cigarette ash

Smoker's gray residue

Cigarette ash is the powdery gray residue left when a cigarette burns.

It accumulates at the tip during smoking and must be periodically tapped off into an ashtray—or wherever convenient: He flicked cigarette ash out the car window.

Forensically or in fiction, cigarette ash can indicate someone's presence or habits.

Related

smoke break · flick · butt · gray · gray powder · smolder · tray · filter · burn · burn mark · stub · dust · residue · cinder · nicotine · tip · powder · flake

Categories
Opposites
combustion state

cigarette ashember

Glowing coal fragment

cherry · flame · fire · spark

cigarette lifecycle

cigarette ashtobacco

Dried smoking leaf

cigarette filter

Family

cigarette, cigar

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG