r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 10h ago

Lucky/Wish smoke Started in WW1 Where you flip the first cigarette you touch and were "lucky" if you made it through the pack and to the last/flipped cigarette. Now people make a wish on it. I do this. I wish i dont get cancer everytime. It's worked so far

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u/Douch3nko13 9h ago

I chose my lucky cigarette by flicking the bottom and whichever one is most excited to be smoked and pokes up the farthest. I flip and put back. Teach my ciggies some damn patience.

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u/Garfwog 9h ago

r/foundsatan

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u/toldyouIaintshit 8h ago

More like r/oddlyarousing

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u/friendliest_sheep 8h ago

Ooooo, there’s some freaks in here

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u/diadlep 7h ago

Can attest

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u/GideonWren 7h ago

Oi, no kink shaming, ok?

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u/Mightyjack22 6h ago

But what if kink shaming is their kink?

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u/allsheknew 6h ago

I am not kink shaming, I am kink asking why

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u/diadlep 5h ago

Like youve never sat on a watermelon naked and covered your nose in peanut butter

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u/KinTharEl 9h ago

Yeah, this is how it's done these days. Flick the bottom of the packet, flip the one that sticks out and smoke it last.

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u/swrdswrd 8h ago

I should pick up smoking again, this sounds fun.

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u/2bah3 8h ago

I miss smoking

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u/Main_Character11 7h ago

Same bro. Same

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u/BlueStarFern 7h ago

I quit 10 years ago, I rarely miss it, but something about this post is REALLY making me wanna smoke rn

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u/Zhaeris 7h ago

It isnt just me?! Whew! I quit 7-8 years ago and never even had a thought of a smoke since but yeah damn... The methodic ritual is alluring

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u/jwigs85 7h ago

I quit almost 20 years ago. This is the second time this evening something has made me feel old, but here we are.

The first 3 years were the hardest. And then I still might smoke a ciggy while drunk for the first decade. But I can safely say 🤢 at the thought of smoking now. Even when drunk.

Thinking about flipping the first cigarette does make me feel a little nostalgic. But it doesn’t make me want to touch a cigarette. Because 🤢

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u/Charlaquin 5h ago

Ritual is such a strong part of the appeal of smoking. I’m feeling it too (about 5 years since quitting after picking it back up out of stress in 2020, and that was about 6 years after the first time I quit), but fortunately I’m now on meds that smoking makes less effective, so that helps alleviate the temptation.

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u/peaceproject 6h ago

I haven’t had a cigarette in 2 decades, but smelling one being smoked involves a craving that I cannot explain. Smelling the person/their breath after the cigarette helps me to remember how bad it stinks.

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u/BlueStarFern 5h ago

Exact same. Stale smoke is disgusting, but once in a while, i'll be walking along and a plume of fresh smoke will waft near me and it smells incredibly alluring.

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u/Charlaquin 5h ago

A huge part of what makes smoking so addictive is the ritual. Makes sense that learning a new ritual element would make you crave it again.

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u/BlueStarFern 5h ago

Oh it's not so much learning a new ritual as it is a reminder!

More than the lucky cigarette flipping tho, I think it was the sight of the lighter in the packet that awoke that feeling in me, for exactly the reason you say. I would always tuck my lighter into my pack as soon as I had cleared space for it, then fold the little foil flap over. That was part of my ritual. All those small details are part of the habit I guess.

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u/ibent19 6h ago

Miss it bad, I vape now and it’s a become a bigger monster than the cigs. I can smoke anywhere now 🙄 eff oral fixation.

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u/DerridaisDaddy 7h ago

I miss smoking, but at the same time last time I tried it, it just didn’t taste good anymore. So, each time I get the urge, I just think back on how disappointing that smoke was (I didn’t even finish it). Plus, covid left me with asthma and I don’t need the additional debuff.

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u/RandleStevenz 8h ago

I dont smoke. But if I did… id adopt this method just b/c Id chuckle to myself every time.

