• village604@adultswim.fan
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    50 minutes ago

    Smoking a cigarette won’t cause a fire at a gas station.

    Lighting a cigarette, on the other hand, can absolutely cause one.

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      44 minutes ago

      Yep a cigarette cherry is not hot enough to ignite gasoline.

      Which is how the human race survived for a long time, I very much remember smoking at gas pumps being a norm in the 80s.

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        22 minutes ago

        No, it definitely is. It’s just that gasoline is relatively hard to ignite and the right air/fuel mixture won’t reach the hotter part of the ember.