How do you light your cigar when you travel

mmkuchi · March 2015

Just wonder that if you guys are on few-day business trip that requires plane travel, how you light your cigar after landed given lighters are not allowed on plane; and I am sure that you don't want to keep buying lighters, right? Are matches allowed when carry-on?

jd50ae · March 2015

Thought this was going to be a driving question. Don't do heavier then air travel.

avengethis · March 2015

mmkuchi:
Just wonder that if you guys are on few-day business trip that requires plane travel, how you light your cigar after landed given lighters are not allowed on plane; and I am sure that you don't want to keep buying lighters, right? Are matches allowed when carry-on?

I am actually going to have the same issue next year. I am going on a cruise for my Brother in laws wedding and need to figure out what I can bring with me.

Ken Light · March 2015

Ever see the scene in Pulp Fiction with Christopher Walken? It's like that, only it's not at all like that.

jgibv · March 2015

Patrickbrick · March 2015

I was a heavy smoker for many years and still carry a green bic on me I have never had a problem brining this on a plane.

danielzreyes · March 2015

Ken Light:
Ever see the scene in Pulp Fiction with Christopher Walken? It's like that, only it's not at all like that.

It was a Rolex right?

ddubridge · March 2015

A magnifying glass and the sun. 90% of the time...it works every time.

edelrionyc · March 2015

Just buy a bic at the airport to where ever you land. Only cost $1. Or go to a local gas station once landed and buy one of those disposable torch lighters. Cost roughly $5

curtpick · March 2015

Bic soft flame lighters are allowed. Jet flames are not. Matches are. Read the regulations. I travel all the time.

Hays · March 2015

I'm not quoting rules, but I know I've looked before and I'm almost certain that all lighters are absolutely forbidden (unless you use a sealed TSA-approved container, and only then in checked baggage). I've had BIC lighters seized at the airport at least twice. As a result, I just make a habit of carrying along a decent box of cigar matches (which are not strike-anywhere), and if necessary pick up a BIC wherever I go.

rsherman24 · March 2015

I think it depends on the agent at security. I have had to throw away soft flame lighters, and other times walked right through. I usually throw a box of cigar matches in my herfador. I wouldn't bring any lighter you care about