I too had cigarette thieves, and I never figured out why they did it. It's like any ferret fetish - you rarely know why they steal something, you just know they're determined to have it. Mine would run off with cigarettes all the time, usually putting a couple fang marks in the filters so they were unsmokable. Maybe in their weaselly way, they were trying to get me to quit. One funny note: they _hated_ menthols, and would never steal those. kat [Posted in FML issue 2631]