August 4th will be a good day for smokers and moms. The TSA, in it's infinite wisdom, seems to have realized that banning lighters and breast milk might not be worth the trouble. According to USAToday, the TSA confiscated an incredible 11,616,000 lighters last year. Taxpayers spent $4 million to get rid of all those lighters and smokers spent over $10 million to replace them (it's a good time to be in the lighter business). Officials from the TSA also decided the overwhelming medical benefits of breast milk finally outweigh the potential threat of someone smuggling explosives onto a plane through their mammories (it still must be declared when going through safety checkpoints).
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