Talk:Cigarette

Cigarettes are also known as cancer sticks

The first sentence of the article needs to read “ A cigarette, OR CANCER STICK, is a thin cylinder of tobacco rolled in thin paper for smoking 72.109.28.221 (talk) 23:08, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Do you have reliable sources that states this explicitly? I don't deny the nickname but Wikipedia requires all claims to be sourced from reliable sources.

MiddleMac (talk) 17:25, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit Request / spam source

• What I think should be changed (format using {{textdiff}}):

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  Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by more than half from 1965 to 2016, falling from 42% to 15.5% of US adults.[187]

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  Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by more than half from 1965 to 2016, falling from 42% to 15.5% of US adults.{/{cn}/

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• Why it should be changed: This source is an advertisement for credit card processing services for tobacco dealers online. Unrelated to the content.
• References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button): The cite itself.

~2026-41887-4 (talk) 04:58, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Additionally, source 97 is also a hoax, https://web.archive.org/web/20201030035000/https://www.innowiki.org/strategically-addictive-drugs/ - the author of the paper claims to also have been the Pablo Escobar of India a couple hundred years ago. Amazing... All of the sources here need examined. ~2026-41887-4 (talk) 05:04, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

References

 Done jolielover♥talk 09:11, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Good catch; I've tagged the article too (does a more specific tag exist)? jolielover♥talk 09:12, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Hoax/unreliable sources

As brought up by the temporary account above, some sources are unreliable or hoaxes, so a source evaluation is needed. One source is user generated (the byline may be a mistake/formatting error?); the source states Many of the innowiki innovators remain nameless. Even those we know are often not household names. We think that’s unfair.. The other source mentioned is a promotional website. If anyone is interested, a source reevaluation is needed and many sources need to go. jolielover♥talk 09:19, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2026

Want to add a source for cigarettes being the most used form of tobacco. My source is https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco. Am relatively new to Wikipedia editing, and apologize if I did the wrong thing by starting this talk. UndamagedGOODs (talk) 02:33, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. {{GearsDatapack|talk|contribs}} 11:01, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Fact and source 1 (WHO tobacco) needs to be update

This fact needs to be updated. However, this requires the source to be updated as well.

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Every year, cigarette smoking causes more than 8 million deaths worldwide; more than 1.3 million of these are non-smokers dying as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke.

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Every year, cigarette smoking causes more than 7 million deaths worldwide; more than 1.6 million of these are non-smokers dying as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke.

UndamagedGOODs (talk) 15:36, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Suggested update to U.S. smoking-rate figure

The article currently says smoking rates in the United States dropped from 42% in 1965 to 15.5% in 2016. I suggest updating this to reflect newer CDC/NCHS data:

“Smoking rates in the United States have dropped from 42.4% in 1965 to 9.9% in 2024.”

Sources: - CDC MMWR: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7407a3.htm - CDC/NCHS: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/hestat115.htm

This would update the older 2016 figure with the latest available official figure.

Thanks. MSJ26 (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2026 (UTC)