Cigarette Cases from Improvised to Extravagant are Practical Necessities for MYO and RYO Smokers

The use of cigarette cases is not very common amongst those who smoke ready made cigarettes, perhaps in part because it is time consuming to remove smokes from a perfectly serviceable package in order to put them into a case.  When they are used, it is often due to utility (to keep cigarettes from being crushed in certain environments), convenience (many cases are thinner and more convenient to carry than cigarette pack), vanity (cases range from simple to flamboyant), and perhaps even discretion in an intolerant society that is ever hostile towards the use of tobacco.

While there are many reasons to use them, cigarette cases are rarely a necessity unless you make your own (MYO) or roll your own cigarettes (RYO).  When you do, they provide practical, secure storage for cigarettes that are made or rolled and are nearly indispensable if you wish to carry them on or about your person.  The most common cigarette case utilized by new MYO and RYO is one improvised from a discarded cigarette pack.  While effective, these packages are aggravating to fill and must be replaced frequently since they degrade rapidly; thus, a more robust and easier to use cigarette case soon becomes desirable.

Frugal smokers will find that Altoids tins (Using an Altoids Tin as a Cigarettes Case) provide durable, improvised cigarette cases that are discreet and quite functional.  Others might use assorted tins that once held commercially packaged cigarettes or other tobacco products.  Many long-term smokers already have such tins lying about, saved perhaps for posterity but otherwise just collecting dust.  Although some are collectors' items, many are quite common and offer more immediate value as effective cigarette cases with unique or nostalgic character.


Of course, commercially produced cigarette cases, both new and vintage, are readily available to accommodate typical MYO and RYO filtered and non-filtered cigarettes (70mm, King Size, and 100mm), although finding 70mm cases can sometimes prove challenging (The Elusive 70mm Cigarette Case).  These cases vary in capacity and some, of generous proportions, hold over twenty cigarettes.  Top and similarly styled flip boxes, which are close to a standard pack of cigarettes in size, usually hold eighteen.  Others hold less and very thin, unobtrusive ones may hold fewer than ten.  


These cigarette come in any many styles that suit most tastes and budgets.  Manufactured from plastic, brass, leather, stainless steel, and even precious metals, they range from practical flip boxes costing less than two dollars to artistic masterpieces offered by Davidoff at over twenty thousand dollars.  Improvised or extravagant, cheap or expensive, new or old, many cigarette cases are available to serve MYO and RYO smokers who require a practical means to store and carry the cigarettes they make.