Well, to keep more on OT...I checked my extended emergency gear, and tried out the lighters. I had 4 of them. Regular Bic type lighters. All 4 failed to work-the wheels were all frozen. These were brand new a couple years ago! Needless to say, its time to buy a new pack!
It may have been due to moisture-we did have a rather humid summer, and the wheels may have siezed due to that. Fortunately, they are simply backups to backups to secondary backups to primary backups to my main fire lighting source, so they werent mission critical. But, they all failed!