How to Hold a Lighter
- 1). Grasp the lighter by curling your fingers halfway down the body of the lighter. Use your dominant hand.
- 2). Adjust your grasp if necessary so that the wheel is facing you. On a camping lighter, the button should be facing you.
- 3). Create a flame by applying light pressure with your thumb on the wheel and roll it toward you if using a flip-top lighter. Roll the wheel and press and hold down the red half-circle below it on a plastic lighter. For a camping lighter, depress the button.
- 4). Continue to hold the button on a camping lighter or the red half-circle on the plastic lighter down with your thumb to keep the flame alive. Hold your thumb on a flip-top lighter against the wheel once you have ignited the flame.
- 5). Cup your nondominant hand at least three to four inches away from the flame in windy conditions.
- 6). Release your thumb from the red half-circle, button or the wheel, as applicable, to extinguish the flame.
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