[Garnet Dawn]

Right, but how are you supposed to light up at the end of a flight, when you finally get outside the terminal for a cigarette, if you aren't supposed to have any way of lighting the cigarette and airports are supposed to ban the sale of lighters too?

I read in another news story that lighters and matches are to be banned from checked luggage too. That may have been an exaggeration by the writer, but we can't lock our luggage any more....so, whose to say?

Will the airports have plain clothes informants watching for travelers to pull a hidden book of matches from their clothing? Is our country determined to turn everyone into criminals with their asinine laws?

Stuck with matches every time anyone goes on vacation? Most of us have favorite lighters, and I'd really miss mine if forced to use disposables and matches for a couple of weeks.

[mr.maine-iac]

yaayyyy! More government! More laws!

[supercat]

I read in another news story that lighters and matches are to be banned from checked luggage too. That may have been an exaggeration by the writer, but we can't lock our luggage any more....so, whose to say?

Lighters have been banned from checked luggage since well before 9/11 since they are much more likely to cause problems in an unattended depressurized baggage hold than in a passenger aircraft where, if they did cause a problem, people would be able to deal with it quickly and easily.