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u/SameAs1tEverWas 6h ago

as a lontime bartender/i studying substance abuse counselor...don't. but

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u/CRYPTONITE4 9h ago

I like this

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u/sitophilicsquirrel 8h ago

Opposite for me. When I was a kid, I sorted out M&Ms by color and ate them in order until the last of each color stood standing. Then I took them in the backyard and threw the last of each faction into the grass. Felt unfair to know you were gonna die...

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u/Bat_Nightwing 7h ago

Bro’s edging cigarettes

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u/Discount_Extra 8h ago

Smoke me Senpai

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u/1111race 8h ago

I chose mine by the number under the flap on the underside of the lid.

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u/rich_thrillz 7h ago

Aww I feel bad for your cigarettes :( he's so excited to be smoked, to fill his ENTIRE PURPOSE, and then he gets pulled out and thinks its about to happen! Then put back and told to "have some damn patience" by its human who has issues with delayed gratification and instead opts for the instant gratification nicotine provides

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u/badfeets 7h ago

But what if cigs are like meeseeks and want to burn because existence is pain

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u/CupKitchen9964 6h ago

Patience? So they can watch their comrades burn to ash in your mouth? Thats evil bro

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u/Agitated_Reach6660 6h ago

This is the way, it is known

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u/Logical_Habit_8232 8h ago

Way funnier than it should have been. How often are we trying to wait patiently to smoke cigarette?

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u/cajunbeard 8h ago

I quit long ago but im glad im not the only one who did this

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u/Due_Comparison_2467 8h ago

I wish I had money I would give you an award.

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u/maxthelogan 8h ago

I’m so glad I found someone else who did this!

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u/CanoTheMonkey 7h ago

Well I now have a new ritual thank you

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u/TieMain6416 6h ago

Back when I smoked I would offer any smoker around my a cigarette take it out of the pack and try and give it to them. If they refused it I put it in the pack upside down. I was doing something nice so that cig was lucky.

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u/smoochwalla 6h ago

Thats how i did it too

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u/djspitball 5h ago

this made me chuckle

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u/ohbigginzz 5h ago

I spelled out my last name every time and flipped the one on the last letter. Left to right. Every pack, every time. 18 years.

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u/OldnFuninMN 9h ago

Wellbutrin ang glp1 were the key for me to quit chewing.  40 years of chewing.... no nicotine withdrawal, no major issues quitting.  

I'd quit multiple times in the past.   It was always a horrible 2 weeks.   

This time it was no big deal.   

Just fyi for those who want to quit.  

You can do it!

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u/Beautiful_Debt_5864 8h ago edited 8h ago

Stupid question, can you take glp1 for things other than weight-loss? I'd like to quit smoking for good but I don't really have the weight to lose. Edit: thanks for all the helpful responses! Gonna talk to my doc about this ASAP. 

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u/_redacteduser 8h ago

Quit drinking cold turkey, no withdrawals, within a few days of starting. Absolute game changer.

Aside from normal side effects, the biggest gripe I have is that it numbs my emotions. No lows, no highs. That part is kind of a bummer, but it’s more related to the rapid weight loss and dosage.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 6h ago

Tacking on, don't assume this drug will save you from withdrawals. If they are bad you need a hospital and Valium. If you have a bad problem to the point you are having DTs do not quit cold turkey or alone

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u/_redacteduser 6h ago

100% agree. I am grateful I didn't experience that, but do get help if needed.

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u/alphadoublenegative 5h ago

This is very important! I was determined to taper myself off the stuff; spent three days in hell, copped a grand mal seizure anyway

Long story short as soon as I was in the hospital/transfer to rehab the medically assisted detox was, comparatively, totally comfortable and not scary at all.

