Abstract: A cigarette snuffer for extinguishing a lit cigarette is made of a cylindrical thin-wall tube having an open end section and a closed end section, with two diametrically opposed slots in the tube wall extending between the closed end section and open end section for enabling a user to grasp and remove an extinguished cigarette disposed in the tube. The slots have a sufficient width along the circumference of the tube such that a portion of the cigarette placed therein extends beyond the internal tube wall at opposite sides of the tube. The slots are spaced at least about one inch or one-fourth to one-third the length of the tube from the closed end of the tube.