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CPSC, Style Asia Inc. Announce Recall of Cigarette Lighters

Home product recall 04-020. Announced by CPSC on Oct 29, 2003.

CPSC’s own notice, on cpsc.gov

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The short answer

Announced by CPSC on Oct 29, 2003. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.

Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.

What’s wrong with it?

The cigarette lighters do not have qualified child resistant mechanisms and pose a fire hazard to children.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What should you do?

Return the lighters to Style Asia for a refund and discount coupon.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

  • How to reach the firm: Call Style Asia toll free at (800) 522-7465 between 9 and 5 ET Monday through Friday.

Which ones are recalled?

The Wristwatch lighter is an actual digital wristwatch with a cigarette lighter incorporated into it. The Cigarette-shaped lighter is designed to resemble a filter-tipped cigarette.

3,000 Wristwatch Lighters, and 5,000 Cigarette-shaped Lighters units, as CPSC gives them.

Wristwatch Lighters and Cigarette-shaped Lighters.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

CPSC’s photos

CPSC shows 2 photos on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.

Who made and sold it?

  • Made by Style Asia, Inc. Moonachie, N.J..
  • The lighters were sold nationwide primarily through internet sales.
  • Made in China, as the notice gives it.
Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Was anyone hurt?

None.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

  • The notice lists no UPCs, so check the model, the description and the photos.
  • The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
  • How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Source:

Hearth Record wrote these lines.

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.

    Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

Source:

Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.

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