Canada comes close as it has banned tobacco flavours and recently proposed to print health warnings on cigarette sticks.
Does “cigarette sticks” mean cigarettes to native speakers?
Thanks.
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Nobody says cigarette sticks in the US. I’d be surprised if they say it in Canada either. I think I have heard the term cigarette stick before, but I don’t know where. If I’ve heard it before it’s been several decades.
Cigarettes are called cigarettes. There are some slang terms, but sticks is not one of them.
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One slang term is, or at least was in the 1960s, “cancer sticks”.
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Oh yea, I forgot about “cancer sticks”. For some reason I find the term “cancer sticks” funny. Not sure why. People come up with these things and it just sticks.
( I already started to type “sticks” before I noticed the pun - really )
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‘cancer sticks’ also exists in Dutch. We call them ‘kanker stokjes’, ‘kanker’ is ‘cancer’ and ‘stokjes’ is ‘sticks’.
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It’s a tobacco stick connecting a fool at one end and a fire at the other within a distance of about three inches! 
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