holds a microphone out to the crowd. jon was carrying cigarettes on him by at least mag 78, though he said he hadn’t smoked for five years. do you think he always had some on him just in case he ever felt like making a bad decision, or did he start doing that at some point during the course of the show?
In mag 39 Elias says “He’s not smoking again is he?” Which means that he knew Jon smoked at some point and it was something he learned directly from Jon or he would have risked Sasha asking how he knew that? Also Sasha didn’t question it at the time.
Given that Jon says he’s gonna have a cigarette at Jurgen which leads to him getting killed by Elias I had it in my head that one of the lighter’s powers, if not just a property of it being an item directly tied to The Web like a fetish, was to make Jon need to smoke again if not all the time then at least precisely at that moment to get him away so Elias killed Jurgen, and we know The Web likes to manipulate people through their addictions specially if they’re trying to quit or have done so already.
So I’m not sure of exact dates but I’d venture to guess that the moment he got the lighter it began to work on his mind to make him smoke again.