Cigarette package and the like

A cigarette package for containing a plurality of cigarettes comprising:

• a box having a closed bottom end, a front wall extending upwardly from the bottom end, a rear wall in spaced apart parallel relationship to the front wall and extending upwardly from the bottom end, the front wall of the box is at a lower elevation than the top edge of the back wall, two spaced apart, parallel side walls perpendicular to and interconnecting the front and rear walls, and an open top;
• a box cover hinged to the rear wall of the box for pivotal movement between a closed position covering the open top of the box and an open position away from the open top of the box;
• and,
• a cigarette holding block section fitted within the box with the top end of the block section located at the open top end of the box being slanted downwardly from the rear wall of the box to the front wall of the box, the block section being formed with a plurality of generally cylindrical, spaced apart, parallel cigarette receiving bores with the longitudinal axes of the bores being generally parallel to the walls of the box, the bores extend entirely through the block section and are open to both the top end of the block section and the bottom end of the block section, having an open end open to the top end of the block section, the cylindrical bores are arrayed in parallel rows extending along the width of the block section, the bores of each row are staggered with respect to the bores of the adjacent rows, and the height of the block section measured from the bottom end to the top end being less than the length of a cigarette contained in the bores so that each of the cigarettes rest at its bottom end on the bottom end of the box and protrudes from the open ends of the bores above the top end of the block section.