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Smoking Now No Effort at All—Dispenser Gives You Lighted Cigarette (May, 1932)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1932
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Smoking Now No Effort at All—Dispenser Gives You Lighted Cigarette

SMOKING is coming to be such a convenient matter that it is a wonder any of us can resist becoming insatiable cigarette fiends. The latest device to ease the labor of lighting up a fag is an electric desk dispenser which delivers one cigarette at a time, fully lighted and ready to smoke.

Shown in the accompanying photo, the dispenser holds one package of cigarettes at a time, and is operated by the easy pressure of the forefinger against a lever. The fag, with its end aglow, pops out of a little aperture at the side.

The dispenser is surprisingly small, and is designed to take the place of individual holders and lighters occupying twice the space.

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6 Comments »

1. The effort that went into smoking before can now be reduced!

   Comment by Mike — June 8, 2009 @ 7:16 pm

2. That’s why I quit, too much work.

   Comment by StanFlouride — June 8, 2009 @ 9:01 pm

3. Pre-lit cigarretes. Because as your cancer ridden body weakens and deteriorates, you don’t want to put too much work into smoking.

   Comment by John M. Hanna — June 8, 2009 @ 9:51 pm

4. When I was a young man addicted to cigarettes ,I was dropped off at a remote work site with my smokes but no lighter ..I remember becoming so desperate that day I tried to use a pepsi bottle held to catch the sun to light a cig..didn’t work

   Comment by fred — June 8, 2009 @ 10:16 pm

5. I thought ‘fag’ meant something different in the US? Thought it was a purely UK name for a cigarette…

   Comment by davee — June 9, 2009 @ 3:59 am

6. Fred, if you’d had a bar of chocolate, and that had been a can of Pepsi instead of a bottle, you might have been able to get your fix.

   http://www.wildwoodsurvival.co.....colatebar/

   Comment by LightningRose — June 9, 2009 @ 12:40 pm

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