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Holden Caulfield is a pathological liar who is doing everything he can to avoid adulthood. At the same time however, he is trying every aspect of the adult world he knows about in an unsuccessful attempt to try out the adult world. These experiments involve sex, cigarettes and alcohol. As most people know, this is not all aspects of adult life which also actual includes hard work, another thing Holden lacks as evident by his constant failing in school. As Holden attempts to hold onto all aspects of childhood, including children like his sister Phoebe, adulthood looms on and his time grows shorter. Most of his time he has left in childhood oddly seem to be in the many bars and trashy hotels on his trek through New York. This shows the extensive struggle Holden has between his remaining innocence and the potential for what his future holds, because he obviously has no idea as seen in his questioning of "the ducks" in central Park.

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Holden orders scotch and soda, but he tells them not to mix it, for him to seem 21 or older. However, they end up asking for his identification, and Holden becomes furious.

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Holden, influenced by alcohol which worsens his already low mental state, is incredibly drunk and gets into a phone booth to call Sally Hayes at 1 AM. He gets hung up on and wishes he never called.

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Chance The Rapper - Same Drugs ( Coloring Book )

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Holden is on the train with Mrs. Morrow, the mother of a student Holden dislikes. He tries to impress her by offering her a cigarette, but she explains to him that they are on a non-smoking train. He says that he can smoke until they start yelling at him. In this instance, he knows he should not be smoking, but he does it anyway, probably due to the stress he faced earlier from the fight with his roommate and friend. He feels he needs an escape, which is what the cigarettes and alcohol gives him.

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Holden- Holden is the own maker of his own fate. As the story progresses, cigarettes and alcohol feed Holden's issue as they blur the lines between adulthood and childhood. His depressive episodes where enhanced , not helped as Holden supposed, by his cigarettes and the social lows he also felt were enhanced in the crowed bar setting he frequented.
Luce- This is an old friend of Holden's from Whooton who is much older. This definitely increases Holden's liking of him because of this age and supposed experience. But this chooses to be a horrible role model who Holden simply uses for information on sex as well alcohol. Just because Holden views him as an intellectual, does not mean that he really is a good view of the adult world.
Phoebe- She is Holden's sister who takes the blame for Holden's smoking in her room when her parents get home. This only eggs on Holden's use of smoking because he even uses his dads cigarettes to replenish. This moment morphs Phoebe into more like Holden due to her lying and also pushes Holden's bad habits.
Ernie- This is the man who runs the bar that Holden frequently visits. He likes this because you could alcohol "if you were only around six years old" (85). This is not the best environment for Holden to experience his idea of the adult world.

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"It was pretty early when I got there. I sat down at the bar--it was pretty crowded-- and had a couple of Scotch and sodas before old Luce even showed up. I stood up when I ordered them so they could see how tall I was and all and not think I was a goddam minor. Then I watched the phonies for a while." (142)... "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk as abastard. I could hardly see straight. The one thing I did, though, I was careful as hell not
to get boisterous or anything." (150)

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The purpose of including cigarettes and alcohol in the story is to further symbolize how Holden is feeling. When he uses these substances, he appears to be in a depressed, low state of mind. He relies on cigarettes and alcohol to help him when he is in a bad place mentally. However Holden's use of cigarettes and alcohol do not make his situation any better. Cigarettes and alcohol also represents how Holden feels he is much older than he actually is, since they are substances only adults can use.

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KEY QUOTE 1- Smoke Cures the Depression? 

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KEY QUOTE 1- Smoke Cures the Depression? 

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"After Old Sunny was gone, I sat in the chair for a while and smoked a couple of cigarettes. It was getting daylight outside. Boy, I felt miserable. I felt so depressed, you
can't imagine. What I did, I started talking, sort of out loud, to Allie. I do that sometimes when I get very depressed." (98)

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Picture links: https://www.onlyfoods.net/scotch-drinks.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PT-Phone_Booth.jpg
http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/new-york/hilton-westchester-RYEHIHH/maps-directions/shuttle-services-info.html
The Catcher in the Rye Book:
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. Print.

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Whenever cigarettes and alcohol is brought up in the story, Holden is always feeling defeated, despondent, or unhappy which would explain the overall gloomy tone of the story. These substances negatively affect the other characters in the novel too, for example when Phoebe, Holden's innocent little sister, had to take the blame for Holden's smoking. Cigarettes and alcohol symbolizes his attempt to escape his own thoughts and memories, but this contributes to the theme that one cannot use drugs to escape from reality. Reality will still be waiting for them when they are done drinking and smoking.

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Chapter 6: Holden lights up a cigarette to make Stradlater angry, since it is against the rules and Stradlater does not break rules, after Stradlater goes on a date with Jane which upset and stressed Holden out.
Chapter 8: Holden offers to buy Mrs. Morrow a drink, but she tells Holden he is far too young.
Chapter 10: Holden tries to order a drink in the Lavender Room but is told he is too young after he does not have proper identification, so he is given a Coke instead.
Chapter 13: Holden goes to another bar for his fourth drink he has ordered, however he changes his mind and goes back to the hotel which he finds to be depressing.
Chapter 14: Holden is feeling very gloomy and depressed after he tried to talk to Sunny, a prostitute, so he relieves this stress by smoking his cigarettes.

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KEY QUOTE 3- Get Drunk and STILL Not Fit In

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KEY QUOTE 3- Get Drunk and STILL Not Fit In

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"I didn't say anything. I was sort of afraid he'd get up and leave on me if I didn't shut up. So all I did was, I ordered another drink. I felt like getting stinking drunk." (145)... "I kept sitting there getting drunk and waiting for old Tina and Janine to come out and do their stuff, but they weren't there. (149)

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" When they got up to go, the two nuns, I did something very stupid and embarrassing. I was smoking a cigarette, and when I stood up to say good-by to them, by mistake I blew some smoke in their face. I didn't mean to, but I did it. I apologized like a madman, and they were very polite and nice about it, but it was very embarrassing
anyway." (113)