Cigarettes

Cigarettes is an active item .

• Damages the player for half a heart. If the player has armor, the damage will remove the armor.

• Increases Coolness by 1 per use, decreasing the cooldown of active items and increasing the chance of items dropping upon clearing a room. The coolness bonus will remain for the entire run, even if the Cigarettes are removed from the player's inventory.

• Discarded cigarettes will light oil puddles and Phaser Spider webs.

• If the player has Armor , Cigarettes can be used to offensively detonate the blank effect. Consider offensive combinations like Gunknight Armor pieces or Nanomachines .

• Dying to Cigarettes will produce "Smoking" as a cause of death.

• If the player has Crisis Stone , they can get infinite coolness by using Cigarettes during Crisis Stone's invulnerability periods.

• If the player has invulnerability items such as Stuffed Star or Ring of Ethereal Form , activating it will disable the use of Cigarettes for the duration.

• If the player has GuNNER and Holey Grail , they can get infinite coolness by using Cigarettes while holding GuNNER and picking up the skull after each use. Incidentally, this also grants the player infinite ammo for all guns.

• If the player has Gun Soul , they can get infinite coolness by using Cigarettes until dying, activating Gun Soul and using its revive effect. It should be noted that the player is left at one heart after the fact, making this strategy risky.

• If the player has Full Metal Jacket and at least one blank or a charged Elder Blank , using Cigarettes will activate a blank and prevent damage from being dealt.

• Be careful not to use the Cigarettes during boss fights, as using it counts as damage taken, causing you to lose the Master Round in the process if you have not taken any damage prior.

• Unused: Coffee & Cigarettes - If the player has Shotgun Coffee , it causes an unknown effect.

• The heading of the description in the Ammonomicon references the Metal Gear series with cigarettes having the same description.

• The Convict can sometimes be seen using them in The Breach .

• The Cigarettes are a reference to Metal Gear Solid, where they could be used to make lasers more visible, damaging your health in the process.

• The packaging of the Cigarettes (namely the red chevron shape near the top of the box) resembles the packaging of Marlboro brand cigarettes, a ubiquitous cigarette company in the United States of America.

• You can in fact die from overuse of cigarettes. The tagline on the ammonomicon page upon death simply states that the player died to "smoking".

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