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Abstract

A puff-on-demand cigarette smoking apparatus for decreasing unnecessary tobacco burning as well as decreasing the generation of side stream smoke. The portable cigarette smoking apparatus can be used to smoke traditional cigarettes and includes a reusable lighter box housing including an aperture into which an end of a cigarette to be smoked is adapted to be inserted into. After the cigarette is inserted through the aperture, the cigarette is directed into a cigarette extinguishing sleeve. The cigarette smoking system includes an actuable trigger which is operably connected to a cigarette advancing mechanism for advancing the cigarette a preset distance along the cigarette extinguishing sleeve into the lighter box housing upon actuation of the trigger. As a result, a portion of the cigarette is advanced beyond the cigarette extinguishing sleeve. Actuation of the trigger also activates a heat source to temporarily provide heat to the exposed portion of the cigarette, thereby lighting the cigarette and allowing the smoker to take a puff from end of the cigarette protruding the lighter box housing. At the end of a puff, the cigarette extinguishing sleeve is capable of extinguishing the cigarette. Actuation of the trigger can be repeated a plurality of times until no more tobacco rod of the cigarette is available for smoking. At the conclusion of smoking, the remaining cigarette can be removed from the lighter box housing and discarded.

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