On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:02:06 GMT, Martin Hotze
wrote in ::

Airports to ban cigarette lighters beyond checkpoints

This TSA policy of banning 'scary' items that have any potential at
all for use by terrorists is futile and if carried to its extreme,
will result in only nude passengers drugged into unconsciousness being
permitted airline travel. If it is TSA's intent to deny passengers
the ability to start a fire while occupying an airliner cabin, they're
going to have to include a lot more than butane lighters: burning
lens, the bow drill, flint & steel, potassium permanganate and
glycerin, piezo crystals, batteries, even the electrical wiring to the
overhead reading light. In the end, airline travel itself will have
to be banned to satisfy the Neanderthal TSA mentality.

Welcome to the 21st century. :-(