the car cigarette friend

You have this great pal who just has to smoke as you drive. But you don't want your clean ashtray filled with butts plus the mess etc.

Answer the car cigarette friend. This is a small hard plastic device that clips into the crack of the window on the passenger side. With the window down about a centimetre it holds the 'friend' tight. The device is basically a tube with a flared end. The wind rushing past this creates a vacuum (Bernoulli's principle) which means air is being sucked through the pipe and out of the window. The car-side part of the pipe has a flat pan with grid marks for grubbing ash off the cig. This is then sucked at high speed, kind of like an aeroplane lavatory, out the window. When cig-fiend-friend has finished the butt it is shoved into the tube to be blown clear onto the highway. The tube is so designed that anything egressing hits the slip stream of the car and is carried away. OK, I know, not very eco- but have you ever had a cig butt blown back into the car through the rear window and have it set fire to the back seat- I have.

So- ash and butt are kept clear of pristine car interior. You have the smoke to inhale- but hell- as an ex-smoker it'll be like a trip down memory lane.