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Chris Tucker as Smokey (right) and Ice Cube as Craig in the film Friday

Smokey is a fictional character from the 1995 film Friday. He is portrayed by Chris Tucker.

Smokey is a drug dealer working for supplier Big Worm (Faizon Love). Smokey himself is a heavy marijuana smoker. When he and his friend Craig (Ice Cube), spend a Friday afternoon together, Smokey gets him to smoke some of the marijuana that he is supposed to be selling for Worm.

Later in the day, Big Worm pays a visit to the boys' neighborhood. Smokey tells him that they smoked up all of his supply. Big Worm then threatens Smokey, saying if they don't pay him the money they owe him by 10 PM, he would kill both of them. Craig and Smokey make up strategies to see how they could come up with the money. Craig asks his mother Betty (Anna Maria Horsford) and sister Dana (Regina King) and they both turn him down. Craig's father Willie (John Witherspoon), find out about the threat Big Worm sent Smokey and he kicks Smokey out of the house, but Craig follows him. They go outside and see a van, which contains Big Worm's friends, who have machine guns, and fire them at Craig and Smokey. Craig fires back with a pistol but misses. To avoid the gang, the boys then hide in a truck. On their way back to the neighborhood, Deebo (Tom Lister, Jr., beats up Debbie (Nia Long)'s sister Felisha in a display of domestic violence. Deebo becomes heated over it and he slaps Debbie. Then Craig pushes Deebo, and they get into a fight which Craig eventually wins. The film ends with Smokey in his room talking to Big Worm on the telephone talking about the events that occurred on that day. Smokey finally tells Big Worm he is going to rehab. He then lights up a joint and says: "I was just bullshittin', and you know this......MAN!"

In the sequel, Next Friday, Ice Cube explains Smokey's absence by saying he went to rehab.