Follow consumer products and technology, and you’ll undoubtedly notice the ebb and flow between things getting bigger and things getting smaller. Desktop computers become laptops, which become netbooks and then tablets. Cell phones started big and clunky before slimming down considerably—anyone remember the Motorola RAZR?—before the era of the large-screen smart phone came along and brought about the phablet, the device with the five to six inch big screen that still fit in your pocket. Cigar accessories, while not generally considered as glamorous as other parts of technology and certainly not as widespread, aren’t immune from this cycle either. Soft flames became torches, single jets grew to four and five jet versions, pocket lighters sat side by side with tabletops in retail cases. In April 2015, the French accessories maker S.T. Dupont announced that it would be releasing the world’s slimmest luxury lighter, the Slim 7, which measures just seven millimeters thick. As most cigar smokers who have ever perused the lighter section of their local retailer know, S.T. Dupont already has a pair of fairly compact single flame lighters already, the Maxijet and Minijet, both of which are tremendously popular and highly regarded for their design and durability, but ...
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