When she returned to the study, the cigarette Cambacérès had left on the table had already gone out. Though it had not set anything alight, it had still left a black mark on the small tea table.
Georgiana picked it up.
The gentlemen's cigarettes of the present were very different from those she had seen in the twentieth century. They were not wrapped in paper, but in tobacco leaves, making them look like small cigars.
Bonaparte had always taken snuff and only occasionally smoked a pipe. Looking at the history of smoking, soldiers were undoubtedly tobacco's main consumers. It was not only Britain's Mediterranean Fleet; Vauban's Iron Belt fortresses also stored large quantities of tobacco.
Banning tobacco was equivalent to abolishing an important social courtesy. In the Alps, Severus had offered a cigarette to a local farmer, and the two of them had begun chatting. She had never known before that he smoked.
Of course, that might have been because they had both been at school then. Horace Slughorn would wear a smoking jacket to Potions, but he would not smoke in front of students unless it was at a Slug Club gathering.
It was not as if no one had ever taken care of her. When they had traveled in Ireland, all she had needed to do was smile foolishly; Severus had arranged everything else.
Because she was happy, she did not need to smoke to free herself from her worries, though she was not as fond of sweets as Albus.
The Deluminator looked very much like a World War I lighter. Albus did not seem to have a smoking habit either, though she had heard that Grindelwald was heavily addicted to tobacco.
Smoking was harmful to one's health, yet even putting a skull and crossbones on cigarette packs