Abstract: A safety ashtray has a frustoconical configuration formed by a sloping cover over a hollow ash and butt receiving interior region. The cover has a central access opening to the interior region and is provided with a plurality of cigarette rest areas spaced from one another around the cover. Each rest area includes an upper and a lower cigarette catch with each of the catches extending upwardly from the cover, the sloping of which locates the upper catch more centrally of the ashtray than the lower catch. When a cigarette is positioned on the catches, it is prevented from rolling and it is also elevated from the cover by the catches which hold the cigarette in an upwardly inwardly angled position on the ashtray.