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Introducing the Hollywood Cigarette Finger Ring

Mark Frauenfelder at 8:09 am Fri, Mar 23, 2012

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  • http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

    With hopes that the instruction manual teaches us how to use it without burning our middle knuckle every time we take a drag :)

    • Gutierrez

      That’s why I invested in the Virtucon pinky ring model.  Their spokesman is even a Doctor.  He promotes them as “Frickin’ fantastic.” 

  • Michael Leddy

    Norma Desmond used something like this in Sunset Boulevard. Hers seemed to be made of metal though.

    • Neil Cochrane

      I thought the same thing.
      Here’s a still: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8_zN7p9HjFo/TTt7oQCePyI/AAAAAAAAAtM/11r6vbFDlKo/s320/Sunset.Boulevard%255B1950%255D.Dvdrip.Xvid.AC3%255B2.0%255D-RoCK%255B%2528063291%252913-02-02%255D.JPG

  • mat catastrophe

    I can’t tell you how many cigarettes I’ve dropped when fatigued. Wish they still made these.

    • niktemadur

      It’s not meant for practical purposes!  It’s meant for panache!

  • KBert

    ‘your hand relaxes’ ‘while fatigued’ ‘dropping cigarette’
    Sounds like ‘drunk  on cocktails.’  Just my experience…

  • xzzy

    I miss the days when smoking was so cool, even golf bags did it.

  • James B

    This would be good for avoiding lighting a second smoke, when you still have one parked in the ash tray.  Now if they could just keep us from lighting the wrong end. Cough.

  • SomeGuyNamedMark

    Cancer jewelry

  • chaopoiesis

    In the 90′s redo it’s a lip ring.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mr.intj Scott Smith

    Smelling like an ashtray has never been so easy

  • John Rust

    We’ve come a long way, baby!

  • voiceinthedistance

    I was hoping to see finger cigarettes.  I thought a nice simple solitaire ring might look rather sophisticated on them.  I’m not sure whether you would light the nail or the stump end, though.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Would you settle for a Hand of Glory?

      • voiceinthedistance

        Depends.  Would it be on the other side of the Hole of Glory?  

  • allybeag

    Wouldn’t have helped my dad. He used to drop off to sleep in the chair with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. We’d sit there watching the ash getting longer and longer and wondering when [a] the ash would fall off or [b] the whole cigarette would drop off on to his tummy. Oh, happy days.

  • h4x0r

    How about we address the fatigue issue permanently and go with a device that burns tobacco (Or whatever ;-)) …carry it in a fanny pack around the waist & surgically attach the hose leading out of it directly into the esophagus. The fanny pack can come in a variety of colors!

  • Ipo

    Sell as roach clips, make a million.  

    • EvilTerran

      I had the same thought myself. I wonder what proportion of their customers had that in mind.

  • Brainspore

    And this is how Green Lantern comics got millions of kids hooked on nicotine.

  • http://twitter.com/michaelsayyes michael b

    “No more nicotine finger stains.”  Never mind your lips, mouth, teeth, hair, clothes and everything around you, it’s your yellow fingers that matter.

  • bo1n6bo1n6

    Perfect for smoking in bed, or anywhere you are too tired or inebriated to focus on carrying a burning cig… 

  • irreverenthope

    Heh……. Finger ring.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=710780776 Fred Kahl

    Print out your own: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19882