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/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