Dirty habit: smoking and Star Wars.

Is there an equivalent to cigarettes in the Star Wars universe? We already know of illegal drugs like death sticks and alcoholic drinks certainly exist in many forms, but what about something that's harmful for you (like cigarettes), but generally considered legal throughout the galaxy?

 

What's-his-name from Zahn's Thrawn trilogy smoked cigarras. And they were a special blend, so Lando or whoever could recognise the particular smell of the smoke...yes, it's been a while since I read them. Those are the closest things to cigarettes that I know of. Basically they're cigars.

The people in Jabba's palace, as well as in the Mos Eisley cantina, had pipes of some sort. Jabba's especially looked like a hookah, which can be legal or illegal, depending on what you put in them.

Note: I don't actually know what you would put in them, either in the GFFA or in RL. I'm just going by what I've heard from others.

 

I'm sure you could invent the name/origin of some special smokable herb/plant that a person/being could put into a pipe or smoke some other way. If it fits with your writing, you could always describe something like an incense burner that would burn sticks/leaves/flowers of some such plant that would work like incense but have the effect of cigarettes.

~Abby~

 

Cigarras / cigarillos / smokesticks.

Also, didn't Jabba have some green vapour thingy in Return of the Jedi? Memory a little fuzzy on the matter.

 

They have cigars, smokesticks, hookahs, and who can forget Deathsticks? I'm guessing deathsticks are a little like cocaine or weed in their effects on the mind and body and that is why they are called Deathsticks.

"Wanna buy some deathsticks?"
"No. You want to go home and rethink your life."

 

Doh! Deathsticks! How could I forget them!

 

Not sure. But you remember them now!

 

Don't forget the spice that they mine on Kessel. It's an addictive substance.

S.

 

Ah, glitterstim. And it's Rylothian counterpart, ryll.

 

I thought "deathstick" was some kind of slang for cigarette? You know, like how we sometimes call them "cancer sticks." Or are they defined somewhere as being something else? Wither way, it was a great scene in the film!

 

I've read that death sticks contain a chemical that literally takes about ten years off your life.