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Lighting a Fine Cigar With a Cheap Bic Lighter - Problem With That?
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
#1 Posted:
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Whats up nigs

Great to be back . I light my Don Felos and CAO Brazilias all the time with a cheap Bic lighter and I dont notice any ill effects. No off flavors or anything.

I have also used matches and an actual cigar lighter and it tastes the same.

I think its all just Cigar Afficionado reading douchebag types who push this nonsense that you need a fancy Xikar lighter or whatever **** they are selling just to light your **** cigar
Mandoman Offline
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. . . and if you smoke White Owls, you don't need a cutter!
Salmoneye Offline
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I use a MAPP gas torch...

Much faster...

tonygraz Offline
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He don't need no cutter as long as he still has teeth.
bgz Offline
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But you're lighting yard gars with a bic, so that's ok.

Fine cigars, you should probably use a torch... because torches are better.
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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bgz wrote:
But you're lighting yard gars with a bic, so that's ok.

Fine cigars, you should probably use a torch... because torches are better.


Its only better because Elitist douches convinced you that you need a 90$ Davidoff lighter
bgz Offline
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lol, there's cheap torches dude... I don't think I've ever spent more than 20 bucks on a torch.

Torches are better for lighting and for touching up burn lines.

I use bics when playing golf cause if you lose them, no big deal... but when I'm chillin, torch is the way to go.

Just so you know, a $10 to $15 torch and a $5 can of butane will outlast 40 bics... do the math.

HuckFinn Offline
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Joined: 07-10-2017
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I'm a big fan of those made in france DJEEP disposables.
Good flame, no taste and cheap (less than $2). Lose em , who cares.
RMAN4443 Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
Its only better because Elitist douches convinced you that you need a 90$ Davidoff lighter

I like my old Zippo with the liquid Naptha fuel....adds great flavor to my smokes, and talk about cheap, I've had the lighter 20 some odd years and the fluid lasts forever....Anxious
victor809 Offline
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Someone here a decade ago pointed out that when they toured a cigar factory in Cuba the people working there just used bics...

Bic fuel is odorless. The butane in the torch lighters is odorless... I actually believe both use butane.

As long as you don't use a Zippo...
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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victor809 wrote:
Someone here a decade ago pointed out that when they toured a cigar factory in Cuba the people working there just used bics...

Bic fuel is odorless. The butane in the torch lighters is odorless... I actually believe both use butane.

As long as you don't use a Zippo...



Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause

I knew I was right
bgz Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
=d> =d> =d> =d> =d> =d> =d> =d>

I knew I was right


That your means are on par with a Cuban factory worker?
delta1 Offline
#13 Posted:
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When I fly in somewhere, and don't want a torch lighter confiscated at the security check-point, I'll buy a BIC upon arrival...hard to find the cheap plastic torches.... the BIC does not toast the foot well but it does the job lighting the cigar and will last for a two week trip...


Torches are superior to BICs if there is any wind, to do touch-ups on crooked burns, and to light the cigar quickly.
robo60 Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause

I knew I was right

That you smoke yard gars?
cacman Offline
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BIC! All day, and every day!

Went through a half-dozen high-end lighters, a Ronson torch Z sent, and watched others go through the "high altitude" lighters. All failed after a few days or weeks.

As Viski said:
As long as you don't use a Zippo...
bgz Offline
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From what I hear, a lot of things malfunction at high altitudes.
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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cacman wrote:
BIC! All day, and every day!

Went through a half-dozen high-end lighters, a Ronson torch Z sent, and watched others go through the "high altitude" lighters. All failed after a few days or weeks.

As Viski said:
As long as you don't use a Zippo...



I heard that brother
Mandoman Offline
#18 Posted:
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Knew a girl once, lit cigars by air friction, she'd suck start it.
bgz Offline
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Sounds like a fine young lady!
lights are my game Offline
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could just do what Slick Willy did and use a Monica
Pudding Mittens Offline
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Everyone knows the Bics are the King Of All Lighters, so it's fitting to use them to light the CAO Brazilia, the King Of All Cigars. It makes sense!
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RMAN4443 Offline
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Pudding Mittens wrote:
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Everyone knows the Bics are the King Of All Lighters, so it's fitting to use them to light the CAO Brazilia, the King Of All Cigars. It makes sense!
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pair it up with a Budweiser....The King of Beers Beer
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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Pudding Mittens wrote:
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Everyone knows the Bics are the King Of All Lighters, so it's fitting to use them to light the CAO Brazilia, the King Of All Cigars. It makes sense!
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Couldn't agree more
drywalldog Offline
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Hop on a moving boat or a motorcycle and try that. Get back to me on that.
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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drywalldog wrote:
Hop on a moving boat or a motorcycle and try that. Get back to me on that.



I think I'll light my cigar BEFORE doing that **** and I'll be just fine
engletl Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
Its only better because Elitist douches convinced you that you need a 90$ Davidoff lighter


If you ever go to an event at a shpo you can get elitist lighters for free

But then again a $3 JetLine torch lighter works rather well too.
maynord777 Offline
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I learn that wood matches or a good butane filled lighter, has a better flavor for the cigar
tonygraz Offline
#28 Posted:
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Maynerd is learning GNF.

Like candy vs liquor, torches are quicker.
Pudding Mittens Offline
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Xikar, the eternally-renewing lighter. Anytime it has any problem of any kind, take it to a dealer smoke shop, and they hand you a new one. No sales slip, no other proof of purchase, no paper of any kind, no ID, no names, no nothing. Instant swap. As often as needed. Until you die.

And then, whoever inherits your cigar stuff can do the same thing repeatedly and forever, until they die. And then the next inheritor can do it, and so on, until Xikar goes out of business or until the sun turns into a red giant and devours the Earth a few billion years from now, whichever comes first.

Sure they're not $3, but they're "Eterna-Lighters". Buy Xikar, buy once. Buy cheap, buy over and over and over.
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Buckwheat Offline
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There is no other acceptable way to light a cigar than with flint and steel. All other methods will contaminate the flavors.
Here is a demonstration of the technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg65rB-z66Q

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