Widespread as a Christmas decoration are also the smoking man. In the Ore Mountains there are no houses in which the smell of the aromatic candles of smoking man is not to be founded.
In the beginning there were the smoking man in few traditional figures (for example the night watchmen with lantern and with trombone). Today you can found them in various form and figure. On account of bricklayers, chimney sweeps or hunters, the smoking manikin are so varied that almost every occupational group is represented.