There are dozens of uses for a lighter, from barbecues to incense to candles to campfires to simply never being without flame. I own three lighters, two Zippos and one Vector, and I don’t smoke tobacco cigarettes.
The one thing I will say is that although the insert will last forever, because it isn’t airtight, the fuel will evaporate out of it over the course of a couple of weeks. So I replaced mine with sealed butane inserts designed to fit the Zippo and still retain that distinctive musical clink. The butane also burns much cleaner than lighter fluid.
I like my Zippo cases so much that I went to the trouble of engraving all sides except the bottom using the fiber laser at my local maker space (carefully cleaned and without an insert in it, lest anyone worry).
Reusable lighters are also a hell of a lot more environmentally friendly than chucking plastic lighter cases that almost always have some fuel left in them into the trash.
