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Friday Afternoon Diversion: The Lighter That Will Make You Stop Smoking

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 13, 2013 8:00PM

While more Americans are embracing stupid-looking electronic cigarettes in an attempt to get their nicotine fix and as a loophole to smoke indoors—the next time I hear the "But it's water vapor!" argument from an e-cig smoker, that person is getting cockpunched—the Japanese are still lowering their life expectancies by walking down Tobacco Road.

This ad for a USB-powered cigarette lighter called Jii makes us wonder if the creative minds behind the commercial were testing it out on something stronger.