i have see Zippo adds in older outdoor magazines--40-50's
the drawing showed a hunter warming a cup of coffee over a
Zippo lighter..the text was something like--only the Zippo
will stay burning--other lighters i assume were lighter
fluid versions of the Bic..strike--light and when you took
your finger off the lever it was capped and snuffed out..
the Zippo lit and with the top flipped back would burn untill
the fluid was gone...
i brought up the idea of a "fire bomb" because i have read
accounts of fire light problems in do or die situtions..
a very good book on outdoor survival is "the long labrador
trail" by Dillon Wallace--1905 or so..while making a frantic
rush down a rapid filled river as winter was comming on he
and his partner overturned ..getting ashore in a state of
hypothermia they tryed to start a fire..Dillon's partner
stumbled around trying to set trees on fire by holding a match
to a branch--he was really out of it...Dillon pulled some
sticks together--getting the safe open involved teeth--
numb hands..so on---he had only a few left in the safe
and the first ones failed to light--with "new style" matches
gone he tryed a "old"sulfur match lit on the the first
try---fire going--lives saved--Wallace went on to become
one of American's best know outdoor personalities...
so a "pull the tab and drop" fire lighter seem like a
good idea--however..now that i think about it..that sort
of device may be not be lawful these days...