How did ciggerettes get to be called Fag's or Butts or any other slang term for them. What slang term are they called in your country ?

I here 'smokes' a lot. The reason is obvious.

It comes from the Navy when the useless fray end of rope was called the fag end. In cigarettes the filter is referred to as the butt or fag for the same reason it's useless,  but the whole cigarette ended up being called the name of the filter.  This is why people ask if can they "Bum a fag?" which is to share a cigarette and get most of the filter end, or to stick the filter in the mouth and make it wet. Other names for cigarettes are "smokes and stokies."

Some people I know call them squares. I haven't got a clue as to how they got that slang name. 

Synecdoche. Coffin nails.  This post was edited by Malizz at September 13, 2018 12:13 PM MDT

I don't know any slangs for them other than smokes.

One of three meanings of "butt", when used as a noun = the end of something, usually a tool or weapon.
Also the blunt or square end of a piece of wood eg a butt joint in carpentry.


"Fag" is an abbreviation of the almost obsolescent word "faggot" meaning stick or a bit of kindling for a fire.

Cancer sticks. 
Chokes. 

The only slang term I‘ve heard is cancer sticks. The most accurate teram for the disgusting things. I’m happy where I live people can’t smoke indoors or within a certain distance of entrances. If other people want to speed up their deaths, that’s their choice. The rest of us have the right to inhale clean air and to not have to inhale second hand smoke.

Unfortunatley here in America on of the words you used thsy is slang for cancer sticks in England is a homophobic slur against gays here. I realize to you and your country it isn’t. No harm and no foul by you. This post was edited by Rizz at September 11, 2018 6:19 PM MDT