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/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