Hell, Kent, I solved that problem years ago...or so I thought! I don't smoke. Problem solved. No lighters.

Then I discovered that a lighter was handy in building plastic models, because you can use it to burn hardened crazy glue off the applicator. The applicater is an ordinary sewing needle with part of the eye cut off. This provides a little thingie at the end that is open-ended and it holds a teeny drop of crazy glue and voila! Part is neatly glued with no excess glue.

But then you use a lighter to burn off the congealed glue after the applicator gets plugged from repeated uses.

And that's just the beginning of the slide down the slippery slope! I live in fear of what may happen now that I am using lighters. My God, the worries I suffer!

Still, it has never occurred to me to call for a blanket ban on lighters...I would not want to put Bic out of business, after all.

Do you follow me? If you do, I have a loyalty oath you can sign and a coded ring for you, and I will send you instructions on a weekly basis as to just what your duties are. ;-D