Abstract: A novel, portable cigarette holder, extinguisher ashtray, which is capable of fitting into the pocket, purse or handbag of a smoker. The holder-ashtray has been designed with a special throat consisting of three precision placed throttles that firmly holds the inserted cigarette by compressing the sides of the lighted cigarette, causing the lighted cigarette to be extinguished and held without damage for relighting. The holder-ashtray has restricted internal throat throttles which press the sides of a lighted cigarette butt inserted into the holder-ashtray and smothers the cigarette. The entrance to the holder-ashtray is flared to enhance entry of the lighted end of the cigarette into the holder-ashtray. The interior of the holder-ashtray is gradually flared away from the throat to encourage the cigarette butt to drop into the interior of the holder-ashtray once the cigarette has been inserted past the throttles in the throat.

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.