the Sugar Conspiracy

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Lighters banned from airplanes

Airline passengers will have to ditch their lighters or lose them to airport security screeners when a new ban on lighters takes effect in April.

The ban reflects Congress' fear that lighters could be used to ignite bombs on planes or otherwise damage or destroy them. The Transportation Security Administration until now had banned all types of lighters, except for butane, which were limited to two per passenger.

It took them long enough. Guess those cigarett companies put up a big fight cause you can still bring books of matches on board.

(via August.)

posted by chris at 2:07 PM
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