Abstract: An improved machine for rolling cigarettes of the type in which tobacco is compressed and rolled onto a piece of cigarette paper by a moving bight in an apron formed between a roller and a platform and is subsequently dropped onto a cutting surface of a cutting tray where blades sever the cigarette to the desired length, in which the cutting surface is made of plastic and the cutting blades are fixedly engaged in blade holders. A series of spaced, parallel slots at the rear of the cutting surface provide frictional engagement for the blade holders. Safe, uniform and accurate insertion and withdrawal of the blades is thereby achieved.