There are many purveyors of "high end" jerky, including Jeff's Famous and Gary West Artisan Smoked Meats — whose angus beef-based product The Today Show once dubbed "the Rolls Royce of jerky.
As a product that is being smoked it will naturally benefit from these flavours which can nicely enhance the malty, bread like, roasted character of main stream smoke.
The risk of developing ALS also increased as the number of pack-years smoked (product of the number of packs per day and the number of years that quantity was smoked).