Security finds lighter in smoker’s mouth

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A man from Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province goes through an airport security check while trying to hide a cigarette lighter in his mouth. The man was fine $141. Screenshot from Pear Video.

An airline passenger flying out of Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province was fined for trying to hide a cigarette lighter in his mouth during an airport security check.

"His mouth was bulging. When our security staff asked him what was in his mouth, he spoke unclearly saying his mouth had teeth," a security official at Shenyang Taoxian International Airport told Pear Video. The police were called when staff finally discovered the lighter in his mouth.

The passenger, who was flying from Shenyang to East China's Nanjing, said it was his first flight and he was a heavy smoker.

He also said that the two-hour flight was too long to go without a cigarette and thought he could get away with smoking on the plane, Pear Video reported.

The man was fined 1,000 yuan ($141.3), said Li Chen, a police officer from Shenyang's public security authorities.

"He should thank security personnel, if he had smoked during the flight he could have ended up in jail," wrote a netizen on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo.

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