The prevalence of cigarette lighters in cars can be traced back to a time when smoking was a widely accepted social norm. As ...

Cigarette lighters in cars have come a long way since their inception. Introduced in the 1920s, these tiny devices have ...

At least in the United States, cigarette lighters began to show up as standard equipment in cars sometime around 1925–1926, and by 1928, the Connecticut Automotive Specialty Company in Bridgeport ...