A lighter's a lighter to me. I'm still young though, only 25 and been smoking for almost 10 years. A Bic lasts me around 3 months cosntant use, those crap lighters maybe a month before something gives and it's useless. I get those crappy ones for free when I buy ciggarettes so I have way more of them, but yeah I feel it in my thumb pad sometimes when it's really cold.