Cigarette Pack Ashtrays

From Black Market Antiques: an ashtray designed to resemble a Camel cigarette pack. The package becomes the ashcan. Acknowledging the “negative moment” when the cigarettes are all gone and you are left with only ashes and butts, this faux cigarette pack suggests ways in which genuine cigarette packs, might serve double-duty as ashtrays.

The ashtray above seems intended as a portable, pocket ashtray, but there are ceramic table top versions (below, left) that also strongly imply that the ashes should go back into the pack.

From Fitzsu.com, (above, right) another variation of this idea: a generic flip-top-box-shaped pocket ashtray. “An interesting object on its own” according to their web site:

In the shape of a cigarette box, this all aluminum ashtray is an interesting object on its own. Or used, it may be closed and carried to another location keeping ashes and butts off the street and in your portable ashtray.

Not surprisingly, this concept has been suggested (and patented) for use in actual cigarette packs, but for some reason has never caught on. Perhaps it’s a testament to the negative power of the post-consumer-moment, that consumers generally want to jettison their waste a.s.a.p.

(Another cigarette pack with built-in ashtray, after the fold...)

Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

 

Comments

[e cigarette]

Pretty cool idea. I like it!