I think you mean the united ANTI smokers association.
If a smoker can't carry a lighter, he/she can't have a smoke after getting off the plane. and so it then benefits the gift shops because all smokers will have to buy a new lighter once they get off the plane in order to have that smoke..............of course they still have to go outsie into the fresh air (fresh air??/at an airport????? ROFL)
What a bunch of touchy-feely-feel goodness NONSENSE.
Madness!!!!!!
The only way to get anything resembling security on planes is to profile,the way that Israel does.
This crap drives me nuts!