End Times Cigarette Butt Necklaces

A+R Exclusive! The dirty, stinky cigarette butt beautifully cast in solid silver. A reminder of a forsaken habit? Casting a critical eye on the culture’s obsession with self-medication and addiction, while admiring the inherent design of these substances, Cast of Vices creative director Christopher Glancy and artisan jeweler Jay LeCompte (a.k.a. Jay the Jeweler) fashioned effigies of the detritus that wreaks pleasure and pain in our modern world. “When our Rome falls, these will be our remains,” say the Los Angeles-based duo, “cigarette butts, pills, bottle caps. ach design is carefully cast from wax for maximum detail; silver pieces are hand finished individually and packed in a plastic pill bottle that is hand branded with the Cast of Vices logo.