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To the best of my knowledge all cigarette lighters are wired to the battery (always hot) as to whether or not they are fused or how they are fused is the variable. The lighter in my '67 El Camino is always hot, hey when you gotta smoke you gotta smoke you can't be fumbling around with your keys! Funny thing is nobody smokes anymore but you still need that cigarette lighter to charge your phone although nobody would dare call it a cigarette lighter, it's a power station!
Bruce is right as it comes from the factory the car was protected at the fusebox. In my case for whatever reason a PO had removed the fusebox and replaced it with 3 or 4 in line fuses stuffed in a tangle of wires behind the firewall and to make matters worse he obviously didn't understand the difference between US and Brit fuses and way over fused it. Once the lighter shorted there was nothing to protect the wiring harness. The good news is though after the w/h melted down the fuses were still good!