A project I started for absolutely no reason but ended up looking nice, so I kept the stone rolling. The white burnt part needs work, I think, and possibly the smoke?
the white burnt part is not looking bad at all.
things that i see that you would need to work on are the paper texture as well as the coal, the coal would be more or less the same size as the rest of the cigarette only marginally smaller.
there are plenty of png smoke textures available, I would do this in post gimp/PS
other that that it is looking good.
Shaun