Two cigarette lighters with clear plastic fuel reservoirs are new to the market. Each sells for about $5. At left is the Ritepoint Liter, made by the Ritepoint Co., St. Louis, Mo. It is available in four different colors. The fuel supply is transferred to the wick as needed by a finger-touch valve.
The one at the right is manufactured by the Video Lighter Corp., Chicago. It's said to give 4,000 lights with one fueling. The gift box in which it comes serves as a cigarette container.
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Uggggggggh!!
I would hope that Popular Science would have better things to do than help the tobacco industry to make filling your lungs with carcinogenic soot dozens of times a day just a little easier. The next time I have to suffer through the crass insensitivity of smokers subjecting those around them with their cancer sticks, I'll be thinking of you.
Next, will you show us how to make Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, and untraceable date-rape concoctions?
I hope at some time you develop a corporate ethic.
Nothing new about see through lighters. They have had butane lighters with that feature for at least 35 years. That is when I quit smoking.
I am assuming that the writer of this article is not a smoker or he would have been aware of see through lighters having been around already.
My mother died of lung cancer caused by years of smoking and second hand smoke on top of her own. Not a good way to go. Slow painful death.
I still love this magazine. Keep up the good work and filter out the mundane.
Nothing new about see through lighters. They have had butane lighters with that feature for at least 35 years. That is when I quit smoking.
I am assuming that the writer of this article is not a smoker or he would have been aware of see through lighters having been around already.
My mother died of lung cancer caused by years of smoking and second hand smoke on top of her own. Not a good way to go. Slow painful death.
I still love this magazine. Keep up the good work and filter out the mundane.
Nothing new about see through lighters. They have had butane lighters with that feature for at least 35 years. That is when I quit smoking.
I am assuming that the writer of this article is not a smoker or he would have been aware of see through lighters having been around already.
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