Pipe Cleaner Cigarettes

For my final, I've decided on making a bed of cigarettes. I've been really stumped on deciding what to do for my final and have spent a lot of time brainstorming. Since I've decided to mimic the look of cigarettes, rather than use actual cigarettes, I've been trying to think of creative ways to mimic the look that might be surprising. 

In a fluke in a Google search for a picture of tube packing, I typed pipe cleaner. And Suddenly now I have an idea of what I want to use as my material: arts and crafts pipe cleaners. 
I also found that there are artists out there making some cool things from pipe cleaners...
Before they were adapted for children, pipe cleaners were actually used to clean tobacco from smoking pipes. The bristles would be typically stiffer and would absorb and scrub the tobacco and typically be thrown out after use. Craft pipe cleans are not very useful for cleaning purposes, because they are made out of polyester, which don't absorb liquids. However, I thought that the use of pipe cleaners which are used to clean and wipe away but can't because they don't have the make to do what they were originally intended for; I thought this would be an interesting twist to my cigarette bed and be interesting to make the cigarettes out from. 

but I also found that there is a history of pipe cleaners that go farther than being a child's creative outlet. 

I would really like to make the cigarette bed form original pipe cleaners, but I'm going to play with craft pipe cleaners. But I do like the look of tube packaging. So I want to play around with both and definitely play the idea of bumping the scale of the cigarette size.