Smoking Smoking was the act of igniting a substance in order to taste or inhale the by - products of the thermal and chemical reaction to fire released in smoke . Some narcotic chemicals and medicine s could be inhaled in this manner . On Earth , it was the traditional way of consuming tobacco , a practice that can be traced back to the peace pipe rituals of some Native American groups . While once a popular and dangerous habit on Earth , the smoking of tobacco had decreased by the time of Starfleet and may have been abandoned completely by Human s by the 2370s . In 1893 , Samuel Clemens was smoking a cigar at the literary reception for Guinan in San Francisco . ( ) In 1957 , a cigarette machine was located in the Pine Tree Bar and Grill in Carbon Creek . ( ) " In 1944 of an alternate timeline created by multiple temporal incursion s by various factions of the Temporal Cold War , Carmine discovered a communications device while with Alicia Travers for treatment . He explained that he had been searching her jacket for a cigarette . " ( ) After traveling back in time to Earth in July 1947 , Quark , Rom , and Nog were baffled that Humans of the time would inhale poison in this way . Quark was especially excited , stating that if Humans bought poison , they ' d buy anything . ( ) Smoking was still prominent in the 1980s . In 1986 , a DeSoto Cab advertised Carlton cigarettes to pedestrians and motorists and Dr . Nichols , plant manager of Plexicorp , wore a pin on his sweater that read " I quit smoking " . ( ) In 2004 , , nervous about Xindi - Reptilian s finding out he was helping Jonathan Archer find out more about them , starting smoking to calm himself . T ' Pol , however , was disgusted by him smoking and asked him to put it out . When he told her to open the window in his car , she promptly put a phase - pistol to his head and he put out the cigarette . ( ) " No Smoking " messages were found stenciled in the missile silo housing the " Phoenix " before its launch . ( ) In 2153 , some of the patrons of a saloon on a Skagaran colony were smoking . ( ) A " No Smoking " sign was visible in the medical laboratory on Earth Two in 2266 . ( ) The practice of smoking appears to be among the many Human practices adopted by the imitative denizens of Sigma Iotia II , as attested by the presence of a cigar humidor ( as well as an ashtray ) on the desk of Bela Okmyx . ( ) According to signs posted in the transporter room of the in the 2280s , smoking was prohibited in that area . Smoking was also prohibited in the Mark IV bridge simulator . ( ) St . John Talbot , the Federation representative at the " Planet of Galactic Peace , " Nimbus III , was a smoker at the time of Sybok ' s occupation of Paradise City . ( ) Inmates on Rura Penthe smoked cigars to keep warm , although it wasn ' t clear what form of matter was being smoked . ( ) When Q appeared to the crew of the " Enterprise " - D as a USMC captain he was holding a cigarette . ( ) In the artificial recreation of the novel " Hotel Royale " on Theta III , characters were smoking various types of cigars and cigarettes . ( ) Some members of the Banea smoked . When Tom Paris saw Lidell Ren smoking in 2371 , he made the ethnocentric statement : " " Smoking is a bad habit . My species gave it up centuries ago when we finally got it into our heads it was killing us " " . ( ) In the holoprogram " Julian Bashir , Secret Agent " , the characters of Duchamps , Hippocrates Noah , and Anastasia Komananov all smoked cigars . ( ) In another of Bashir ' s holoprograms , " Bashir 62 " , the character Lola Chrystal , a facsimile of Kira Nerys , lit a cigarette and blew the smoke flirtatiously at Odo . ( ) Fictional characters of the Dixon Hill novels and stories also smoked . When Jean - Luc Picard played the role of Hill in the holoprogram version , he was offered a cigarette on at least two occasions . ( ) Nicky the Nose was another character seen smoking as well as several nightclub patrons . ( ) Guinan , who appeared as Gloria in the Dixon Hill program , smoked a cigarette when she entered the program in 2367 . ( ) Also in the holodeck , Deanna Troi smoked a cigar while in character as Durango , the mysterious stranger who comes to Sheriff Worf ' s aid in the town of Deadwood , ( ) and Data occasionally smoked a pipe in the role of Sherlock Holmes . ( ) In a vision of 1953 New York City sent by Prophet s to Captain Benjamin Sisko in 2374 , both Julius Eaton and Roy Ritterhouse were smokers ( Eaton smoked cigarettes , Albert smoked a pipe , Ritterhouse cigars ) . ( ) Background information . During the making of , Gene Roddenberry and others associated with the production fought NBC and Desilu so that cigarettes were omitted from the series . " " Even with the heaviest smokers , including myself , I fought for it , " " Roddenberry recalled . " " In the end , it paid off for everyone ; I think everyone now agrees that the original episodes would not be rerunning so successful if we had yielded to advertising pressure and put a ' twenty - third century cigarette ' into the mouth of Kirk and others . " " ( " " , p . 43 ) In , director Nicholas Meyer had " No Smoking " signs posted on the bridge of the " Enterprise " . According to the text commentary for the film , at Gene Roddenberry ' s insistence , they were removed . Roddenberry felt that enlightened future Humans would not have hang - ups or addictions like smoking . The " No Smoking " sign can still be seen on the bridge in the opening " Kobayashi Maru " scene . In the " Outtakes " section of ENT Season 1 DVD , a scene appears in which Scott Bakula should have entered the set for T ' Pol ' s quarters but unlike in the episode , he waited behind the door to the set with two drinks and was smoking a cigarette , causing T ' Pol actress Jolene Blalock to laugh . Among the items which were sold off on the " It ' s A Wrap ! " sale and auction on eBay was a cigar traveler humidor which stood in for a set dressing container in an episode of . The original tag of the container says " Cigar Traveler Co . , Carson City , Nevada " . According to the novel " Pathways " by author Jeri Taylor , Rhuludian crystal s are smoked .