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* In Discworld/GoingPostal, Adora Bell Dearheart lights a cigarette on a burning letter that flutters past when the post office catches fire.

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* In Discworld/GoingPostal, ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Adora Bell Dearheart lights a cigarette on a burning letter that flutters past when the post office catches fire.
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* In Discworld/GoingPostal, Adora Bell Dearheart lights a cigarette on a burning letter that flutters past when the post office catches fire.
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** Lighting cigarettes on stove burners is also a common practice in RealLife.
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* ''CowboyBebop'': Spike uses a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]] to light his cigarette, but burns off most of it.

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* ''CowboyBebop'': After a running fight with an alien... something.., during which he armed himself to the teeth, Spike uses a the [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]] he'd grabbed to try and light his cigarette, but post-battle cigarette. The look on his abruptly-blackened face when he burns it off most of it.almost to his lips is tragicomically priceless.

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* In ''KingOfTheHill'', Dale lit a cigarette on the Olympic torch

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* In ''KingOfTheHill'', Dale lit a cigarette on the Olympic torch
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* In King of the Hill Dale lit a cigarette on the Olympic torch

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* In King of the Hill ''KingOfTheHill'', Dale lit a cigarette on the Olympic torch
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* In King of the Hill Dale lit a cigarette on the Olympic torch
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* In an early ''FamilyGuy'' episode, Peter and Lois end up temporarily trapped in Cuba. Peter takes to it quickly by getting a Cuban Havanna, but failing to find a lighter he lights it off a burning American flag that a helpful local was carrying past.

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* ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Havoc asks Mustang to use his [[PlayingWithFire fire alchemy]] to light his cigarette.
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* In ''{{Trigun}}'', at a shooting competition, one contestant can be seen lighting his cigarette with a submachine gun.
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* ''TheSimpsons'' [[TheSimpsonsDidIt did it]] in an episode with multiple rockstars making guest appearances. For a benefit concert, they have a motorized Devil-head on wheels, complete with pyrotechnics, which Keith Richards lights his cigarette on.
* Popeye used a hot plate to light his pipe once.

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* ''TheSimpsons'' [[TheSimpsonsDidIt did it]] it in an episode with multiple rockstars making guest appearances. For a benefit concert, they have a motorized Devil-head on wheels, complete with pyrotechnics, which Keith Richards lights his cigarette on.
* Popeye {{Popeye}} used a hot plate to light his pipe once.
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Cool but inefficient ways of lighting cigarettes, cigars, etc. MundaneUtility may be involved, especially with [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]].

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Cool but inefficient CoolButInefficient ways of lighting cigarettes, cigars, etc. MundaneUtility may be involved, especially with [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]].
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* Popeye used a hot plate to light his pipe once.
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* TheSimpsons [[TheSimpsonsDidIt did it]] in an episode with multiple rockstars making guest appearances. For a benefit concert, they have a motorized Devil-head on wheels, complete with pyrotechnics, which Keith Richards lights his cigarette on.

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* TheSimpsons ''TheSimpsons'' [[TheSimpsonsDidIt did it]] in an episode with multiple rockstars making guest appearances. For a benefit concert, they have a motorized Devil-head on wheels, complete with pyrotechnics, which Keith Richards lights his cigarette on.
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* TheSimpsons [[TheSimpsonsDidIt did it]] in an episode with multiple rockstars making guest appearances. For a benefit concert, they have a motorized Devil-head on wheels, complete with pyrotechnics, which Keith Richards lights his cigarette on.
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** Although, unlike the poster, he 'only' uses the pilot light.
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* In ''MillersCrossing'', Leo re-lights his cigar off a smoking tommygun after killing the would-be assassins who brought it.
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* Ted Taylor, a nuclear physicist, used the reflected thermal pulse of a [[NukeEm nuclear blast]] to light a cigarette at one of the atomic bomb tests.

