Cigarette Shaped Stress Balls - An in Depth Look at These Popular Promotional Gifts

Smoking is no longer cool. Those who do smoke want to stop and those who do not have little tolerance for those who do. Whether you reside in the UK, US or anywhere else for that matter, chances are health services and/or medical organisation are trying to help those who do smoke to stop. Even employers are trying to get their employees to stop. One way of spreading the word is through expensive TV and radio advertisements as well as other types of printed media. In the past few years, one of the ways organisations and businesses have been getting the message out and in the open is through the use of low cost promotional gifts such as stress balls. There are lung shapes, heart shapes and the two cigarette shapes I would like to introduce to you here.

The most popular cigarette themed stress ball shape is the cigarette pack. This pack is approximately the same size as a normal cigarette pack at 60mm x 110mm x 40mm. The pack appears to have three cigarettes sticking out. This very popular pack can be printed like a normal pack with all the health warnings or something such as "Crush the Habit." Take it from an ex-smoker, when people are trying to stop smoking they need to find something to do other than smoke and these stress balls fit the bill! As with all stress balls, you can have these stress ball cigarette packs manufactured in the colours of your choice and print the with some pretty vivid full colour pictures.

The other popular cigarette shape is an 80mm x 30mm cylinder that is designed to look like a burning cigarette. Personally, I feel this shape, though it looks good, lacks the promotional strength of the other. It has less printable area and the print areas it does have are smaller. However, it is down to personal opinion so please look into both as this may just be the perfect shape for your promotion.

These cigarette shapes are easily found from promotional stress ball suppliers worldwide. They are not always a standard stock shape so you may need to search the internet a bit but you will find them eventually. Please note that as cigarettes and cigarette packs are normally white, these stress shapes are normally white as well. When white stress balls are exposed to light over time, they do tend to turn a bit yellow. You should therefore save white coloured stressballs in a dark place or even in the box in which they are shipped until you are ready to give them to your clients or customers.