Providing some sort of keepsake for every wedding guest is fashionable in America for those who can afford it. Often the gift of choice is a box of matches with the married couple's name and wedding date in gilded print on the cover. How practical are matches these days with the continuing decline  (at least in this country) of smoking? As practical as the use of candles to create that extra romantic ambiance...er, yes, and perhaps that is why boxes of matches seem to last forever these days... sometimes longer than the marriage itself. In the 1970s, roughly 20 per 1000 marriages in the U.S, approx. 5%, ended in divorce. According to divorcerate.org, 40-50% of today's marriages in America will end in divorce, but that includes hefty increases for second- and third-time marriages. Got a cigarette? (Maybe less stress is the answer.)