"every car has an ashtray."
Oh really?
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NEW YORK -- Sitting in the showroom at Martin's Manhattan Honda, Declan Walsh flipped through a glossy brochure for the Odyssey minivan, noting that it seemed to have everything his family could need. Well, almost everything.
"It doesn't come with a lighter?," Walsh asked a salesman.
"My wife's a smoker and that would be a problem," he explained. "You have some place (in the van) to store matches?"
Actually, the best place to keep matches in the Odyssey is probably the cupholder in the center console, a place once reserved for an ashtray in many cars. But Honda and other manufacturers are designing ashtrays and lighters out of many new models, both to please consumers and cut costs.
The move to smokeless cars started at Chrysler, whose 1995 Cirrus and Dodge Stratus sedans were the first to be sold without ashtrays as standard equipment. Other car makers, though, have seized on the idea and even in cars still equipped for smoking, ashtrays are smaller than ever.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20001127/ai_n10141685/
Article's from 2000. Do you really think the trend has reversed since then?