El Deafo
Why does it have cigarettes in it?
has people using cigarettes.
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Jill W
has people using cigarettes.
The novel is semi-autobiographic, thus Cece's sister likely smoked (and hid it), as a teenager. Note, smoking was far more prevalent in the past... before the dangers were documented and publicized.