To make it worth one’s while to ship cigarette-lighters and sparklers most of the way round the world, it is best, of course, to have a ship as big as the Eleonora Maersk.

Jason Mecier, an American artist, created many portraits of celebrities to the life by cigarette lighters, used make-up, discarded mobile phone.

The eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou produces more cigarette lighters and spectacles than anywhere on earth, and has long been seen as an economic trend-setter for the entire country.