I was gonna say that some people who smoke cigars use them on a very occasional basis, but it sounds like she’s had a very long-running nicotine habit:

https://blog.lucy.co/10-people-who-smoked/

1. J. K. Rowling

Not only did J. K. Rowling create the Harry Potter universe, she did it while smoking so much that she experienced symptoms of nicotine overdose [1]. Rowling had been smoking since her teen years where she was frequently caught smoking at bus stops with boys in leather jackets [2]. But the author quit smoking in 2000 with a combination of nicotine gum and the popular game, Candy Crush, to keep her mind occupied when she’d otherwise be giving in to cigarette cravings [3].

I suppose she un-quit at some point.

EDIT:

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0600-times-treneman.html

The only time I see her inhale is around a Marlboro Light. She claims this was to be a non-smoking day. I’m not sure how this squares with five cigarettes in two hours.

https://thefriendlyeditor.com/2015/06/16/rowling-writing-harry-potter/

Rowling has been open about her struggle to write book four, which nearly caused her to have “a nervous breakdown”:

That was the period where I was chewing Nicorette. And then I started smoking again, but I didn’t stop the Nicorette. And I swear on my children’s lives, I was going to bed at night and having palpitations and having to get up and drink some wine to put myself into a sufficient stupor.

2024:

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1797759158688854150?lang=en

I’ll be a smoker til the day I die, even if I never have another cigarette. If I could choose one drug I could take forever without consequences as long as I gave up all others - caffeine, alcohol etc - it would be nicotine.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it becomes a three pack a day hobby for her and a number of higher ups who are currently screwing everything up. Menthols, too. Gotta speed run this shit.

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