A "left-handed cigarette" is a slang term for a cannabis joint, originating in the jive talk of 1930s Harlem jazz culture, where "left-handed" carried connotations of the forbidden, the taboo, and the delightfully contrary
"There are no safe tobacco products, including e-cigarettes," the CDC warned on its website
By the way, that Harvard statistician on the surgeon general's panel who smoked four packs a day, within a year of the 1964 report he was diagnosed with lung cancer and later died of the disease
When Grant shoots Bond as the Orient Express enters the Simplon tunnel Bond is saved by holding his cigarette case in between the pages of The Mask of Dimitrios (Eric Ambler) to absorb the bullets impact (also see article on the James Bond cigarette case )
ESSENTIAL TSA GUIDELINES FOR PASSENGERS TRAVELLING WITH CIGARETTES Curious about carrying cigarettes on flights