Cigarette Girl (たばこ屋の娘, Tabako-ya no Musume) is a Japanese short story manga collection written and illustrated by Masahiko Matsumoto.
[2] Top Shelf announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010 that it had licensed the manga in North America, expecting to publish it in 2011.
[7] In a starred review, Publishers Weekly noted Matsumoto's ability for showing how people relate to each other and his simple style which uses sound effects, saying "much of the emotional resonance comes from silence and images".
Club called the manga "engrossing and deeply moving", complimenting the coherency of the anthology and concluding that "Matsumoto's aesthetic and narrative style simultaneously push and pull on the reader, forcing you to confront the universal themes of alienation, ennui, and emotional distance.
[10] Zainab Akhtar of The Guardian included the manga as part of "the comics and graphic novels to look forward to in 2016".