Magic tricks with cigarettes: recommended tricks for parties and performances
There are many kinds of magic tricks, including those that use special boxes or ropes, but performances that use familiar objects—like coins or playing cards—are often more captivating, aren’t they?
In this article, we’ll introduce magic tricks that use one such everyday item: cigarettes.
If you can casually perform them when you’re having a drink with friends or taking a break at work, you’re sure to liven up the moment!
In addition to sleight-of-hand tricks, there are also relatively easy ones you can do if you prepare a simple gimmick, so give them a try.
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Magic with cigarettes: Recommended tricks for entertainment and performances (21–30)
Disappearance and reappearance of a lit cigarette
Smoke is billowing up, yet there’s no cigarette anywhere? How about a magic trick where a lit cigarette seems to vanish.
If you can perform it swiftly, it might make you look pretty cool.
The trick uses the blind spots created when you bring your hands together or press fingers against each other, and the secret is to keep showing the side that’s not holding the cigarette.
It’s a bit like pen spinning.
Naturally, since it’s lit, be careful not to burn yourself—or rather, you can perform it even without it being lit.
a cigarette whose ash doesn’t fall
People who prefer regular cigarettes will be especially surprised! It’s a cigarette magic trick where the ash doesn’t fall no matter how much you smoke.
Normally, the ash that forms at the tip of a cigarette will eventually fall off under its own weight if you leave it.
But in this trick, it never falls—defying gravity, which looks really mysterious.
The secret is to insert a mechanical pencil lead into the center of the cigarette.
Since the lead will be heated, it’s better not to keep smoking it; instead, place it somewhere level, like on an ashtray.
The routine of making a cigarette vanish and appear
This is a magic trick where you freely control the disappearance and reappearance of a cigarette—one that seems to go into your nose comes out of your mouth, and one that seems to be sucked into your elbow comes out of your ear.
It’s a simple routine where the cigarette is merely hidden to look like it has vanished, depending on how you hold and move it.
Be mindful of sliding your fingers when pretending to insert it into your nose, and of hiding it in the inside of your other hand when you touch it to your elbow.
Not only delicate finger movements, but also your facial and body reactions are key points for concealing the reappearance.
A cigarette starts moving on its own.
The method is simple, and that’s exactly why a magician’s technique is put to the test.
When you send “energy” with both hands toward a cigarette on the table, it starts rolling on its own! Just from that description you might think, “The secret is that you’re blowing on it,” and yes, that’s exactly right—we’re just blowing on it.
The skill lies in making it look natural, like real magic.
Sync your breath perfectly with your hand movements, don’t let your patter break awkwardly—there are quite a few points to be mindful of!
Coins disappear and reappear, then turn into a cigarette.
Here’s an idea that combines the classic coin vanish-and-appearance magic with a cigarette.
It works best when the spectator’s cigarette is on the table.
Perform the coin vanish/appearance to direct their gaze, and in that moment secretly pick up the spectator’s cigarette.
Then, at the right timing, vanish the coin and produce the spectator’s cigarette in its place.
It doesn’t have to be a cigarette—anything that fits in your palm, like a smartphone, will work.
A cigarette floats
A levitation magic trick using a single cigarette.
It can be performed from just a few centimeters away, and the method is easy to adapt so you can make not only a cigarette but any small item float.
In reality, it uses a thin wire and doesn’t require complex techniques, so with practice to keep it looking natural, anyone can perform it.
A routine where a cigarette gets shorter or disappears
As the cigarette is passed back and forth between both hands, it appears to get shorter and eventually vanishes completely—or so it seems, until it reappears from your ear.
This is the trick.
Perform it briskly and nail the finish.
The shortening cigarette uses an optical illusion; in that flow, secretly move it to a spot out of the spectator’s sight to complete the vanish.
Then, while directing their gaze toward your elbow or elsewhere, slip the cigarette into your ear canal to finish the routine.
It’s a neat little trick you’ll want to perform with a snappy tempo!