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Franklin D. Roosevelt using a cigarette holder.


A cigarette holder is a slender tube in which a single cigarette is held for smoking, as opposed to a cigarette case, which holds many cigarettes for the purpose of carrying. Most frequently made of silver, jade or bakelite (popular in the past but now wholly replaced by modern plastics), cigarette holders were considered an essential part of ladies' fashion from the mid-1910s through the mid-1960s, and are still widely popular accessories in many aspects of Japanese fashion.

Cigarette holders range from a few inches to over a foot in length and from the simplest single material constructs to incredibly ornate styles with complex inlays of metal and gemstones. Rarer examples of these can be found in enamel, horn, tortoise shell, or more precious materials like amber and ivory. The holder was also used as a practical accessory, as before the advent of filtered cigarettes, the holder would encase a filter. Though modern cigarettes are generally manufactured with an existing filter, filtered cigarette holders are still used as a secondary filtration system.

Holders can be seen in period films like Titanic and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Johnny Depp uses a cigarette holder in his role as Raoul Duke (alter ego of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson) in the film ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Men also used holders widely, the best known probably being Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tennessee Williams and the aforementioned Hunter S. Thompson. Fictional 'Peter Pan' character Captain Hook possessed a unique double-holder, which allowed him to smoke two cigars (not cigarettes) at once. Batman's birdlike nemesis The Penguin also commonly used a cigarette holder in the comics and the 1960s television series, and so did his father in the live-action film Batman Returns.

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A cigarette holder close up.

See also

  • Smoking culture

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Tobacco smoking is the act of burning the dried or cured leaves of the tobacco plant and inhaling the smoke for pleasure, for ritualistic or social purposes, self-medication, or simply to satisfy physical dependence.
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A cigarette case or cigarette box is a sturdy, most commonly metal container to store small amounts of cigarettes safely from crushing. In modern times they are also made of plastic.
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Silver (IPA: /ˈsɪlvə(ɹ)/) is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (Latin: argentum) and atomic number 47.
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JADE was the codename given by US codebreakers to a Japanese cipher machine. The Imperial Japanese Navy used the machine for communications from late 1942 until 1944. JADE was similar to another cipher machine, CORAL, with the main difference that JADE was used to encipher messages
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Bakelite /ˈbɛkəˌlaɪt/ is a material based on the thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride developed in 1907–1909 by Belgian-American Dr. Leo Baekeland.
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Fashion is a term that usually applies to a prevailing mode of expression, but quite often applies to a personal mode of expression that may or may not apply to all. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole.
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Their 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive.
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Japanese fashion consists of a mixture of both traditional and modern styles. Most of the traditional Japanese fashion has evolved to what is known as street fashion
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horn is a living, vein and artery filled, pointed projection of the skin of various animals, consisting mainly of keratin as well as other proteins. True horns are found only among the ruminant artiodactyls, in the families Antilocapridae (pronghorn) and Bovidae (cows, buffalo,
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Tortoiseshell can refer to:
  • tortoiseshell material, made primarily from the shell of the Hawksbill turtle
  • a Tortoiseshell cat
  • a pattern used in clothing and jewellery
  • the Small Tortoiseshell, a butterfly

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Ivory is a hard, white, opaque substance that is the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth and narwhal.

The word "ivory" was traditionally applied to the tusks of elephants; the word is ultimately from Ancient Egyptian
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20th Century Fox
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Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) October 31, 1997 (premiere at Tokyo IFF)
December 19, 1997
January 23, 1998
Running time 194 min.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 Academy Award-winning film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney. It was directed by Blake Edwards.
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Johnny Depp

Birth name John Chrisopher Depp II
Born May 9 1963 (1963--) (age 44)
Owensboro, Kentucky

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Raoul Duke was the pseudonym used by Hunter S. Thompson for the character based on him in his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Fear and Loathing was originally written under the name Raoul Duke, and Thompson periodically used the pen name for some of his later
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S.
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Tennessee Williams

Williams in 1965.
Born: March 26 1911(1911--)
Columbus, Mississippi
Died: January 25 1983 (aged 73)
New York, New York
Occupation: Playwright
Writing period: 1930-1983
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Peter Pan and Wendy

Peter Pan 1915 cover
Author J. M. Barrie
Illustrator Elisa Trimby
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Fiction, Literature, Fantasy.
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Captain James Hook is the villain of J. M. Barrie's play and novel Peter Pan. Hook is a pirate captain and Peter Pan's nemesis. It is said that he was Blackbeard's bosun, and that he was the only man Barbecue (aka 'The Sea Cook') Long John Silver ever feared.
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The Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot), is a DC Comics supervillain and is an enemy of Batman. He was introduced by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, he first appeared in Detective Comics #58 (December 1941).
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For the entertainers known as "comics", see .


Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions.
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Batman is a 1960s American television series, based on the DC comic book character Batman. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for 2½ seasons from January 12, 1966 to March 14, 1968.
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Batman Created by:
Bob Kane
Bill Finger
Story:
Daniel Waters
Sam Hamm
Screenplay:
Daniel Waters
Wesley Strick (Uncredited)
Starring Michael Keaton
Danny DeVito
Michelle Pfeiffer
Christopher Walken
Music by Danny Elfman
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