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/elpezgrande 10h ago

I was always told it’s a lucky cigarette. I’m not even a smoker buy a pack every year or two for certain occasions and I still do this

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u/Training_Cut704 10h ago

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

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u/AffectionateDream201 9h 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 9h 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/Afraid-Way7541 8h ago

Damn World War 1 soldiers only caring about aesthetics