asian cigarette holder VINTAGE 1950s CERAMIC Asian Cigarette Case - Etsy

With all the bittersweet regret of a lover looking back on something lost, Klein wrote of cigarettes as a complicated pleasure with a certain philosophical dignity. Klein had quit smoking by the time he finished writing Cigarettes Are Sublime. But his book hints at why some people keep smoking beyond apparent reason: Taken as an object of reflection, cigarettes invite the return of the same, like smoke rings circling round before vanishing. The same comfortable warmth, over and over and over again

The FDA cannot and will not enforce against individual consumer possession or use of menthol cigarettes or any tobacco product, the agency wrote

After complete burning of the tobacco, the filters were dried in a vacuum desiccator and weighed

The gold tooled shield design is pretty, and the case is in great condition for it's age