I like cig butts and I cannot lie

Photo by Emily G. Incidentally, the magical land of $3.99 Marlboros is Sandusky, Ohio circa May 2008

As I mentioned, I quit smoking the other day. Since this is at the moment leaving me completely unable to think about anything that is not cigarettes, I figured I may as well just embrace it and give you a smoking roundup. I may also have a review of those weird and probably soon to be illegal e-cigarette things with a nicotine vaporizer later this week, as I ordered one off the internet in a fit of desperation and poor judgement on Friday. But first: pretty things!

So of course this had to turn up first thing this morning. Yeah, Bally’s claiming it’s inspired by Bianca Jagger, but it’s clearly a hard-pack box of Camels done in metal filigree. Box necklace, Bally, $660.

Dropping the price and switching to pretty vintage ashtrays on etsy, I would have loved to put out a cigarette on this girl’s pretty face or in the back of this pretty duck. If I still smoked cigarettes. Vintage metal ashtray, theturniptruck, $12.50; Vintage duck ashtray, Portuguese Vintage, $10.20.

Hee. This is by Jeremy Kalgreen, who also designed those SCIENCE! T-shirts that are very well known to me but perhaps less well known to those not dating a scientist. Smoking Mermaid T-Shirt, Amorphia Apparel, $16.

Well, you may remember that I like squids. They can, however, be improved by delicious, delicious nicotine. Kraken cigarette case, Cosmic Firefly, $39.

Cigarettes Will Kill You necklace, Naughty Secretary Club, $18.

Kick the Habit socks, Ashi Dashi, $12.

P.S. Nicotine withdrawal being played for laughs; I’m on day 5 and at the moment I am not that bad. I am pathetically “smoking” a white straw snipped to cigarette length. It makes me sound like Darth Vader and has very nearly been lit on fire by several well-meaning people.