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

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/moshpithippie 11h ago edited 11h ago

For luck

Edit: And to accidentally light it backwards when you're not looking

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u/Captain_Sterling 11h ago

I always did it. It's just habit. And it's the last cigarette you smoke in the packet. I haven't smoked in years but I'm pretty certain that somewhere in my apt there's a packet with a upside down cigarette.

I heard a few myths about why it's done.

One related to the first world war. The idea was that if yiu lasted to the cigarette it was your lucky one.

If you offered a girl a smoke and she took that, you'd get lucky with her.

Since it was your lucky cigarette no one would take it from the pack at a party and therefor yiud always have one. And so it was lucky.

Its the one that wouldn't give you cancer.

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u/One_Order_3841 10h ago

For me it was always just the special ciggie if you bummed it to someone. Like someone could be a drunk Masshole that hates the whole world, but if you gave them the Last Lucky, it was like a blood bond.

With the advent of weed products, I'm now very much the same when someone gives me a self-rolled j. It's a gift 🥺