'recycled' lighter

Lighter is prohibited from being taking on the plane with carry-on luggage since 911.
With the approaching of Chinese Olymic 2008, the airport security is heavily enforced at the Shanghai and Beijing International airports. Like most of international airports around the world, lighters are collected upon security check point.

In the United States, such a collection along with any suspicious items, like (sealed, unopened) bottle of water,etc) will be directly trashed. However, people can opt to choose one(1) free lighter of their choice upon their baggage claim. I have to admit that it might be a better way of 'recycling' these lighters than throwing them away. The small free lighter station is overcrowded with passengers. Some of them would spend up to 2 minutes to dig out every possible styles. It seems that they don't really care about any potential danger the lighter may carry, but more about which one is more expensive or better-looking.