Magic smoke? What's that? I've been using paired CFL + incandescent controlled by a AH switch for several years with no problems. I never try to dim the lights.
I do the same on two outside lights, but we are basically gambling. Even with no dimming the output from any dimming or a triac driven non dimmable module like the Socket Rocket has a pretty distorted sine wave. How the final device is made determines whether it will tolerate the distortion. I was using Socket Rockets for "silent" turn on-off of some transformer wall warts in the bedroom. It took two years, but they finally failed from overheating. CFLs are probably more tolerant, but you might have early failure of the bulb.
