Carton of cigarettes (Fallout 3)

A carton of cigarettes is a miscellaneous item in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas that can be sold or used as ammunition for the Rock-It Launcher. Cartons of cigarettes are relatively light and are worth 50 caps(Fallout 3) or 40 caps(Fallout New Vegas). They are the most common of the three groups of cigarettes that are found in the Wasteland and can frequently be found in the general stores of the wastes, garbage cans, and office cubicles of destroyed buildings, often resting on desks, or on the floor.

Fallout: New Vegas
In Fallout: New Vegas, cartons of cigarettes are quite numerous. In fact they're found nearly everywhere. A character with a lot of space can capitalize on their value and easily make a few hundred caps from finding and selling them out in the Wasteland.

Dead Money
These become rather valuable in the first add-on, as they can be redeemed for valuable Sierra Madre chips, along with items such as the fedora and it's smaller, more common counterpart, a pack of cigarettes.

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 * Giving a carton of cigarettes, a pack of cigarettes, or a cigarette to Jericho will cause him to smoke when idle in game.

Behind the scenes

 * The cigarette's brand name "Big Boss" may be an allusion to the popular stealth/action series Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid. One of the primary characters in both series is code-named Big Boss. Cigarettes are a recurring inventory item in almost every Metal Gear game. In addition, in Metal Gear Solid 4, the brand of cigarettes used during the game is Big Boss brand, the same as in Fallout 3.