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Acigarette holder is afashion accessory, a slender tube in which acigarette is held forsmoking. Most frequently made ofsilver,jade orbakelite (popular in the past but now wholly replaced by modern plastics), cigarette holders were considered an essential part of ladies'fashion from the early 1910s through early to the mid 1970s.
The holder was a practical accessory with several purposes. The chief use was to prevent ash from falling onto a woman's clothes, especially since women did not wearsmoking jackets. This is also why longer holders were for more formal occasions, which often had more elaborate dress codes. Holders also preventednicotine from staining the fingers[1] andgloves, as well as keeping side-stream smoke further from the smoker's eyes and out from under a lady's hat, which often had a wider brim than a man's.
Cigarette holders also served to enhance the experience of smoking. The length of the holder cooled and mellowed the inhaled smoke, helped keep tobacco flakes out of the smoker's mouth, and reduced staining of the teeth.[citation needed] The non-porous materials of holders were also more convenient, as these did not stick to a smoker's lips ascigarette paper often could. Some holders also contained afilter for taste and, later, health reasons.
Cigarette holders range from the simplest, single-material constructs to highly ornate objects with complex inlays of metal and gemstones. Rarer examples of these can be found inenamel,horn,tortoiseshell, or more precious materials such asamber andivory.
A similar holder made ofwood,meerschaum orbakelite and with anamber mouthpiece was used forcigars and was a popular accessory for men from theEdwardian period until the 1920s.
As withevening gloves, ladies' cigarette holders are measured by four traditional formal standard lengths:
Traditionally, men's cigarette holders were no more than 4 inches long.[2]
Well-known women who used cigarette holders includeAudrey Hepburn,[3]Lucille Ball,[4]Jayne Mansfield,[5]Jacqueline Kennedy,[6]Rita Hayworth,[7]Princess Margaret,[8]Wendy Richard,[9]Madalena Barbosa,Natalie Wood,Louise Brooks, andAyn Rand[citation needed].Scarlett Johansson[10] is a contemporary example.
Among the best-known men who used cigarette holders wereFranklin D. Roosevelt,[11]Ivor Novello,[12]Enrico Caruso,[13]Vladimir Horowitz,[14]Ian Fleming,[15]Noël Coward,[16]Hunter S. Thompson (though he regarded his as only a filter, using the TarGard filter[17]),[18]Tennessee Williams,[19]Peter O’Toole,[20]Fulgencio Batista,Sergei Rachmaninoff,Josip Broz Tito,[21] andHans von Bülow.
Holders can be seen in period films likeTitanic, and in films of the 1950s and 1960s. Holly Golightly, the naïve and eccentriccafé society girl portrayed byAudrey Hepburn in the 1961 classicBreakfast at Tiffany's, is famously seen carrying an oversized cigarette holder; the image of Hepburn wearing the famousGivenchylittle black dress and with the foot-long cigarette holder in her hand, is considered one of the most iconic images of 20th-centuryAmerican cinema.[22]Lucille Ball can be seen using one in certain episodes ofI Love Lucy. InTroop Beverly Hills, Shelly Long's character is seen throughout the movie using one.Cruella de Vil is seen using one repeatedly in the 1961 animatedDisney filmOne Hundred and One Dalmatians[23] and in the 1996 remake, in which she is portrayed byGlenn Close.Margo Lane (portrayed byPenelope Ann Miller) used one inThe Shadow, as didJade inJonny Quest. ComedianPhyllis Diller had a stage persona which included holding a long cigarette holder from which she pretended to smoke (though she was a non-smoker in real life).
FictionalPeter Pan characterCaptain Hook possessed a unique double-holder, which allowed him to smoke two cigars (not cigarettes) at once.[24]
Batman's nemesisThe Penguin also commonly uses a cigarette holder in thecomics, theBatman 1960s TV series, the live-action filmBatman Returns,Batman: The Animated Series, andHarley Quinn.
Edna Mode fromthe Incredibles franchise is often seen with an unlit cigarette in a cigarette holder.
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward from theThunderbirds franchise was regularly seen with a cigarette holder in the original 1965-66 series.[25][26]
Johnny Depp uses a cigarette holder in his role asRaoul Duke (alter ego of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson) in the filmFear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Incartoons, thePink Panther,Colonel Sponsz fromThe Adventures of Tintin, and Jade fromJonny Quest used cigarette holders.
The lyrics to "Satin Doll", byDuke Ellington, and the cover art ofthe albumBadfinger feature a cigarette holder. The video to "Into the Great Wide Open", byTom Petty and the Heartbreakers, features Faye Dunaway using her cigarette holder as amagic wand.
Rachel Menken, a character on theAMC seriesMad Men, smokes cigarettes with a short holder.
Bet Lynch, a character fromCoronation Street, smoked her cigarettes with a cigarette holder during her times as the landlady of theRovers Return Inn.
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