Step 3: Incendiary Cigarettes

This was also used in the Second World War, presumably intended for fast fire lighting in survival, signalling or sabotage as a disguisted substitute for windproof matches.

The wire wool can be removed and pulled apart to catch a spark for fire lighting, or placed in loose, left in the cigarette and lit to produce a sparkler-type effect and hot flame to burn through those pesky Gestapo ropes.

This could also be achieved by inserting matchhead powder into the tube for use as a fire accelerant. By varying the depth that the powder is from the lit end will act like a fuse as long as the tobacco remains lit, allowing for delayed combustion (the closer to the butt the longer the delay). 
 
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