How to Make a Cigarette Disappear

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Sit with your right side facing away from your audience.

   For the illusion to be effective, your audience should not be able to see the right side of your head.
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   Step 2: Hold a cigarette in your right hand

   Note that the index finger is also known as the "forefinger" or "pointer finger."
   
   The left hand doesn't actually do anything in the trick.
   
   It's just a decoy to get your audience to concentrate on what's happening in front of you. ,,,, Count aloud and dramatically. ,,,, Note the outstretched left hand, to which your audience's attention will (hopefully) be drawn.]]Quickly slip the cigarette behind your right ear.
   
   This is the only difficult part of the trick, but it's easily mastered with practice. ,,
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   Step 3: between your thumb and index finger.

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   Step 4: Hold your left hand out in front of you

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   Step 5: with the palm facing up.

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   Step 6: Hold your right hand

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   Step 7: with the cigarette in it

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   Step 8: just above your outstretched left hand.

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   Step 9: Raise your right hand to ear level on the right side of your head.

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    Step 10: Bring your right hand down to your left hand in a hatchet motion.

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    Step 11: Count "1" as you bring your hand down.

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    Step 12: Raise your right hand to ear level again.

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    Step 13: Count "2" as you bring it down again.

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    Step 14: Raise your right hand to ear level a final time.

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    Step 15: The cigarette being slipped behind the ear.

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    Step 16: Count "3" as you bring your (now empty) right hand down again.

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    Step 17: Open your hand to show that the cigarette has indeed disappeared.

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