Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a Wills Woodbine cigarette.

1943		M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 65: ’Ere, giss a light fer me Wood!
1971		(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 123: I was smoking before I was weaned [...] filching Woodies off my elder brothers.
1995		M. Simpson ‘Prufrock Scoused’ Catching Up with Hist. 22: The owld geezers on ther tod / smokin ther Woodies.
2001		(con. 1953) F. Butler Up the Snicket 15: The Woodies were shared out (‘every cigarette bearing the signature W.D. & H.O. Wills’).
2005		H. Mantel Beyond Black 204: ‘They don’t make Woodbine no more.’ ‘What, they don’t make Woodies? Why not?’.