I read somewhere that the cigarette lighter was invented before that match. By “cigarette lighter” does one mean a handheld contraption that feeds lighter fluid into a spark to create a flame to light a cigarette, or does it mean simply two flint stones rubbed together near any object to be lit? Can anyone confirm the claim?
I don’t know who first said “everyone’s a critic,” but I think it’s a really stupid saying.
I would venture to say a “cigarette lighter” is a device or set of instruments and intructions designed to light a cigarette, but what do I know? Suppose you tell us where you read this “claim,” and maybe we can pin that definition down.
I read it in an e-mail forward. Yeah, yeah, I know that’s not the most reliable source, but it was preceded and followed by other facts that I have learned to be true.
I don’t know who first said “everyone’s a critic,” but I think it’s a really stupid saying.
I read about that too, a long time ago.
It was a contraption that used flint and liquid fuel. Pretty much like the ones used today.
Sorry, Can’t cite. And too lazy to look for it. 
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I doubt that it was called a “cigarette lighter.” Cigarettes are fairly recent. And their popularity over cigars didn’t really get a boost until WWI.
The friction match was invented (from memory) around 1830ish.
If you consider flint-and-steel to be a “lighter”, then I suppose it predates the match.
Match: 1549
Lighter: 1553
Match came first. Don’t trust email signatures
handy,
From where did you get those years?
Who were the inventors/popularizers?
What material was used for friction to light the match?
Was the lighter a single, relatively small contraption, or was it a kit containing two rocks and some lighter fluid?
Details, man, details.
I don’t know who first said “everyone’s a critic,” but I think it’s a really stupid saying.
Just looked it up in Websters Pete.
Were they cracking petroleum products back in 1553, or did they have to render a whale before they could fire up?
Some people were using unrefined crude for fuel here long before the invaders got to this continent.
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mangeorge