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GILLIAN ANDERSON

Early on in his FBI career, I think. He was out of college and into the Bureau before he did, because as a kid he was one of Those Kids who is all like HELLO DO YOU KNOW WHAT SMOKING DOES TO YOUR LUNGS — not because of any social stigma (which, obviously, was a lot less back in the day) but more because he actually knew what carcinogens were and what they do to human tissue and he was just sort of like "really? really." when it came to cigarettes. Also factor in that a lot of the reason why young people start smoking is because they're trying to ~look cool~ or ~fit in with a crowd~, and then ask yourself how much Albert Rosenfield would legitimately actually care about either one of those things. I mean come on now.

That said, he picked it up after a given stint of time working in forensics. I imagine he probably saw something that rattled him pretty badly and knowing better than to try to console him (because lulz, Albert), one of the senior agents just kind of handed him a pack and left him alone, and after he silently pondered it for a little while, he lit up. Admittedly, some of why he persisted in it was for the calming anxiety-reducing effects that come with the nicotine, but the reason that he doesn't admit is because the smell of the smoke is better than the stink of formaldehyde and rotting corpses. So he actually trained himself into finding the smell of the smoke appealing specifically so that he'd have an easy alternative to the smells of other, more horrifying things. Like death and blood and preservative.

As for music, my initial thought was that he likes jazz. Though I wouldn't put it past him to like some big band and rock and roll, too, so long as it's good rock and roll and none of that shaggy-haired Beatles-generation boy band crap.