Tobacco

Various forms of tobacco appear in nearly all games of the Fallout series.

Overview
Tobacco, for all its health issues either smoking or chewing, never saw the widespread vilification it saw in reality. In fact, cigarettes were never banned or heavily regulated from advertising, do not come with a surgeon general warning, and was a general mainstay of modern culture in the Fallout world. The popularity of tobacco was so great that cartons of full cigarettes (while still relatively rare) can be found 200 years after the Great War. Tobacco has been mentioned or seen in the Fallout series in varying forms. In the first two games -Fallout - Fallout 2- tobacco was limited to text only mentions and was never seen as an actual item. From Fallout 3 onwards, cigarettes have become an item in several forms and people can be seen smoking periodically in their day to day schedule, however, the player could not partake themselves. In both Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4 the brand of cigarettes and brand of cigars can be used to track down Benny and Conrad Kellogg, respectively.

The New California Republic offers land through the Thaler Act and allows the growing of coyote tobacco by the farmers on that land. Some farmers make end's meet simply by growing tobacco with another crop, typically maize.

Fallout: New Vegas is the only game to allow the player to use tobacco in the form of chewing tobacco which can then subsequently lead to tobacco addiction.

Variants

 * Cigarettes: Small paper cylinders filled with a mix of tobacco scraps, stems, additives, smoked with or without a decorative filter. Cheap, plentiful through an abundance of brands, and a staple of pre-War United States culture.


 * Cigars: Whole or partially shredded tobacco leaves wrapped inside whole tobacco leaves, designed to be smoked slowly or smoked in short sessions. Cigars are relatively more expensive than a cigarette and are known for their rich flavor. Just don't attempt to smoke cigars like a cigarette.


 * Coyote tobacco chew: Harvested from wild and domestic coyote tobacco plants common in the Mojave Desert coyote tobacco chew is a reinvigorating plant that can be consumed raw to relieve stress and reduce sleepiness, caused by the high concentrations of nicotine inside plant leaves. Before the Great War, it was commonly used for medicinal purposes among Native Americans. In more recent times, it became a favorite of wastelanders to use and sell.


 * Tobacco pipe: Common among the tribes of New California, derogatively called a 'peace pipe' by some non-tribal cultures.