CPSC Raises Threshold for Child Resistance Requirements on Cigarette Lighters

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is amending its regulations to adjust the scope of safety standards on cigarette lighters for inflation. As a result of this adjustment, child resistance requirements for novelty and disposable lighters apply to refillable lighters that use butane or similar fuels with a customs value or ex-factory price below $2.75. The child-resistance requirements also apply to all disposable lighters. Congress initially set the threshold at $2 in 1993 but provided for inflation increases every five years in the underlying law.