# cigarette lighters

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-lighters/40940>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 13, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-lighters/40940 "2000-11-13T01:50:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![kid\_charlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@kid\_charlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kid_charlemagne)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-lighters/40940/21 "2000-11-13T22:51:34Z")

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1. Not cigs
2. Yes
3. burning bowls, joints, candles, incense
4. its light blue with clouds painted on it with white out.

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**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-lighters/40940/22 "2000-11-14T05:26:14Z")

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1. Cigars (blunts and minis)
2. Yes.
3. I light my stogies with it. But also, once upon a time a beautiful girl asked me for a light at a concert, and alas I had no lighter. Now I don’t leave home without one.
4. I currently carry an orange Bic with an ampersand (&) on one side. My friends call it the “and” lighter.

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**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-lighters/40940/23 "2000-11-14T06:58:38Z")

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yes and yes.

It’s for lighting cigaretttes and warming keys when the door locks are frozen.

I have two chrome Zippos, one that I found and another I bought at a flea market.

I used to own a Thoeren automatic (circa 1930), it was the ultimate lighter with an art deco motif and a spring drive. I just did some looking around and this lighter I bought for $35.00 Cdn at an antique sale is worth well over $250.00 U.S. (It was stolen by a house guest).

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**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-lighters/40940/24 "2000-11-14T15:02:25Z")

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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Cigarettes
4. Hot pink Bic. I hate pink.

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