A cigarette case is a sturdy container used to store small numbers of cigarettes and prevent them from being crushed. A typical cigarette case is a flat box that opens symmetrically into two halves. Each half stores a row of cigarettes, which are often held in place by a spring or an elastic strap. Some cigarette cases are simply sturdy cases used to store standard cigarette packs.
Aluminium cigarette case
This cigarette case, inscribed with the Zirkel of a Jewish Studentenverbindung, is in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland’s collection.
A cigarette case covered in black leather with silver trim, showing the outside and the inside filled with cigarettes.
Snake skin cigarette case designed by Pierre Legrain, ca 1925
A pack or packet of cigarettes is a rectangular container, mostly of paperboard, which contains cigarettes. The pack is designed with a flavor-protective foil, paper or plastic, and sealed through a transparent airtight plastic film. By pulling the "pull-tabs", the pack is opened. Hard packs can be closed again after opening, whereas soft packs cannot.
On the left, a new Finnish Lucky Strike cigarette pack by a new EU directive with warning photo; on the right, an obsolete pack as red. Some countries, such as France, the United Kingdom and Australia, go further in their warnings (plain packaging).
Box of 400 Marlboro cigarettes (Munich, Germany, 2006)
A soft pack of Marlboro Gold
Flip-up top of a hard pack
