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Article: AP: TSA Allows Lighters Without Fuel
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- May 17, 2005
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JOE MANDAK, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-17-2005
Dateline: PITTSBURGH
The Transportation Security Administration has changed a rule banning unfilled lighters in checked luggage on U.S. airliners, according to new regulations posted on its Web site.
The decision was lauded by Zippo Manufacturing Co. officials, who said earlier this year that banning all lighters from luggage could have cut into their company's sales by as much as 30 percent.
Pennsylvania-based Zippo sold about 14 million of its signature brass-and-chrome lighters last year. It also sells millions of lighters to collectors, who were barred from flying with their collections to swap meets even if their lighters weren't ...