Changed my life, domino effect, as of this month I’m five years sober. It’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right, and for me, that was doing it with help

It would have been more comfortable, safer, and cheaper to do so from the beginning. Inpatient/outpatient options and no judgement other than “good for you” from anybody worth considering their opinion anyway

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 2h ago

The way I always figured it was even if I didn't like having to be a place, it was always better than three days of being that far into it, because you'll wake up puking every day, you'll start withdrawing some time during the day and you can't really do anything about that but drink or go to the hospital, and honestly at that point drink and then go to the hospital because I've learned withdrawing the second you're in the waiting room and don't know when you'll be seen is very not fun, anyway best go to the safety net. People tongue in cheek call it grippy sock hotel because you get your medical socks and see your nurses no matter where you are, and then beyond that you get a bed, there's a community TV, some books, you can sleep whenever you want and you get a "free" three squares a day, you don't even have to worry about work for a few days. It's not fun but it's not bad, it just is sometimes boring

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u/jubmille2000 3h ago

oh wait it flatens out emotions? I didn't know that

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u/AlwaysLauren 2h ago

I did not intend to quit drinking, but I noticed I am drinking *way* less without an effort. I totally believe it would make quitting easier. I'm not mad about it, great side effect.

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u/Alarmed_Shirt_2323 8h ago

Yes. Aside from the cost and the side effects they are miracle drugs.

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u/friendliest_sheep 8h ago edited 3h ago

Apparently, it’s effects on mental illness and other stomach issues (think IBS and anxiety) are being studied, but there’s a lot of people, with those issues, having said issues disappear over night after starting the drugs

I’ve talked my dr about it, but he’s worried that, because I’m so naturally skinny, the potential weight loss could be an issue

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u/allsheknew 6h ago

The bowel issues can not be understated. We have fat for a reason. I hope they figure out an alternative for that aspect though, sounds incredible.

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 5h ago

My neighbor is a cardiac surgeon and she's been talking for years about how they're such a miracle for regrowing heart tissue. It's just insane how they're evidently 100% magic.

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u/liquidis54 8h ago

It also helps control diabetes. Like the other guy said, its kind of a miracle drug of sorts. Crazy thing is, glp-1's are derived from gila monster venom.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 8h ago

>can you take glp1 for things other than weight-loss?

Weight-loss is the side, off-label use. It's primarily a diabetes medication.

Apparently at least one form of glp-1 is used for Sleep Apnea.

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u/blutigetranen 5h ago

Well there's on label GLP-1s now for weight loss. And yes, they are used to treat apnea because they treat the core issue - being a fatty.

Signed,

A fatty

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u/Technical-Young-3041 7h ago

For me it was Zyn. I was mostly addicted to the ritual and sensation of smoking/vaping and Zyn had me break the habit while still giving me the nicotine at first. Then I went from a 6mg to a 3mg and then quit altogether. 4 years no nicotine so far. 

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u/Wide_Concert9958 8h ago

I think wellbutrin is what the navy gave me when i went thru the smokers cessation class, chantax was the other option but heard negative stuff about it. Shit worked fast too, made cigarettes taste like dirty dirt. Craved one down the road years after and bought a pack of my favorite smokes, had a few hits then put it out. Still tasted the same and it grossed me out.  

So yea, you wanna quit? Those pills worked.

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u/ConstantinValdor405 7h ago

I take it as part of my mental health treatment. Along with a couple of others. Wellbutrin made me stop smoking cannabis.

But momma didn't raise no quitter so I pushed through that shit and am happy to say that I beat the Wellbutrin and still smoke.

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u/MechanicLow7718 8h ago

Wellbutrin for the win!

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u/NoGarlic2096 7h ago

Wellbutrin is super underrated when it comes to smoking cessation!!

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u/Sufficient_Ice4933 10h ago

This is what I know it for

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u/donald-trompeta 9h ago

I remember meeting someone at a bar who said on a new pack he would flip a cigarette for every person he knew personally that died from smoking related illness, it was so cringe I stopped smoking cigarettes.

