How do you light yours?

the_syco

So, how do you light yours, and what do you smoke? Personally I smoke rollies, and use a zippo. Have a "backup" lighter for those days that the zippo runs out of fuel, but aside from that, always the zippo.

BeerNut

Other (please specify)

Pipe lighter for the pipe; cigar matches for the cigars.

OldGoat

Zippo petrol pipe lighter for the pipe and for lighting other peoples smokes.
Zippo 'Blu' gas for cigars.
A book of cigar matches in my pocket for flint/fuel emergencies.

reverenddave

Matches

i stopped using my zippo as
i got more addicted to the smell of the fuel then the cigarette itself

so now i just use either the mini bic lighter or whatever is handy

Rockery Woman

Matches

With a lighter.

And I use the lighter in the car a good bit too - does anyone else use that?

the_syco

Matches

Rockery Woman wrote: »

And I use the lighter in the car a good bit too - does anyone else use that?

I find the zippo (left under the handbrake leaver) to be easier to use than the lighter in the car, as if stopped at a junction, by the time the car lighter pops, the lights have changed. Zippo is instant.

miltonkrest

Lighter

i'm a cigar smoker and i have a zippo, a ronson varaflame, a colibri and a couple of table lighters all collected over many years - i use extra long matches too

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Other (please specify)

I try to always use a zippo, but sometimes I don't have one fuelled up, I'm just too damn lazy, when that happens I use whatever lighter I find lying around.

I like matches too.

OldGoat wrote: »

Zippo 'Blu'

I'd love one of these.

OldGoat

Des wrote: »

I'd love one of these.

I find it a tad under-powered. It does the job but you'll not cook a créme brulée with it however I love that I can still 'snap' a zippo to light my cigars.

CrowdedHouse

Lighter

Zippo for me

Have a Zippo Pipe lighter too

I found the Zippo Blu very unreliable, I had a sore thumb from striking it !...I left it aside on a table...I randomly pick it up every so often and most times it works......

Hande hoche!

IMCO lighter,used to have a zippo but some scumbag robbed it.

the_syco

Matches

Hande hoche! wrote: »

IMCO lighter

Had to google that one. Looks cool.

OldGoat

Slightly OT but the IMCO reminded me of the little rubber bladders of fuel you could buy for filling them. I used to pierce a tiny hole in the tip of them and then squeeze a thin stream through a lit match making a flame thrower for melting toy soldiers in horrific battle scenes - complete with the voice overs of the dying tortured screams. Fun times. :cool:

miltonkrest

Lighter

available in p & p barry newsagents, stephens green - every old lad who smoked used to have one of these years ago !

miltonkrest

Lighter

OldGoat wrote: »

Slightly OT but the IMCO reminded me of the little rubber bladders of fuel you could buy for filling them. I used to pierce a tiny hole in the tip of them and then squeeze a thin stream through a lit match making a flame thrower for melting toy soldiers in horrific battle scenes - complete with the voice overs of the dying tortured screams. Fun times. :cool:

hello therapy !

Elbow

Lighter

I'm a zippo man, Got my first for my 18th birthday and have one in my pocket since.

Keep a book of matches in my wallet for flint/fuel emergencies dough!

CrowdedHouse

Lighter

You should have your emergency flint & fuel supply....:)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Zippo-Aluminum-Fuel-Canister-Key-Ring-Refill-Anywhere-/120645962768?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c170f4c10

lord lucan

Lighter

Zippo all the way. Been using Zippo's for about 15 years now,hate having to buy disposable lighters.

Ferrise

Matches

I always use to light my cigarettes with the lighter..When ever my friend ask me for the lighter i always said him to give me back after lighting you cigarette.

gondorff

I just rub a coupla trees together.

BigBenRoeth

Matches

A normal lighter most of the time,occasionally use the fancy zippo though when i can be bothered to get fuel for it

amacachi

Cheap lighter. Sometimes I'll use some of the 10-for-€2 ones or I'll plump 1.50 for a bic that'll last 3-5 months.

Steve

Matches

Cheapest lighter I can find. I'm always losing the bloody things!

OldGoat

I found that the cure to that was to buy an expensive lighter. I'm so tight-fisted that I make sure I know where the lighter is at all times.

Steve

Matches

I've had loads of expensive ones, mostly presents over the years.

It hasn't stopped me losing them - mainly due to being drunk I might add

I do like the refillable disposables though, great idea. The electronic spark goes after a while but It's so so bad having to bin them. At least I feel I got value.

Molloys Clondalkin

Matches

Ceder wood for my Romeo number 2's
After that just a normal clipper for my Silk cuts.

Ferrise

Matches

I always use to light my cigarettes with the lighter..When ever my friend ask me for the lighter i always said him to give me back after lighting you cigarette.

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byte

Matches

BiC disposable lighters mostly. They seem the longest lasting of the disposables.

lord lucan

Lighter

OldGoat wrote: »

I found that the cure to that was to buy an expensive lighter. I'm so tight-fisted that I make sure I know where the lighter is at all times.

