"I Don't Smoke" is a song by English breakbeat/UK garage musician DJ Dee Kline. Originally released in 1999 on Rat Records, the song became a major underground club hit and was rereleased on 22 May 2000 as a single on EastWest the following year. It peaked at No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart^[1] and No. 2 on the UK Dance Singles Chart.^[2]

The song features a sample of comedian Marcus Brigstocke, taken from the sketch show Barking. The sample in the song features Brigstocke repeating the lines, "Do you smoke Paul? No I don't. Me neither. I don't smoke cigarettes, I don't smoke cigars, I don't smoke a pipe, pipe, pipe, pipe, pipe...", followed by "I don't smoke the reefer" in a faux Rasta accent.^[3] He talked about it on The Graham Norton Show in 2010, where he explained that he was impersonating Jim Davidson's character Chalkie White for a sketch show, and that it was sampled into the track. Brigstocke said he was "delighted and mortified at the same time" when he heard the sample.^[4] "I Don't Smoke" also samples the guitar riff from the 1997 Skeewiff track "The Thin Line".^[5]

A rework was released in 2014 in collaboration with Specimen A and Majestic MC, titled "Don't Smoke 2014".

Capital Xtra included the song in their list of "The Best Old-School Garage Anthems of All Time".^[6]

Track listing

UK CD single

1. "I Don't Smoke" (Radio Edit) - 2:57
2. "I Don't Smoke" (Nu Skool Rave Mix) - 5:53
3. "I Don't Smoke" (Rhythm Masters Remix Edit) - 5:10
4. "I Don't Smoke" (Original Mix Edit) - 5:48

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