It's a bad habit, permissible only to the old.

Leonidas, do you happen to have a match ?" "Yes, Hector, I made sure about that before I asked you for the cigarettes.

Be careful when you light it.

There is only one match for the cigarettes of both." "I'll bring you a coal from one of the campfires," said Harry, springing up.
But Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire waved him down courteously, though rather reprovingly.
"You would never fire a cannon shot to kill a butterfly," he said, "and neither will I ever light a delicate cigarette with a huge, shapeless coal from a campfire.

It would be an insult to the cigarette, and after such an outrage I could never draw a particle of flavor from it.