Abstract: A smokeless ashtray adapted for both temporary retention as well as extinguishment of lighted cigarettes. The ashtray includes a base having an ash-receiving cavity recess therein. At least one inwardly inclined cigarette-receiving channel is provided within the base and includes a first lower end communicating with the ash-receiving cavity (or, in the alternative, being a closed end) and a second upper end communicating with an exterior wall of the ashtray base. The channel further includes a rib extending along the length of the bottom surface thereof and an outwardly extending shoulder adjacent the top of each side of the channel which extends generally below and parallel to the top of the exterior base wall so as to expose an increasingly greater surface area of the cigarette along the length thereof extending from the lowermost lit end to the uppermost unlit end to facilitate continuous smokeless burning as the ash portion of the cigarette increases in length.