Cigarette Holder
Cigarette holders seem to be one of the latest fashion revivals hewn it comes to smoking accessories. When you think of cigarette holders, you probably think of the real divas of the past eras, the fashionistas in black and white these days like Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Back even in the 1920s, women with cigarette holders in their mouths was a thing of fashion--the diva look back then.

Silver cigarette holders, black cigarette holders, Meerschaum cigarette holders, Dunhill cigarette holders--you name them, they were probably sold. Cigarette holder serve a variety of purposes, namely to keep the cigarette away from the lips. Especially with filter less cigarettes, smoking tends to scar and burn the lips for those who do it a great deal, and it causes discoloration in the teeth and the lips as well. Cigarette holders are like straws that the cigarette is placed in (although much more fashionable) and the smoke is drawn directly to the back of the throat. Cigarette holder filters can even be used to add flavor to the smoke, or filter out certain unwanted elements of the smoke. This works especially well with cigarettes that that were filter less in the first place.

Many people have seen images of Franklin Roosevelt with a cigarette holder plopped in the bottom of his lip. Lucille Ball had cigarette holders between her lips all the time during the span of her I Love Lucy television show, and they had cigarette holders in the middle of their coffee table a great deal, as well. They were normally thin, stylish silver cigarette holders with cigarette holder garters. When company came over, they would pass the cigarette case from friend to friend and pass out cigarette holders as well. Smoking was fashionable back then; it was popular because everybody did it on television and in the movies and there were not health issues attached to cigarette smoking back then.

These days people know better and cigarette holders have helped some by having the capability of adding filters to lessen the effect of them even greater. Still, cigarette holders add a stylish appeal to smoking cigarettes that if it wasn’t there, might not draw the attention of people who are teetering over the edge. Alas, it can’t be left up to members of society to do what other people should do, in order to teach one another things about life and that is such with cigarette smoking--just because one person does it does not mean that another should do it.