These are great! They are regular sized cigarettes that look fairly convincing and produce a little plume of 'smoke' when you blow on the filter end. They fit very well into a cigarette holder. I am going to be using them for a costume prop. The reason the are getting 4 stars is because the box they were shipped in was subpar. The box was huge! This is a small, 2 pack of cigarettes. They somehow got underneath a flap on the bottom of the box and we're smashed flat during shipping. This is by no means the manufacturer's fault as this item was shipped by Amazon. Luckily I was able to poof them back up, but I think it is ridiculous how big that box was.these fake cigs are so cool. i got them for a halloween costume and if you blow out on them, smoke comes out. it’s so dope everyone loved them!!I first bought these puffers as a two pack. They puffed quite a bit and I use them as a prop. Then I decided to get the full package of these of 20 or so, BUT these new ones - they did not puff hardly at all. Also, these were kind of "harder" than the other ones I bought which were slightly more real than these. The flame "head" on these were also more grey, covering much of the orange/red foil head. Sorry to say we didn't get hardly any puff out of these.Solution: What I did with my other ones when they finally run out of puff "smoke", is I pulled the cotton batting out carefully. I also gently pulled the flame end foil out carefully without messing up the foil. Filled it a little bit with potato starch or tapioca starch and then stuffed the cotton back and put the foil back. You'll have to experiment a little to see which end is better to fill, but after filling them, I got more "action" out of these props and they were very convincing. I've had the SAME two little puffers for over a year (the ones I previously bought) and they keep holding up with only the very rare "refill" every few months. Great long lasting gag or prop.The 20-pack however, didn't puff. Now if I get ambitious, like on a rainy day when I don't have eight thousand things to do like I normally do, I will probably sit down and unstuff and fill these little suckers with the tapioca powder, and then stuff them back again. Maybe I can get some tread life out of them. I wish I could say these were a great thing but they didn't stand up to perform at all like the twin pack I got.The seller was excellent however and had excellent delivery.Used these for a college play I had to direct for a class. We couldn't use real cigs because we performed in a building, and my actors wished not to. These were the perfect replacements. They look just like real lit up cigs! The audience couldn't tell the difference, and my actors didn't have to really smoke. The best part was with the pack of 24 I could hand my actors a couple to practice with on their own time, and it helped them to create real smoking habits for the stage! There were a few duds, but I just pulled out the cotton and poured the powder into another cigs to make it last longer. Seriously one of the biggest selling points in my play!I previously ordered these last october, 2011, and they worked so well. They blew smoke out after maybe twenty times of hard exhales. AND all 24 cigs did it. This time I bought 48, 2 of the orders, and I just got done with one pack just by going through and seeing if they worked. Honestly, I got 5 that work. The rest, just for show. This is absolutely terrible. I would return them but the fact I opened them all, can't. I might get a better outcome with the other 24, doubt it though. BUYER BEWARE.These look fantastic, and they are much sturdier than I thought they'd be, which is good for what I'm using them for. Some folks have complained that the puffs of smoke are pretty weak or they don't last long, but one thing I found is that if I shake/thump the cigarette after a puff it loosens up more of the powder inside so I can blow another cloud. If you can manage to 'thump' it while pantomiming that you're ashing it I think it should work well for most simple cases... I'm very happy with it!They look very authentic and realistic, but I found many of them didn't have much puff in them. I used them in a play and my character was supposed to be a "chimney" from chain-smoking, and I found that about half of the cigarettes only had a puff or two in them. Then, it's like I had to lay them down to "dry out" from the moisture of my breath before they would work again. When I would pick them up the next day, they had a good puff or two in them again, so they weren't empty. Others worked longer. It was weird.I only gave this product three stars because it was delivered on time and as promised. However, these made in China fake cigarettes wouldn't fool a toddler. Many of them don't work, and the ones that do emit such a small amount of "smoke" as to be almost invisible. I had to go through several packets to find one that worked. I bought them for stage, and I'm sure the audience can't see any smoke. Overall, I would not purchase this again, and I suggest the company exercise some quality control, because whoever is making their product over there in China isn't doing a good job. They're cheap, but not worth even that much.