If you are honestly interested in cigarette magic, you won't go wrong with this book. Okay, I've already screwed up on the chaptering.There are 15 chapters in all, the book is 304 pages in length and it's everything you ever wanted to know about cigarette magic, including tonguing, reverse tonguing, multiple cigarette tonguing, how to talk whilst tonguing, how to drink with a cigarette tongued, reproductions, multiplications and the final chapter deals with putting together a full show with cigarettes (presentation, opening, closing and constructing a routine). 38 pages in all.Ĭhapter 5 deals with handkerchief vanishes, annhilative vanishes and transformations.

38 pages in all.Ĭhapter 4 goes into vanishes (elementary sleights, open hand steals, fist vanishes - one hand and two hand methods, drop sleights, tourniquets, push in sleights, tip-tilts, slip vanishes).

18 pages in all.Ĭhapter 3 gets into throwing (throwing into the air, throwing into the other hand, throwing into a receptacle, throwing onto the floor). Truly a labour of a lifetime.Basically, Clark's book is the 'Modern Coin Magic' of cigarettes.Ĭhapter 1 is a history of cigarettes and cigarette acts, including a bibliography.Ĭhapter 2 is a treatise on the principle open positions that will lead to the sleights discussed later (smoker position, shaking position, mouth position) then goes into the principle hidden positions (thumb grip, finger pinch, finger grip, finger hold, transversal finger hold, thumb hold, back thumb grip, back pinch, back grip). All this and more is yours with the purchase of 'The Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks.' Already an 'Academy Award Winner.' Literally everything in the world that there is to know about cigarettes and cigarette magic.Ĭomplete with all the cigarette magic using sleights, and without sleights, and all cigarette magic with gimmicks and without. A burning lit cigarette is crushed in your hand and it vanishes into thin air. This 304 page paperback book covers fifteen chapters on the cigarette and its history, the famous cigarette acts, basic principles, throwing, vanishes, transformations, sleeving, secret transfers, flourishes, tonguing and mouth sleights, productions and multiplications, loads, steals, full cigarette production acts, presentations and routines, l. Equal to personal instructions.Ī shower of fire, presto, a lit cigarette in your hand! Toss it away, whoops, another cigarette, lit, and yet another. 304 pages, 120,000 words of text, 300 actual photos. The definitive book on this unique branch of magic: cigarette manipulation! Every sleight imaginable is covered showing productions/vanishes of single and multiple cigarettes - lit or unlit.

By Keith Clark, ghostwritten by Jean Hugard.

Encyclopedia of cigarette tricks