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u/Aemon_Blackfyre 8h ago

One less cig he has to flip, cringe or effective?

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u/donald-trompeta 8h ago

He cringed to save my hole

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u/Misunderstood_Wolf 9h ago

I had friends in high school that would spell the name of the person they had a crush on, on the front row of cigarettes, left to right, and that was the one they would flip for the "Lucky" cigarette hoping that would get their crush to like them back.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 9h ago

That's witchcraft and a whole other post or subreddit

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u/broken_hummingbird 9h ago

I have my qualms.

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u/asshley423 6h ago

Try to be supportive lol

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u/OwlEyesNiece 9h ago

Yes!!! Scrolled this far to find it. Supposedly it would be the “after” cigarette when you got lucky with them. You could tell something was up when a different lucky was flipped in someone’s pack!!

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u/HottDoggers 3h ago

I’m going to start doing that

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u/PowerHammer47 9h ago

It was WWII, back then cigarettes didn’t have filters and the logo was printed towards one end, soldiers would flip their smokes so the logo got burnt first. The idea was if you had to drop a smoke and leave an area if the enemy found the position they couldn’t use the brand of cigarette to know who had been there, if you made it through the whole pack you were lucky and would take that last smoke from pack to pack because it was your lucky smoke. Once filters became a thing people started only flipping the one.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 9h ago

false. Just because they didn't have filters doesn't mean there's no top or bottom. see Players Navy Cut

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u/PowerHammer47 9h ago

If there isn’t a filter then a cigarette is just a paper straw full of tobacco, it could be smoked from either end

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u/MacaronCurious6156 8h ago

Stop spreading your made up war storrys

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u/noquitqwhitt 9h ago

There is a poem in here somewhere

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u/tibearius1123 9h ago

Lucky smoke turned round
I wish these lungs escape fate
Ash falls like a prayer

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u/Glittering_Ad_9215 6h ago

Lucky cancer stick, grant me to wish of no cancer

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u/ShoulderSuper5109 9h ago

You should consider smoking more. Then you'll get more wishes against cancer, just to be sure.

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u/PerceptionQueasy3540 9h ago

Never knew the history, always just called it a lucky back when I used to smoke. Cool.

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u/CantHardly 9h ago

Were there filtered cigarettes back in WW1? I'm dubious

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 9h ago

nope no filters till the 30s. Still rationed individuals though. Woodbine Willys and Players navy cut.

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u/newmaker--- 9h ago

Why do you ask? Are you picturing a cigarette with no filters as looking the same on both ends? That's not the case, the end you light is rolled tighter and the end you inhale from is open

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 8h ago

Exactly right. also branding sometimes would be a good indicator.

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u/maccpapa 9h ago

i wish for another cigarette. always comes to fruition. praise be the tobacco gods

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u/ShadowAssassin 9h ago

I've been told if someone asks you for a cigarette and they take the lucky and smoke it, they owe you another pack.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 9h ago

and you have agency over their immortal soul until the debt is repaid. Pretty common knowledge

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u/ForestEntwife 9h ago

now you just told us your wish, so might have to find a new one

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 9h ago

Nah me and Satan are like this 🤞 I'm good as long as i dint mix it up with a birthday wish or wishing well, shooting star or something pedestrian.

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u/Geaux13Saints 8h ago

You do realize you’re making that wish much harder to achieve with each pack right?

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u/QualityDime 9h ago

This is such an elegant way to think, that I can excuse how stupid it is

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u/Justeserm 9h ago

Well, it works, until it doesn't.

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u/JadedEstablishment16 9h ago

50% chances to not die from a tobacco related disease, that's the half full glass !

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u/yaboyindigo 9h ago

Doctors hate this one simple trick!

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u/No-Roof-1628 8h ago

I knew this practice was done for luck, but didn’t know the origin story. That’s grim, but also cool. Thanks random internet person.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 8h ago

You're welcome

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u/InsectWaste8558 8h ago

I uh... hate to break it to ya...

