If you are going to relax why get up to pass the cigarettes So the Professor designed a miniature tank. All you do is aim the gun, press the button and away goes the cigarette.A cigarette Press a remote-control button and one shoots from the model tank's gun to the eager, if somewhat puzzled, guest. The low household has a growing pile of such gadgets. August 27, 1952. (Photo by Ronald Hutchinson).