The PTL should light cigarettes for you.

[misto]

the point is that bad things should, in fact, happen. depending on the laser's strength, it should either gradually melt any canister or locker or whatever is in front of it into slag, or rapidly atomize it and ignite/detonate any contents/occupants

hell on strong enough settings it should probably melt thru most walls you can build in front of it, unl;ess theres some super heat rsistant shit in the materials system