I have some transitions and animations where touches are briefly disabled (around 500ms), because it messes things up if the user touches during that time. At first, I put a simple check at the beginning of all my touch listeners like this:

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function touchHandlerOne ( object, event )
 
        -- quit if touches are disabled
        if getVar( "levelVars.touchEnabled" ) ~= true then
                return true
        end     
 
        -- rest of function...
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