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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2582014, member: 10461"]Speaking of stupid behavior, I was once working in the yard and poured a little gasoline to help start a fire on the brush pile.  Decided to test the Hollywood thing, so poured a little trail leading away from the pile so I wouldn't blow myself up, then dropped my ciggie into a puddle at the close end of the "fuse" trail. It fell into the small puddle of gas and went out with a small hiss, just as if I had dropped it into a puddle of water! So [USER=77769]@Brina[/USER] 's claim is not entirely unsupported.  I have tested it personally. That being said, would I play with this and always assume that you could drop a lit cigarette into a puddle of gas and have it sizzle out?  Of course not.  That's why they put those warnings on gas pumps about static electricity discharges.  Just one little spark and the vapor, and *poof!*.  (Car engines use spark plugs, after all.) So I think both of you are in some ways correct.  [USER=77769]@Brina[/USER] in saying that a cigarette will not always ignite gasoline (though perhaps wrong to make a blanket assertion that that's always the case), and [USER=27832]@-jeffB[/USER] for saying that it would be foolhardy to always take this for granted, as there are probably many circumstances in which that could happen, so ... better safe than sorry.[/QUOTE]