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* A more subtle example in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', where Creator/PeterLorre spends the beginning of his first conversation with Bogart lighting a fresh cigarette on the tip of the waning old one.

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* In the WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon ''I Heard'', a ghost lights a cigar off the lit fuse of a CartoonBomb.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Self-Medication", had Action Johnny getting his cigarette lighted by one of [[RobotKid Ro-boy's]] RocketBoots.

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Witch casts a fire spell to light her pipe and {{Lampshade}}s how she is using such a powerful spell for a mundane task.

Inversion of HardToLightFire. FingerSnapLighter is a specific SubTrope for the debonair pyrokinetic. CigarFuseLighting may be seen as an inversion. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith CouldntFindAPen. Compare with ImpromptuCampfireCookout in regards to food.

* During a desert chase scene in ''Film/TreasureHunter'', the FatComicRelief, in the back of a jeep pursued by DesertBandits, finds an entire ''sack'' of dynamites in it's boot compartment, but he doesn't have a lighter. His partner in the driver's seat who is a CigarChomper then hands him his lit stogie, telling him to "Blow those bastards up!"

* ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'': Whenever a HECU engineer uses their blowtorch on a closed door or grate, they'll light the cigarette in their mouth with it getting to work.

* An episode of ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'' Kramer lights a cigar using Jerry's stove. It works but he also catches his hair on fire.

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

* In one ''{{Wolverine}}'' comic Logan sets a soldier on fire, then grabs him and uses him to light a cigar.

* Subverted in ''Film/SASRiseOfTheBlackSwan''. Oliver Lewis uses his flamethrower to light a cigarette, but rather than showing off his badass nature he just gets contempt from his father William (who runs their [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC company]]) for his lack of professionalism.

* ''Film/ElMariachi'': used for a RuleOfThree gag -- the BigBad twice lights his match off the stubble on his mook's face, the third time the mook lights his own match off his bosses stubble after he's killed.

* In ''Film/MillersCrossing'', Leo re-lights his cigar off a smoking tommygun after killing the would-be assassins who brought it.

* ''Film/ShoulderArms'': Creator/CharlieChaplin, in the trenches of WWI, holds the cigarette over the trench and gets a light from a helpful enemy sniper.

* It is perfectly possible and practical to light a cigarette using a candle instead of matches or a lighter. It is, however, considered rude and [[SuperstitionEpisode unlucky]] in many parts of the world. In Germany, for instance, it is said to cause the death of a sailor (as, back in the olden days, many sailors would live off selling self-made matchsticks while on shore-leave, so using candles was tantamount to robbing sailors of their pittance).

* It is perfectly possible and practical to light a cigarette using a candle instead of matches or a lighter. It is, however, considered rude and [[SuperstitionEpisode unlucky]] in many parts of the world. In Germany, for instance, a sailor is said to die every time one does it (as, back in the olden days, many sailors would live off selling self-made matchsticks while on shore-leave, and if everyone had just used candles, they would have starved).

* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Woody tries to light the rocket Buzz is strapped to so they can catch up to Andy, but the match gets blown out by a passing car, leaving Woody despondent until he sees a sunbeam reflecting off of Buzz's helmet. [[ChekhovsGun Remembering when Sid]] [[SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass burned him with a magnifying glass]], Woody aims Buzz so that the hot beam can light the fuse.

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* In the Creator/BusterKeaton short ''Film/{{Cops}}'', a distracted Buster absent-mindedly lights his cigarette off the lit fuse of a bomb.

* In ''Film/Neighbors2014'', Teddy uses a blowtorch to light his joint before the final party.

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* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Witch casts a fire spell to light her pipe and {{Lampshade}}s how she is using such a powerful spell for a mundane task.
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius"]], the Doctor use the flaming torch being held by one of the Sidterhood of Karn to light the fuse on a firecracker.
* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': In "Pilot", Mac lights a cigarette off a hidden laser, then uses the smoke from the cigarette to expose the laser beam and discover the laser's location.

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'': While testing the 'Exploding Toilet' myth, Adam lights a cigarette with a blowtorch while Jamie is building a rig to allow Buster to drop a cigarette.

--> '''Colin''': (''halfheartedly'') Fire! (''lights his cig on the impending blaze'')

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* In ''WebVideo/ChadVader'', one of Chad's coworkers at the grocery store asks for a light for his cigarette, which Chad provides with his [[LaserBlade lightsaber]].

* Happens frequently at fire-dancer gatherings, usually with a cigarette held in the mouth.
** While few of them will admit it, this [[MundaneUtility trick]] is so widespread because secretly, most of them aren't quite insane enough to carry a lighter in their pocket while spinning.

** Only TIG welders, since you use a torch for it. Which with no experience can more likely ruin the cigarette then make a clean light.
** You can light a cigarette using (usually red-hot) tip of ordinary electrode right after welding - no TIG required.

** You can, of course, do it with the flame of an oxyacetylene torch as well. Though the other way round - lighting the torch off a cigarette - does ''not'' work no matter what you do.
* If you have a gas stove with an electric starter, you can use it to light a cigar or cigarette--indeed, many people have. It isn't the safest thing in the world, but hey, desperate times call for desperate measures... we guess.