All items · Restricted materials
Tobacco, lighters and smoking accessories
Also covers: cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, lighter, lighter refill, ashtray, smoking paraphernalia
They say no
Refused by all 11 charities that directly name or broadly cover it (11 direct).
Why shops refuse it
Tobacco is age-restricted, while lighters and refill canisters contain fuel; many charities also decline smoking accessories as a matter of policy.
What to do instead
Ask your council how to dispose of fuelled lighters or refill canisters safely. Do not put a leaking or pressurised item in household recycling.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
British Heart Foundation
Includes cigarette lighters, refill canisters and ashtrays.
Their wording
“Cigarette lighters and refill canisters — Cigarette lighters and refill canisters”
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Can't accept
British Red Cross
Their wording
“Cigarettes, tobacco and related products”
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Can't accept
Cancer Research UK
Their wording
“Cigarette and drug-related items — ashtrays, lighters, branded clothing/cards”
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Can't accept
Dorothy House
Their wording
“Lighters”
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Can't accept
Salvation Army (SATCoL)
Their wording
“Cigarette lighters and refill canisters”
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Can't accept
Shaw Trust
Their wording
“Lighters and firelighters”
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Can't accept
St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
Includes cigarettes and tobacco products, lighters, refill canisters and ashtrays.
Their wording
“Cigarettes or tobacco products”
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Can't accept
St Giles Hospice
Their wording
“Cigarette lighters and refill canisters”
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Can't accept
Sue Ryder
Their wording
“Cigarettes and tobacco products (incl. ashtrays, lighters)”
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Can't accept
Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
Their wording
“Smoking paraphernalia”
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Can't accept
Wales Air Ambulance
Their wording
“Smoking-related items, including ashtrays”
Not mentioned in 33 charities' guidance
Absence from a charity's list doesn't mean they accept it — it just isn't singled out. Ask your local shop.
- Not mentioned Acorns Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Age UK
- Not mentioned Barnardo's
- Not mentioned Claire House Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Cornwall Hospice Care
- Not mentioned Crisis
- Not mentioned DEBRA
- Not mentioned Dogs Trust
- Not mentioned Emmaus
- Not mentioned FARA Charity Shops
- Not mentioned Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
- Not mentioned Keech Hospice Care
- Not mentioned LOROS Hospice
- Not mentioned Marie Curie
- Not mentioned Octavia Foundation
- Not mentioned Overgate Hospice
- Not mentioned Oxfam
- Not mentioned PDSA
- Not mentioned Phyllis Tuckwell
- Not mentioned Princess Alice Hospice
- Not mentioned Samaritans
- Not mentioned Save the Children
- Not mentioned Scope
- Not mentioned Sense Scotland
- Not mentioned Shelter
- Not mentioned St Christopher's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Peter's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
- Not mentioned The Children's Trust
- Not mentioned Traid
- Not mentioned Willen Hospice
- Not mentioned Woodgreen Pets Charity
- Not mentioned YMCA (England & Wales)