I use a butane lighter most of the time but also like to use cedar strips when I have them available as this does keep the taste of the cigar as pure as you can get when being lit. The worse thing I can imagine is to foul the taste of something that you paid good money for only to use the wrong kind of lighter. There are alot of reasonably priced butane lighters on the market and depending on your wallet I'd just as soon keep it simple. Welcome to the boards.