Cigarettes

Cigarettes are a consumable item in Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War.

Background
"COUGHING NAILS -- when you've just got to have a cigarette."

- Deus Ex description

A typical cigarette is a roll of tobacco in paper with a filter. There are several brands of cigarettes available to the discerning consumer:

2027

 * Royal Hellhounds - No flagrant advertising exists for this particular brand of cigarette in DX3, but it seems to be Adam Jensen's favorite brand.

2052
"NOIR -- What's your secret? Watch your worries vanish in a puff. Tasty, reasonably priced, and may be harmful to your health."
 * Stogie - with a pyramid on the cover. Described as Coughing Nails in the inventory. The only brand available to the player.
 * Big Top - with a circus tent on the cover, advertised as "The Greatest Smoke on Earth"
 * Super 45 - same brand as the forty alcohol, advertised as the only brand recommended by the Surgeon General
 * Holy Smokes - advertised as Saviorrific! by a smoking Jesus. Introduced in 2024.

- Deus Ex: Invisible War description

Game item
The cigarettes are mostly a flavor item. Using them hurts the player for 10 hit points (deducted from torso health). In Biomod/Shifter, using cigarettes also creates a small smoke cloud in front of the player, which creative players can use to their advantage in certain situations (e.g. having an enemy walk into it). They are also useful when performing speedruns of the game, as they can be used to trigger player death very quickly to take advantage of the "dead man walking" glitch to avoid AI detection.