NOVELTY LIGHTERS BANS
**FILE**Shane St. Pierre, 6, of Hartford, Maine, the son of a fire chief, looks over a display of lighters that resemble toys at a news conference at the State House in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Maine Fire Marshal John Dean, was joined by health and fire professionals to support a pending bill before the Maine Legislature that would ban the sale of novelty cigarette lighters in Maine. A measure in the Iowa Legislature would instruct the state fire marshal to study the lighters with an eye toward regulating them.(AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

