Abstract: A cigarette and a pack in which it is retailed, the cigarette, in one design of the invention, including an oxidizing and reducing agent on its end adjacent a layer of potassium nitrate treated tobacco, so that the cigarette end is contacted against a catalyst on a foil disc mounted on a side of the pack so as to ignite the cigarette without use of a match or lighter; and which, in another design of the invention includes an alkaline battery housed in the pack and whose terminals are contacted by a film of low resistance carbon fibers on the cigarette end.