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The cigarette lighter license was introduced by the Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Salazar in 1937 as a means of guarding against loss of revenue from the state-owner match industry. The cost of a license was 48.5 Escudos (about 70p) a year, with on-the-spot fines issued to people using lighters without a license. In 1962, which was the last year complete records were kept, 87,381 licenses were issued, but shortly after, the lighter license law was relaxed and it was abandoned completely by the end of the 1960s.

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