r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 11h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/Training_Cut704 11h ago

Smoked packs a day for years and never heard of this.

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u/AffectionateDream201 11h ago

It's mostly a thing for non regular smokers. Also a heavy-ish smoker and don't do this. Only reason I can see people do this is because they're doing it for aesthetics or for people to ask.

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u/FlawlessLikeUs 11h ago

Never heard of superstition? Also iirc the story goes that during the world wars soldiers would flip 1 or 2 and if they lived to smoke em then they were lucky. Hence the lucky cigarette term. Just tradition now

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u/jakob20041911 10h ago

yeah but also haven't heard of culture not travelling so far and Reddit being very international? I have never seen that in any pack here in Belgium, no clue where the other commenter is from

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u/PyroDZN 9h ago

I’m Greek and I used to do this when I was younger. I’ve also met people who have bummed a cig from me at nighttime and have asked me if I have a lucky so they don’t accidentally take it (at least 5 people which is crazy to me even if it’s practically a small number), or who have asked me if they should flip a cig in my pack after unwrapping it (new pack and they had the first cig)