Boy, am I dumb. I'm going past this image now for about the sixth or seventh time at a minimum when I just finally noticed the writing on the discarded packs, "Hope, lights". Now the title makes sense. Ok, I'll raise it from a 3 to a 5. My problem with this whole challenge has been finding that elusive, positive feeling of "Hope" in the images. At least, I've been interpreting "Hope" as being on the positive side of the scale. I know you can have negative hope, and cigarettes connotate a negative for me. Pretty nice focus and color though. And a cute idea.
Cute concept. I won't be surprized if you win something! Nicely done, which is hard for me to say as the sight of a filled ashtray makes me ill. But, you did a good job here.