50+ Strange Smoking Accessories From the Past That Didn’t Catch On

This is a ridiculously long cigarette holder. Possible uses are: The lighter is with your friend who is sitting two rows ahead in the theater or Cigarette smoke makes your wife’s eyes water. So let’s blow smoke into that guy in front.

The invention is the creation of Dr. Edward P. Delevante, who has built a cigarette roller right into the bottom of the tobacco can. I’m not entirely sure that’s tobacco he’s rolling up there.

Ok, this one is just cool. Plus, if you’re stuck in solitary it’s actually pretty damn useful.

It’s only redeeming quality is that if you squint hard enough you could swear this was a black and white snapshot from one of those Star Trek TNG episodes where Picard goes all gangster in the holodeck.

The cigarettes are arranged to appear like ornaments on the hat. The slots which hold the fags are made extremely rigid so as to prevent breaking.

No larger than a woman’s lipstick, a new mystery cigarette lighter works without flame or electricity. The smoker simply holds his cigarette against the porous top and inhales several times and this lights the smoke. The secret is that a blended fuel containing methyl alcohol is thus drawn through a porous pill containing platinum. Catalytic action, similar to that of platinum gas-stove lighters, causes the pill to glow and light the cigarette. Wind cannot interfere with the use of the lighter, which works if a cotton pad is kept saturated with fuel.

An easily operated vending machine which sells one cigarette at a time and yet complies with the laws has been marketed for use in public places. The fags are sold directly from the flat tins of fifty, and are made accessible to the buyer by the insertion of a penny in a slot.

The lover’s cigarette holder. What can be more romantic than puffing smoke from the same pipe?

This one is actually kind of neat, but it’d probably be better for smoking something else…

Dude, just get an ashtray. Or don’t. It seems like you’d end up grabbing the end of the cigarette and the weight of this thing would break your cigarette in half.

Because a patient with two broken arms was unable to hold a cigarette, authorities in a St. Louis, Mo., hospital devised the odd six-foot holder pictured at the right. A roommate lights a cigarette, places it in a hole in the end of the stick, and holds it to his friend’s lips. To raise his body for the purpose, he uses a support suspended above his bed, as shown. A nail in the end of the holder is used to feed the patient candy.

How on earth is this actually easier than a normal lighter?

If you thought cell phone holsters were the dumbest looking things on earth, think again.

And when you miss the ashtray you get to burn a nice hole in your vest, or get a pocket full of ashes.

Faced with the problem of carrying cigarettes when no pockets were available, a delegate to a recent nudist convention devised the holder shown at right. The leather case is strapped to the leg by means of an elastic band.

A novel cigarette case keeps tabs on the cigarettes your friends “borrow.” When you want a smoke yourself, press one button to open the case. I think that anyone cheap enough to need one of these would be too cheap to actually buy one.

Wishing to read his newspaper without the annoyance of clouds of smoke getting in his eyes, an Englishman invented an ingenious device–a flexible cigarette holder of unusual length. Not only does it keep smoke out of the eyes; it also keeps tobacco particles from getting in the mouth. The idea may spread like wildfire–or smokers may find it too much trouble to bother with.

This sounds like a pretty good idea but you really have to wonder what kind of god awful chemical they used to make it waterproof.

Many are the inventions devised to insure a dry smoke, but it has remained for a clown appearing with a circus in England to solve the problem. An umbrella over the smoke keeps off water and a spigot drains off excess moisture.

A strong wind does not interfere with the lighting, according to the maker. He claims his composition is free of objectionable taste in burning, overcoming the principal problem of other inventors who have sought self-lighting cigarettes.

To make a cigarette holder that filters and cools the smoke, procure a small size corncob and a close-grained cork. Trim the cork so that it fits tightly into the bowl with about 1/4 inch of the cork projecting to make removal of stubs easy.

The dispenser is surprisingly small, and is designed to take the place of individual holders and lighters occupying twice the space. The fag, with its end aglow, pops out of a little aperture at the side.