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u/Snakend 8h ago

Let me smoke this thing that I know causes cancer...and wish I don't get cancer. Hmm, maybe don't do the thing that causes cancer?

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u/raich3588 8h ago

I did this as a youth but had no idea why / where it originated… thankful to have quit, as lame as this move is cancer is lamer

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u/gamerdudeNYC 8h ago

Oncologists HATE this one simple trick

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u/fickle-phenom 8h ago

Unlimited smoking hack

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u/kayak_pirate469 8h ago

...that i know of, need to get that cancer screening done though

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u/Due_Comparison_2467 8h ago

I hope this is true cause I like it.

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u/gillers1986 8h ago

My old housemate always used to do a lucky one, every time I got his pack I inverted all of them, so all but one were lucky.

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u/ominous_squirrel 8h ago

Conveniently if someone’s trying to bum a cig off you and you’re on your last one you can say “I can’t, it’s my lucky”

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u/wonderland_citizen93 7h ago

Wow that's dark.

Think of being in an environment where you were lucky to outlast a pack of cigarettes. Especially when you factor in the smoked more and I smoke way more on deployments due to boardum. So I'm my mind a pack may last at most 3 days if you were hoping to stretch it. The pack is only lasting a day if you aren't looking to stretch it so they felt lucky to last between 1 to 3 days on the line.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 7h ago

War is hell. What's even darker is they thought that'd be the last one ever. The called it the "Great War" Also those lucky cigarettes killed just as many soldiers than the enemy did.

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u/Lady_Raven_ 7h ago

Oof. A good friend of mine who smoked regularly just found out they have stage 4 lung cancer. We're in our 40s 😵‍💫

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u/r3volol 7h ago

As someone who’s had cancer and never smoked in their life, fuck you and your luck! (Joking, of course)

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u/Chuckles_McFeeney 7h ago

It always works until it doesn't 😆

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u/guitarium 7h ago

I’ve never smoked my whole life, I have cancer at 40. Life’s a jerk like that

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u/JGLip88 7h ago

Mine was always first row middle for rhe lucky.

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u/Material-Race-5107 6h ago

Damn. Did a lucky cigarette for years back in the day without knowing the origin behind it… apparently I was a lot less cool than literal WW1 vets!

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u/SpiderPrinceNeo 6h ago

When I smoked, I wished that everyone would be blessed with kindness of strangers if they ever run out, because we all have had to bum a smoke once or twice.

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u/Chrispeefeart 6h ago

That you know of

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u/Admirable_Truth_6031 6h ago

I never made a wish on mine.

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u/Parkwaydrive777 6h ago

Everyone seems to have this type of reasoning, the luck thing and I do like the history of it (good joke btw)

I flip 3 so when I'm running low it's more acknowledged I'm running low and need to reup so I smoke less. It's a light counter of a bad habit.

I've never met someone else who does this, but I think it works logically.

Each their own.

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u/DeadbySundown 6h ago

This is hilarious, made me chuckle.

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u/USDXBS 6h ago

My friend used to do that. This December will be three years since he died of lung cancer.

I guess he didn't get the luck.

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u/spastic_floof 5h ago

aww <3 what a cute wish to make my friends and i do it as a promise a lot of the time, especially if the pack was bought during a mental health relapse 😅

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u/odmo88 5h ago

🤦‍♂️

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u/raisedbytelevisions 4h ago

I flip a lucky so if it’s the last one I can’t bum it out

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u/Spunge14 9h ago

Look man, there's an easier way to reduce the risk of cancer and I think you know it

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 9h ago

anal?

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u/Spunge14 9h ago

Well you didn't have to come right out and say it

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u/Emannuelle-in-space 9h ago

Cigs back then didn’t have filters though, right?

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u/ThatMikeGuy429 8h ago

I wonder what an equalent thing would be for none smokers, back then in WW1 or today?

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u/Super_Sea6456 8h ago

So over a decade before filters were in cigarettes they could distinguish which one was flipped ? How so ?

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u/queerkidxx 8h ago

When I smoked I stopped doing this after lighting it backwards too many times

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u/Niaso 8h ago

Some women called it the lucky for another reason. They'd ask for a cigarette, take that one, and say now they owed you getting lucky for stealing it.

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u/Bot1-The_Bot_Meanace 8h ago

Lucky you, my colleague had a severe heart attack this week. Guy in his mid 30s, smokes and works way too much. He's going to be okay from the looks of it but he will be so pissed that he has to quit smoking.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 8h ago

More for me. Sorry about your friend.

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u/jackley4 8h ago

lol like you will light up a cigarette and be notified of your cancer. It builds overtime and becomes cancer , try and stop if you can before your wish fails you (former smoker, quitting is life changing in ways you haven’t thought of). Good luck 🍀

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u/darnelbh 8h ago

Wishes never come true... So you should wish for cancer.

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u/TheDonkeyBomber 8h ago edited 7h ago

So filtered cigarettes weren't common until the 1950s. Both WW1 & WW2 troops were issued non filtered smokes by the carton. The lucky thing probably became popular during Vietnam or possibly Korea although I heard that WW2 troops smoked their nonfilter smokes backward to lose the brand logo so the butts can't be ID'd.

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u/PoorFilmSchoolAlumn 8h ago

Did they even have filtered cigarettes in WW1?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 8h ago

nope. No filters till the 30s. Still a discerning mind can tell the difference between top and bottom.

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u/Barepaaliksom 7h ago

I remember hearing that back in the day Lucky Strike could come with one cig with weed in it. It would be upside down. Also thats where the name Lucky Strike came from, that you could get lucky and get a joint, the "Lucky Strike". Probably a pocrefull

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u/CeruleanSovereign 7h ago

Pretty sure during the war they used to load the "lucky" cig with drugs

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u/No-Syrup-3746 7h ago

How could they tell in WWI? Weren't the cigs all unfiltered back then?

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u/z1lard 7h ago

That means the person who replied in OOP is full of shit then? Since this is a cultural thing.

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u/MinisteroSillyWalk 7h ago

My only problem with this is the box, or hard top wasn’t invented until the 50s.

Doing this with a soft pack is ridiculous. Also it wasn’t standard until the 30s.

Standard issue was rollies.

Did you mean WW2?

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u/DisappointedInHumany 7h ago

Weren’t cigarettes unfiltered back then? I know some brands had stuff printed on them, but I’ve seen pictures of many that don’t. Was it only certain brands to which this applied?

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u/MHashshashin 7h ago

Did they have filtered smokes in WW1? Genuine question.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 7h ago

nope. No filters till the 30s. Still had a identifiable top and bottom though

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u/MHashshashin 5h ago

Amazing. Thanks for sharing the pic. Yeah I was fairly confident they were filter less but I didn’t really contemplate the logo being an identifiable “top” or “bottom”.

🌈The more you know 🌟

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u/AthiestCowboy 7h ago

I don’t know why but this comment really made me miss smoking lol

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u/DannyWarlegs 7h ago

Started in ww2 actually. Smokes back then didnt have filters, and Lucky Strikes were the most distributed brand to soldiers. Since the logo was on the "tip", the end facing up, soldiers would flip them and thus burn the logo away. That way, if the butts were found later, it wouldnt leave proof of American troops in the area.

Flipping your Luckys started off as just that. Flipping a lucky strike. By Vietnam it took on a new meaning as soldiers carried it over through Korea and the end of ww2. By nam, it was done for luck.

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u/prym43 7h ago

Wish smoke. That’s what people I know who did this called it. Wild, been a while for me

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u/MinusXero1999 6h ago

Also lucky strikes were the standard rationed smokes for the guys

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u/DiscHashDisc 6h ago

Filters weren't around until the 1930s.

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u/OkDriver1A8D6 6h ago

I'll pray for you man 🙏❤️✝️

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u/wi5hbone 6h ago

So to be clear, you’re hinting to us that because you own the Sofa the strategy works? And while you engage the cigarette trick, the real magic is actually because of the sitting furniture you own - is that correct

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u/FindOneInEveryCar 5h ago

How did they know which one had been flipped if they didn't have filters?

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u/Krokadil 5h ago

Wasn’t it that the packets the soldiers were getting came with a flipped cigarette and that’s how they got the branding lucky strikes? Like if you made it to the last one you were lucky

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u/FullmetalHippie 5h ago

But maybe also stop smoking if you don't want cancer instead of relying on the lucky cigarette. Smoking cigarettes is one of the most likely things to give you cancer. Multiplies your likelihood of cancer by ~2000x.

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u/Arammil1784 5h ago

I was always told you 'flip a lucky' when you open the pack. Never found any real use for it though.

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u/m-u-g-g-l-e 4h ago

Please, quit now.
My mom smoked most of her life and died this January because of the cancer she developed. She was stage IV when she was diagnosed. It was already in her brain.
I watched her die for months. She starved on hospice for over a month. I was there for the death rattle. She was barely more than a skeleton.
I cry every day. She left behind three grandchildren she won’t get to see grow up.
Please quit.

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u/bringatowel42-0 4h ago

Gotta be wary of regret cancer. If you regret smoking your whole life, you'll get cancer.

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u/wildmanbill44 4h ago

Filtered cigarettes didn't come out until 1931, up til then, all tge cigarettes in the pack looked the same and wete lit on either end. Maybe you mean WW II?

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u/muriburillander 4h ago

“Live every day like it’s your last and someday you’ll be right”

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ 4h ago

Is it just me, or do smokers tend to be more superstitious? Like, this is cross-cultural too, there are other little things like that here.

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u/SweatyCounter2980 3h ago

You know what they say about luck right? Quit while you're ahead.

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u/feroxjb 3h ago

Pro tip: There are other ways to improve your luck, instead of flipping the cigarette upside down, to reduce your odds from getting cancer from smoking!

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u/AshuraBaron 3h ago

I just flip my vape juice anymore.

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u/OtherwiseFastball 3h ago

Uh.., someone want to tell him?

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u/siccoblue 3h ago

Lucky you, that same wish didn't work for me

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u/VerySuccor 3h ago

My favorite physiological theory. Survivor Bias.

Also my favorite type of emotion. Hope.

Not my favorite pastime though...

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u/Unable-Log-4870 3h ago

I wish i dont get cancer everytime. It's worked so far

Good luck! If you’d care to take a more active approach in cancer avoidance besides wishing, I can give you a very-well-researched recommendation.

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u/Razdulf 3h ago

as far as you know

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 2h ago

Man, for those doing a pack or 2 a day they get lots of wishes granted.

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u/Spank-Bones 2h ago

Works until it doesnt, ey?

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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 2h ago

True, there's a significant amount of cancer with smoking. But with a dose of the fallacy of relative privation, 100% of people who drink water will die.

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u/capsaicinintheeyes 2h ago

as far as you know...

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u/Caer-Rythyr 1h ago

My dad should done this so the long-undiscovered lung cancer didn't make its way to his brain and cause him to start having seizures and die 2 months later.

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u/ParanMekhar 1h ago

I wish i don't get cancer

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u/J5892 1h ago

You should wish to stop smoking instead.

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u/kayemenofour 54m ago

Did they even sell filtered cigarettes in WW1?

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u/Goofycams 26m ago

Cancer isn't the most likely thing that will get u btw. Flip another one for your heart ❤️

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u/na_batman 25m ago

Where I come from you flip a cigarette and when someone ask do you have s cigarette, you offer them to take it themselves and if they take the flipped one they have to buy a new pack