Device to control smoke dissipation by cigarettes

A cigarette holder for controlling the burn rate of a lighted cigarette, comprising, in combination:

• a holder body having a cigarette support with a generally cylindrical through passage of a diameter generally equal to or slightly greater than the diameter of a cigarette, said through passage including a center line axis and shaped to hold a cigarette having a longitudinal axis in the through passage with the cigarette longitudinal axis parallel to the center line axis of the through passage, said cigarette support further including at least one side opening through the support, said cigarette support further including at least one stop member projecting radially inwardly into the through passage toward the center line axis to limit the amount of insertion of a cigarette into the through passage, said side opening sized to fit over a burning portion of a lighted cigarette to diminish the rate of combustion and simultaneously suppress the smoke from the lighted cigarette inserted into the through passage and restrained from passing therethrough by the stop member while at the the same time permitting the cigarette to continue to burn for more than a few seconds at a diminished rate and smoke from the cigarette is suppressed, said side opening further sized to extinguish the lighted cigarette after a defined period greater than a few seconds.