Quote Originally Posted by labmonkey
same here on the zippo thing. Fluid lighters definitely screw up the flavor of your smokes.
No they don't. That's just an urban legend. It's all in your mind. I've run this experiment with people before where we light a cigar with a fluid lighter, and a butane lighter (when they don't know which one we used) and I've never come across anyone who can "taste" the lighter fluid. Of course when they KNOW it's a fluid lighter they claim they can but when they don't know (by blindfolding them or having them insert the cigar through a piece of wood or cardboard where their view is blocked) they've never been able to consistently tell the difference.

It's funny watching them try and guess