this seems to be just a nod or a joke about censorship
with regards to smoking. There are a lot of examples stated
[here](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSmoking) as to which
anime and how they censor characters who originally smoke. In addition, in
_Cromartie High School_ specifically,

> ...in a satirical jab at anime censorship, the anime depicts the delinquents
> smoking CG blobs or some other kind of absurd thing instead. Like everything
> else, this is played for laughs as the blobs bounce when the smoker is
> talking, along with other physics defying feats. Smoke rises from them
> instead of the ends of the 'cigarettes'.
> ([Source](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/CromartieHighSchool))

As a side note, Gray from _Fairy Tail_ was also not shown smoking in the
anime, [even though he originally does in the
manga](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22805/why-does-the-fairy-
tail-anime-have-no-blood).


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