The length of the holder cooled and mellowed the inhaled smoke, helped keep tobacco flakes out of the smoker's mouth, and reduced staining of the teeth[citation needed].

[2] Well-known women who used cigarette holders include Audrey Hepburn,[3] Lucille Ball,[4] Jayne Mansfield,[5] Jacqueline Kennedy,[6] Rita Hayworth,[7] Princess Margaret,[8] Wendy Richard,[9] Madalena Barbosa, Natalie Wood, Louise Brooks, and Ayn Rand[citation needed].

Among the best-known men who used cigarette holders were Franklin D. Roosevelt,[11] Ivor Novello,[12] Enrico Caruso,[13] Vladimir Horowitz,[14] Ian Fleming,[15] Noël Coward,[16] Hunter S. Thompson (though he regarded his as only a filter, using the TarGard filter[17]),[18] Tennessee Williams,[19] Peter O’Toole,[20] Fulgencio Batista, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josip Broz Tito,[21] and Hans von Bülow.

Holly Golightly, the naïve and eccentric café society girl portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany's, is famously seen carrying an oversized cigarette holder; the image of Hepburn wearing the famous Givenchy little black dress and with the foot-long cigarette holder in her hand, is considered one of the most iconic images of 20th-century American cinema.

Comedian Phyllis Diller had a stage persona which included holding a long cigarette holder from which she pretended to smoke (though she was a non-smoker in real life).

[25][26] Johnny Depp uses a cigarette holder in his role as Raoul Duke (alter ego of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson) in the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.