Is smoking with a butane lighter bad?

[TheNemesis]

Is smoking with a butane lighter bad for you, compared to say a normal ligther?

 

[Cyberian]

Ummmm - what, exactly, are you smoking?

 

[notfred]

I bet the cigarette is worse for you than the butane.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Cyberian
Ummmm - what, exactly, are you smoking?

Inquiring minds want to know

 

[Thegonagle]

What's a "normal" lighter, if not butane?

You mean a Zippo-type lighter? Those fumes stink, that must be worse than a butane lighter.

Of course, I don't think the lighter is really the big factor in lung cancer and emphysema.

 

[Jzero]

I prefer to use the lighter for lighting what I'm going to smoke. Smoking the lighter is BAD.

But if you define a "butane" lighter as not a "normal" lighter, then I guess you consider a "normal" lighter to be a fluid lighter like a Zippo? I don't think one is really that much better than the other, but I can taste the naptha in the zippo when I first light up, but I can't taste anything with my Colibri butane lighter, so I tend to stick to butane unless I need the windproofness of a Zippo.

 

[Occifer]

Blazing up with a zippo type lighter will make you feel kinda goofy, stick to the bic.

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: HighTechRedneck
Blazing up with a zippo type lighter will make you feel kinda goofy, stick to the bic.

We know what he's smoking. :Q

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Garfang

Originally posted by: HighTechRedneck
Blazing up with a zippo type lighter will make you feel kinda goofy, stick to the bic.

We know what he's smoking. :Q

:Q

 

[TheNemesis]

Originally posted by: HighTechRedneck
Blazing up with a zippo type lighter will make you feel kinda goofy, stick to the bic.

Whenever I do it, it's just a little hard to light because the flame is small when upsidedown. So a butane torch thing would be no worse than a bic lighter?

 

[Thegonagle]

Disposable lighters are butane lighters, just without the fancy combustion of a torch style lighter. That's why we were confused.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: TheNemesis

Originally posted by: HighTechRedneck
Blazing up with a zippo type lighter will make you feel kinda goofy, stick to the bic.

Whenever I do it, it's just a little hard to light because the flame is small when upsidedown. So a butane torch thing would be no worse than a bic lighter?

Those butane torches get too hot. You scorch the tobacco and worse yet, you scorch the rim of your pipe. Just get a real pipe lighter where the flame comes out sideways, or you can get a pipe attachment for your Zippo.
But it terms of health, I don't think a butane torch will kill you...it's just akin to using a sledgehammer to swat at flies.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: TheNemesis

Originally posted by: HighTechRedneck
Blazing up with a zippo type lighter will make you feel kinda goofy, stick to the bic.

Whenever I do it, it's just a little hard to light because the flame is small when upsidedown. So a butane torch thing would be no worse than a bic lighter?

:Q
I sure hope you arn't smoking anything good; butane torch lighters scorch your "tobacco and/or legal herbs" like nothing other.
Better to get an adjustable flame disposable lighter. I like Scriptos'.

 

[TheNemesis]

Yeah, Sorry about that...I didn't realize that. So using a butane torch would be no different than a bic?

 

[Occifer]

Yeah, just lightly touch it with the flame. You don't want to burn up all your tobacco at once...

 

[Ameesh]

are you smoking the lighter?

 

[TheNemesis]

Originally posted by: HighTechRedneck
Yeah, just lightly touch it with the flame. You don't want to burn up all your tobacco at once...

Yeah all the "tobacco" must go into my lungs

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: TheNemesis
Is smoking with a butane lighter bad for you, compared to say a normal ligther?

yes! they give you cancer!

 

[MrCodeDude]

Smokers are Jokers
-- mrcodedude

 

[Occifer]

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Originally posted by: TheNemesis
Is smoking with a butane lighter bad for you, compared to say a normal ligther?
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yes! they give you cancer!
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So all this time it was the lighters and not the cigarettes :Q

j/k matches work O.K. too, if it's not windy or you are inside.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I've always noticed a difference when using my zippo as opposed to my butane lighters when I smoke the occasional cigar for Christmas, new years, July 4th, etc. I prefer a regular lighter.

nik

 

[Occifer]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
I've always noticed a difference when using my zippo as opposed to my butane lighters when I smoke the occasional cigar for Christmas, new years, July 4th, etc. I prefer a regular lighter.

nik

The torch that he was talking about earlier works pretty good for cigars. It dosen't take as much work to get 'em going.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: HighTechRedneck

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
I've always noticed a difference when using my zippo as opposed to my butane lighters when I smoke the occasional cigar for Christmas, new years, July 4th, etc. I prefer a regular lighter.

nik

The torch that he was talking about earlier works pretty good for cigars. It dosen't take as much work to get 'em going.

Taste. I'm talking about the taste.

nik

 

[Nefrodite]

i remember chow yung fat sucking in the flame of one or something in some movie

 

[xirtam]

I always use a full-fledged blow torch.

Keeps me from lighting up too often.