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Lucifer-matches; self-lighting cigars were so called in North America in 1834. (Latin, loco-foci, in lieu of fire.)
“In 1835 during an excited meeting of the party in Tammany Hall, New York, when the candles had been blown out to increase the confusion, they were lighted with matches then called ‘locofocos.’” —
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