Don't be stuffed out by the smoke of a burnt out candle...stuff it with a snuffer. 
Snuffers were first invented to cut off and retain the burned wicks of candles when the wax around them had melted; they were not necessarily used to extinguish the candle's flame. 
The point at the end was for retrieving the tip of the wick if it fell into molten wax. 
Snuffers are first recorded in the 15th century.
Now trendy candleisseurs use them to snuff out the flame, extinguishing their candle.