Or use what i use,one of these:

dr.fuzzenstein

Lighter

Ancient Zippo, had it nearly 20 years, even sent it off once to see if they really do that (lid had broken) and they do!
Fixed lid and put completely new insides into it.
Then flew over to Germany and those German swine would not let me fly with my Zippo!
No one in Shannon complained!
I was told I could open it, dump all the petrol on the floor, light it and Boom! fireball in the sky and airplane raining down in a million flaming pieces.
Told him he should lay off the glue, but no good.
So went back out into airport, bought envelope and stamp and posted Zippo to myself.
Got it back a few days later, no problem.
Since then have replaced innards once or twice more, but still going strong.
So, advise for the weary traveller: Don't take your Zippo.

CrowdedHouse

Lighter

LOL the ironic thing is that European Zippos are repaired in Germany now.

(Not knowing this I sent mine, a 20 year+ old one too, to the US to be repaired.Rather than just repairing it and sending it back,they actually sent it on to Germany.It was then sent from there via the wasters called GLS and only for the honesty of one of the neighbours a who found it on the side their doorstep, in the rain,I never would have seen it again)

the_syco

Matches

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

via the wasters called GLS

Christ. I do hope these f**kers die quickly.

reverenddave

Matches

reverenddave wrote: »

i stopped using my zippo as
i got more addicted to the smell of the fuel then the cigarette itself

so now i just use either the mini bic lighter or whatever is handy

GODDAMN IT i got a zippo for krissssmisssss

and a really nice one too oh what to do

dr.fuzzenstein

Lighter

reverenddave wrote: »

GODDAMN IT i got a zippo for krissssmisssss

and a really nice one too oh what to do

Well you usually tip in some lighter fluid, flip the lid and spin the wheel...
After a while you'll stop sniffing it, don't worry:D

the_syco

Matches

Ensure you only use Zippo fluid, and not the cheap crap. Your zippo will work more times than when using the cheap crap.

minty16

Other (please specify)

What price would one be looking at for a zippo blu ?

reverenddave

Matches

minty16 wrote: »

What price would one be looking at for a zippo blu ?

€40-€60 depending on the finish and metal and stuff like that

OldGoat

minty16 wrote: »

What price would one be looking at for a zippo blu ?

Mine was €65 a few months ago but that was in Petersons so you'll find them cheaper elsewhere or online.

Dr. Jonathan Crane

Matches

Can never be arsed filling up one of my three zippos so for the most part a cheapo lighter does me fine.

Matches when I feel like being classy:cool:
Just not very realistic for using all the time in Ireland..

lord lucan

Lighter

Just a heads up for anyone travelling though the airport. The Search Unit were told to confiscate Zippos that are being used,ie. have fuel in them,at Dublin airport. I bring mine into work at the airport and was told this last week when they seen mine in the x-ray.

leddpipe

Matches

Clipper lighters ftw!

silverhare

Matches

I had to look up IMCO lighters too.

Ironically, my pipe lighter is identical to their CHIC4PIPE model.

Butane & Flint, perfect.

I have been admiring this one though..
http://www.meerschaum-pfeifen.com/shop/pipe-lighter-jean-claude-d10jc01-p-1871.html

Next on the shopping list methinks, along with a nice meerschaum calabash a la Sherlock Holmes.

dr.fuzzenstein

Lighter

The only way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdKmn2Mv5E

diddlybit

Light them with whatevers available!

Most succesfully when I have a lighter or matches lying around.

Least successfully, when using my mother's toaster. Broken two that way:o

dr.fuzzenstein

Lighter

diddlybit wrote: »

Light them with whatevers available!

Most succesfully when I have a lighter or matches lying around.

Least successfully, when using my mother's toaster. Broken two that way:o

Have used this too:

chicken fingers

Lighter

I dont rate zippos much at all tbh.
The fuel just evaporates too quickly.
4 days or so and it can be dead because of the heat.
Real zippo and real fuel BTW.

When I am outdoors I use a little blotorch lighter that I got off some guys in the australian army.
Inside I just use some heavy matches or disposable lighters. I buy throwaway lighters by the 10 pack. Id love to have one perfect lighter but something slim enough yet reliable enough has yet to present itself!

kaa

Matches

Rockery Woman wrote: »

With a lighter.

And I use the lighter in the car a good bit too - does anyone else use that?

yes i do if i cant my lighter...but my car lighter is kinda broken so u have to hold it in and guess when its ready

kaa

Matches

lighter.....sometimes the car lighter.

smoke B & H

the_syco

Matches

kaa wrote: »

yes i do if i cant my lighter...but my car lighter is kinda broken so u have to hold it in and guess when its ready

Fuse went on mine, so have to get it fixed one of the days. If I have one prerolled, waiting under the handbrake, and I see the lights in the distance go yellow I would sometimes push the lighter, so when I stop, it clicks out, I light up the rollie, and off I go. Don't light up the rollie when moving.

Kersmash

Matches

I've had to use toasters to spark up before

admiralofthefleet

lighter but i would use anything at hand to light a smoke if i didnt have a lighter