Unlit filtered cigarettes

Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin, "A Good Cigarette" (1880)

Cigarettes can be any dried leaf that people roll in thin paper to smoke, but the word is most often used to refer ones with dried tobacco leaves. The nicotine in the tobacco can be addictive to people. The nicotine from cigarettes makes people want to smoke more, even if they do not like the taste or its other effects.