Second, after I got this lighter I discovered that it’s just freakin’ great…best lighter I’ve ever had. First, I got sick during Christmas week, missing out on the chance to do 2 or 3 cigar reviews to put into the January rotation (I try to get reviews done early, especially at this time of the year, and also because if I get sick it doesn’t kill the schedule). I ended up deciding to do this piece because of a couple things. Not to say they were bad…my go-to lighters over the past few years were a major brand that overall performed well and were a definite improvement over the crap lighters that most shops sell for $10 or $20 as “impulse buys.” What is there to say about the average lighter? It lights well, it refills easily…it doesn’t make my cigar taste funky…what else really matters? The problem, I think, may lie in the fact that I have been using purely average lighters. I think I wrote a lighter review about 5 or 6 years ago, but I honestly don’t think I’ve done one since. As I pondered writing this review, it came to my mind that I can’t remember the last time I wrote a review of a cigar accessory.

St dupont lighters failing