Are you one of those people who look down on kids who hold up their cellphones during rock shows, and pine for the days when rock fans waved good old-fashioned lighters? Well kill that noise, especially if you’re also an environmentalist. Turns out the emissions from those harmless-seeming little Bics are actually bona fide pollutants. We imagine that it would take one absurdly long version of “Freebird” to equal the amount of damage done by even a day at a coal plant, but still. (No comment from Lil’ Kim on whether her fans should indeed keep their lighters up.) [The Modern Age]

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