What is the Legal Age to buy a Zippo Lighter?

Question

I plan on buying a Zippo lighter, and I'd just like to have my facts straight.

Answer 1

I'd imagine it would be 18, since that's the legal smoking age.

Answer 2

if you buy a nice one in a jewelry store they probably won't card you.  If you go to a smoker outlet the probably will.

A connoisseur buys the best he can afford of that which he admires.

My first Zippo came from an antiques store.  It was a 1935 Brushed Stainless Steel with two chevron slashes at the top hinged corner and two at the bottom unhinged corner.

$25.00 in 1962.

Still have it.  Won't sell it.  No way.

Answer 3

I know in the UK it is illegal to sell "smoking accessories" to people under 18, including filters, rolling papers etc

In most places in the US it is illegal for a vendor to SELL you smoking products if you are under 18, but it is not illegal for you to BUY or possess them. (In other words, in the transaction, the vendor is breaking the law, you are not). Oddly, this restriction does not include matches.

Online stores ask you to "guarantee" that you are over 18. Real shops will usually ask for ID, if you don't look old enough.

In a tobacco shop you will be asked for ID. In a gift shop or novelty shop, which also sell Zippos, you probably won't be.You are not breaking the law trying to buy one.