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| | Cigarette lighters: The new cupholders? - Nov. 6, 2003 |
 | | Technically speaking, "lighter socket" is not even an accurate term since in many cases those extra sockets won't work with a cigarette lighter, according to Ali Elhaj, president of Casco, an auto parts company that claims to have invented the automobile cigarette lighter. |
 | | Of course it also has, in the dash, a regular "12-volt power source." That's a cigarette lighter socket to you and me. Oh, and there's another one, the "not-really-a-lighter" type, hidden inside a compartment in the center console. |
 | | In many cars, the you don't get the actual cigarette lighter device in them unless you ask for the "smokers package." Brauer, of Edmunds.com, said he has apocalyptic nightmares of a world without real cigarette lighters in those cigarette lighter holes. |
| money.cnn.com /2003/11/04/pf/autos/lighters/?cnn=yes (946 words) |
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