Accidental wetting does not harm cigarettes of a type just placed on the market, for the paper with which they are made is waterproof. In the test illustrated above, an experimenter held one of the new cigarettes in running water for three minutes. He then removed it and promptly smoked it as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Cigarettes made by the new process are said not to break apart at the tips from the moisture of the lips, a feature designed to appeal to smokers generally. Their waterproof characteristic, however, is expected to be especially popular among bathers and campers and in general they are designed to appeal to all who, for sport or work, are likely to be outdoors during inclement weather. The treatment to which the paper is subjected is said not to affect the aroma of the cigarette.

Because a smoker often has a cigarette but no match with which to light it, an inventor has developed a self-lighting fag which eliminates use of matches. The idea is unique in its field and should be received with favor by all tobacco users who have been caught in a similar predicament. The device consists of a container and its pack of specially prepared cigarettes. Each cigarette has an oxidized fiber ring added to the tip that ignites immediately, like an ordinary match, when the fag is rubbed on the side.

An electric cigarette lighter, shielded from the weather by a small roof, is an odd sight at a corner of a Beaumont, Texas, oil field. So dreaded a hazard is fire here that workmen are forbidden to carry matches. Violation of this rule is considered almost as serious an offense as it would be in a powder plant. To encourage its observance, the owners of the field installed the lighter, just outside the danger zone, for the convenience of employees who wished to smoke during the noon hour. As a result, the field boasts an enviable safety record.

A new cigarette has a novel filter tip made of rolled, pleated paper. Besides protecting the smoker’s lips from the annoyance of loose tobacco ends, the rolled-in filter is said to provide a cooler smoke.

Equipped with a self-tilting mechanism, this ash tray makes it impossible for a cigarette to burn down so short that the weight of the over-hanging end causes the cigarette to over-balance and fall off the tray and burn the table or rug. If the cigarette is allowed to burn for any length of time while on the rest, its heat causes a spring within the tray to expand and tilt, thus dumping the burning butt into the tray. This tray in use eliminates not only the danger of damaging furniture as the result of forgotten cigarettes, but the possibility of fire from the same cause.

Comfortable to carry, a new cigarette case of rubber is declared sufficiently flexible to conform to the body, but stiff enough to protect from damage the ten cigarettes it holds. To remove one, the elastic cover flap is drawn back as shown at right. When released, it closes of its own accord.

So how does this work exactly? Smoking a pipe is questionable enough health-wise, but then you go and share it, staring deep into the eyes of someone a foot away from you while you're both surrounded by smoke? What is in that pipe?

Parenty’s Smoking Machine allowed Victorians, who loved smoking so much that they would sniff the tobacco smoke like perfume, to pipe tobacco smoke throughout their homes.

As if Parenty’s smoking machine wasn’t enough, the multi-pack cigarette holder made it possible to smoke several cigarettes at once for a real nicotine kick. Fortunately for our health, these devices have fallen out of fashion.

Did the inventor of this fine contraption not know that excess nicotine causes violent vomiting, dizziness and severe headache?

This one is actually neat. The vertical cigarette holder is environment and neighbor friendly, releasing toxic smoke above our heads.

The all weather cigarette holder protects the flame during the rainy days.

This ash-tray at the bottom keeps you from spoiling your carpet. Collects all the ash on the tray until you accidentally spill it over your dinner plate.

Shown in the accompanying photo, the dispenser holds one package of cigarettes at a time, and is operated by the easy pressure of the forefinger against a lever. The fag, with its end aglow, pops out of a little aperture at the side.

THE NOVEL cigarette case shown below contains not only smoking materials, but also a complete checkerboard and men. The white and black pieces are small pegs which fit into holes in the squares to prevent them from being lost.

The driver drops a cigarette into a conventional opening, and pushes a button located on the side. The button pops up to indicate that the cigarette is lit and ready to be smoked. The entire process can be done without taking one's eyes off the road.

The lighter is fully automatic and smokers need only to unscrew the left end of the lighter and touch the other end to the cigarette. It was filled with iquid called " Vulcanit" and manufacturers claim that one filling will last for one week. It did not use a flint or wick and is not much bigger than a cigarette.

You’ve got two lungs, gotta have two cigarettes.Of course if you used this you’d have two lungs for very long..

A cigar lighter attached to the automobile dash board is pressed until a red glow appears and can then be removed.