Bart, I appreciate your thoughtful discussions and valuable information on this forum. When the matches/lighters prohibition hits on 2/15 this will be a huge mess for the TSA Screeners to confront. It would appear from a review of the public positions that Rep's Dorgan and Wyden have taken, that this "security issue" is artificial and that they are attempting to discourage smoking.
I think that the MSP police are right on, in their assessment that there will be more discord between screeners and pax and that police will have to be called to mediate these disagreements.