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* Ted Taylor, a nuclear physicist, used the reflected thermal pulse of a [[NukeEm nuclear blast]] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=adI-6jRDipgC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=ted+taylor+cigarette&source=bl&ots=lGRps-Qw6z&sig=SkNAr0DyVBDN3qcsarzSkgW6JaI&hl=en&ei=rctvTcjALY7RtweuuL3qDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=t to light a cigarette at one of the atomic bomb tests. tests.]]
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* In ''Film/{{X-Men}}: The Last Stand'''s DangerRoomColdOpen, Wolverine uses burning rubble left by an attacking Sentinel to light his cigar.

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* In ''Film/{{X-Men}}: The Last Stand'''s DangerRoomColdOpen, Wolverine uses [[FridgeLogic holographic]] burning rubble left by an attacking Sentinel to light his cigar.

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* ''BoondockSaints'': one of the brothers lights a cigarette using the flame from his gas stove in the first film.



* ''BoondockSaints'': one of the brothers lights a cigarette using the flame from his gas stove in the first film.

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* The ultimate example would be [[WinonaRyder Veronica]] lighting her cigarette off of the [[spoiler:explosion that just killed her ex-boyfriend J.D. at the end of]] ''{{Heathers}}''.
** Also, when Veronica burns the palm of her hand with a car's cigarette lighter (intentionally), and JD lights a cigarette from the burn-scar's residual heat.

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* The ultimate example would be In ''{{Heathers}}'', [[WinonaRyder Veronica]] lighting lights her cigarette off of the [[spoiler:explosion that just killed her ex-boyfriend J.D. at the end of]] ''{{Heathers}}''.
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D]]. Also, when Veronica burns the palm of her hand with a car's cigarette lighter (intentionally), and JD lights a cigarette from the burn-scar's residual heat.
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* The ''LooneyTunes'' short "Bacall to Arms" features a parody of ''ToHaveAndHaveNot'', in which HumphreyBogart lights LaurenBacall's cigarette with a welding torch.

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* The ''LooneyTunes'' short "Bacall to Arms" features a parody of ''ToHaveAndHaveNot'', ''To Have And Have Not'', in which HumphreyBogart lights LaurenBacall's cigarette with a welding torch.
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* ''Shoulder Arms'': Charlie Chaplin in the trenches of WWI holds the cigarette over the trench gets a light from a helpful enemy sniper.

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* ''Shoulder Arms'': Charlie Chaplin CharlieChaplin in the trenches of WWI holds the cigarette over the trench gets a light from a helpful enemy sniper.




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* The ''LooneyTunes'' short "Bacall to Arms" features a parody of ''ToHaveAndHaveNot'', in which HumphreyBogart lights LaurenBacall's cigarette with a welding torch.
* At the end of the Droopy cartoon "One Droopy Night", Droopy keeps the dragon he defeated to light his cigars.
* In the ClassicDisneyShort "BraveLittleTailor", a giant rolls up a haystack into a cigarette and uses a potbellied stove as a lighter.
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* In ''DocSavage'' #5 (the DCComics 1980s version), a crazed military officer lights his cigar off the pilot light of a flamethrower before torching th building Doc and his aides are in.

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* In ''DocSavage'' #5 (the DCComics 1980s version), a crazed military officer lights his cigar off the pilot light of a flamethrower before torching th the building Doc and his aides are in.

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Cool but inefficient ways of lighting cigarettes, cigars, etc. MundaneUtility may be involved, especially with [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]].

FingerSnapLighter may be used.

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Cool but inefficient ways of lighting cigarettes, cigars, etc. MundaneUtility may be involved, especially with [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]].

flamethrowers]].

With so many very hot things inches away from people's faces, expect liberal use of ConvectionSchmonvection.

FingerSnapLighter may be used.is a specific subtrope for the pyrokinetic gentleman.

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* In ''Film/{{X-Men}}: The Last Stand'''s DangerRoomColdOpen, Wolverine uses burning rubble left by an attacking Sentinel to light his cigar.
* In ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'', Hellboy's first fight with Samael leaves his arm on fire. He lights a cigar with it before putting the fire out.

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