# Can you light a cigar with a light saber? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185 "2021-03-04T17:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/1 "2021-03-04T17:28:57Z")
I’m guessing no; the saber will obliterate the cigar before it can catch on fire but maybe if you got it really close without quite touching it? Somebody needs to try this on the next Mandalorian. Maybe it’s how they explain the disappearance of Cara Dune. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/2 "2021-03-04T17:37:13Z")
Technically yes (but I’d hold out for Mark Hamill if I were you). > **[Amazon.com: Kivors Electric Candle Lighter - Triple Arc Plasma Beam Lighter -...](https://www.amazon.com/Kivors-Cigar-Lighter-Rechargeable-Electronic/dp/B074X94C8H)** > > Buy Kivors Electric Candle Lighter - Triple Arc Plasma Beam Lighter - Rechargeable Windproof Flameless Electronic Plasma Torch Lighter XL Lighters: Lighters - Amazon.com ✓ FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/3 "2021-03-04T18:40:49Z")
No, you need a Jewish space laser. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/4 "2021-03-04T18:42:26Z")
This is better. I bought one recently (which was the genesis of this thread): [https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08J44PMH5](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08J44PMH5) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/5 "2021-03-04T19:09:34Z")
You’re right… but it’s butane. The idea was to have a Plasma lighter to light the cigar. ( … and if there are better plasma cigar lighters, no matter how old this thread gets, I’d like to know about them. ) ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/6 "2021-03-04T19:17:29Z")
[![](https://c4.wallpaperflare.com/wallpaper/215/154/555/smoking-star-wars-lightsabers-darth-vader-cigarettes-black-background-1920x1200-video-games-star-wars-hd-art-wallpaper-preview.jpg) ](https://c4.wallpaperflare.com/wallpaper/215/154/555/smoking-star-wars-lightsabers-darth-vader-cigarettes-black-background-1920x1200-video-games-star-wars-hd-art-wallpaper-preview.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/7 "2021-03-04T19:22:39Z")
“Luke…I am your Marx Brother.” ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/8 "2021-03-04T19:23:48Z")
TIL- light sabers can be recharged by plugging its USB cord into a PC slot… . PS- That’s a cigarette. Cigarette smokers can eff off and die. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/9 "2021-03-04T21:45:55Z")
No, that’s a deathstick. Cigarettes weren’t yet invented in a Galaxy Long, Long Ago and Far Away. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/10 "2021-03-04T21:55:52Z")
Never mind a light saber. Use a sandman’s [Weapon](https://props.steinschneider.com/images/log_sand_cp_02.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/11 "2021-03-04T21:59:30Z")
Don’t have an answer for the OP, but I do recall a gag video I saw online several years ago where Will Riker said phasers are good for reheating leftovers ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/12 "2021-03-04T22:09:26Z")
No. You have to use the light sabre to start something else on fire, then you light the cigar off that. So much of the simple knowledge is being lost. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/13 "2021-03-04T22:22:11Z")
A Jewish Jedi is a contradiction in terminus! Orthodoxy please! ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/14 "2021-03-04T22:33:05Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Never mind a light saber. Use a sandman’s [Weapon](https://props.steinschneider.com/images/log_sand_cp_02.jpg). ( Does Jenny Agutter come with that too? My 13 year-old self wants to know. ) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/15 "2021-03-05T01:49:06Z")
I think a light saber would be more likely to cauterize the cigar. That’s what seems to happen to people when you cut off their limbs with light sabers. No blood spurting out, because the light saber neatly seals off all the blood vessels, even major ones. Even when Darth Maul was hemicorporectomied, his insides didn’t fall out. So you’d end up with two pieces of cigar, with the tobacco leaf neatly sealed within. A light saber isn’t a cigar lighter; it’s a cigar _cutter._ ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/16 "2021-03-05T03:27:14Z")
The whole point of lighting a cigar is to smoke it, n’est-ce pas? I think a light saber accomplishes that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/17 "2021-03-05T21:51:35Z")
A certain popular author disagrees with you on that. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/18 "2021-03-05T23:37:15Z")
Hmmm… no. I don’t get it. Would you care to fight my ignorance? ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/19 "2021-03-06T02:41:02Z")
I THINK Chronos refers to The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. Out of an abundance of caution, I’m making it a 2-part spoiler. One of the characters, Waldo Butters, is Jewish and he carries a lightsaber. Yes, there is a _BIT_ of a backstory to that. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185/20 "2021-03-06T03:25:41Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > You have to use the light sabre to start something else on fire, then you light the cigar off that. If you can use a lightsaber to light something else on fire, why couldn’t you use it to light the cigar directly? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-light-a-cigar-with-a-light-saber/937185.md?page=2)