Kind of interesting article, but it misses the most obvious answer: pot.

Cigarettes (and tobacco) have never been less popular in America, and the article (barely) acknowledged that. It completely failed to mention that, at the same time, marijuana has never been more popular.

Any intelligent person might have surmised from those two simple facts that an explosion of popularity in ash trays and other accessories might have something to do with the second fact ... but the author never even realized it was a fact at all.

lol @ buying an ashtray just use an old can from canned food its made of metal, and can be bent or drilled as needed