cigarette machine old Who else remembers vending machines that had no way to check a persons age and operated on the honor system? : r/nostalgia Californias Proposition 65 Vintage Cigarette Vending Machine Coinway

The problem with early cigarettes and tobacco, in general, was that they were not deemed harmful

The soft pack is light & cheap to produce but provides less physical protection to the cigarettes in handling

and hence is demonstrated a marked diversity in the mode of action of tobacco on different systemsIt is clear that, if in one individual tobacco is able to produce conditions favorable to a disease [apoplexy (stroke)] which may kill at any moment, and in another is practically inert, it is useless to argue either that is generally highly dangerous, or, on the other hand, destitute of dangerous effects

A cigarette butt may also be called a "snipe" in AmE (came across this from user105719's comment)