It was much more popular in AE than in BE but is rare everywhere now.'Cigaret' is an old and rare spelling: a hundred years ago, perhaps, but never used anywhere now.
I wouldn't say it was "popular" even then.It was much more popular in AE than in BE but is rare everywhere now.
Agreed. There were a few things like that, where there was a group of AE speakers perferred the -et ending ove the -ette ending, that I noticed when I moved from BE-landia to AE-landia. It doesn't look as though they were ever a very large group