For cigars I use a laboratory alcohol lamp filled with 190 Proof Everclear. It’s sold in liquor stores and used by college idiots to make stupid drinks even stupider. Vile shit as a beverage, but burns clean. Never tried it with a pipe and don’t intend to.
I just use a butane lighter
I was desperate once and used my truck cigarette lighter to ignite some pipe weed. Now I keep matchbooks handy when my bic dies without warning.
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If convenient, there is no better way than a box of toothpicks and a candle.
i made IMCO -clone- super triplex 6700 pipe lighter by breaking the side walls. Actually the fuel tank can be removed and used as a match or candle but it is not windproof when removed. After trying this lighter i will decide to buy zippo pipe lighter or not. 
Matches, Bic, Zippo, IMCO G77R.
rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion
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Wood(kitchen) matches or a trench lighter…the wick is slightly more narrow than a zippo and easier for me to direct into the bowl. The toothpicks and candle works great too…avoids the sulfur-like taste of matches and fuel taste of a zippo or trench lighter
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I use matches or a special pipe lighter.
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I use a zippo pipe lighter
I mostly use wooden kitchen matches, but if the wind is too strong I use my Zippo pipe lighter.
I use an Imco butane pipe lighter
I use a Bic lighter. Does that make me a pipe slob?
I hope not. I have a cluster of Clippers on stand by for when the flint/gas runs out in the Imco and I can’t be bothered to sort it out 
I use either matches or use my Corona old boy lighter. I used to use a bic until I started using matches because my bic stopped working. I tried to go back to a bic after a week or so of not using it, but I couldn’t due to the flavor the bic fuel was adding to the tobacco.
I’ve got a Jetline Golem that I’m quite fond of. If not that, then any lighter will do.
Corona Old Boy. I love this lighter, no pipe smoker should be without one. It even works great on my…other pipes
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Comoy’s of London butane pipe lighter with a tamper that slides out of the bottom. Very cool
I don’t smoke pipes often but when I do I always use a wooden match.
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I have a couple permanent matches for when it’s just too windy for my wooden matches.
Once I get it struck it burns like a Zippo, but taller… Kind of scary the first time it got going.
I use them way too much though, for anything I need to light. I love them.
The wicks will need seeing to shortly.
Wooden matches are for when there is no wind and my fan is off.
Should neither of those options be handy, I have an assortment of Zippos and five packs of Bics kicking around. I’ve made sure I had a way to make fire on my person since elementary school, that and a pocket knife. I figure, you just never know; they have both come in handy on multiple occasions. Nothing crazy as of yet, just handy, not that it didn’t usually raise some eyebrows when I broke them out as a child, “Your parents let you have that!?” haha “They are tools, not toys Mr./Miss/Mrs. SomeoneOrOther.” I was an odd duck, still am.
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