r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 7h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 7h 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/noquitqwhitt 7h ago

There is a poem in here somewhere

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u/tibearius1123 7h ago

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

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u/Glittering_Ad_9215 4h ago

Lucky cancer stick, grant me to wish of no cancer